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Michael Goldstein
President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Goldstein has over twenty years experience leading technology and growth oriented companies ranging from start-up to over $1 billion. Most recently, as President of iFire Technologies Inc., he led the company from start-up to become the largest publicly held flat panel display company in North America. Through a combination of organic growth, acquisition, and strategic alliance, he helped to establish iFire as a leading candidate for the $100 billion consumer flat panel television market.

Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Leybold, a leading manufacturer of systems, components, and services to the flat panel display, semiconductor, and medical device industries. In this capacity he was responsible for global operations in twenty countries. Mr. Goldstein also had lead roles at General Electric, where he was responsible for development and manufacturing operations for NASA's Mars Observer deep space mission, and at Gemini/Ernst & Young Consulting, where he led growth programs for Fortune 100 companies worldwide.

Mr. Goldstein's education includes a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Southern Illinois, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Feel free to contact Michael at mgoldstein at actuality-systems.com.

Gregg Favalora
Chief Technical Officer; and Founder

Gregg Favalora began researching 3-D displays in 1988 and graduated from Yale in 1996 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. In order to build Actuality Systems, he exited Harvard's Ph.D. program and received an S.M. in Engineering Sciences in 1998. Gregg is a winner of the BFGoodrich / National Inventors Hall of Fame's Collegiate Inventor's Competition, is a $10k winner of the MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition, and is a member of Technology Review magazine's "TR100," a group of 100 of the top technologists under the age of 35.

Gregg is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, having given invited presentations for the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, the MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition, garage.com's Bootcamp for Startups, Future Forward, the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club, and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Gregg's research interests include volumetric 3-D displays, holographic video, and neuromorphic engineering. He is on the committee of the SPIE/IS&T Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Applications Conference and is a peer reviewer for several optics publications. He holds seven U.S. patents and has several pending.

Feel free to contact Gregg at favalora at actuality-systems.com.

Thomas Ryan
Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory

Mr. Ryan brings 25 years of commercial and academic experience in medical device development and has successfully brought several novel devices to market to provide surgical and radiological solutions. He was VP at Microsulis Americas where he led project pipeline initiatives, regulatory clearance, and clinical and global product rollout. As an Engineering Fellow at J&J, he won several Silver Awards for R&D and clinical successes, providing executive leadership driving new concepts and new business growth. While at Valleylab/Tyco, he led the New Technology Initiative which ultimately resulted in more than a $200M business for surgical solutions. Prior to these companies, he was on the research faculty at Stanford Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, developing innovative solutions for cancer therapy. Mr. Ryan's education includes a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, Michigan and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Miami. He has 26 issued U.S. patents with 10 pending and over 100 technical publications and book chapters.

Feel free to contact Thomas at tryan (at) actuality-systems.com



 

 

 

 

       
 

 

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