Management Team

Ron Buck, President and CEO
Buck has more than 20 years of senior management experience in the computer industry including several successful start-up ventures. Previously Buck served as the President and CEO of Verano, a company providing internet-based supply chain management solutions. During this time, he organized the company, secured 2 rounds of financing, and successfully managed the company through to its first revenues. Prior to Verano, Buck spent 4 years as vice president of Marketing and Business Development at nCUBE, the first provider of interactive multimedia streaming services. While at nCUBE he managed several high-profile trials of multimedia streaming systems and grew nCUBE's revenue from $4 million to more than $34 million. Prior to that, he spent six years at Pyramid Technology Corporation (later acquired by Siemens) in senior development and marketing roles.

Dr. John Iselin Woodfill, Chief Technology Officer
Woodfill started and led Interval Research's work on computational stereo vision. He is well known for his research in frame-rate depth and motion vision for systems that work in the real world. His work on patented, stereo vision hardware is at the core of TYZX's 3D imaging technology. Woodfill's research led the first interactive robotic systems that tracked people (and cats) in unstructured environments based solely on estimates of optical flow. He was previously a consultant at Xerox PARC and SRI, and a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Science Center in Heidelberg, Germany. He was also a member of the original team that developed the INGRES relational database system at UC Berkeley. He holds a dual AB degree from UC Berkeley in Computer Science and Philosophy, and an MS degree and PhD from Stanford in Computer Vision.

Dr. Gaile Gordon, Vice President, Advanced Development
Gordon has more than 15 years of experience in computer vision research and software development with a strong emphasis on practical applications. Previously she led Interval Research's work on visual person tracking. Gordon is a world-recognized expert in face recognition, detection and tracking. Prior to Interval, she worked at TASC, Inc. where she was the Principal Investigator of a DARPA research contract focused on 3D face recognition from multiple views and video data. She also held key roles on other TASC contracts involving medical imaging, industrial inspection, photogrammetry, and satellite image analysis. Gordon has also served in engineering positions for manufacturing automation at DEC and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT and a PhD from Harvard in Computer Vision.

Dave Jurasek, Vice President, Hardware Engineering
Jurasek has more than 25 years of computer systems design experience. During the course of his career with HP, Intel, nCUBE and Simutech, he worked in the design and use of microprocessors and microprocessor systems, from the 4-bit Intel 4004 (the first Intel microprocessor) to the 2000-processor, 64-bit nCUBE parallel supercomputer. As vice president of engineering at Simutech, he developed a proof of concept rapid prototyping system using large FPGAs and unique interconnect backplanes. At nCUBE, Jurasek was responsible for all system-level design for three generations of massively-parallel processing computers. Jurasek was one of the six founders of nCUBE, and is named in several of the company's patents. While at Intel, he was one of the founding members of Intel's Single-Board Computer group, the forerunner of the Intel Division which today produces many of the motherboards used in virtually all modern PCs. He was awarded Intel's Outstanding Achievement Award in 1983. He holds a BS in Engineering from the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.