Years of research, applied.

Laura Yecies is the CEO of SyncThink, a neurotechnology company with foundational IP in eye tracking.  A Silicon Valley veteran, she has successfully led multiple startups and top brands.

Yecies was previously the CEO of two venture-backed startups.  As CEO of SugarSync, she led the company for four years through an aggressive business and product growth phase growing from zero to $25M in revenue and signed several strategic partnerships leading to significant valuation increases. SugarSync was later acquired by J2Global. She joined the Catch.com team as acting CEO to help develop the company’s business model, where they expanded the product footprint and built strategic alliances, before successfully selling the company to Apple in 2013.  

For the six years after leaving Informix, she was the Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL where she was responsible for the development of Netscape 7.0 and the launch of the Netscape browser in 23 languages. After leaving NetScape, she joined Yahoo where she served as the Global General Manager for the Yahoo Mail division. Following her time at Yahoo, Yecies was the VP of Marketing at Check Point Software where she served for three years.  Prior to the aforementioned, Yecies led marketing programs and Latin American sales at Informix Software Corp for six years.

Yecies received her MBA from Harvard and an MSFS from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She received her A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Government from Dartmouth.

She’s been the recipient of many awards such as the 2011 Gold Medal and 2012 Silver Medal for Female Executive of the Year for the Stevie Award for Women in Business, the Inc. 500 — Top Female CEO of 2012, and was a previous U.S. Department of State TechWoman Mentor.

Dr. Ghajar, MD, PhD, FACS, is a board certified neurosurgeon, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of the Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance Center, and President of the Brain Trauma Foundation in New York City and Palo Alto.

Mr. Beeler joined SyncThink in 2010 and serves as CTO. He was recruited for his expertise in image analysis and carries three patents. Dan has worked closely with Dr. Ghajar for over five years to invent and implement new technologies for SyncThink.

Doug joined SyncThink as the SVP, Business Development in June 2018. Prior to SyncThink, Doug was the CEO/founder of SNYPR, Inc., a sports technology company that tracked and gamified sports practice in youth athletes using wearable technology. Prior to that he was the general manager of the lacrosse division at Easton-Bell Sports and the CEO/founder of Talon Lacrosse, a developer of innovative lacrosse equipment. In his previous career, Doug was a corporate lawyer where he served as general counsel for public and private companies including Shutterfly, CBS MarketWatch and Handspring, as well as in private practice with Morrison & Foerster.

Umesh Rajashekar received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from The Karnataka Regional Engineering College, India, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and 2005, respectively. His dissertation involved an analysis of the impact of low-level image features on human eye movements. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory for Computational Vision, New York University from 2006 to 2011 working on the perceptual quality assessment of images. He worked as a Scientist at the Brain Trauma Foundation in New York from 2011 to 2017 investigating the utility of eye movement metrics as potential indicators of attention. He has worked closely with SyncThink since 2011 assisting in the development of eye movement metrics.

Matt Mills, MA, ATC joined SyncThink in 2017 after working as an Associate Athletic Trainer and the Director of the Advanced Athletic Training Fellowship at Stanford University. He has extensive experience of utilizing the EYE-SYNC solution as a clinician and worked closely with Dr. Ghajar and a multidisciplinary concussion workgroup to help implement technological solutions in the care of athletes at Stanford.

Jay Stevens is a successful Medical Device Business Owner and Sales Manager. Jay attended Oklahoma State University, BS. Prior to joining the SyncThink team, he spent 15 years with DJO Global a World Leader in Medical Devices. During the time with DJO, he led a very successful sales team that set the standard for DJO. Jay Stevens lives in San Diego, CA.

Rob Tow joined SyncThink in 2018 as Technical Lead. He has forty years of computer science and engineering experience, including stints at Xerox PARC, Interval Research, AT&T Labs, Sun Labs, and Texas Instruments. He has worked in VR and AR since 1993, and has 13 patents granted and 2 pending in color scanning, steganography, video processing, robotics, wireless sensor networks, gesture UI, AR, and affective computing.