Alexander A. Oraevsky, Ph.D. President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, has over 25 years experience managing research and development laboratories in academia and small businesses. In 1992, as Whitaker Fellow, he joined the faculty at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He was the Director of the Optoacoustic imaging and Spectroscopy Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. In 1998, Dr. Oraevsky founded LaserSonix Technologies, the first company dedicated to commercialization of optoacoustic imaging systems based on his core patent filed in 1996. Before founding TomoWave Labs in 2010, he was Vice President of R&D at Fairway Medical Technologies for 7 years. Alexander continues to lead the research community of biomedical optoacoustics he created by founding and chairing an international conference on “Photons plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing” the largest forum in the area of biomedical optoacoustics held annually under auspices of International Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Dr. Oraevsky serves as a Chief Scientific Officer at Seno Medical Instruments on a part-time basis.  He also holds an adjunct Professor position at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Houston. Dr. Oraevsky is the recipient of over $12M in research grants from NIH, DOD and other sponsors advancing the science of optoacoustics for clinical applications in the areas of cancer diagnostics and therapy.