Our Team

Technology Team

George Crothall

Chief Technology Officer

Technology leader, 30+ years of experience innovating, iterating, and implementing to requirements, schedules and budgets within quality systems and regulated environments. Moving programs from first sketch to production ready while enabling and growing teams, building requirements & test infrastructure and growing organizations.

  • Build and Grow Functional Teams that Thrive and Commit to Excellence

  • Bring Accountability and Demand Results to meet organizational Goals and Commitments

Thomas Drew

Chief Technology Advisor

Tom is a founder of Veluon and an experienced engineer. He was Head of Biomedical Engineering at Aston University and then became a co-founder and CTO of Eyoto Group Limited, an ophthalmology spinout of Aston University. He was Executive Vice President, and General Manager of Eyoto’s custom projects division, responsible for OEM and white label design of products for established equipment companies, and responsible for setting up the UK production facility. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering with a PhD in Ophthalmic Engineering.

Board of Directors

Robert K. Eastlack, MD

Chairman

Bob is an experienced angel investor and general partner in a medical device/healthcare fund, and has served on numerous corporate boards. As an innovator in healthcare technology, he has co-founded several companies, and serves on numerous advisory boards and development teams for small and large companies in the medical device realm.He continues to practice as a spine surgeon and division head of spine surgery at Scripps Clinic, while also acting as Director of orthopaedic surgery research. In addition, Bob serves as CFO and board member for the San Diego Spine Foundation.

E. Dean Butler

Board Member

Founder of LensCrafters

Retail optical expert

Chairman of the Supervisory Board - SuperVista AG

Graduated Michigan State University

other experiences - Vision Express, LensMaster

Reed Miller

Board Member

Reed Miller is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hanover Capital Holdings.

Hanover is a private real estate and investment company that operates on a nationwide basis through various companies. Reed is a private investor and lender to numerous start-ups and early-stage companies in the areas of technology, pharma, biotech, medical devices, and social media.

He is a former ski racer on the Division 1 team at New England College. He played Lacrosse in college, as well.

Reed has 5 children and lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.