Dr. A.K. Pradeep, President and Chief Executive Officer

Before founding NeuroFocus, Dr. Pradeep was the Founder and Managing Partner of Meridian Consulting, LLC a privately held California company specializing in governance consulting, and customizing and applying GE best practices to multiple industry sectors. He is also the founder of BoardVantage, a company founded in 2000 providing web based corporate governance platform for corporate boards of directors.

Dr. Pradeep serves as Chairman of the Board of Wilderness Press and as Chairman of Vigiliant Privacy Corporation. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Robert T. Knight M.D., Chief Science Advisor

Bob is the Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley.

He joined the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley in 1998 to develop a program in human neuroscience. After completion of a Neurology residency at the University of California at San Diego, he did post-doctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the area of human neurophysiology. Prior to moving to Berkeley he was a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at the University of California at Davis. During this period he received the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for distinguished contributions to Neurological research. Dr. Knight received his BS in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and his MD from Northwestern University Medical School. He is an internationally acknowledged expert in the neurophysiological analysis of cognitive and emotional processing in humans.

Caroline Winnett, Chief Marketing Officer

Caroline Winnett received her MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She went on to found Albany Associates, providing marketing services to corporate clients. Subsequently she was Publisher of Wilderness Press and Chief Marketing Officer for BoardVantage. She sits on the boards of three California corporations and is the co-author of "Corporate Governance: Five Easy Pieces."

Dr. Ram Gurumoorthy, Chief Science and Technology Officer

Dr. Ram is a Silicon Valley Technology icon. He directs all of the analysis, product development, and research at NeuroFocus. He heads up a global team of signal processing experts, algorithm developers, and product engineers.

Prior to joining NeuroFocus, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Vigilant Privacy Corporation. At Vigilant, Dr. Ram was responsible for the product innovation, product development and product management of the industry leading file level enterprise security solution. His string of high-tech successes include: co-founding PersonalDisc, where he pioneered industry leading technologies for the secure digital multi-media revolution; BoardVantage, which to this day offers the most secure corporate governance platform to the elitest of clients - corporate board of directors.

Dr. Ram holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ratnakar Dev, EVP Knowledge and Information Services

Prior to joining Neurofocus, Dev was Systems Architect of Lawson Healthcare Vertical, responsible for technical direction of the Mobile Software Suite of products. Before that, as Chief Architect, Dev led the design and development effort of an innovative plaform based suite of products for Apexion Technologies, a mobile healthcare startup company acquired by Lawson Software. Previously, at Buzzsaw.com, an Autodesk startup and Autodesk Inc, Dev, held Senior Engineering positions developing several key internet technologies for the CAD industry. Dev spent several years as a Systems Analyst with Fujitsu-ICIM Ltd. working with International clients in UK and Australia. Dev holds a Computer Engineering Degree (B.E. Computer Engineering) from University of Pune, India.

Jack Lester, Chief Financial Officer

Jack joins the company from his previous post as Chief Financial Officer for Vodafone Americas, Inc., the U.S. arm of the multinational cellular phone company. In that capacity, he was responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting, financial reporting, cash management, investment management and risk management. In addition, he had financial governance oversight and reporting responsibilities for Vodafone investments in the Americas Asia Region including Verizon Wireless, Japan, Mexico, China, India and Korea.

Jack is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He earned an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Jeff Bander, Senior EVP Client Services

Prior to joining NeuroFocus, Jeff served as Executive Vice President of Sales for the Hollywood Media Corporation based in New York. In that capacity, he increased sales and expanded the firm’s client base dramatically by creating new products and revenue streams. Similarly, in his earlier role as Senior Vice President of Sales for WorldNow, he built a national sales network of 132 teams and multiplied the company’s annual revenue from $600,000 to $18 million in one year. He has also worked as a senior sales executive for Cox Interactive and the BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation.

Jeff earned his undergraduate and Masters degrees in Advertising from the University of Georgia.