Gordon Baltzer has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Mr. Baltzer has held a variety of positions in these fields, including Principal and Executive Vice President of River Oaks Imaging and Diagnostic, a private network of multi-modality diagnostic imaging centers in Houston, Texas; Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development for Royce Laboratories, Inc., a publicly-held pharmaceutical company in Miami, Florida; Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for Apotex, Inc., Canada’s largest producer of generic pharmaceuticals, with head offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Board Member, Secretary and Treasurer of Methapharm Inc., a privately held brand-name pharmaceutical company with offices in Brantford, Ontario and Coral Springs, Florida.

He also has large public audit experience with BDO and KPMG in Toronto, Canada. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada and his Chartered Accountant designation from the Canadian Institute of Charted Accountants.

In addition to his role as Chairman and CEO of York Instruments Ltd., Mr. Baltzer serves as Chairman of The MEI Healthcare Group, a privately-held healthcare development company focused on the development, financing and management of diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy facilities in the United States and internationally.

Nat brings over 20 years of software development experience to York Instruments having worked on everything from telecoms embedded systems to enterprise scale content management and data mining. He specialises in leading large C and Python projects, taking them through to long term support.

Chris leads the cutting-edge physics research behind York Instruments new MEG scanner. He obtained his PhD at Royal Holloway College, University of London. His research focused on studying the behaviour of HyQuids and in particular their interactions with other superconducting circuits. After completing his PhD he continued his work as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. He has published papers in the Journal of Condensed Matter Physics and Physical Review B.

John has over thirty years’ experience growing and developing Technology and Engineering businesses in global marketplaces.  With particular experience in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas, delivering multi-million dollar projects with multi-national content.

As a strategic leader John is highly focused on the need to deliver performance and growth with successful teams, to meet business objectives.

Gary Green is former director of the York Neuroimaging Centre, and Co-director of the Centre for Hyperpolarization in MRI. He also holds the following designations: Professor of Neuroimaging, Department of Psychology, University of York; Honorary Professor of Human Neuroscience, Hull-York Medical School; and Advisor, MRC Panel for Biomedical Informatics Fellowship selection.

Some of Professor Green’s research interests include Neuroscience (basic and clinical), dynamics of the brain, and hyperpolarization of spin in organic molecules, mathematics of non-linear dynamic systems, and non-invasive imaging methods and applications (MRI, MEG and EEG). Dr. Green is a Member of The Physiological Society.

Professor Gary Green – CV and Publications

Isabel has worked in product communications for over fifteen years both in the US and UK and worked on a series of launches – hardware, software and service. From project manager to account director within a San Francisco agency, she led accounts with a broad range of tech and healthcare clients including Apple, Livescribe, Plantronics and Intuit. She is now based in York, UK and brings her considerable experience to assist UK start-up companies.

Sam has over a decade of experience working with MEG. Having completed his PhD on novel analysis of dynamic physiological systems (at Newcastle), he moved to York to help set up and run the York Neuroimaging Centre, where he maintains an active role. During this time, he developed MEG analysis techniques and helped apply them to a variety of psychological investigations. His first degree was a Masters of Physics (at Oxford) and he is now combining this theoretical knowledge with his practical experience in his role at York Instruments.

With over 25 years’ experience of instrumentation design, Mark’s career has included process industry instrumentation, atmosphere analysis systems for submarines and laboratory equipment. His expertise includes analogue and digital design, embedded software and EMC engineering.

Mark has been a Chartered Engineer since 1998) and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Chris has over 25 years working as a mechanical and production engineer. His skills and experience are in designing, developing and manufacturing world class scientific research equipment and in upscaling to pilot projects for domestic and worldwide deployment. He has produced systems whose scope ranges from laboratory to inner city to tropical jungles to the artic. Chris’ key expertise lies in complex machining, CAD/CAM, ultra-high vacuum systems, pressure reaction system, cryogenics and materials.

Chris holds an MSc in advanced engineering materials. He achieved chartered engineer status in 2015, and is a member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

James Petite was the founder of Neuro Systems LLC, a medical equipment manufacturing company that designs, develops, as well as supplies and markets monitoring systems for usage in traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular disease. He was also a co-founder and President of Novus Monitoring Ltd. UK that was purchased by Integra Neurosciences.

For the last 14 years, Petite has been deeply involved with the clinical and research applications of MEG. Petite was a Research Associate Professor, Psychobiology/Neuroscience Program at Bowdoin College, was head of Clinical Neurophysiology Project Section, Nomos Corporation and was Research Associate, Dept. of Neurology-Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth College.

Other achievements include Research Associate/Head of Neurophysiological Research, Clinical Research Center, University of Virginia Medical School, and Research Associate, Dept. of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center.