The Company

Arni Thor Arnason, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director, is a graduate of the Commercial College of Iceland and the former President of Austurbakki hf. He has over thirty years of experience in importing and distribution for medical and pharmaceutical goods in Iceland. Arni has also worked with several other companies in investment management and direction before joining Oxymap. As well as being Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of Oxymap, Arni is currently the board member of several other innovative companies, namely Green Diamond International, Parspro Ltd., Gogogic ehf. and Kine ehf.

Einar Stefansson, MD, PhD, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Professor of Ophthalmology, has applied himself, for the past twenty-five years, to research in the oxygen metabolism of the retina and has published over one hundred peer reviewed articles on the subject. Dr. Stefansson is the Chief Editor of Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica.

Jon Atli Benediktsson, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering, has extensive knowledge of image processing, especially multispectral and multitemporal images in remote sensing. He has published many peer reviewed articles in the field and is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Dr. Benediktsson has been involved in oximetry research since 2002, as well as with the original group of researchers several years prior to the company’s inception. His expertise in image processing is invaluable to the project since many of the methods used in remote sensing can be applied to the image processing used by Oxymap.

Finnur Arnason graduated from the University of Iceland with a BSc in Chemistry and from the University of Gothenburg with a Fil.Cand. degree in Business Administration. Since 1999, Finnur has been an Investment Manager at the New Business Venture Fund in Iceland. He has participated in a number of various projects as a board member e.g. Primex ehf., Genis ehf., Nikita ehf., Atlantic Leather hf., Marorka ehf. and others. Before that, Finnur worked as a manager in several different industries in Iceland.

Hulda Olafsdottir has a degree in physiotherapy from The Physiotherapy College of Bergen, Norway, a MS in Health Sciences from the University of Iceland, and a MBA from the Solvay Business school of Brussels. Hulda has various work experience within the health care system, including working with The Administration of Occupational Health and Safety. Since 2003, she has been the Managing Director of Mimir-simenntun, a leading company within the adult education sector in Iceland. She has experience in working politically within the Reykjavik City Council and previously has been a member of boards of different private companies in Iceland.

James Melvin Beach, PhD, Chief Engineer, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been one of the foremost researchers in oximetry for the past few decades. Dr. Beach co-developed the original dual-wavelength single shot retinal oximeter and continues to support Oxymap’s program to develop clinical retinal oximetry. Serving as the Chief Engineer of Oxymap, Dr. Beach is responsible for selection and development of hardware and optics for our products, planning for future products, and development of intellectual property strategies. In addition, he oversees Oxymap research collaborations in the United States.

Gisli Hreinn Halldorsson, MSc, Engineer, Chief Development Officer, manages the overall technical development and specializes in the interface between hardware and software for the oximeter. Gisli has been with the company since 2002 and contributes to implementation of computational algorithms, building and testing of oximetry systems, and data analysis. He co-designed the software for oximetry measurements.

Robert Arnar Karlsson, MSc, Engineer, Head of Software Development, specializes in signal and image processing. Robert has been with Oxymap since 2003 and co-designed the software for oximetry measurements.

Agnes Davy, MSc, Biomedical Engineer, studied bioinstrumentation at ESIL in Marseilles, France. Agnes started working at Oxymap in October 2008. She is the customer support liaison and provides after-sales clinical and technical support. She is also involved in the oximeter development.

Valdimar Olsen is a graduate of the Commercial College of Iceland. He has been working for thirty-five years for Austurbakki hf., a wholesale and distribution company in Reykjavik, and was responsible for finance, accounting and IT. Valdimar joined Oxymap in November 2008 as the company’s financial manager and accountant.

Thorleifur Oskarsson, MSc, Engineer, Senior Software Analyst, has an extensive experience in the field of IT. He has been working as an IT analyst, a project manager and a consulting engineer for Mannvit hf., Intrium Justitia, Islandsbanki and RTS. He has also been working in the fields of image analysis and software design at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute and at the Icelandic National Hospital, and taught electrical engineering at the University of Iceland. Thorleifur started working at Oxymap in February 2009. He contributes to the implementation of computational algorithms, the building and testing of oximetry systems, and specialises in the hardware-software interface.

Stephen Arthur Christian, MSc, Software Engineer, has experience ranging from web-based content-management systems to data mining for the purpose of stock-market analysis. Stephen has developed data-visualization software for both scientific and medical imaging. He started working for Oxymap in May 2009 and is primarily responsible for the development of the Graphical User Interface for Oxymap’s imaging software.

Alon Harris is the head of the Scientific Advisory Board. Professor Harris is an internationally renowned thought leader and researcher in the field of ocular blood flow and metabolism. He has authored or co-authored more than two hundred peer reviewed journal articles, nine books and thirty-five book chapters. Among other awards he is a recipient of the William and Mary Greve International Research Scholar Award from Research to Prevent Blindness. He is the Lois Letzter Endowed Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Thor Eysteinsson, PhD, Professor of Physiology, completed his PhD from the City University of New York. He has since dedicated himself to researching the physiological aspects of the eye. Dr. Eysteinsson has been involved in extensive studies of oxygen metabolism in animals and he has been with Oxymap since its foundation, as well as during the research and development phase prior to the company’s inception.