Exelar was founded by Leonard Reiffel, Ph.D. He is serving as Chairman and Chief Technical Officer. Len took public Interand Corporation (developer of such devices as the globally-used Telestrator made famous by US sportscaster John Madden on CBS and ABC).
Earlier in his career Len was Deputy Director for Sciences of the Apollo Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Prior to joining NASA, Dr. Reiffel was Group Vice President of the IIT Research Institute, where he supervised a technical staff of 300 scientists and engineers. For the past five years, Reiffel has led the medical physics research team developing Exelar's technology. The project has been continuously supported by the federally-funded National Medical Technology Testbed program whose mission is to facilitate getting new advanced technologies into medical practice.
Dr. Reiffel is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Board of Overseers at his alma mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology. |