Erhan Gunday

Former Co-Founder & VP of Engineering for the Sony Medical Electronics Division. Erhan possesses over 27 years of medical device development expertise as a VP of RD&E for ACMI Circon (Olympus) and Optimize (Stryker). He is an experienced Start-up Executive and technical manager with a strong background in patent investigation, execution, and consultation. Erhan has domestic and international experience in management, strategic planning, new product, and market development, regulatory compliance, and Intellectual Property development. Mr. Gunday started his career as a Senior Engineer for AutoNumerics, designing and developing Hardware and Software for the company's CNC products. He then moved on to IDR, Inc., a division of Reuters, designing the data discriminator portion of the electronic data terminal for capturing and displaying real-time financial news over TV Cable Channels – The Ticker Tape!

Mr. Gunday was recruited to Sony Electronics as the Director of Product Planning and Development, where he led two large projects managing electronic data delivery for their US Broadcast, Cable, and Subscription Television division; generating revenues between $20 Million and $50 Million, respectively.

Mr. Gunday was then promoted to Vice President of Engineering for Sony Medical; a new, start-up division of the company. As a founding member, he successfully established the new divisions, provided product planning support for the Sony Manufacturing Groups and achieved sales of over $100 million in 6 years; while managing a team of 16 hardware, software and field service engineers along with managing the contributions of outside engineering consultants and contract manufacturing firms.