Actuality Systems

Actuality Medical develops breakthrough systems for improving the precision, morbidity, and quality of radiation oncology and surgical excision for soft tissue indications - initially for prostate and breast cancer. Our first product, PerspectaSeed 4D, will apply intra-operative dynamic dosing - "continuous GPS" - to prostate brachytherapy. It is designed to reduce hot spots and cold spots by continually monitoring the actual positions of placed seeds and recommending placements for subsequent seeds.   Actuality Medical's core technologies evolved from Actuality Systems' advanced 3-D optical hardware and visualization software. Our products have been honored and publicized by Frost & Sullivan, the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO), Saatchi & Saatchi, the Society for Information Display (SID), Scientific American, the Boston Globe, and Technology Review.

Michael Goldstein - President & CEO mgoldstein (at) actuality-medical.com Michael has over 20 years experience leading technology and growth companies ranging from start-up to over $1 billion. Most recently, as President of iFire Technologies Inc., he led the company from start-up to become the largest publicly-held flat panel display company in North America. Through a combination of organic growth, acquisition, and strategic alliance, he helped to establish iFire as a leading candidate for the $100 billion consumer flat panel television market.   Prior to that he was EVP and GM of Leybold, a leading manufacturer of systems, components, and services to the flat panel display, semiconductor, and medical device industries. In this capacity he was responsible for global operations in 20 countries. Mr. Goldstein also had lead roles at General Electric, where he was responsible for development and manufacturing operations for NASA's Mars Observer and deep space mission, and at Gemini/Ernst & Young Consulting, where he led growth programs for Fortune 100 companies worldwide.   Mr. Goldstein's education includes a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the University of Southern Illinois, and an MBA from the Wharton School. Gregg Favalora - Founder & CTO favalora (at) actuality-medical.com Mr. Favalora began researching 3-D displays and visualization in 1988.  He received a B.S. in electrical engineering, graduating with Distinction in the Major from Yale University in 1996.  He received an Master's in Engineering Sciences from Harvard in 1998, having left Harvard in 1997 to found Actuality Systems.  In 1998, Mr. Favalora was a winner of the BFGoodrich / National Inventors Hall of Fame's Collegiate Inventor's Competition, is a $10k winner of the MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition, and is a member of the Technology Review magazine's "TR100," a group of the top technologists under the age of 35.   Mr. Favalora is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and engineering, having presented for the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, the MIT $50k, garage.com's Bootcamp for Startups, the MIT Entrepreneurship Forum, SPIE, SID, IEEE, and others.   Gregg's research interests include volumetric and holographic 3-D displays, medical technologies, and biologically-inspired engineering.  His external responsibilities include being a committee member of the SPIE/IS&T Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference and a peer reviewer for various optics publications of the IEEE, SPIE, and OSA.  He holds eight US patents and others pending.