Fovia hires Sandy as VP of business development

Steve Sandy has joined Fovia, a provider of volume rendering technology, as vice president of business development. 

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said that Sandy brings more than 25 years experience as a senior business development and marketing executive. For the past seven years, Sandy was vice president of marketing at TeraRecon. Prior to TeraRecon, he was a co-founder and vice president of business development for Real Time Visualization, the developer of a 3D real-time volume rendering application-specific integrated circuit, Fovia said.

“His understanding of the 3D-imaging market coupled with his technological and clinical experience will be invaluable to the continuing development and commercialization of our technology,” said Ken Fineman, Fovia’s president and CEO.

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