Claron Technology Appoints Reuven Soraya Vice-President of Sales and Marketing

April 15, 2013, Toronto—Claron Technology has appointed Reuven Soraya Vice-President of Sales and Marketing.  In his new position, Soraya will be responsible for developing global channels for Claron’s complete product line, including the comprehensive Nil family of medical imaging viewers.

Soraya brings to the leading medical image processing company numerous years of experience in technology engineering, product management and sales with a  strong background in medical imaging.  He has broad experience across multiple industries in products involving computer visualization, high performance graphics and image processing.  During his career, he has played a leading role in helping to develop numerous businesses from inception to dominant market position.

“Reuven’s deep working knowledge of international markets, OEMs and channel management will be a major asset to Claron,” says Claudio Gatti, co-CEO of Claron.  “We are confident that he will be successful in developing global business opportunities and expanding our customer and partner base worldwide, and we are delighted to welcome him to the company.”

“Claron offers an impressive arsenal of technologies and products spanning the medical imaging spectrum,” says Soraya.  “The company is unique in that it offers technologies both vertically as well as horizontally.  This includes offerings that provide the foundations and platforms underlying other products to algorithms, clinical applications and full-scale turnkey products, such as an innovative line of surgical navigation offerings.  Claron also offers multi-modality, true zero-footprint enterprise imaging systems for radiology, ophthalmology, pathology and more.  The company has earned the trust of highly regarded OEMs that have utilized its products for years in thousands of clinical sites.  I am extremely excited to join Claron and look forward to helping the company continue its growth.”

Prior to joining Claron, Soraya held positions with ATI Technologies, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance graphics and visualization technologies,  and AMD, the processor company, in product management, marketing and sales of mobile and high performance graphics.  He started his career at Cedara Software (now Merge), the medical imaging developer, as a hardware engineer and later as a product manager for medical image processing workstations.

Reuven Soraya holds a degree in electrical engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel as well as an MBA from the National University of Singapore and the University of California-Los Angeles.

About Claron Technology, Inc

Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians visualize, analyze, and securely distribute medical images on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare providers deliver more value to their patient by making physicians more efficient and connected. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

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