About us
Our team has a diverse academic background and we’re united in our effort to see how non-invasive brain stimulation can help people
Founders
- Isy Goldwassser
- CEO and Co-Founder
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Isy Goldwasser co-founded Thync to advance a new frontier with breakthrough impact within healthcare and consumer industries. Prior to founding Thync, Mr. Goldwasser was the first employee and a founding member of Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMMX) where he served numerous roles including President and then CEO over a period of 16 years - including taking the company public and building the publicly traded business for 10 years.
Mr. Goldwasser established a number of large, strategic partnerships with global corporations that totaled more than $500M in revenues. After constructing a successful merger between Symyx and Accelrys (Nasdaq: ACCL), Mr. Goldwasser became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Khosla Ventures in 2010. He is a named inventor on more than 40 US, European and Canadian patents and currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Scripps Research Institute. Mr. Goldwasser holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT and a MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.
- Anil Thakur
- CTO and Co-Founder
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Prior to joining Thync as Chief Software Technology Officer, Anil was Senior VP and Officer of R&D and Support at Accelrys. It was there that he led the company's technology architecture and software development strategy and played an integral role in M&A strategy and integration. Previously, Anil spent 12 years at Oracle serving as a Vice President in their Server Technology organization, Vice President of Service Engineering and Senior Director of Oracle Cloud Services. Anil has also established and led global teams at Auspex Systems and VeriFone.
- Sumon Pal
- Former CSO and Co-Founder (1976-2018)
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In 2013 Dr. Pal created the first embodiment of the method used in the Thync bioelectronics platform for the noninvasive modulation of autonomic neural circuits. Since then, Dr. Pal has led the development and testing of Thync’s neuromodulation platform and has been the architect of the algorithms used for stress and anxiety reduction. In 2017 Dr. Pal discovered the link between the use of Thync’s neuromodulation platform and autoimmune disorders.
Before Thync, Dr. Pal was at the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department and Center for Brain Science at Harvard where he researched extensively on brain circuit plasticity and function, carbon nanotube arrays for detecting electrical activity in brain tissue, and cortical circuitry involved in sensory information processing. Dr. Pal received a PhD. in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he discovered a novel cellular pathway involved in neurodegeneration which has since led to therapies being developed for stroke recovery.
- Wing Law Ph.D.
- Sr. Director of Hardware and Firmware
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Dr. Wing Law Obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana Champagne and his MBA from Stanford University. He is currently senior director of hardware and firmware at Thync, responsible for product engineering and manufacturing. Prior to Thync, Dr. Law was program manager at Apple Inc. as part of the iPod and iPhone leadership teams for the development of 5 generations of iPods and 4 generations of iPhones. Before working on smart devices and wearables, Dr. Wing Law spent approx. 10 years in the development of medical systems and devices. Dr. Law has over 15 patents assigned to him, and in his career developed over 30 commercially successful and ground breaking devices and systems in consumer electronics and healthcare.
Scientific advisory board
- Anil Thakur
- CTO and Co-Founder
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Prior to joining Thync as Chief Software Technology Officer, Anil was Senior VP and Officer of R&D and Support at Accelrys. It was there that he led the company's technology architecture and software development strategy and played an integral role in M&A strategy and integration. Previously, Anil spent 12 years at Oracle serving as a Vice President in their Server Technology organization, Vice President of Service Engineering and Senior Director of Oracle Cloud Services. Anil has also established and led global teams at Auspex Systems and VeriFone.
- Anil Thakur
- CTO and Co-Founder
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Prior to joining Thync as Chief Software Technology Officer, Anil was Senior VP and Officer of R&D and Support at Accelrys. It was there that he led the company's technology architecture and software development strategy and played an integral role in M&A strategy and integration. Previously, Anil spent 12 years at Oracle serving as a Vice President in their Server Technology organization, Vice President of Service Engineering and Senior Director of Oracle Cloud Services. Anil has also established and led global teams at Auspex Systems and VeriFone.
- Anil Thakur
- CTO and Co-Founder
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Prior to joining Thync as Chief Software Technology Officer, Anil was Senior VP and Officer of R&D and Support at Accelrys. It was there that he led the company's technology architecture and software development strategy and played an integral role in M&A strategy and integration. Previously, Anil spent 12 years at Oracle serving as a Vice President in their Server Technology organization, Vice President of Service Engineering and Senior Director of Oracle Cloud Services. Anil has also established and led global teams at Auspex Systems and VeriFone.
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