Management
Robert Thast
Interim CEO
Founding CEO of Izotropic, Mr. Thast has served as board chairman, chief executive officer, senior executive, and director of several publicly listed companies. He has expertise in several fields, including capital markets, company management, strategic planning, business development, and corporate governance.
Dr. John Boone
Ph.D., Principal Founder of Breast CT, Director
Dr. Boone is a medical physicist with 32 years of experience in academia, with broad interests in medical imaging, computed tomography, and breast computed tomography. He has been the principal investigator of the Breast Tomography Project at University of California Davis for the past 18 years, and his laboratory has been at the forefront of the academic development of breast CT technology.
Dr. Boone is professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, and recently served as president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the principal medical physics organization in the U.S. He is co-author of the medical imaging textbook, Essential Physics of Medical Imaging and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and holds 13 U.S. patents.
In July 2019 Dr. Boone was awarded the prestigious William D. Coolidge Award presented by the AAMP in recognition of his lifetime achievement in medical physics.
Dr. Younes Achkire
Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Younes Achkire has over 20 years of engineering experience from startups to working with large teams in established organizations and brings a unique combination of business development, product positioning, engineering, medical device product development, manufacturing, and senior project management expertise to his role where he will be responsible for working with StarFish Medical to expedite product development and fabrication processes on the first run of Izoview units, as well as oversee designing and manufacturing of additional Breast CT products.
Ralph Proceviat
CPA, CFO, Director
Mr. Proceviat has more than 35 years in business, finance, markets and operations spanning several industries operating in Canada, Europe and the United States. He is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of BC and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia.
Ali Sodagar
Legal Advisor, Director
Founder of multidisciplinary law firm Sodagar & Company Law Corp., Mr. Sodagar specializes in international business and commercial law, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, trademark, copyright, and licensing law.
In addition to his background in law, Mr. Sodagar holds a bachelor’s degree in medical & health physics and a master’s degree in medical biophysics. As part of his master’s program Sodagar worked on a CT with a C-arm for arterial and contrast enhanced imaging.
Alexander Tokman
Director
Mr. Tokman is a growth-driven executive leader with over 22 years of global, cross-functional profit and loss leadership, specializing in creating and commercializing new technology businesses in the Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor and AI sectors for Fortune 100, technology Micro-Cap and Start-Up companies. His extensive experience includes leading several global business units within GE Healthcare, where he led the creation, commercialization, and growth of several new global medical imaging businesses, including PET/CT and Molecular Imaging, as well as growing more established modalities such as X-Ray and Mammography. Mr. Tokman also serves as an independent board director on a Nasdaq traded biotech company and the American Academy of Thermography, a non-profit organization focused on bringing novel infrared imaging applications for diseases diagnosis.
Jaclyn Thast
Corporate Secretary & Operations Manager
Ms. Thast is responsible for all listing compliance matters and public company filings, news release research and drafting, board and management communications, accounting, all company administrative tasks, as well as all corporate branding, social media, document creation and online marketing.