Raymond Damadian
Damadian is the company's largest shareholder, with 8% of stock worth $6.5 million. Despite owning only 8% of the stock, he maintains almost 100% control of the company through a separate class of shares (Class C) that only Damadian controls 2007. Damadian later collaborated with Wilson Greatbatch, one early developer of the implantable pacemaker, to develop an MRI-compatible pacemaker. He invented a stand-up MRI system and has 15 MRI scanning centers across the United States. There are a number of independent MRI centers that use this technology both in the U.S. and around the world. The company conceived and built the world's first Upright Multi-Positional MRI, which was recognized as The Invention of the Year in 2007 by the Intellectual Properties Owners Association Education Foundation.
James S. Hyde
James S. Hyde (born 1932) is an American biophysicist. He holds the James S. Hyde chair in Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) where he specializes in magnetic resonance instrumentation and methodology development in two distinct areas: electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He is senior author of the widely cited 1995 paper by B.B. Biswal "et al." reporting the discovery of resting state functional connectivity (fcMRI) in the human brain. He also serves as Director of the National Biomedical EPR Center, a Research Resource supported by the National Institutes of Health. He is author or more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and review articles and holds 35 U.S. Patents. He has been recognized by Festschrifts in both EPR and fcMRI.