SurgicEye's Management Team

Dr. Joerg Traub (CEO)
Dr. Joerg Traub is one of the co-founders of SurgicEye GmbH. He is responsible for General Management, Production, Marketing and Sales. During his studies of Computer Sciences at Technische Universität München (TUM), Dr. Traub worked for several high-tech companies in Germany, the USA and Singapore including BMW, Siemens and multiple internet start-up companies. In 2005 he received the Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for his exceptional diploma thesis in the field of novel visualization concepts for minimally invasive surgery.

Dr. Traub coordinated the Image Guided Surgery Group at the Department “Computer Aided Medical Procedures” at TUM where he prepared several industrial and clinical cooperation activities. He is author / co-author of over 40 international papers and eight patent applications. Under his supervision, several new image guided surgery systems were designed, developed and evaluated.

 Thomas Wendler, M.Sc. (CTO)
Thomas Wendler is one of the co-founders of SurgicEye GmbH. He is responsible for the general management, product development and R&D. Mr. Wendler studied Electronic Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in Valparaíso, Chile. For his consistently excellent results, he received various accolades and Best Student of the Year awards. He completed his studies in the field of biomedical engineering at TUM with the DAAD Best Student 2007 Award.

Before his management activities at SurgicEye GmbH Thomas Wendler was responsible for the research field of Molecular Imaging at the Department for Computer Aided Medical Procedures at TUM. He had also a secondary appointment at the Nuclear Medicine Department at Klinikum rechts der Isar where he was responsible for the installment of the central interdisciplinary research laboratory.

SurgicEye's Development and Service Team

SurgicEye GmbH has a strong service and R&D team with international experience. Quality and precision through highly educated and trained staff is the major philosophy for our success. We actively maintain a creative working environment and enable further education in order to build our development as well as our infrastructure, processes and methodologies on the latest and most innovative technology. For possibilities to join SurgicEye’s team see the career options on our homepage.

SurgicEye's Advisory Board

Dr. Michael Friebe, Chairman of the Advisory Board

Dr. Michael Friebe is the CEO of Alliance Medical Europe, a service and solution provider for mobile medical imaging and laboratory systems. He is a serial entrepreneur and private investor in medical device companies with the focus on medical imaging systems.Dr. Friebe did his PhD in intra-operative applications for magnetic resonance imaging and inventor of several patents in the domain of intra-operative imaging applications.

Robert Grüter, Advisory Board Member

Robert Grueter is an expert in sales of high-tech medical devices. Currently he leads eZono’s sales operations. As co-founder of BrainLAB he has a strong background in innovative medical products. At BrainLAB he served for 10 years as a board member, Vice President Sales and in various other management positions. He helped to transform the company from a start-up to a global provider of software for minimally invasive therapies. Furthermore he established as head of international sales for another start-up a B-2-B internet platform in 20 countries. Robert holds an MBA from the London Business School and Columbia University.

Christian “Fred” Hieronimi, Advisory Board Member

Christian Hieronimi is a medical device entrepreneur and management professional with extensive experience in commercial excellence and marketing and sales. He was founder and managing director of Medical Intelligence a German company for patient positioning and navigation devices for radiation therapy. With the trade sale of Medical Intelligence to Elekta in 2005 Mr. Hieronimi got the assignment as Vice president of Commercial Excellence at Elekta.

Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab, Advisory Board Member and Chief Scientific Officer

In 2003 Prof. Nassir Navab founded the Department of Computer Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality, which is considered one of the most innovative and fastest growing institutions of this kind in Germany today. Prof. Navab also holds a secondary appointment at TUM School of Medicine. Before accepting his appointment with TUM, he worked for Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton in various executive scientific positions in medical imaging divisions and received the “Inventor of the Year” Award in 2001 (>300 international peer-reviewed papers and >40 patent families). Prof. Navab studied Mathematics and Physics at Université Nice-Sofia Antipolis, France, and completed his PhD studies at renowned INRIA Institute in France. He spent the following two years as postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA.

Dr. Joerg Stroebel, Advisory Board Member

Dr. Joerg Stroebel is a management professional with extensive experience in medical equipment business combining scientific and engineering with marketing and sales interrelationships. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Nuremberg-based Efforma Concepts GmbH & Co. KG. Before, he was the Managing Partner of Ziehm Imaging GmbH. Dr. Stroebel studied Physics and completed his PhD at University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at IBM Research Lab in Rüschlikon, Switzerland.