Dr Beer is the inventor of Zonular Capture Haptics and the Founder and CEO of Z Lens LLC. He is a nationally known researcher and retinal surgeon with over 25 years of experience. He has retired from his clinical retina practice in November 2015 to work full time on Z Lens LLC. As a Professor of Ophthalmology at Albany Medical Center, he has received multiple teaching & merit awards, was PI for 25 individual or multicenter clinical trials.

Ted Eveleth is a successful entrepreneur with an MBA from Cornell. He has started and helped grow several companies, raised more than $20MM of investment capital, negotiated a $5MM licensing agreement with a Fortune 100 company, and closed on a $60MM project financing to build a production facility in Germany.