Company Management

Laszlo Belady is the co-founder and Chairman of Eutecus Inc. A software expert with three decades of experience, he has lived and worked in six countries, predominantly in the US. He was VP of Software Technology and Architecture at MCC, an industrial research consortium in Austin, Texas. Prior to this, he spent twenty-three years with IBM conducting and managing software research at the Watson Research Center and later at the Japan Science Institute. In 1981-82, he was responsible for software technology at IBM Corporate Headquarters. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of many IEEE and IBM awards and of nine U.S. patents. A frequent lecturer worldwide, he was Visiting Professor at University of California-Berkeley, London University, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, and New York Polytechnic. He graduated in aeronautical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest.

Stephen Hester has been bringing new high technology products to market for over 30 years in a variety of capacities. He began with engineering and manufacturing assignments in ATT, followed by marketing, sales, business development and general management in Northern Telecom. Moving to Silicon Valley in the late ‘80s he broadened into general management with DSC Corporation and then worked in the startup environment with David Systems, an early telecom-Ethernet networking company, managing sales and marketing. After consulting in the business development area in the early ‘90s, he joined Fujitsu Business Communications Systems as head of marketing and new product introduction. In 1994 he joined Mitsubishi Electric where he held a number of senior level general management and divisional roles in North America in both semiconductor and systems-oriented divisions and subsidiaries, concluding as Executive Vice President of the Mitsubishi Electric Americas’ Office and a member of the Americas’ Board of Directors. In 2000 he joined Aloha Networks, a San Francisco-based startup as President and COO, focusing on a new type of technology / product for two-way Internet Access over satellite. Steve holds degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT (BS) and Georgia Tech (MS), and Lehigh University (MSOR), with additional post graduate studies. He serves as a Board Member of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, enjoys travel, and reading “whodunits”.

Dr. Csaba Rekeczky has been working on cellular visual technology related research and development areas for more than 10 years and is a co-founder, managing partner and Co-CTO of both AnaLogic and Eutecus. He is also responsible for directing and synchronizing the core research activities with different academic entities. He holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, of which 24 have been published in peer-reviewed sci-journals and more than 50 in conference proceedings. In recent years he has directed several large scale research, system and software development projects related to medical and industrial imaging. Most of these activities were also related to a technology transfer process from an academic environment to industry and significantly contributed to the birth and expansion of AnaLogic/Eutecus. Dr. Rekeczky has lived, worked and taught in several countries including Japan and the USA. He has teaching experience in nonlinear dynamics, emerging computations and visual microprocessor technology (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, University of Tokushima and University of California at Berkeley). He is a member of the IEEE and program committee member of several upcoming conferences. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE-CAS in 2003-2004. His research interests and competencies include early vision techniques, nonlinear and adaptive filtering, image segmentation and fusion, multitarget multisensor tracking, and cellular neuromorphic computation. He is married, has a daughter, and enjoys playing table tennis, soccer and piano.

Dr Ákos Zarándy, one of the founders of AnaLogic, served also as the CEO of the company during its first five years. He is currently the Co-CTO and VP of Technology for both AnaLogic and Eutecus, focusing on core technology related developments. Dr Zarándy spent 15 years with the scientific research and development of various cellular array processor architectures, implementations, and applications. He obtained his PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. During his PhD studies, he spent more than 2 years at the University of California, Berkeley. He led several successful research and development projects, including vision system development, locally adaptive sensor development, and solved ultra high-speed vision problems. Dr Zarándy had introduced and patented an image processor system architecture, and took part in the development of patented vision system. He is married, has three sons, likes playing soccer, rowing, and bicycling.