Gary R. Cantu
Founder, President and CEO, Chairman of the Board

A well known Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur, Eklin represents the seventh (and his wife says last) in a string of successful startups for Gary. Eklin was started with encouragement from several well-known equine practitioners, including advisor A. Kent Allen of Virginia Equine Imaging. Cantu applied his prior imaging and informatics experience and corporate relationships to create a new imaging platform for the veterinary market.

Andy Fu
Co-Founder, Vice President of Engineering

Prior to co-founding Eklin, Mr. Fu was the Director of Engineering at PhorMax Corporation and responsible for development of a high-performance low-cost computed radiography product for the human healthcare market.  Mr. Fu brings to Eklin his extensive experience in human healthcare PACS systems and DICOM medical devices and has been instrumental in the development of the Eklin Digital Practice^® architecture.

Mr. Fu founded a number of technology companies over the past 15 years, providing software solutions for paperless medical records and Internet services.  These solutions were deployed at such companies as Kaiser Permanente and General Electric.  Mr. Fu also held key engineering management positions at Wang Laboratories, Lowell, Massachusetts and was responsible for the development of Wang’s desktop computing products.

Mr. Fu holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  In his spare time, Mr. Fu is an avid amateur astronomer and inventor, recently awarded a U.S. patent in optical stabilization techniques.  Mr. Fu is an accomplished classical guitar player and enjoys public performances.

William J. Hornof
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Hornof is a world-known veterinary medical educator, lecturer and author.  He received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of California, Davis. He was named a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiology in 1979 and joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis that same year.  Dr. Hornof has had a distinguished academic career with over 100 peer reviewed publications in imaging and informatics.

After 25 years on the faculty at UC Davis he retired as Radiology Chief of Service and Associate Director of Imaging and Hospital Computing in 2004 to join Eklin as Chief Medical Officer.  Dr. Hornof has been instrumental in optimizing image processing tools for wide-spread veterinary applications, and helping to architect Eklin's PACS and EklinVault web-based services products. Bill also heads up Eklin University, the company's continuing education teaching platform, and lectures on DR and PACS benefits and applications at major meetings and seminars for larger practices, practice groups and universities.

Eklin is proud to be the only veterinary imaging supplier with a full time medical officer, and especially so given the outstanding caliber of Dr. Hornof.

Bart Selby
Director of Marketing

Mr. Selby has worked in life sciences for over 14 years, focusing on complex instrumentation. He spent seven years at Applied Biosystems in various roles. He began in engineering management, then consumables and finally marketing. As worldwide Product Manager for ABI's flagship line of DNA sequencers, he managed an instrument system with over $150M in total sales.

He left ABI to assist Affymetrix, the market leader in microarrays, develop an instrument product line. In three and a half years at Affy he helped introduce three instruments. Then as Americas Marketing Manager he worked closely with the sales force, helping Affy move into new markets.

He left Affy to co-found Innovative Biosensors, a rapid pathogen detection firm started with technology licensed from MIT. As a
Director at Optimedica, a KP funded start up, he helped transition a complex ophthalmic laser surgery instrument directly from development into the field.

Mr Selby has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University, and holds two patents in DNA sequencing. A long time resident of Northern California, he is an avid sea kayaker, abalone diver and open water masters swimmer. He leads annual kayak trips with northern migration of the California gray whale.