Former Vital Images CEO finds new gig
Posted on June 8th, 2009 – 5:06 PMBy Thomas Lee
Jay Miller, the former top executive at Vital Images, is the new CEO of Kappametrics Inc., a a Virginia-based start up that focuses on MRI-related software. He will remain in Minnesota.
Miller, a 11 year veteran of Minnetonka-based Vital Images, was replaced as CEO early last year by then chief operating officer Mike Carrel. Vital, which makes software that helps doctors analyze CT scans, has struggled to grow sales as hospitals cut large capital purchases like CT scanners to cope with the country’s worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
Since leaving Vital, Miller has been a consultant to ten health care companies.
Kappametrics, which spun off from consumer products giant Unilever in 2004, is developing technology that will clean out excessive radio frequency, electrostatic, and magnetic noise MRIs generate during brain scans. The result, the company says, is more accurate real time data that enables doctors to create detailed maps of brain activity.
