Ron Tussy Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, Us

Driving development strategy, product strategy and business and sales strategy at Pinnacle Imaging Systems into numerous video and still market segments, IoT, surveillance, body worn, drone, ADAS, side mirror replacement, advanced dash, intelligent traffic systems and more. Pinnacle provides HDR video and still solutions to enhance scenes and situations where problematic high contrast, direct sunlight, headlight glare, indoor to outdoor, and deep shadows/open sun exist. We utilize the most advanced HDR embedded algorithms along with in-pixel solutions and locally adaptive tone mapping to create a one-of-a-kind HDR ISP that can easily drop into existing imaging pipelines and take existing sensors well beyond their native dynamic range with limited or no artifacts. See examples on our site at: www.pinnacleimagingsystems.comOther Current Projects:The Challenges Facing Autonomous Vehicles - Auto-Sens article by Ron Tussyhttp://auto-sens.com/category/latest-news/-Honored to be opening speaker at Imaging Sensors Americas for the second consecutive year delivering an address entitled: Image Sensors for the Next Generation: Shedding Light on Dark Data.

Principal of The Imerge Group, a widely respected technology, mobile device, ADAS, wearable and IoT/component management consultant, fintech - advisor, IP and product marketing expert since 1996. Ron has >25 years of executive experience within technology on multi-continents, and has been a speaker at many trade shows/events including Image Sensors Americas, Seybold SF, PMA, DIMA, Comdex, CES, ITRI, 6Sight, Asia Imaging Symposium, and others.The Imerge Group provides fact-based expertise, research and analysis, technical marketing and business/product development to a global base. Imerge also provides teleconsultings to >2000 institutional investors delivering submersive intelligence in the technical ecosystem surrounding all faucets of renewable energy storage, micro-grids, opto-electronics, imaging, photonics, IC's, DSPs/ISPs, MEMs, displays-touch/haptics, discrete components, semi /CMOS process, audio/video/broadcast IP, production printing. Ron was a Gerson Lehrman Group "Leader" Advisor (top 2% rating) among 150k WW GLG Advisors since 2001.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

Planned and launched the world's first consumer and pro digital camera research programs. Drove creation, data collection, analysis, reporting and sales of all embedded imaging technologies including process and internals of consumer and pro digital cameras and WW scanners market research programs - from inception. Developed with a small team numerous "first" WW forecast reports and end user research reports and customized market research and business development. Collaborated and co-branded Coolpix line of cameras. Responsible for delivering numerous custom projects including several SEC pre-IPO TAM reports for pre-IPO brands. Provided technical expertise to numerous camera OEMs including Nikon, Ricoh, EK, Canon and Olympus. Programs representative speaker at numerous Comdex shows and trade events. P & L / responsibilities as well as multi-continent Sales, PR and marketing of programs to key OEMs in the US, Europe, Japan and Taiwan.

Cupertino, California, Us

WW Product Line Manager and 20 member team leader for several products including Apple Quicktakes 100, 150, 200, Apple ColorOne scanners, Apple inkjets. Extensive contribution to color manage profiles and system, capture and scanning UI, color management, Q & A tri-linear phase array sensors. Wrote market requirements for Apple's first flat panel display. All inbound product marketing, market requirements, TAM, BOM and business modeling, and all outbound agency marketing for these products including P & L, EOL management, channels programs, sales programs. Contributed to UI on Newton, Quicktime, Flashpoint.

Frederiksberg, Dk, Dk

Provided technical solution sales, channel sales, marketing, PR and technical product development of one of the world's first professional digital camera systems. Pioneered and built the first professional digital camera systems sales channel. Established and nutured key clients and partners such as Disney Imagineering, Macy's, Robinson's May, Getty Museum, Eastman Kodak, Gretag MacBeth, Agfa and many large pre-press bureaus nationally and in Canada. Early CCD development pioneer. Established methodology for lighting professional digital camera systems as a solution.