Robert A. Ross, Founder and President of Virginia Technologies, Inc. provides strategic leadership for the company and directs its research and development laboratories. In these roles, he draws on broad experience in the design and commercialization of new technologies. Before launching VTI, he was Senior Research Scientist in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he oversaw research at the Center for Semi-Custom Integrated Systems. Mr. Ross is also Co-Founder and President of GI Stimulation, Inc., a firm that has pioneered the development of phased multi-point pacemakers for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. A named inventor on eight patents, Mr. Ross has helped develop numerous commercial products, including an optical micrometer for silicon wafer evaluation, a mobile robot for remote inspection of transportation lighting poles, a crural diaphragm pacemaker, a miniaturized quartz pressure transducer system, an advanced microprocessor-based data display system, a hand-held digital imaging and compression system, an interactive infrared stylus system, and a high-speed parallel reduction network used to optimize simulations for the U.S. Army. Mr. Ross holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a master’s degree in computer engineering from Boston University. back to top>