Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
LumiThera
Location Poulsbo, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Luis De Taboada is one of the founders of LumiThera and is currently Vice President of Engineering at Banyan BioMarkers. Prior to Banyan, Mr. De Taboada was Vice President of Research and Development at PhotoThera Inc, Director of Engineering at Laser Mechanisms, Engineering Manager at Medical Optics, a division of Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics
where he led the development of novel Carbon Dioxide lasers, laser systems, fiber beam delivery systems, and research in head mounted displays for minimally invasive surgery. With over twenty years as a manager and active contributor to the design, fabrication, and testing of devices and systems for industrial, scientific, medical, and dental applications, Mr. De Taboada has extensive design and management experience on multi-disciplinary product development projects and system’s engineering encompassing diffractive and refractive optics, optical fibers, electro-optics, laser, RF, energy conversion, and software technologies; including designing test methods for system acceptance and compliance with FDA and EN requirements. Mr. De Taboada holds a M.S in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.
