Dr. Amos Yahil is a world-renowned astrophysicist at Stony Brook University. In 1995, Dr. Yahil developed an acceleration method that effectively improved the Pixon Method by a factor of 10,000 or more. Recognizing that the improved Pixon Method could be applied to a number of fields, Dr. Yahil and Dr. Richard Puetter formed Pixon LLC in 1997 and began offering end users a whole new way of looking at images. Today, Dr. Yahil is cofounder and CEO of Pixon, where he is responsible for the company's overall strategic direction, operations and market outreach. Dr. Yahil has for many years been a leading cosmologist and professor at Stony Brook University, pioneering work on dark matter in massive galactic halos, the large-scale structure of the universe, primeval galaxies and exploding stars. Dr. Yahil has published seminal papers in most areas of astrophysics, has won a number of prestigious awards and top honors for his work, and holds a number of patents related to the Pixon Method. Dr. Yahil holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Yahil served in the Israeli Army as the Deputy Head of the Israeli Delegation to the Mixed Armistice Commissions with Syria and Lebanon.

Dr. Richard Puetter is a well known infrared astronomer, instrument builder and computational physicist. He has built a variety of infrared instruments for ground-based and airborne astronomy. In particular, he completed the construction of the Long Wavelength Spectrometer, an imaging mid-infrared spectrometer for the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, currently the world's largest. In 1992, Dr. Puetter, with graduate student Robert Pina, began developing a new approach to remove from digital images a telescope's diffraction pattern while at the same time avoiding the creation of meaningless "artifacts." As a result of these efforts, the two men developed the Pixon Method, a revolutionary new technique for extracting the maximum amount of useful information from an image data set. Today, Dr. Puetter is CTO of Pixon where he is responsible for the company's technology direction, product development and strategic planning. Prior to Pixon, Dr. Puetter held a number of prominent teaching and research positions at the University of California, San Diego. He has published over 150 scientific papers and has been issued several patents related to the Pixon Method of image reconstruction. Dr. Puetter holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California.