TeraRecon Appoints Jeff Sorenson as President

Foster City, California – August 25th, 2015: TeraRecon, (www.terarecon.com), a leader in advanced visualization and enterprise medical image viewing solutions, today announced leadership changes designed to strengthen the company and position it for the next phases of growth and solution development. 

Venkatraman Lakshminarayan, who served as CFO since 2005 and CEO since 2014, has stepped down to pursue other interests.  He is succeeded by Jeff Sorenson, who will lead the company as president.  Sorenson joined the company in 2004 and was most recently SVP of sales and marketing. 

“TeraRecon is unique because it offers a complete and truly vendor-neutral 3D advanced visualization suite which can be extended to serve the medical image viewing needs of the entire health enterprise”, Sorenson stated.  He continued, “I am excited to serve our valued customers and to drive innovation in this new capacity as president.”

On the heels of three large enterprise iNtuition™ advanced visualization wins in early August alone, the company also reported a marked increase in iNteract+™ interoperability and enterprise image-enablement projects.  In addition, the anticipation of the feature-rich iNtuition software release is driving an increase in software maintenance renewals.

About TeraRecon (www.terarecon.com
TeraRecon, a global leader in medical image management and viewing solutions, is an eight-time winner of Frost and Sullivan awards.  Its flagship iNtuition products and innovative iNteract+ imaging interoperability solutions advance the accessibility, performance, clinical functionality and workflow throughout the healthcare ecosystem.  The company’s iNteract+ solutions enhance the clinical end-user experience provided by PACS, VNA, EMR and other mission-critical image processing and image acquisition systems. Often, it can eliminate the need for many disparate image transport, viewing and storage systems while facilitating a smooth transition toward centralized administration of imaging resources.  From sharing time-sensitive imaging data, to expanding the clinical tools available when and where physicians are working; TeraRecon is an innovator and market share leader in advanced image management, viewing and post-processing solutions that allow physicians and clinicians to be more efficient and informed. Founded in 1997, TeraRecon has developed a unique family of powerful software technologies used throughout its real-time, enterprise-wide image processing solutions and real-time 3D volume rendering engines. TeraRecon is a privately-held company with global headquarters in Foster City, CA, USA, and offices in Tokyo, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; and Acton, MA.

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