Jeff brings many years of full stack web development and management expertise. Prior to SignalPet, he has helped bring several companies from concept or early start-up phase to market. Starting his career as a designer and artist, he eventually migrated to programming, and has since been responsible for highly technical implementations, as well as rapidly growing and managing a wide variety of development teams and products. He has worked on products in a number of industries, including e-commerce, social media, science education, financial technology, medicine, and defense.

Originally from South Africa and the son of a small animal practitioner, Neil grew up in a small animal practice. He graduated from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine and remained there for internship and residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine; achieving Diplomate Status by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1997. Neil was the medical founder and previous co-owner of BluePearl Veterinary Partners; the nation's leading network of dedicated specialty referral and emergency hospitals. Neil also established the role and served as Chief Medical Officer for a major global corporate veterinary entity supporting thousands of veterinarians. Neil is full time engaged with SignalPET and loving every minute of it, identifying the opportunities to positively transform our profession.

Mike was born and raised in sunny San Diego. Pets have been a passion of his since he was young, having grown up in a family full of dogs and cats. Mike graduated with a BA from San Diego State University and an MA from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He is currently attaining his MBA. He has held a leadership role in the Israeli Defense Forces in a paratrooper’s brigade. He then held leadership roles in numerous non-profits, most recently as the Executive Director of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Mike currently lives in the sleepy, surfer town of Cardiff by the Sea, CA with his wife and their French Bulldog-Pitbull mix, Charlie. Mike is excited and motivated every day to work for a company that is dedicated to improving the lives of companion animals.

Lior brings to SignalPET extensive experience with over 15 years in enterprise software development, data science, machine learning, and machine vision. Prior to SignalPET, Lior co-founded TVPage Inc. where he lead the technology and architected the TVPage Video Commerce platform. The platform incorporates state of the art video streaming, big data analytics, video search, recommendation engines and machine learning for e-commerce. Lior obtained his MSc and BSc in Artificial Intelligence from the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Ben is a globally recognized specialist in search engine development and a leading Enterprise software architect. He’s developed numerous cutting edge solutions for information management and retrieval. With over 20 years of experience in data management and information retrieval, Ben is the author and contributor to several open-source projects including Clucene, Lucene++, and Strigi. Prior to SignalPET, Ben co-founded beefree, an easy to use and affordable veterinary practice management software. Ben also served as a Senior IT Advisor for Barclays Bank, UK, where he led development on several projects and led a team of 120 developers and continuously advises on IT technology for several companies.

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Basak adds to the international flare of SignalPET. She has attended three major universities including the University of Exeter in the UK and Turkey’s prestigious Koç University where she attained her BA in Economics. "Bass" currently lives in San Diego where she most recently obtained her MBA in Digital Marketing. In her free time, she enjoys horseback riding, painting and traveling. Bass has extensive equine experience with hunter/jumper riding which includes teaching riding lessons and guiding trail rides. She has grown up surrounded by many different pets and is passionate about all animals. She is excited to work with an amazing team supporting the incredible work of SignalPET.

Heidi is a San Diego native. She attended San Diego State University to pursue a B.S. in Biology. After completion of her undergraduate studies, Heidi left sunny Southern California behind and relocated to the Midwest for veterinary school. She completed her DVM degree at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine in Indiana. Since graduation she has worked in both small animal and zoological clinical practice. Heidi is deeply passionate about veterinary medicine and is honored to be part of the incredible team at SignalPET.

Dr. Chelsea Kunst worked for multiple veterinary clinics in the San Diego area while earning her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego. She earned her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University in 2009 before going to Mississippi State University for a rotating internship. She completed a diagnostic imaging residency at Michigan State University in 2013, and passed her certifying ACVR exam later that year, thus achieving board certification in veterinary diagnostic imaging.

Dr. Kunst earned the ACVR Resident Author Award for her research of canine elbow CT in patients with elbow dysplasia. Since finishing her residency, she has worked in several specialty clinics in the Southern California region. She enjoys all types of imaging, and shares her enthusiasm by teaching students, interns, and fellow veterinarians. She is very excited to embark on a new venture with SignalPET. Her time outside of work is spent going on outdoor adventures with her beloved dogs.