Talk to anyone in the contact lens business about the latest trends and extended depth of focus and myopia management will be close to the top of the list.
Sitting at the confluence of these two swelling streams is an emerging force in the contact lens business, Visioneering Technologies Inc (VTI). The idea for VTI was born in 2008 when Nasa aerospace engineer Dr Richard Griffin designed a contact lens for presbyopes that creates a virtual pinhole. Dr Stephen Snowdy came into contact with that idea and the fledgling firm while working for a US investment organisation designed to help entrepreneurs and start ups achieve commercial success. He led the company’s first institutional round of financing in 2008, joined its board that year and became CEO in 2013.
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