Michael Slayton, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board, Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Dr. Slayton is the founder of both Ulthera, Inc. and its incubator company 15 years earlier, Guided Therapy Systems (GTS). He has over 30 years of senior management and technical responsibility in engineering, development and manufacturing functions, focused primarily on new diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound applications. Dr. Slayton has helped develop over 70 commercially successful products ranging from electron beam and laser instruments to a variety of ultrasonic systems, scan heads and transducers. He served as Vice President of Advanced Development and Board Member for Dornier MedTech GmbH (a Daimler Benz Company), Phoenix, Arizona; President of Ultrasound Development, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana; and is currently President and CEO of Ardent Sound, Inc. (formerly GTS, Inc.) and Chairman and CTO for Guided Therapy Systems, LLC and Xthetix, Inc., both Arizona-based companies.   Dr. Slayton has published over 40 technical papers and been awarded 29 patents, with 53 patents pending. He earned an M.S. in Quantum Radiophysics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Kiev State University and USSR Academy of Sciences, respectively.