Ash Prabala is the founder of DVC Company and currently serves as President & CEO. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering, marketing, sales, and general management within the high-performance scientific digital imaging industry. Prior to founding DVC, Ash was engaged in the development of digital camera chipsets at Crystal Semiconductor Corp, a subsidiary of Cirrus Logic. Prior to that, Ash has held engineering and management positions at prestigious companies such as Scientific-Atlanta, Cohu Inc. (Electronics Division), and Xerox. His career is marked by an impressive track record of high-performance electronics design. His experience spans a wide range of applications from state-of-the-art laser printing, CATV digital set-top boxes, and digital and scientific-grade cameras. Ash is widely known in the industry for his vision and commitment to excellence in the imaging community. Ash holds an MSEE from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and a B.Tech (EE) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Martin Parker serves as Director of Engineering and is responsible for camera design and the research and development laboratory at DVC.

Martin has 20 years of advanced imaging experience, ranging from imaging system design to image authentication, data compression, graphical user interface and digital sensor technologies. Prior to DVC, Martin was manager of Software and Services Advanced Development at Kodak, responsible for new features used in Kodak digital cameras, EasyShare software, and internet services. In that role, he also invented an intuitive user interface for image management and led the development of a JPEG2000 camera/host prototype system. He has seven patents in the field of imaging. Martin holds an MSEE from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Martin’s multi-disciplinary knowledge of electronics, optics, packaging, and imaging applications makes him ideally suited for his key role at DVC. Martin has built a robust, modular, and flexible platform for DVC cameras. His engineering leadership is crucial in DVC’s impressively short design cycles and has resulted in aggressive product launch schedules without compromising quality and performance.