Rok URŠIČ
Whenever I founded or co-founded a technology company, I felt this urge out of nowhere: this is what I must do, this is what I’ve got to have, this is who I am. I co-founded, and I am currently the CEO of a San Diego-based digital health startup Cella Medical. I also enjoy mentoring teams at Instrumentation Technologies and Red Pitaya, two companies that I founded in Slovenia, leading in their respective global technology niches. Before being “called” onto this particular path of funding and growing companies, I worked as an engineer on particle accelerators, the most complex machines ever built. Those huge and expensive machines don’t just hunt for obscure subatomic particles and can be used for decidedly more down-to-earth projects like fighting cancer and cleaning up industrial waste. I see building companies as an inherently nonlinear and profound engineering challenge.
Based on Uršič’s patent, the Libera Brilliance + is after more than 15 years still considered the global “gold standard” among systems for measuring and stabilizing beams in particle accelerators.
1963 Born in Postojna, Slovenia
1989 Degree, majoring in 4x4 Butler matrix utilizing microstrip technique
1990 Development engineer, Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
staff electrical engineer and group leader, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA
1998 Founder and CEO Instrumentation Technologies d.o.o., Solkan, Slovenia
2014 Co-founder and president of the board, Red Pitaya d.d., Solkan, Slovenia
2018 Co-founder and CEO, Cella Medical, Inc., San Diego, USA
Important Works
Red Pitaya Frost & Sullivan’s 2014 Global New Product Innovation Award - Electronic Test & Measurement Tools.
US Patent No 6972552 (2004) Method for the precise measurement of dependency on amplitude and phase of a plurality of high frequency signals and a device for carrying out said method.
Rok Uršič (2002) Reconfigurable Instrumentation Technologies, Architectures and Trends, AIP Conference Proceedings 648.
Selected Awards
2008 nagrada GZS za izjemne gospodarske in podjetniške dosežke | Award for extraordinary economic and entrepreneurial achievements
2008 Puhovo priznanje | Puh Certificate of Recognition