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About Microvision: Management Team

Alexander Tokman

CEO & President
Alexander Tokman joined Microvision in July, 2005 as President & COO. Mr. Tokman was responsible for managing Microvision’s operations, including sales, marketing, research and development, and supply chain. He was named President & CEO in January, 2006. Tokman, a 10+ year GE executive, joined Microvision from GE Healthcare, where most recently he served as General Manager of Global Molecular Imaging & Radiopharmacy—a self-contained, global multi-technology business unit. Over his last five years at GE, Mr. Tokman defined, developed, and successfully commercialized several new technology businesses including PET/CT, which added $500M+ of organic top-line growth to the company within the first three years of its commercial introduction. He is a certified Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Black Belt and Master Black Belt, and as one of GE's Six Sigma pioneers, he drove the quality culture change across GE Healthcare in the late 1990s. Alexander Tokman received M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

 

 

Michael L. Fritts

Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development
Michael L. Fritts joined Microvision in February, 2010 as Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Mr. Fritts previously worked for GE Healthcare from 1987 to 2010 where he held various management and other positions. In his final two years there, Mr. Fritts served as General Manager of a newly created business segment within the $1.7B Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Division, leading GE Healthcare’s growth in the emerging Interventional MRI market. Mr. Fritts had responsibility for a global team developing new products, establishing partnerships and collaborations, building market awareness, and working extensively with sales and marketing teams around the world to commercialize products. In previous management roles, Mr. Fritts led international and domestic teams that focused on new product development. Mr. Fritts also led the integration of various acquired companies into GE Healthcare. Mr. Fritts is a certified Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Quality Leader, has completed the Executive M.B.A. program at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

 

 

Sid Madhavan

Vice President of Research and Product Development
Sid Madhavan joined Microvision in April, 2006 as Vice President of Research and Product Development. Mr. Madhavan, who previously worked for GE Healthcare where he most recently served as an Engineering Subsystem Manager for the $2.1 billion Molecular Imaging and Computer Tomography business, is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, and brings over fifteen years of engineering product development and management experience. Mr. Madhavan has a successful track record of leading the definition and development of several key technology platform strategies that he translated into product launches, and brings a wealth of cross-functional product development experience, systems and software expertise, platform development and global teams development skills. Sid Madhavan received his B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications from Madurai Kamaraj University in India and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M.

 

 

Thomas M. Walker

Vice President General Counsel & Secretary
Thomas M. Walker joined the company in May, 2002 and serves as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining Microvision, Mr. Walker served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a publicly held technology and services company where for six years he managed domestic and international legal affairs. Prior to that, Mr. Walker advised publicly and privately held businesses while practicing in the Los Angeles offices of the law firms of Pillsbury Winthrop and Buchalter, Nemer Fields and Younger.

 

 

Jeff T. Wilson

Chief Financial Officer
Jeff T. Wilson was appointed Chief Financial Officer in April, 2006. Prior to this appointment he served as Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of the company since August, 1999. Prior to joining the company, from 1991 to 1999 Mr. Wilson served in various accounting positions for Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of medical imaging equipment. Prior to 1991, Mr. Wilson served as a manager with the accounting firm, Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Mr. Wilson is a certified public accountant. Jeff Wilson holds a B.S. in Accounting from Oklahoma State University.