Director of Sales

Jock Waldo Director of Sales Jack is a seasoned technology solutions expert with 37 years of experience in the Corrections and Law Enforcement sectors. His career includes a remarkable tenure at BI Incorporated, where he played a key role in driving the company’s growth from 100 to over 1,500 employees and increased revenue from $30…

Principal Engineer

Cotton Anderson Principal Engineer Cotton Anderson holds an MS degree in optical engineering and brings 20 years of product development and deployment experience in optics to Syght. Focusing primarily on cutting edge technologies in the optical domain, Cotton has contributed to the design, development, and introduction of multiple products. Most recently, he has been leveraging…

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Alexander Sage Senior Machine Learning Engineer From a degree in optical physics to years of experience in machine learning across multiple sectors Sage has been preparing for Syght since before it was even an idea. He received his master’s in physics from UCONN to understand the optical properties of mm wave emission, transmission, and reflection.…

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President & CEO

Kevin Magenis President & CEO Kevin is the CEO of Syght, where he leads the company’s Vision, strategy and financing activities. Kevin is an award-winning business leader and successful entrepreneur with more than 25 years of building new and existing companies into global, cutting-edge multimillion-dollar enterprises. He founded Storage Genetics, which developed signal processing technology…

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Principal Engineer

David Dirks Principal Engineer David is a Principal Engineer at Syght, where he is responsible for developing Electronics and Electromechanical systems. David has over 27 years of experience developing electronics and related systems in the magnetic storage, data acquisition, semiconductor and consumer electronics industries.  Prior to joining Syght, David was a Senior Research and Development…

Senior Firmware Engineer

Micah Kurtz Senior Firmware Engineer Micah Kurtz is a Senior Firmware Engineer at Syght. He has over ten years of experience with a diverse background spanning embedded hardware and firmware, software and safety critical systems design. Prior to joining Syght, Micah worked in the autonomous and tele-operable robotics industry. Most notably, he worked for Amazon…

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Mechanical Design Engineer

Brian Magenis Mechanical Design Engineer Brian is a Mechanical Design Engineer at Syght, where he is responsible for enclosure, mechanical and industrial design and support of the products.  He has 10+ years of engineering and design experience with work ranging from government to start up positions. Prior to joining Syght, Brian worked for a manufacturing…

Principal Engineer

Stephen Powell Principal Engineer Stephen is a principal engineer with Syght, working on camera and detector development. He has a background in magnetic recording, electromagnetic fields, optics, and nanofabrication. Prior to joining Syght, Stephen worked as a Head/Media engineer in product development for Seagate Technology. There he was responsible for integrating heads and media and…

Principal Engineer

Kurt Wiesen Principal Engineer Kurt is a principal engineer at Syght, where he leads the optical design and analysis effort. Prior to joining Syght, Kurt has over 30 years experience in the data storage industry working in the design of heads and the integration of heads and media into hard disk drives. His focus for…

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Principal Engineer

Kevin McKinstry Principal Engineer Kevin is the lead RF engineer at Syght, overseeing the development of the millimeter-wave components for the company. He has a background in microwave magnetics and magnetic recording. Prior to joining Syght, Kevin spent the majority of his career in the magnetic recording industry, ultimately becoming lead design engineer for magnetic…