About Us

RxSight® is an ophthalmic medical technology corporation headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California that has commercialized the Light Adjustable Lens™ (LAL®), the world’s first and only adjustable intraocular lens (IOL) that is customized after cataract surgery. The company’s mission is to revolutionize the premium cataract surgery experience by allowing surgeons to partner with their patients to achieve optimized results for every unique eye.

The RxSight Executive Team

Ron Kurtz

Ron Kurtz, MD, President and CEO

Dr. Kurtz has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as on our board since 2016. Prior to joining RxSight, he co-founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LenSx Lasers, Inc. He became General Manager of Alcon LenSx, Inc after the company was acquired by Alcon Inc. (NYSE:ALC) in 2010. Dr. Kurtz previously co-founded IntraLase Corp. (NASDAQ:ILSE) serving as its initial President & CEO and then in other senior leadership positions. IntraLase became a publicly held NASDAQ-listed company in 2004 and was acquired by Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (NYSE:AMO) in 2007. Dr. Kurtz has served on the faculty of both the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Michigan. He earned his B.A. in Biochemistry from Harvard College and his M.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Eric Weinberg, Co-President and Chief Commercial Officer

Mr. Weinberg has served as our Chief Commercial Officer since June 2015. Prior to joining RxSight, he was a co-founder of LenSx Lasers, Inc. and served as Chief Commercial Officer from July 2008 to August 2010, prior to its acquisition by Alcon Inc. (NYSE:ALC). He went on to serve as Vice President of Surgical Development at Alcon LenSx, Inc. from August 2010 to April 2014. He joined IntraLase Corp. (NASDAQ:ILSE) in September 1999 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and later as the Senior Vice President, Global Marketing until the company was acquired by Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (NYSE:EYE) in April 2007. Mr. Weinberg served as Global Director of Refractive Surgery at Chiron Vision Corp. from March 1993 until October 1997, when it was acquired by Bausch & Lomb, Inc. He continued as Global Director of Refractive Surgery at Bausch & Lomb until August 1999. Mr. Weinberg began his career in medical devices at Steinway Instruments in 1980.

Ilya Goldshleger, PhD, Co-President and Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Goldshleger joined RxSight, Inc. as the Vice President, Engineering and has served as our Chief Operating Officer since June 2019. Dr. Goldshleger joined RxSight in September 2015 as the Vice President of Engineering and was responsible for the development and engineering of the LAL and LDD system and its accessories. Prior to joining RxSight, Dr. Goldshleger held various management roles at Alcon LenSx, Inc. from 2010 to 2015, last serving as Director, R&D Optics and Diagnostics, and held various roles in research and development at LenSx Lasers, Inc. from October 2008 to its acquisition by Alcon, Inc. (NYSE:ALC) in August 2010. Dr. Goldshleger received a Master of Science in Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Shelley Thunen, Co-President and Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Thunen joined RxSight, Inc. in January 2016 as our Chief Administrative Officer and has served as our Chief Financial Officer since February 2017. From January 2013 to October 2015, Ms. Thunen served as the Chief Financial Officer of Endologix, Inc. (NASDAQ:ELGX). From August 2010 to December 2012, Ms. Thunen served as Associate General Manager of Alcon LenSx, Inc. Prior to Alcon’s (NYSE:ALC) acquisition of LenSx, Inc. in August 2010, she served as a board member and chair of the audit committee from April 2008 to August 2010, as well as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Operations from November 2009 to August 2010. Ms. Thunen joined IntraLase Corp. (NASDAQ:ILSE) in May 2001 and was its Chief Financial Officer and later Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer until its acquisition by Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (NYSE:EYE) in April 2007. Ms. Thunen served on the board of directors of eyeonics, Inc. from June 2007 to February 2008, and as a board member and chair of the audit committee of Restoration Robotics, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIR) from July 2015 to November 2019, prior to its acquisition by Venus Concept Inc. (NASDAQ:VERO). She also has served as a board member and audit committee chair of Surface Ophthalmics, Inc since August 2020. She also has served as a board member and audit committee chair of Aeon Biopharma, Inc, (NYSE:AEON) and Lenz Therapeutics, Inc., (NASDAQ: LENZ)  since June 2023 and November 2023, respectively. Ms. Thunen received a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine.

Scott Gaines, Executive VP, Manufacturing & Commercial Operations

Scott joined RxSight in November 2015 as Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations & Business Process and is Certified in Production and Inventory Management. From 2010 until he joined RxSight, Scott served as Director of Technical Support & Business Systems at Alcon LenSx (Novartis), where he supported the global launch of two first-in-market ophthalmology products. He joined IntraLase Corp. in 2001, where he held a variety of logistics and planning positions of increasing responsibility until 2006, when he joined AMO (Advanced Medical Optics) as Director of Materials Management. Scott began his career at Quest Diagnostics in 1992.

Maureen O’Connell, Executive VP, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs

Maureen has over 30 years of experience in medical device regulatory affairs and clinical study management. She joined RxSight in January 2016 and serves as Executive Vice President of Clinical & Regulatory Affairs. Maureen founded O’Connell Regulatory Consultants in 1997, a consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, preparation and administration of premarket device submissions and associated clinical trials. Prior to that, she worked in executive regulatory and clinical roles for Summit Technology, Inc., a laser products company, from 1988 to 1997.

Maureen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in General Management (Finance concentration) from Boston College.

Patrick Cullen, Executive VP, Quality & Infrastructure Operations

Patrick joined RxSight as Vice President of Quality in October 2015. In February 2022, he left to serve as Vice President of Product Quality at Intuitive Surgical. One year later, he rejoined RxSight and currently serves as Executive Vice President of Quality and Infrastructure Operations.

Prior to RxSight, Patrick held a variety of quality management positions of increasing responsibility including Director of Quality Assurance for Alcon (Novartis) where he planned and executed projects for quality improvement, integration, and remediation of quality and compliance efforts. He also served as Director of Quality Engineering for Saint Jude Medical where his efforts led to the innovation of new products resulting in 20 invention disclosures, over 15 patent submissions, and 10 patents.

Patrick earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and University of Texas at Arlington.

LAL patients saw nearly as well without glasses (UCDVA) as control patients did with glasses (BCDVA).

The Light Adjustable Lens provides optimized vision for patient satisfaction.2

Light Adjustable Lens patients saw nearly as well without glasses (UCDVA) as control patients did with glasses (BCDVA).

Since the Light Adjustable Lens is a monofocal lens, there is low risk of dysphotopsias caused by splitting light, leading to potentially enhanced vision and patient satisfaction.

LAL patients are approximately two times more likely to achieve 20/20 vision or better without glasses at 6 months.

The Light Adjustable Lens offers LASIK-like accuracy in cataract surgery.2,3

92% of eyes (N = 391) achieved results within 0.50 D of target manifest refraction spherical equivalent (MRSE).

Patients are approximately two times more likely to achieve 20/20 vision or better without glasses at 6 months.

The study was a prospective, controlled, multicenter, 12-month study of 600 patients (ITT population) randomized to receive implantation with the RxSight LAL (N = 403) or a commercially available monofocal IOL (N = 197). Effectiveness analyses included 391 LAL patients and 193 control patients. Primary safety variables included best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) at 6 months and incidence of sight-threatening complications and adverse events. Primary effectiveness variables included percent reduction in manifest cylinder at 6 months, percent mean absolute reduction in MRSE at 6 months, and rotation of meridian of LAL at 6 months. Percent of eyes with an uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) of 20/20 or better at six months post-operatively compared between the LAL treatment group and the monofocal control group was a secondary endpoint.

The Light Adjustable Lens corrects as low as 0.50 D of astigmatism, which is the lowest level approved to be treated.

The ability to treat 0.50 D of postoperative cylinder makes the Light Adjustable Lens the only IOL in the United States approved to correct this level of vision-altering astigmatism. Astigmatism of as little as 0.50 D can reduce visual acuity by one line, and the impact on dynamic, functional visual acuity and low-contrast acuity is even greater.1