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Tibor Juhasz and the long life of a short pulse
A physicist trained in Hungary, three laser ventures, and a partnership that kept finding new work. Tibor Juhasz has spent his career giving laboratory ideas a life outside the laboratory.
Shawn O'Neil
Shawn O'Neil is the CEO of ViaLase, a clinical-stage medtech company building FLIGHT, an incision-free femtosecond laser procedure for glaucoma. He spent more than two decades at Alcon rising to head of sales and marketing for surgical glaucoma, then ran commercial at Sight Sciences before joining ViaLase as Chief Commercial Officer and stepping up to CEO in July 2025. His career has been a running tour of the products that reshaped eye surgery: EX-PRESS, LenSx, CyPass, OMNI, TearCare, and now a laser that treats glaucoma without ever touching the eye with a blade.