About Us
About Prisma Imaging
Prisma Imaging™ is focused on the development of newly designed radiographic imaging techniques and modalities which will be capable of capturing never-before seen perspectives of the equine and large animal patient. Prisma’s key objective is to provide the practitioner with the means by which to achieve more effective and efficient diagnosis, prognosis and overall improved patient care, compared to current imaging practices.
Today’s radiographic imaging technology for the equine industry has significant limitations, and is not reliable for diagnostics of the high-mass areas of the patient, such as the spine, pelvis and abdomen. Prisma’s novel technology will open up an entirely new landscape in equine and large animal imaging, improving the quality and reliability of overall patient care.
In addition to recognizing the merits of developing a ground-breaking, highly beneficial diagnostic technology, Prisma is equally committed to supporting the humane treatment of animals in all categories, including our beloved pets, animals that live in captivity (in zoos and nature habitats), and in our food chain.
Prisma Mission
In addition to providing a developing a highly beneficial technology for horses, Prisma is equally committed to a more humane treatment of all animals, including our beloved pets, animals in captivity, and in our food chain
Our Beloved Pets
Animals in Captivity
Animals in our Food Chain
Our Team
Michael Silver
Founder & Chief Executive Officer & Board of Directors Member
Michael has over 30 years of entrepreneurial and institutional experience. From 1992 until 2001, he worked for Ronald Perelman’s holding company, MacAndrews and Forbes, Inc., where he worked in a variety of capacities at the M&F companies. In 2002, he started a company, in the housewares industry that he built and successfully divested in 2012. After selling his company, Michael started Prisma Imaging in 2016. His motivation to start Prisma was to develop a solution that addressed the deficiencies that exist in equine imaging, his desire to create new beneficial technology, and his attraction to the contagious passion that exists within the equestrian community. Michael is committed to Prisma for the long-term, beyond the equine market and into the next phase of potential expanded industries that will become viable as Prisma’s technology advances.
In addition to recognizing the merits of developing a ground-breaking, highly beneficial diagnostic technology, Michael is equally committed to supporting the humane treatment of animals in all categories, including our beloved pets, animals that live in captivity (in zoos and nature habitats), and in our food chain.
Michael received his BA from Vanderbilt University and his MBA from Fordham.
Brian Tisher, MBA, MHS
Chief Financial Officer
Brian serves as chief financial officer for Prisma and is a seasoned healthcare administrator bringing 25 years of experience within the healthcare sector including leadership roles in financial management, strategic development, and healthcare operations. His experience includes 20 years working as a healthcare administrator in the Atlanta healthcare market including positions with Emory University System of Healthcare, Saint Joseph’s Health System, and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) where he worked to develop some of the most successful physician-integration strategies in the Atlanta market. Brian provides a broad range of experience in health services delivery having worked within both hospital and physician management settings, including for profit/not-for-profit, and academic medical center environments. Brian serves as adjunct program faculty for the University of Florida’s Master of Health Administration program teaching healthcare financial management.
Brian received an MBA/MHS Degree from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, where he also earned a certificate degree in Entrepreneurship. He holds a BS in Communications, also from the University of Florida.
Technical Advisors
Tobias Funk
Senior Director, Photonics, Imaging & X-Ray
Christopher Ellenor
PhD, Staff Scientist
Hailey Gryka
Scientist, Photonics
Augustus Lowell
Chief Systems Architect
Chris Mitchell
PhD, Sr. Director, Project Management
Prisma Imaging, Inc.