Elphel, Inc. was started in 2001 to provide high performance cameras based on free software and hardware designs. Freedom of the users of Elphel products is our top priority - we value and protect it with the GNU General Public License that covers all the Elphel software and hardware designs.

This freedom extends from the convenience of the out-of-the-box usage of the cameras with the intuitive GUI to the possibility to modify any parts of them. It protects user right to create and distribute derivative products based on our designs, products that may be suitable for the applications we had never thought about ourselves.

Members of Elphel development team are in the USA, China, Russia, Ukraine and Switzerland.

Andrey N. Filippov has over 25 years of experience in the embedded systems design. Since graduation from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in 1978 he worked for the General Physics Institute (Moscow, Russia) in the area of high-speed high-resolution, mixed signal design, application of PLDs and FPGAs, and microprocessor-based embedded system hardware and software design, with a special focus on image acquisition methods for laser physics studies and computer automation of scientific experiments. Andrey holds a PhD in Physics from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology. In 1995 Andrey moved to the United States and after working for Cordin Company (Salt Lake City, Utah) for 6 years in 2001 started Elphel, Inc. dedicated to doing business in emerging field of open systems based on free (GNU/GPL) software and open hardware.

Mykhailo Malyshko has worked for Elphel since 2005. His technical activity, with Elphel, is with embedded Linux support; platform drivers development in our cameras. As for personal interests he enjoys network programming, the embedded development, computer graphics, OOP and SPE.

Alexandre G. Poltorak is a Free and Open Source Movement activist. He founded his first FOSS company in 1999, formed many contacts with GNU/Linux and participated in LPI.org. Alexandre with other's, founded a partner network of professionals around FOSS, this partner network created new companies, products and ideas. In 2006 Alexandre participate in the creation of Free-IT-Foundation - a non profit Foundation promoting GNU/Linux and FreeSoftwares in big companies, governemental and ONG structures. Alexandre's goals, at Elphel, are to consolidate Elphel's buisiness model, build a solid and productive relation with Universities, FOSS community & partner networks.

Andrey V. Latin graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Vladimir in 1985, with an Engineering degree. He is a start-mainframes(IBM 360/370) adjustment, the development of microprocessor systems (Intel 8080/8085/8086), programming C / C + +. More than 10 years DBA Oracle RDB on Open VMS, Comaq ASE AlphaServer Midrange OpenVMS. Since 2005, working at Elphel - software developer. As for personal interests he enjoys network programming, the embedded development, computer graphics, multimedia streaming, also plays table tennis.

Oleg Dzhimiev Graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 2006, earning a Master's Degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics. Worked for 2 years in IPCME and in 2008 does a contract work for Elphel as an Electronic Engineer. Working with FPGA programming and verification.

Joan Alvey Graduated from Utah State University in 1983, with Bachelors degree in Organizational Communication. Working in the accounting field for over 20 years. Met Andrey Filippov in 1998. Started working part-time for Elphel in 2003, then full time at Elphel in 2006 as the Office Manager and bookkeeper. Love's the outdoors, other interest are gardening, hiking and camping.