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Gary Hebert - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • CTO
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Co - Founder of THAT Corporation
Mr. Hebert is a co-founder of THAT Corporation and a longtime audio-electronics enthusiast. He currently serves as THAT's Chief Technology Officer, spending the majority of his time designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits intended for use in the professional audio industry. He is credited with creating many of THAT's high-performance audio ICs, including the popular 218x series of VCAs, the 2162 Dual VCA, the 4320/4315/4305 Analog Engines®, the 1646/1606 OutSmarts® Line Drivers, and the new 5171 Preamplifier Controller. He also continues to serve as an executive advisor to THAT's dbx-tv business unit. Prior to founding THAT Corporation, Mr. Hebert was with dbx, Inc. from 1981, where he held several engineering positions, the last being Electrical Engineering Manger. At dbx, he was responsible for a number of audio product designs, such as the CX-1 Preamplifier, dbx 10/20 and 14/20 automated graphic equalizers, the dbx PPA-1 Personal Noise Reduction System, and others under the dbx, Audio Dynamics, and ADC brands. He also worked with semiconductor manufacturers on ICs used in the dbx Noise Reduction licensing program. He began his career at automated test equipment manufacturer Teradyne. Mr. Hebert holds four patents in the audio electronics field and has two more pending. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and has authored and presented several papers for the AES. He earned a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979.

Les Tyler - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Management Team
  • President
Mr. Tyler co-founded THAT Corporation in 1989, and has served as its President ever since. He is actively involved with each of THAT's businesses, especially dbx-tv licensing and THAT integrated circuit designs. Prior to THAT, Mr. Tyler spent twelve years in various positions at dbx, Inc. including Vice-President for Engineering. Among his accomplishments at dbx, he is credited with both the mass adoption of the Emmy-award winning dbx Noise Reduction system and in creating its resultant licensing program. Early on in his dbx career he designed the dbx 165 and 163 compressor/limiters,as well as the 222 and 224 noise reduction systems. Later, he supervised the development of the dbx-tv noise reduction system, a variety of sound enhancing products following the famous dbx 3BX, the ground-breaking dbx Soundfield loudspeaker line, and a line of consumer audio electronics including the world's first Dolby Pro-Logic surround sound decoder system. An active member of the audio community, Mr. Tyler has authored papers for the IEEE and the Audio Engineering Society, as well as articles for the popular audio and electronic press. He has been granted two patents, and has one currently pending. He received a BSEE from Cornell University in 1975.

Masaya Ishikawa

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Matt Easley

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Manager
Mr. Easley joined THAT Corporation in January of 2006. He brings over 20 years of engineering design and management experience to the team. He currently oversees all engineering development of the dbx-tv brand.

Timothy A. Brault

Job Titles:
  • Licensing Sales Director
Timothy A. Brault is THAT's Licensing Sales Director for the dbx-tv division. Mr. Brault has served in this position since the summer of 2015. Mr. Brault has been with THAT Corporation since 2006, spending five years working in marketing for both dbx-tv licensing and THAT's Integrated Circuit division, then serving two years as Product Manager for dbx-tv's audio enhancement technology. In 2011, in addition to his responsibilities for THAT, Mr. Brault began teaching Advanced Audio Theory at Bay State College, and in 2013, Mr. Brault began teaching Physics and Acoustics of Audio at the Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts. Prior to joining THAT, Mr. Brault was a student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he earned his BS and MS degrees in Sound Recording and Music Business (a dual degree). He is an actively performing drummer, and plays regularly with his band.