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Conrad Lewis

Founder, eSight

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Conrad Lewis founded eSight, an Ottawa company that makes electronic glasses for people who are legally blind, in 2006. An electrical engineer, Lewis started the company to help two sisters who lost much of their sight to Stargardt disease. Lewis was chairman of the eSight board in 2014, and Gentex Corporation now owns the eSight product line.

Conrad hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Conrad co-founded eSight, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Wearable Technology Restores Sight to the Legally BlindBrainStation Magazine
2014

Quick answers

Who founded eSight?

The Globe and Mail reported on 2018-01-15 that eSight was started in Ottawa in 2006 by Conrad Lewis, an electrical engineer who pledged to restore sight to Lewis's two legally blind sisters, and that Lewis spent seven years developing the technology.

Why did Lewis build eSight?

AccessWorld, the American Foundation for the Blind's magazine, reported in May 2014 that Lewis's sisters Julia and Anne were both diagnosed in their 20s with Stargardt disease, an early-onset form of macular degeneration, which prompted the work on eSight.

What was Lewis's role at eSight later on?

AccessWorld reported in May 2014 that Conrad Lewis was then chairman of the board of eSight Corporation, with Kevin Rankin serving as president and CEO.

Who owns eSight now?

eSight's own about page, checked 2026-09-25, describes the company as eSight by Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX).

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