Expert Details
Wireless/Telecommunications, Venture Capital/Funding, Startups/Entrepreneuring
ID: 107743
California, USA
Expert is the founder and CEO of Employer, leading ASP targeting the enterprise wireless and mobile communications industry. Employer services over 700 of the world's largest corporations on a worldwide basis. Sample customers include Cisco, PG&E, Qwest, AOL, Merrill Lynch, and many others.
Expert has done research and founded three companies (Employer, mBlox (formerly MobileSys), and Personal Productivity Tools) that provide wireless software and services targeting the cellular telecom industry and enterprises that wish to empower their end users to use cellular communications.
Expert has over a decade of experience in this area and has intimate knowledge of digital cellular carriers on a worldwide basis including knowledge of GSM, CDMA, TDMA, paging, GSM, 2.5G, 3G and other technologies and the business strategies of the carriers with respect to these technologies.
Expert has more than a decade of experience founding companies which provide communication software products to enterprises. Particular emphasis has been on the mobile and wireless communications area.
Expert has founded four successful startups, starting with Silvar-Lisco in 1979 (IPO 1984), Vantage Analysis Systems in 1986 (acquired at IPO valuations in 1992), mBlox (formerly MobileSys) in 1999 (pre-IPO), and most recently Employer. Expert has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs find and build startups. Expert is very well connected within the venture capital community and regularly acts as a consultant to venture capital groups in evaluating investments. Expert is a limited partner of several venture funds. Expert has raised over $100 million in venture funding in the four companies he has founded to date.
Expert is an experienced entrepreneur, and has a long history of successfully identifying and capitalizing on market opportunities. For entrepreneurs that require help in assessing markets for their startups, Expert can provide guidance and help in focusing and evaluating on market opportunities.
Expert has built several successful startups from scratch and is very experienced in building businesses and markets from the early adopter phase through to maturity. Expert was a leader in creating the high-level simulation market (VHDL, Verilog, etc) in the mid-1980's and is a pioneer in wireless enabling enterprises throughout the 1990's.
Expert's experience as an entrepreneur, in evaluating business plans and market opportunities on behalf of numerous venture capital groups gives him the ability to help other entrepreneurs in their evaluation of markets.
Expert's experience as an entrepreneur with four successful startups built from scratch to substantial revenue allows him to provide help to entrepreneurs in tracking market trends and understanding what impact these trends will have on their businesses.
Expert has over a decade of experience development products and services for mobile communications for enterprises. Expert's companies have provided products to over 700 corporations, the majority of which are Fortune 1000 companies.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1980 | Degree: BS | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: Stanford University |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 2004 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: CEO, Founder, Chairman | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1999 to 2004 | Employer: MobileSys/mBlox | Title: CEO, Founder, Chairman | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1993 to 1999 | Employer: Personal Productivity Tools | Title: CEO, Founder, Chairman | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1990 to 1992 | Employer: Viewlogic Systems | Title: Senior Vice President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1985 to 1990 | Employer: Vantage Analysis Systems | Title: Executive Vice President, Founder, Chairman | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1979 to 1985 | Employer: Silvar-Lisco | Title: Director of Engineering, Founder | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
Career Accomplishments
Associations / Societies |
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Expert is a Special Limited Partner in Crosspoint Venture Partners; a Limited Partner of Eldorado Venture Partners; member of Who's Who, a member of IEEE, the ACM, and numerous PCIA technical committees. |
Awards / Recognition |
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He received the El Dorado Venture Partners Entrepreneur of the year in 1992. |
Publications and Patents Summary |
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He has numerous publications in the electronic design area and the wireless telecom industry. He holds several patents in CAE and wireless telecom. |
Additional Experience
Vendor Selection |
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Expert has intimate knowledge of virtually all of the vendors in the wireless data industry. |
Marketing Experience |
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Expert is a world expert in wireless communications and telecom. His company Employer is a leading vendor in wirelessly enabling enterprise applications. His previous company (MobileSys, now called mBlox) is the leading SMS aggregator in the United States. Expert has worked closely with wireless carriers (both paging and digital cellular) on a worldwide basis. Employer has wireless enabled more than 700 enterprise customers, most within the Fortune 1000 and Global 2000. |
Fields of Expertise
telecommunication, wireless communication, application service provider, cellular telecommunication, communication software, entrepreneurship, initial public offering, market assessment, market development, market potential, market trend, mobile telecommunication, Verilog HDL, venture, venture capital, capital market, venture capital support, telecommunications industry, computer-aided integrated-circuit design, computer-aided design, computer-aided circuit layout design, hardware description language, computer-aided engineering, very high-speed integrated circuit, personal-computer computer-aided-designing system, computer simulation, VHSIC Hardware Description Language, SPICE simulation software, software engineering, computer software