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Raj Singh
President and Chief Executive Officer
Raj Singh brings over 25 years of international business experience to Wavesat. Mr. Singh joins Wavesat from MoSys (Nasdaq: MOSY), a provider of high-density system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory solutions, where he was VP of Marketing and Business Development. Prior to that, he was Executive VP Worldwide Sales of Virage Logic (Nasdaq: VIRL) for 3 years and led the company to significant revenue growth during his tenure. Before joining Virage Logic, Mr. Singh was a founder, Executive VP and General Manager at 3Dlabs until its acquisition by Creative Technology (Nasdaq:CREAF) in 2002. He also played a major role in its IPO and acquisitions of Dynamic Pictures and Intense3D. Mr. Singh also spent five years with Dupont (NYSE: DD), where he was a business manager and VP of the company's Pixel operation.
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Anil Barot
VP Marketing and Business Development
Anil Barot has over 20 years of extensive wireless industry experience. Mr. Barot has served in numerous leadership roles at Motorola including Global Product Management, Business Development, and Product Strategy for Wireless Broadband Access Technologies (LTE & WiMAX). Prior to joining Wavesat, Anil served as Sr. Director of Motorola’s Broadband Strategy & Ecosystem Alliances including Silicon, Consumer Devices and Network Infrastructure solutions. He was instrumental in the successful restructuring of the 3G product to improve competitive position and drive profitable growth of worldwide 3G business. He also managed business development & marketing of 3G devices in the consumer product segment. Mr. Barot holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University with a focus on Marketing, Finance & Strategy. |
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Jonathan Labs
Vice President, Core Technology and CTO
Jonathan Labs has been with Wavesat since 1997 and has been the key leader in the development of Wavesat’s OFDM/DSP technology and core IP. Dr. Labs served as Chief Scientist between 2003 and 2008, leading all PHY algorithm development for Wavesat’s silicon solutions. Dr. Labs has also been an active member of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group since July, 2001, and was appointed as the Chair of the 802.16 Maintenance Task Group since December, 2004. This Group oversees the development of the 802.16 corrigenda and revision projects. Dr. Labs received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1986 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Stanford University in Stanford, California in 1992. |
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James Pekarsky
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
James Pekarsky brings over 25 years of financial expertise to Wavesat with extensive experience in both private and public companies in the semiconductor industry. Prior to Wavesat, Mr. Pekarsky held the CFO position at a number of semiconductor companies including MoSys (Nasdaq: MOSY), AccelChip (acquired by Xilinx) and Virage Logic (Nasdaq: VIRL). He also held senior finance and operations positions at Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq: MENT) and Bio Rad (Nasdaq BIO). During his career, Mr. Pekarsky has completed numerous M&A transactions, raised multiple rounds of venture financings, led Virage Logic’s IPO and helped several companies successfully scale during periods of rapid revenue and headcount growth. Mr. Pekarsky holds a BS in Accounting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from Golden Gate University. |
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Thomas Wilson
Vice President Engineering
Thomas Wilson is a 17-year semiconductor veteran with a broad leadership experience in product development. As one of the founders of Tundra Semiconductor, Dr. Wilson was directly involved in defining, launching and successfully bringing to production multiple product families in the wireless and wireline telecommunication markets. Dr. Wilson brings a complete view of semiconductor operations with past roles ranging from engineering, product management and sales.
Tom Wilson holds a PhD from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Mark Netto
Vice President, Finance
Mark Netto has been with Wavesat for over five years and has overall responsibility for the financial control and administration within Wavesat. Prior to joining us, Mark served as Corporate Accountant at Kaufel Group, a public company that was listed on the TSE. Mark began his career at KPMG in Montreal, where he worked closely with a number of technology companies. Mark is a Certified General Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Concordia University.
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