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Dr.
Ali Daneshy
Ali is an innovative energetic executive
with extensive broad-based technology development and management experience
in the oil and gas industry. He is currently President, Daneshy Consultants
Int’l, which provides technical and management consulting services
in the oil and gas industry to diverse global clients, including majors,
mid-size internationals, NOCs, Independents, and many others. Ali’s
extensive experience includes Halliburton Energy Services, Board member
of Society of Petroleum Engineers, Operations Technical Manager for
the Europe/Africa Region for, Halliburton, London England , and many
other technical management positions. Ali has special expertise in
technology management, and promotion of new technology-based product
development, marketing, and field implementation. Ali has proven experience
with leading the planning and implementation of technology based new
products and services.
Dr. Dave Deacon
Educated at MIT and Stanford, Dave did pioneering work in lasers
and optoelectronics particularly on the free lectron laser with
its inventor
Prof. John Madey. Dave is a successful entrepreneur who has started
three companies: Deacon Research, Gemfire and Sparkolor. Dave is
particularly strong at matching customer requirements and needs
to technology, business
development and strategy definitions. He has a good balance of technology
and business expertise. At Sparkolor, he led a team developing a
laser tunable of 40 nm exceeding customer expectations and successfully
sold
the company to Intel in 2002. He has built technical teams covering
multiple photonics technologies including silica and oxynitride waveguides;
silicon processing and process integration; polymer synthesis; laser
design; flip-chip bonding; UV gratings; RF design and testing; numerical
simulation. He has 46 U.S. patents issued and 82 publications.
Taher
Elgamal, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO Ektasis, Inc
Dr. Elgamal
is a leading expert in computer, network and information security. He
currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Ektasis, Inc. – a second-generation
Internet company. Previously, he served as founder, CTO and Chairman
of Securify, Inc. and the Chief Scientist at Netscape, Inc. Taher, recognized
in the industry as the "inventor of SSL," led the SSL efforts
at Netscape and throughout the industry. Taher wrote the SSL patent and
promoted SSL as the Internet Security standard within standard committees
and the industry. Dr. Elgamal invented several industry and government
standards in data security and digital signatures area, including the
DSS government standard for digital signatures. Several thousand publications
have been written in the space referred to as "the ElGamal Cryptography." This
work has also been adapted for the DSS government standard for digital
signatures and is the basis for the Elliptic Curve encryption methods
recently introduced in the industry. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer
Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Computer Science from
Cairo University .
Prof.
Akira Mita
Dr. Akira Mita (See
Link)
is an authority in the field of sensors, particularly
in structural health monitoring in Japan. He is the inventor
of key fiber optic sensors based
on fiber
gratings such as fiber accelerometers.
Prof.
Biswanath Mukherjee
Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee,
currently Professor (and Past Chairman) of Computer Science,
has an extensive background in computing, networking, and
security related industries. Biswanath earned his Doctorate
Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle in
1987 and his Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering, Southern
Illinois University, and Electronics and Electrical Communications
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). His strong background
includes Department Chair, Computer Science, University of California, Davis; Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Davis; and numerous other positions. Dr
Mukherjee will bring his broad background to full support of IFOS endeavors.
Dr.
Ferey Faridian
With 20 years of experience in high-technology businesses
from Fortune 100 to venture backed, Ferey has been entrepreneur,
VC, investment banker, corporate strategist and senior manager
in industry. He focuses on helping companies realize hidden
value through financial and operational structuring. Ferey
began his career at Schlumberger Industries, where he led
the accelerated product group of Weston-Solartron. He then
joined a leading European technology, business and venture
group in Cambridge, UK, where he worked at board level with
a number of Fortune 500 conglomerates in corporate strategy
and M&A's. Upon moving to the US, Ferey joined Digital
Coast Partners (now Montgomery & Co.) as VP of this California boutique
merchant bank. He was then appointed a venture partner and West Coast representative
of both the BV Group, a $1 billion fund of funds in Washington, DC and
one of its portfolio investments,Cornerstone Ventures, a $100 million venture
capital fund in Denver, CO. Ferey has served as CEO and President of three
companies, including a pioneering venture-backed optics startup in Southern
California. Ferey is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He holds a PhD from University
College, London, where he was lecturer, having pioneered new forms of imaging
and microscopy in close ties with the Ginzton Laboratories of Physics at
Stanford University. Ferey also holds an MBA from Cambridge University
where he was recipient of an IEE merit scholarship.
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