Company  ›› Advisory Board ››  Biographies
 

Career ››
Come join our team of creative visionaries

 

 


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.



 
 
© Copyright 2006 IFOS