Team
Robert Foster
Bob Foster has been a pioneer, engineering executive and entrepreneur in wireless systems and technology for over three decades. He was co-founder and CTO of Wavtrace, the first company to develop and deploy time division duplex (TDD) in broadband access systems in the 10 to 40 GHz bands. After Wavtrace was acquired by Harris (HRS) in 2000, he continued as Chief Scientist where he directed the regulatory and standards team that successfully lobbied to include TDD in millimeter wave access standards worldwide. He has worked for Motorola and Boeing. More recently he was SVP of Engineering at Kymeta, a maker of metamaterials-based scanning antennas. He has developed technologies and products ranging from consumer handsets to large-scale systems and holds numerous patents.
Timothy Doherty
Timothy M. Doherty is a respected senior data center executive with more than 20 years of experience in the data center and telecom industries. Since the late 1990s, he has successfully founded, operated and sold several data center and colocation companies in both private and public transactions. As Managing Director at Pihana Pacific, he was part of a team that raised $300 million to build and operate data centers in the Far East and Los Angeles before selling these assets to Equinix (EQIX). He founded Fortress Colocation with data centers in Seattle, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.
Sue McMeekin
Sue has worked in telecom and wireless for over 40 years, including time at AT&T Bell Labs, Wavtrace/Harris, and Kymeta. She has performed analysis and simulations of undersea fiber optic cabling, an air interface for TDD millimeter-wave access systems and phased array antennas with true time delay. Sue co-authored a paper published in Applied Optics and is a co-inventor on a Harris patent. She holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University, where she was the Graduating Scholar in Engineering and the High Scholarship Student in Electrical Engineering.
Panos Lekkas
Panos is a military-grade communications security, cognitive electronic warfare, UAV payload, artificial intelligence, and microelectronics expert, respected technical author, and inventor. His diversified, hands-on experience spans four decades in cutting-edge technology R&D mostly intended for intelligence and defense systems. As SVP Advanced Systems, he led Kymeta’s efforts in developing the computational intelligence behind its metamaterials antenna. He has worked all over the world with IBM, including leading early CPU architecture work for what became one of IBM’s super-computer lines. He led the design of multiple custom VLSI superchips involving DSP and 512-bit wide VLIW processors and is the author for McGraw-Hill of “Wireless Security”, whose foreword was written by USN Admiral (Ret.) Michael “Mike” McConnell, who was Director of NSA during the 1990’s. He is fluent in nine written and spoken foreign languages (Asian and European).