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Babak Daneshrad, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO

A visionary, yet pragmatic scientist with demonstrated early-stage company experience. Dr. Daneshrad has been a professor with the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department since 1996. He is viewed as a thought-leader in his field of expertise and is well published in the area of wireless communications, with an emphasis on experimental multi-antenna systems. In 2001, he co-founded Innovics Wireless. Innovics, a specialized fabless semiconductor company, raised $14 million in venture capital and developed the first multi-antenna, diversity-enabled WCDMA-3G mobile terminal ASIC.

Phillip Duncan, Ph.D., V.P. of Business Development

Dr. Duncan has had success as an entrepreneur in both electronic design automation software and wireless communication IP, serving roles ranging from CTO to CEO. During these start-up efforts he was responsible for raising several rounds of private funding. Through an acquisition, Dr. Duncan became a Senior Marketing Manager with Conexant developing strategy in the wireless multimedia and home networking sector. After leaving Conexant he spent several years as a business and technology consultant with an emphasis on start-up companies.

Dr. Duncan attained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the highly regarded Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab of UCLA in 1993. While at UCLA he headed a research effort focusing on digital architectures and design automation techniques to facilitate very low power digital signal processing as an enabling technology for today's generation of smart portable communication devices. The research was a collaboration with Texas Instruments corporate research division, where Dr. Duncan was employed as a research engineer.

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