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Bob Plaschke recently served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures focusing on wireless investments. Before joining Sutter Hill Ventures, Bob was senior vice president of worldwide client services at InfoSpace, where he was responsible for the implementation of wireless data solutions for the company's worldwide group of carriers. Before joining InfoSpace, he was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Business Development at Prio, a wireless and wireline promotion infrastructure company. Bob earned an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago and received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Northwestern University. back
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Joakim Wiklund is a wireless technology veteran. He was one of the founding members of mobile giant Ericsson's GPRS team based in Stockholm, Sweden that built and delivered the first GPRS end-to-end network solution, Joakim had full responsibility on the technology aspect of the product. In his 15 years at Ericsson, he fulfilled technical, product and line management roles. Joakim moved to the U.S. in early 2000 as Director of Ericsson's Wireless Center in Silicon Valley. He was instrumental in guiding the Ericsson Sonim OEM relationship and Sonim's contribution to the Push To Talk over Cellular (PoC) standard development. back to top
Hossein Saadat has over 18 years of experience in global operation & supply chain management. He started his career as a professor of Applied Mathematics at Southern University in Louisiana from 1984 till 1989. He then joined Solectron Corporation, where the company was operating only in one site. Hossein continued his career at Solectron over seventeen years where he held many different executive positions and by year 2000 Solectron was world largest contract manufacturer in EMS industry. Prior to his departure, he was the VP of Worldwide Operation for Enclosure and System Integration division. From 2006 to 2007, he was the President of Enclosure System division at Sanmina-SCI. Hossein is the author of CFT (Customer Focus Team) through cross functional team where in 1994, he was interviewed by NPR (National Public Radio). back to top
Jonathan Michael brings 20 years of financial management expertise to Sonim. His background includes a wide array of accomplishments in both corporate and start-up environments. Prior to joining Sonim, Jonathan served as the Chief Financial Officer of Solyndra, a high performance photovoltaic company. Jonathan guided Solyndra in securing the financial support of leading venture capital firms.
Jonathan's background also includes experience in mobile technology, having served as CFO at IXI Mobile, a leading provider of innovative mobile software and devices. During Jonanthan's tenure at IXI, he was involved with significant growth of the company. In addition to Jonathan's many accomplishments in financial management, he is an active athlete, dedicated to conquering the world’s toughest climbing terrains on his bike. back to top
Albert M. Costilo has a strong, international record of success developing sales and marketing organizations for new geographic markets. During his 16 years of international sales experience spanning Europe, Latin America and Asia, Albert has worked with top wireless operators and Fortune 500 companies worldwide to introduce state-of-the-art wireless services and build coalitions with top wireless operators. His expertise, gained through his work with Nextel International, Iridium LLC, Advanced Semiconductor includes emerging technology, strategic planning and market development. Albert is multilingual. back to top
Tim Allerton has over 20 years experience of working in the Communicators industry. He was previously CEO of a UK TETRA Software company, International sales Director with Motorola in the UK, and with Philips Telecom. He also worked as a resident consultant in the UAE for Managing a Countrywide Public Safety TETRA implementation. He was at the forefront of TETRA implementations from Philips and Simoco and was head of the team which created the TETRA forum. A strong advocate of standards based technology, he was delighted at the opportunity to bring together his experience of the PMR market place and Cellular technology to advance the creation of Push to Talk implementations across MEA. back to top
Jon has 13 years combined experience in the Mobile and Geographic Information Systems fields, with 9 years dedicated to Location-Based Services (LBS) technologies and market development. Prior to joining Sonim, he was Marketing Director at Openwave, working corporate outreach programs for LBS. Before that, Jon managed LBS Industry Solutions Marketing at ESRI. In 2004, Jon was awarded ESRI's annual Award in Innovation. Prior to ESRI, he deployed the first wireless emergency 911 provisioning products in the U.S. while at LBS pioneer SignalSoft, and was a Senior Analyst with wireless research & consulting firm The Strategis Group where he managed wireless-market segmentation GIS products tracking FCC spectrum auction activity. Jon teaches an LBS graduate course at the University of London part time, and holds a University of London MS in Geographic Information Science and an Anthropology BA from St. Vincent College. back to top
Prior to joining Sonim, Jan co-founded ipUnplugged, a Mobile-VPN startup with funding from Swedish and Japanese investors. With ipUnplugged Jan developed a new kind of router and corresponding PC software for mobile users. During his four years at ipUnplugged Jan acted as CTO and represented the founders on the company board. During Jan's leadership, ipUnplugged signed contracts with clients such as NEC, Cisco, CapGemini and NorskHydro. Jan has also worked as a Product Manager for Ericsson Datacom and System Leader for Ericsson Radio, and as Senior Research Engineer for Bellcore. Previously, Jan was the Assistant to the Attaché at STATT (Swedish Technical Attaché Office) charged with reporting news from the US telecommunications industry. Jan has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Economics from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden. During Jan's first year He has been directly responsible for Sonim's strong involvement in the Open Mobile Alliance Push-to-Talk standardization efforts, and for developing Sonim's patent and product strategies. Jan grew up in Sweden and is currently living in San Francisco. back to top
20 years wireless telecommunications experience: 16 at Ericsson and Sony Ericsson Mobile phones and 4 at Sonim in a start-up Silicon Valley environment. Javor started his professional career at Ericsson Mobile Phones in Sweden 1988 and built the first Ericsson mobile phones. Worked on SW development managerial positions in Sweden and, form 1995, in NC, where he managed SW Systems for the SE handset portfolio. At present, Javor is a VP Mobile Phones and a Total Handset Program Manager responsible for the design, development, industrialization, commercialization and manufacturing of a portfolio of highly specialized Sonim-branded VoIP-enabled GSM handsets. The program involves own D&D in India, design house and manufacturing in China. Javor holds a MS in Computer Science from Lund Technical University, Sweden, and is multilingual. back to top
Dora has about 17 years of Software Development experience at Silicon valley and Bangalore India. Prior to joining Sonim he spent many years in Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto and VeriFone India. At Digital he worked on building clustering framework for Digital Alpha platform and parallel databases. During his VeriFone days he worked on performance tuning of VeriFone payment server and HP OpenCall Connectivity. Dora joined Sonim at its inception and has been working on building server products. Dora is currently heads the server and platform team, he is also responsible for deployments and Operations . He has a Masters degree in Electrical and Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. back to top
Sunil has about 20 years of Software Development experience at Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. He started his carrier at Wipro Infotech and led embedded OS development teams at Wipro. He made significant contribution to develop Chorus Microkernel for Chorus Systemes, France. The Chorus Microkernel was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. Later, he founded Synergy Infotech, a specialized software development company, at Bangalore. He was associated with Sonim since inception and has been leading client applications development including PTX. Synergy Infotech merged with Sonim to create Sonim's India Development Center at Bangalore. He also led the engineering team at Qualphone (now a part of Qualcomm) to develop of IMS and PTX Client. Currently, at Sonim, he leads software engineering efforts to develop client applications. He has an M. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Chennai, India. back to top
As Vice President of Marketing, Elise Arthurs brings 15 years of experience in marketing technology products and services. Her responsibilities include the oversight of all facets of marketing and corporate communications, with an emphasis on building the brand and deepening the company’s focus on consumer experience as a competitive differentiator.
Prior to Sonim, Elise led the direct to consumer marketing strategy at Sonos, Inc. the leader in digital music solutions for the home. Prior to Sonos she was responsible for managing marketing and strategic development at Expertcity which was acquired by Citrix Online. Before entering the technology sector she spent 3 years at Citicorp. She received her MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). back to top
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