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Ted P. Barron, Advisor, mobiDEOS, Inc.
Currently VP/Security Manager Wells Fargo & Co. |
Mr. Barron is Vice President Security Manager for Wells Fargo specializing in Technical Security. He currently provides project management, risk analysis, product analysis, and vendor management company wide. Responsibilities include the design and construction of electronic surveillance systems, alarms, smart cards, biometric, access controls and remote CCTV/DVR/NVR applications. He continues to create many of the product standards which are used to monitor the quality of vendor/product performance. Wells Fargo now has over 150,000 employees and 10,000 facilities world wide.
Mr. Barron is Chairman Emeritus of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security. He has received awards for his publications on security engineering. |
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| Sri L. Palasamudram, CEO, mobiDEOS, Inc. |
Mr. Palasamudram is a serial entrepreneur with passion in applying new technologies to solve existing problems, has over 15 years of experience in Software, Internet and Wireless technologies. Mr. Palasamudram started his Career at Autodesk after finishing up MS in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames. In 1998 he started GeoTouch, very similar to Google Maps, where he raised $10M in VC funds and brought company from zero to $1M sales. After that Mr. Palasamudram ran US operations for Netyear a strategy consulting company formed as a joint venture between GE and Dentsu where he sold the Netyear US operations in 2003. Mr. Palasamudram has helped companies like SONY and NTT in defining WiFi and Content delivery strategy. Mr. Palasamudram also built CADopias retail distribution by working with distributors such as Ingram and MicroWarehouse. In 2004 Mr. Palasamudram started mobiDEOS to leverage the fast growing mobile industry to solve real world problems. |
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Naresh Shanker, Advisor, mobiDEOS, Inc. Currently Vice President and Chief Information Officer Palm, Inc. |
As vice president and chief information officer, Palm, Inc., Naresh has management responsibility for IT strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This includes all application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data-center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide.
Naresh has been in the information-technology business for 20 years supporting a wide range of industries, including high-technology manufacturing, semiconductor, medical, life sciences and software businesses. He has led and executed large-scale software implementations, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, and establishing offshore IT and manufacturing operations.
Prior to joining the company, Naresh was responsible for managing Agilent Technologies' internal enterprise business solutions organization, delivering customer-facing and supply-chain solutions worldwide, resulting in significant savings to the company. He also was instrumental in establishing offshore IT operations and outsourcing services in India.
Naresh started his career at Hewlett-Packard Company, Medical Products Group. He was responsible for delivering applications and infrastructure solutions and services worldwide, and integrating acquisitions into the business. He also was instrumental in establishing a joint venture manufacturing center in China.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science (BSCS) and master's in business administration (MBA) from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. |
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| Ray Taylor, Advisor to mobiDEOS, Inc. Currently, President and CEO of Mobopia Corp. |
A 19 year wireless industry veteran, Ray most recently served as Executive in Residence at Storm Ventures in Menlo Park, CA. Previously, Ray managed the Consumer Multimedia Products group as Executive Director at Verizon Wireless. Having responsibility for both Product Development and Product Management, Rays efforts delivered a series of industry firsts (first BREW-based downloadable service, GetItNow; the first MMS service in the U.S.; Mobile Web 2.0; a graphically rich WAP 2.0 portal; the first fully-integrated Mobile IM service; the first 3G services in the U.S. under the VCAST brand; RingBackTones and the introduction of Flash Mobile). These services now account for billions of dollars in annual revenue. Ray has held both Engineering and Marketing positions within Verizon Wireless and Bell Atlantic Mobile spanning 16 years of service. As a founding member of AlterEgo Networks he helped launch the company in 2000 as Vice President and Wireless Evangelist. |
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