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The
Management Team
Dr. Oded Gottesman -
CEO & CTO (Founder)
 Ph.D.
in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa
Barbara (UCSB)
International
patents pending in speech coding
1 year
at AT&T Bell Labs
5 years
consulting experience in speech coding and telecommunications
3 years
management experience in startup companies
Technology Expert Consultant to leading law firms in patent infringement matters
Developed
a speech algorithm for the nearly bankrupt DSP Communications, leading
to a $1.6 billion acquisition by Intel™
Co-recipient
with Prof.
Allen Gersho of the Ericsson-Nokia
Best Paper Award IEEE
Workshop on Speech Coding, Finland, 1999.
Melville R. Smart - Executive Vice President
37 Years
in AT&T and Lucent, retired as Director of Licensing.
18 years
in Semiconductor Licensing which entailed licensing Bell Lab semiconductor
patents and technology
Negotiated
numerous licensing deals between Bell Labs and Intel, Texas Inst.,
National Semi., etc.
Intellectual
Property marketing, licensing, and selling expert, and consulting
for patent litigation
Negotiated
and closed the deal between Nokia and VoiceCraft concerning a speech
coder post filter patent
Worked
with Kodak to market their voluminous technology on a specialty
ceramic material.
Worked
with Xilinx in a successful patent litigation with Altera
Worked
with Adobe Systems as and expert witness on infringement damages
in a patent litigation case
MS in
IE from Lehigh University
Miriam Shapira - Vice President Legal
30 Years
attorney at law.
Specialized
in commerce.
Negotiated,
contracted, and closed numerous deals, including startup companies
and other enterprises.
Litigated
numerous cases. |
