Kristi started her career at Linkabit, the fountainhead of San Diego’s telecom industry, where she worked with the three founders of ViaSat. She then joined ViaSat as the 6th employee just about a year after the company was founded. During her time…
Rory Moore
Rory Moore was the seed round investor, co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: PSMI), one of the world’s leading providers of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for the wireless communications and aerospace markets. Peregrine ships millions of chips every week…
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Marco Thompson
Thompson co-founded & ran CommNexus San Diego, (formerly San Diego Telecom Council) a non-profit network of communications, government, and defense industry companies. A familiar face in the boardrooms of a number of innovative San Diego concerns, Thompson will call on…
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Vice Admiral Walter Davis
Vice Admiral Walter J. Davis, USN (Ret) was Navy N6, Director Space systems, Information Warfare systems, Command and Control Systems, and Modeling and Simulation where he directed Navy’s $3.5B IT budget. He is former VP for Business Development at GDE…
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Chuck Pateros, Ph.D.
Dr. Charles N. Pateros received his Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1993 and then joined ViaSat, Inc. (Pre-IPO, NASDAQ:VSAT), in Carlsbad, CA. From 1993 to 2017, Chuck was a Member of Technical…
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Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner has been a successful high tech entrepreneur for over 30 years, founding and running three successful, disruptive companies Strategic Mapping, SnapTrack, and EmpoweredU. Currently, Mr. Poizner serves as CEO and Chairman for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation…
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Ziad Mansour
Ziad Mansour served as Senior Vice President of Engineering leading the Digital Hardware group in Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) division. In this role, Mansour provided technical and management leadership for a cross functional engineering team, spread across the U.S. and…
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Kiva Allgood
Kiva Allgood, is a Managing Director for GE Ventures, New Business Creation. Within GE Ventures, New Business Creation is focused on bringing together GE businesses with external parties, entrepreneurs and experienced management teams to accelerate the creation of new companies…
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Andy Ballester
Andy Ballester was a co-founder of GoFundMe. We are changing the way the world gives. Every day, members of our giving community come together to support one another and the causes they care about most. Our campaign organizers have raised…
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Charles Bergan
Charles leads the software department for Qualcomm Research. He also oversees Qualcomm Research’s robotics program. While at Qualcomm, he has been involved in the research and development of most of the modern cellular radio standards, including CDMA, UMTS, UMB and…
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