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People

The EvoNexus Team, Board of Directors, Mentors and Selection Committee are comprised of deeply experienced, industry-expert volunteers representing the most influential technology companies in the world, such as Qualcomm, ViaSat, and more. These individuals assist in selecting and mentoring ventures admitted to the incubation program.

Rory Moore

EvoNexus CEO & Co-Founder, Founder, Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. & Silicon Wave, Inc.

Vice Admiral Walter Davis (Ret.)

EvoNexus Co-Founder & VP Organizational Dev., Former Navy N6

Bob Genthert, CPA

EvoNexus Irvine Director

Gene Dantsker, Ph.D., MBA

EvoNexus Executive Advisor, Former Sr. Director of Business Development & Licensing, Qualcomm

Dr. Michael Hill

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Co-Founder & Global Head – Science Innovations LLC, Former VP of Science and Technology – Medtronic

John “Rick” LeMoine, MD

EvoNexus Executive in Residence and Chief Medical Officer, Former CMIO, Sharp HealthCare

John Langan, PhD

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Former CTO, EMD Electronics

Rich Stewart

EvoNexus Executive Advisor & 5G Portfolio Director, Former Senior Director, Qualcomm

Ron Melanson

EvoNexus Silicon Valley Chief Engineer & Operations, Former VP Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems & Oracle

Bridget Kimball

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Former VP Engineering & Chief Architect, Consumer Group, Intuit

Kristi Jaska

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Emeritus & Former VP Engineering, Viasat

Hem Suri

EvoNexus Fintech Executive In Residence, Founder & Managing Partner, Spark Growth Ventures

Devanshi Tomar

EvoNexus Graduate in Residence

Dacian Rose

EvoNexus Operations Manager & Portfolio Development

Richard Baldridge

EvoNexus Chairman, Director, ViaSat Director

Tim Holl

EvoNexus Treasurer, Partner, Ernst & Young

John Major

EvoNexus Chairman Emeritus, Former Chairman, Broadcom

Kathy Ouellette

EvoNexus Vice Chairman, CEO & President, Salaera

Steve Rowles

EvoNexus Secretary, Partner, Morrison Foerster

Derek Aberle

Co-Founder & Executive Vice Chairman, VIREWIRX

Ziad Asghar

SVP & GM – XR & Spatial Computing, Qualcomm

Ranjeet Banerjee

CEO, Cold Chain Technologies

Alex Balazs

Jordan Becker

VP & GM Geospatial Intelligence & ISR, BAE Systems

Joe Boerio

EVP, Chief Risk & Transformation Officer, Franklin Templeton Investments

William Eigner

Partner, Business/Technology Team, Procopio

Kate Gilchrist

Director & Board Member, Alto Innovations

Burton Goldfield

Retired President & CEO, TriNet

Paul Hartke

Dong-Su Kim, Ph.D.

CEO & Board Member, Corporate EVP, LG Technology Ventures

Dan Kline

Founder & CEO, Novo Engineering

Kelly Ko, PhD

VP Technology Ventures & Innovation, Banner Health

Dr. Thomas Lawrie

CMO, Sharp Memorial Hospital

David Marino

Co-Founder & Senior Executive Managing Director, Hughes Marino

Craig Miller

President, Viasat Government

Bardia Moayedi

Partner, Snell & Wilmer

Zachary Myers

Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Nandhu Nandhakumar

CTO, Alat, Former SVP, Office of the CTO, LG Electronics

Carlos Nunez, M.D.

Eddy Ortiz

VP of Innovation & Solution Acceleration, Royal Bank of Canada

Rajesh Pankaj, Ph.D.

EVP, CTO, InterDigital

Eric Reed

SVP, Sales and Distribution, TriNet

Kenneth Rollins

Partner, Cooley LLP

Mehul Udani

VP of Corporate Technology & Innovation, Murata Americas

Jacob Woodruff, Ph.D.

Head of Technology Scouting & Partnerships, EMD Electronics

Takaya Wada

Jonathan Kohn, PhD

Director, Corporate Business Development, Bio-Rad Laboratories

Craig Mitchell

Chief Semiconductor Officer, Adeia

Mentors/ Selection Committee Members

Marco Thompson

Partner, Express Ventures

Mike Benvenuti

Fund Manager, Cove Fund

Joseph Condurso III

Founder & Principal, H/3 ConnectedCare

Jeff Cunningham

Senior Investment Manager, Lockheed Martin Ventures

Daniel Franke

Investment Director, M Ventures

Henry Huang

Investment Director, Micron Ventures

Kanaan Jemili, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, Visaic

Sungkwon Kang, PhD

Investment Director, LG Technology Ventures

Prashant Kantak

Mentor, Former Founder, Qualcomm Ventures

Dong-Su Kim, Ph.D.

CEO & Board Member, Corporate EVP, LG Technology Ventures

Ashok Kamal

Executive Director, NuFund

Howard Mirowitz

Manager, Cove Fund II

Nandhu Nandhakumar

CTO, Alat, Former SVP, Office of the CTO, LG Electronics

Michael Nowak, PhD

Managing Director, BJC Capital Advisors

Kenneth Rollins

Partner, Cooley LLP

J.C. Ruffalo

Venture Partner, Cove Fund

Brad Schoening

Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ben Strom

Venture Partner, Impact Venture Capital

Hem Suri

EvoNexus Fintech Executive In Residence, Founder & Managing Partner, Spark Growth Ventures

Andy Taylor

Mentor, Former VP & GM, Home New Ventures, Credit Karma

Dr. Paul Voois

Managing Partner, Cove Fund

Albert Wang

Senior Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures

Gene Dantsker, Ph.D., MBA

EvoNexus Executive Advisor, Former Sr. Director of Business Development & Licensing, Qualcomm

Dr. Michael Hill

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Co-Founder & Global Head – Science Innovations LLC, Former VP of Science and Technology – Medtronic

John “Rick” LeMoine, MD

EvoNexus Executive in Residence and Chief Medical Officer, Former CMIO, Sharp HealthCare

Kathy Ouellette

EvoNexus Vice Chairman, CEO & President, Salaera

Alex Arrow, M.D.

CEO, Corramedical, Inc.

Ranjeet Banerjee

CEO, Cold Chain Technologies

Matt Borer

Associate Director, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, BD Biosciences

John Buhler

Member Board Of Directors, Mopec

Ross Bundy

Niall Casey, JD

Co-Founder & CTO, Carlsmed

Joseph Condurso III

Founder & Principal, H/3 ConnectedCare

Mike Cordonnier

CEO & Co-Founder, Carlsmed

John DeNuzzio, Ph.D.

Principal, Birch Hollow Technologies LLC; former Senior Director, R&D, Becton Dickinson and Company (BD)

Rob Douglas

Former President & COO, Resmed Inc.

Kevin Gunderson, PhD

Co-founder & Scientific Advisor, Encodia

Michael J. Hennessy, M.D.

Independent Medical Practice Professional

Kelly Ko, PhD

VP Technology Ventures & Innovation, Banner Health

James Killeen, MD

Emergency Medicine Physician, UCSD Health

Ryan Lakin

Divisional VP, R&D, Abbott

Gregg Landis, M.D.

System Chief of Vascular Surgery, Northwell Health

Dr. Thomas Lawrie

CMO, Sharp Memorial Hospital

Giovanni Magni

Mentor, Former EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Bio-Rad

Jacquie Murray

Co-Founder & CEO, Murray Consultants LLC

Carlos Nunez, M.D.

Rear Admiral Paul D. Pearigen, MD (Ret.)

Rear Admiral, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy (retired)

Mike Perry

Executive Chairman, Avive Solutions

Malcolm Pond, MD

Licensed Cardiologist

Dr. Karthik Ranganathan

Former WW VP, Alaris Business Leader, BD

Hemanth Reddy

Former CSO, ResMed Inc.

Howard Robin, MD

President & CEO, LJ Pathology Consultants, Inc.

Dereck Tatman, PhD, MBA

Founder, President, & CEO, Intrigue Health

Benjamin Titz

VP, Corporate Development, Lynx Bio

Pieter van Rooyen

CEO, President, & Founder, Pleno

Kandaswamy (Swamy) Vijayan

Dr. Josh Windmiller

Head of New Analytes & Sensing Platforms, Dexcom

Mike Benchimol

VP Research & Development, ONI

Quyen Ly

Lew Boore

VP, WW Sales & Business Development @ Atomica Corporation

Rory Moore

EvoNexus CEO & Co-Founder, Founder, Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. & Silicon Wave, Inc.

Gene Dantsker, Ph.D., MBA

EvoNexus Executive Advisor, Former Sr. Director of Business Development & Licensing, Qualcomm

John Langan, PhD

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Former CTO, EMD Electronics

Rich Stewart

EvoNexus Executive Advisor & 5G Portfolio Director, Former Senior Director, Qualcomm

Ron Melanson

EvoNexus Silicon Valley Chief Engineer & Operations, Former VP Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems & Oracle

Behrooz Abdi

Strategic Advisor, TDK InvenSense

Behnam Analui

Co-Founder, Abtum

Charles Bergan

VP Engineering, Qualcomm Wireless Research and Development

Dr. Ivo Bolsens

Mentor, Former SVP, AMD

Mark Bowles

Founder, ecoATM/ Truvian

Kurt Busch

Girish Chandran

Corporate Chief Technical Officer and President, Global Space Networks

Dr. Tallis Chang

Co-Founder & COO, Obsidian Sensors

Frank Creede

Mentor, Former CTO, Anterix

Mouna Elkhatib

CEO/CTO/Co-Founder, AONDevices

Adam Gould

CEO, Lynq Technologies

Matt Grob

CTO, GlobalStar & VIREWIRX

Steve Hart

Co-Founder, EVP, CTO, Viasat

Dr. John Hong

CEO, Obsidian Sensors

George Imthurn

Principal Engineer, Qualcomm

Dr. Seung Kang

SVP, Head of Semiconductor Strategy & Business Development, Adeia

Kevork Kechichian

EVP, Solutions Engineering, Arm

Dr. Poornima Lalwaney

Senior Director Engineering – Custom Compute Group, Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, Intel

Durga Malladi, PhD

SVP & GM, Technology Planning & Edge Solutions, Qualcomm

Dr. Anton Monk

Mentor, Former VP & CTO of Wireless Initiatives, ViaSat

Nandhu Nandhakumar

CTO, Alat, Former SVP, Office of the CTO, LG Electronics

Michael Nowak, PhD

Managing Director, BJC Capital Advisors

Ernie Ozaki

Mentor, Former VP, Hardware Engineering Group, Corporate R&D, Qualcomm

Rajesh Pankaj, Ph.D.

EVP, CTO, InterDigital

Ron Reedy

Dr. Nambi Seshadri

Mentor, Former VP & CTO, Mobile Platforms & Wireless Connectivity Groups, Broadcom

Sumit Tomar

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, CEO, Adura LED Solutions

Mehul Udani

VP of Corporate Technology & Innovation, Murata Americas

Albert Wang

Senior Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures

Jacob Woodruff, Ph.D.

Head of Technology Scouting & Partnerships, EMD Electronics

Dr. Byung K. Yi

Mentor, Former EVP & CTO, InterDigital

Steven Johnston, Ph.D

Vice President, Technology Transformation & Global Technology Scouting, Merck KGaA

Lew Boore

VP, WW Sales & Business Development @ Atomica Corporation

Craig Mitchell

Chief Semiconductor Officer, Adeia

Rich Stewart

EvoNexus Executive Advisor & 5G Portfolio Director, Former Senior Director, Qualcomm

Ron Melanson

EvoNexus Silicon Valley Chief Engineer & Operations, Former VP Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems & Oracle

Marco Thompson

Partner, Express Ventures

Jordan Becker

VP & GM Geospatial Intelligence & ISR, BAE Systems

Girish Chandran

Corporate Chief Technical Officer and President, Global Space Networks

Matt Grob

CTO, GlobalStar & VIREWIRX

Steve Hart

Co-Founder, EVP, CTO, Viasat

Kristi Jaska

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Emeritus & Former VP Engineering, Viasat

Ron Reedy

Meg Redlin

Product Line Manager, Mission Solutions, BAE Systems, Inc.

David Whelan

Mentor, Former SVP & Chief Scientist, Cubic

Gene Dantsker, Ph.D., MBA

EvoNexus Executive Advisor, Former Sr. Director of Business Development & Licensing, Qualcomm

John Langan, PhD

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Former CTO, EMD Electronics

Ron Melanson

EvoNexus Silicon Valley Chief Engineer & Operations, Former VP Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems & Oracle

Behnam Analui

Co-Founder, Abtum

Kurt Busch

Frank Creede

Mentor, Former CTO, Anterix

Mouna Elkhatib

CEO/CTO/Co-Founder, AONDevices

Daniel Franke

Investment Director, M Ventures

Adam Gould

CEO, Lynq Technologies

Paul Hartke

Joe Hitt, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, GoX Labs

John Kaewell

Advisor to the CTO & Chief Technology Office Fellow, InterDigital

Dan Kline

Founder & CEO, Novo Engineering

John D. King

Decarbonization Fellow, Energy Solutions

Tolga Kurtoglu

Dr. Poornima Lalwaney

Senior Director Engineering – Custom Compute Group, Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, Intel

GP Li

CaliT2, UC Irvine

Michael Matthews

VP Commercialization, Fabric8Labs

Geoffrey Mayne

Staff Engineer, Fabric8Labs

Marques McCammon

President, Karma Automotive

Amir Panush

Dr. Nambi Seshadri

Mentor, Former VP & CTO, Mobile Platforms & Wireless Connectivity Groups, Broadcom

Benjamin Titz

VP, Corporate Development, Lynx Bio

Pieter van Rooyen

CEO, President, & Founder, Pleno

Jacob Woodruff, Ph.D.

Head of Technology Scouting & Partnerships, EMD Electronics

Steven Johnston, Ph.D

Vice President, Technology Transformation & Global Technology Scouting, Merck KGaA

Rich Stewart

EvoNexus Executive Advisor & 5G Portfolio Director, Former Senior Director, Qualcomm

Alex Balazs

Andy Ballester

Co-Founder, GoFundMe, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, EyePop.AI

Charles Bergan

VP Engineering, Qualcomm Wireless Research and Development

Neal Bloom

Managing Partner, Interlock Capital

Suzie Dergham

Dr. Moudy Elbayadi

SVP & CTO, Shutterfly, Inc.

Adam Gould

CEO, Lynq Technologies

Mark Hellinger

Co-Founder & CEO, Videate, Co-Founder & former CEO, Xyleme

Irfan Khan

Mentor, former Senior Engineering Leader, Qualcomm

Jason Knapp

Founder, CraftedPour.com

Dan LeBlanc

Co-Founder & CEO, Daasity

Jeremy Malecha

CEO & Co-Founder, Biocanic

Massimo Mascaro, Ph.D.

Distinguished Technical Director of Applied AI, Google

Malek Moubasher

CEO, Agora Neos, Inc.

Nandhu Nandhakumar

CTO, Alat, Former SVP, Office of the CTO, LG Electronics

Peter Oneppo

Founder, SerenityEHS

Chris Shimojima

Mentor, Former CEO, Provide Commerce

Yasser Alsaied

Mentor, President, Facilis.ai, Former Global VP of IoT at Amazon Web Services & VP of IoT at Qualcomm

Alex Arrow, M.D.

CEO, Corramedical, Inc.

Joe Boerio

EVP, Chief Risk & Transformation Officer, Franklin Templeton Investments

Burton Goldfield

Retired President & CEO, TriNet

Thomas Hartman

Founder & Principal Consultant, LB&A Consulting Group

Kim Davis King

Partner at Launch Factory, Co-Director at StartR & Adjunct Professor, SDSU & UC San Diego

Charlie Liu

Co-Founder & COO, Sora Union

Malek Moubasher

CEO, Agora Neos, Inc.

Manny Roggero

Director, Innovation Partnerships & Emerging Tech, RBC

Christopher Rowan

Founder & Managing Partner, Arscientia

Brad Schoening

Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Chris Shimojima

Mentor, Former CEO, Provide Commerce

Andy Taylor

Mentor, Former VP & GM, Home New Ventures, Credit Karma

Michael Thiemann

Co-Founder, Zebit

Stephan van der Merwe

Director Channel Sales, Cassida Pro

Michael Wilson

EVP Orion Tech Suite, Orion

Greg Bullard

Advisor, AGB Advisors

Stephan Chenette

Todd Friedman

Brett Galloway

Gary Hayslip

CISO, SoftBank Investment Advisors

Bridget Kimball

EvoNexus Executive in Residence, Former VP Engineering & Chief Architect, Consumer Group, Intuit

Mike Knowles

CEO, One Stop Systems

Robert Levine

Vice Admiral Walter Davis (Ret.)

EvoNexus Co-Founder & VP Organizational Dev., Former Navy N6

Jordan Becker

VP & GM Geospatial Intelligence & ISR, BAE Systems

Joe Hitt, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, GoX Labs

Dan Magy

Co-Founder & CEO, Firestorm Labs

Michael Moreno

Principal Business Development Manager, VC and Startups (WWPS), Amazon Web Services

Rear Admiral Paul D. Pearigen, MD (Ret.)

Rear Admiral, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy (retired)

Ron Reedy

Meg Redlin

Product Line Manager, Mission Solutions, BAE Systems, Inc.

Lieutenant General Terry Robling (Ret.)

Lieutenant General, Ret., USMC

Ed Sullivan

National Sales Manager – Geographic Business, Keysight Technologies

Mike Twyman

Mentor, Former SVP, Cubic Corp. & President, Cubic Mission Solutions

David Whelan

Mentor, Former SVP & Chief Scientist, Cubic