Dr. Lookabaugh, has over 30 years of experience in semiconductor, communications equipment, and service provider industries, as well as academia.   Currently he is President of Thomas Lookabaugh Associates, LLC, a consultancy serving the telecommunications industry.  He previously was an executive at Cable Television Laboratories leading cross industry R&D efforts, at Viasat running the commercial mobility business, at Entropic as CTO, as CEO of Polycipher, a cable industry JV developing security products and infrastructure, and as an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Computer Science at the University of Colorado.   Dr. Lookabaugh co-founded the video equipment manufacturer DiviCom, acquired by C-Cube Semiconductor and by Harmonic, Inc., where he served as President of the Convergent Systems Division.

Dr. Lookabaugh holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Colorado School of Mines and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering, Statistics, and Engineering Management and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.