Management Team
Faraz Hoodbhoy, Founder, CEO
Faraz most recently served as Vice President of Business Development at NextBrick Solutions, Ltd., and was responsible for its Enterprise Search practice. Prior to that as Director Technical Sales at Clickmarks, Inc., Faraz developed key relationships around Clickmarks´ mobile integration platform with carriers in North and South America. As Director Global Solutions at Unisys Corporation, he created and implemented technology strategy for Unisys´ mobile and wireless field-force solutions offerings. At Cap-Gemini Ernst and Young, Faraz was part of the Center for Business Innovation where his research focus was on corporate performance measurement. Faraz started his career at Microsoft on the team responsible for building the XML 1.0 standard. He is co-author of the book, "Applied XML - A Toolkit for Programmers" and holds a BS in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer.
Dr. Asad Islam, Chief Scientist
Dr. Islam most recently served at Nokia Research Center where he worked for 7 years in research and development in delivering mobile imaging solutions for Nokia´s mobile phones. Asad developed and led his team to an award-winning, device-resident, compressed domain video editing technology that is carried in over 10 million Nokia units. While there, he co-designed and developed Nokia´s JPEG 2000 image surfing application for surfing and viewing high resolution images on mobile phones. Asad´s research improved the performance of JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 across Nokia´s handheld devices line. In addition to his significant contributions to the JPEG 2000 standard, Asad is also the co-author of 17 research publications and co-holder of 15 patents in image and video processing. Asad’s interests are in Digital Image and Video Compression, Processing and Transmission. He started his career at Ericsson Telecom and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer.
Adnan Agboatwalla, Founder & VP Mobile Solutions
Adnan most recently served as Director Operations at NextBrick Solutions, where he was responsible for managing off-shore/on-shore hybrid delivery teams. As Managing Director of Clickmarks, he built and ran its offshore development team of 30 people. Adnan also served as VP Products at Clickmarks and was responsible for designing Clickmarks´ mobile application development platform. While at Clickmarks, he spent several years working with Telcos in Japan, North and South America. Adnan started his career in General Electric´s prestigious Technical Leadership Program. Adnan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
Scott Ritchie, Co-Founder, VP of Business Development
Scott most recently served as Vice President Strategic Sales and Business Development at Clickmarks, where he was responsible for Asia partnerships and business development. At Clickmarks, he built distribution channels with carriers and system integrators in Japan, and raised strategic investment from blue chip companies based in Japan. Prior to Clickmarks, Scott was Director Business Development at Commerce One, Scott where he propelled Commerce One´s Asia revenues and raised strategic and venture investment for joint venture formations he established with over 15 of the largest corporations in Asia. Before Commerce One, he served as Director of Internet Business Development in APAC at Compaq Computer Corporation, managing a team that developed business models and online strategy, technical architecture, and marketing partnerships with internet startups and blue chip corporations developing an online presence in Greater China. Scott began his career at Lotus Development Corporation in Product Management and was later part of a team responsible for launching Lotus operations in China. Scott holds a BA from The University of Texas, Austin.
Shawn Pouliotte, VP of Deployment Engineering & Product Management
As Vice President, Deployment Engineering, Shawn is responsible for Product Management, Quality Assurance, Customer Deployment, and Hosted Services. In addition to having strong global expertise working across diverse international markets, Shawn brings over 19 years of experience in high tech product management, network design and consulting, customer support, and quality assurance. Before joining PixSense, Shawn was responsible for Product Management on the Navitas Carrier Routing product line at Nominum, and prior to that headed up the Product Management team at ipVerse/Veraz Networks. Shawn also held key positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel, and started his career at the Solicitor General, Canada.".
Jonathan Rochez, VP of Engineering
Jonathan most recently served for 5 years as Director of Engineering at Xringer, Inc., a mobile software development and mobile content delivery company, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Kanematsu Corporation. There he was responsiblie for managing all aspects of engineering including technical direction, personnel, architecture, research, and development. Prior to that, Jonathan served as a senior software engineer for Clickmarks, Inc. At Clickmarks, he was responsible for design and implementation of key components of their presentation level integration solution, as well as developing mobile applications. Before his career in mobile software development, Jonathan spent 5 years as a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Jonathan holds a BS, Chemical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and a MS, Applied Science Engineering/Computational Science from the University of California, Davis.