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Board of Directors
James Spilker, Jr., Ph.D. — Architect of GPS; Inventor of next-generation "Spilker Spectrum"; Author of canonical digital communications and GPS texts.
Paul Baran — Inventor of the Concept of Packet-Switched Data
James F. Gibbons, Ph.D. — Board of Directors at Cisco Systems, former Dean of Engineering at Stanford University
Bill Tai, Partner, Charles River Ventures
Lara Druyan, General Partner, Allegis Capital
Dr. James Spilker, Jr., Chairman and Co-Founder
James Spilker completed a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1955 followed by an M.S. Electrical Engineering, in 1956 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, in 1958. Both graduate degrees were received from Stanford University. Jim has pursued parallel careers in industry and academia. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION), a recipient of the ION Johannes Kepler Award, and a recipient of the Hall of Fame Award from the GPS Joint Program Office and the US Air Force. Between 1973 and 1999, Jim was founder, Chairman, and CEO of Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. Jim served on the advisory boards for several Internet access and ASIC related companies, as well as the Board of Advisors for the Stanford School of Engineering, the Board of Advisors for the USC School of Engineering, the US Congressional Advisory Board for the International Space Station, and the US Air Force GPS Independent Review Team. He was chairman of the Technical Activities Board for the IEEE Communications Sciences Institute, and a consulting professor at Stanford University. Jim's expertise includes Spread Spectrum techniques, Orthogonal and Multicarrier CDMA, vector delay lock tracking, cable modems, coding schemes, broadband internet access, network management, fixed wireless in multipath channels, adaptive equalization, general relativistic effects, signal propagation, and the Global Positioning System (GPS). He originated various forms of the Delay Lock Loops used in almost all cellular CDMA and GPS receivers. He was also the co-architect of the original GPS system, and the next generation GPS L5 codes.
Paul Baran
Paul Baran received a BS in EE from Drexel University in 1949; MS in Engineering from UCLA in 1959, Dr. Sci. in Eng. (hon.) Drexel, 1997, Ph. D. in Policy Analysis (hon.) RAND Graduate School, 2000. In 1949 he worked on the world's first commercial computer, the UNIVAC. He joined RREP and designed and installed Cape Canaveral's first telemetering equipment in1952. At Hughes Aircraft from 1955-9 he worked on the first transistorized radar data processing system (AN/GSG-2) and later on vulnerability analysis. He joined RAND in 1949 where he wrote a 13 volume series of reports, "On Distributed Communications," the initial description of what is now called packet switching, the underlying technology of the Internet and, essentially, all modern digital communications networks. He left RAND in 1968 to help start the not-for-profit Institute for the Future. Beginning in 1972 he co-founded seven companies, of which five went public: Equatorial Communications Co. (sold to GTE); Telebit (sold to Cisco); Packet Technologies that morphed into Stratacom (sold to Cisco), Metricom, and Com21. Paul is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAAS, and a Member of the NAE. His long list of honors and prizes include the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (sponsored by ATT); The ACM SIGCOMM first Annual Award; The First IEEE Internet Award and Medal (together with Donald Davies, Leonard Kleinrock and Larry Roberts and sponsored by Nokia); The Marconi International Fellowship Award; The Japanese Computers and Communications Award (together with Vinton Cerf and Tim Behners-Lee and sponsored by NEC); and, most recently, The Benjamin Franklin Institute 2001 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
James F. Gibbons Ph.D.
James F. Gibbons received a B.S. degree at Northwestern University in 1953 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1956. He was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1964. In 1983, Professor Gibbons was named Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Gibbons then served as the Dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford from 1984 to 1996. Dr. Gibbons invented Tutored Video Instruction, which is widely used at Stanford and elsewhere for continuing education of engineers. He also founded SERA Learning Technologies, dedicated to solutions for pressing social problems, including the education of children of migrant farm workers and anger management for at-risk teens. Dr. Gibbons has served on several committees advising the Presidential Science Advisor during the Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations. In addition to being on the Board at Rosum, Gibbons is a member of the Board of Directors at Lockheed Martin and Cisco Systems. He is a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Academy of Science(NAS), and the National Academy of Engineering(NAE).
Bill Tai
Please see Bill's bio at Charles River Ventures
Lara Druyan
Please see Lara's bio at Allegis Capital