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Rosum Management Team
Skip Speaks, CEO
Dr. Matthew Rabinowitz, Founder and CTO
Dimitri Rubin, V.P. Engineering
Matthew Lewis, CFO
Dr. Jim Omura, Chief Scientist
Todd Young, Director of Marketing
Jon Metzler, Director of Business Development
Skip Speaks, CEO
Skip Speaks has over twenty years of telecommunications experience in the network operator and the wireless equipment manufacturing and vendor business. Until 2003, he served as a member of the board and CEO for Kyocera Wireless Corp, a San Diego-based wireless handset manufacturer. Speaks is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Glenayre Technology Inc. and on the Board of the San Diego Telecom Council. He joined Rosum Corporation as CEO in 2003. Speaks also serves on Triton Network Systems' Board of Directors and he was CEO for this startup broadband microwave equipment manufacturer that he and the management team took public during the summer of 2000. Prior to Triton, Speaks spent thirteen years at Ericsson, and most recently served as Executive Vice President and General Manager for Ericsson's Wireless Division. As Executive Vice President and General Manager, Speaks was responsible for sales and deployment of Ericsson's wireless communications infrastructure in the United States and helped navigate the company through a significant restructuring in order to better address the impact of the convergence of data and voice over wireless networks. Speaks earned a Bachelor of Science Degree for Civil Engineering from West Virginia Institute of Technology and is a registered professional engineer.
Matthew Rabinowitz, Ph.D., Founder and CTO
In 1996, Matthew completed a BA in Physics at Stanford, graduating as top student in the department, and receiving the Levin Award for outstanding academics and research. He also received the Terman Award, the highest academic honor offered by the School of Engineering at Stanford. In 1997, he completed an MSc in Electrical Engineering, and received a graduate fellowship to the School of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. In 2000, Matthew completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. His Ph.D. involved the development of a navigation system that combined Low Earth Orbit Satellites with the Global Positioning System to achieve centimeter-level positioning. During his Ph.D., Matthew consulted with IntegriNautics Corporation, to investigate the commercial applications of the technology resulting from his PhD. In 1999, he took a leave of absence from Stanford, to work full time at Panopticon, a company he had co-founded to address the challenge of online, automated, intelligent merchandizing. In 2000 the company was sold, as Panop.com, for roughly $100 million. In September of 2000, Matthew co-founded Rosum Corporation. While Matthew was CEO of the company, it was recognized as one of the top ten “Most Promising Wireless Startups in the US” as determined by the Wireless Ventures Committee, and while Matthew was CTO the company was recognized as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Technology Startup Companies in North America. Matthew has authored several papers and patents in the fields of optimization, signal processing, navigation, bioinformatics and machine learning. In 2005, he was selected by MIT Technology Review Magazine as one of the top 35 technology innovators under 35 in the United States. Matthew joined the faculty of Stanford in 2003, and is currently a Consulting Associate Professor in the School of Engineering.
Dimitri Rubin, V.P. Engineering
Dimitri Rubin, Rosum VP Engineering, has more than 17 years of experience in Digital Signal Processing design and implementation of real-time communication systems. Prior to Rosum, Dimitri was the first non-founding member of the engineering team at Wheels of Zeus, where he was responsible for design and implementation of the Wheels of Zeus proprietary wireless network. Before joining Wheels of Zeus, Dimitri served as Director of Engineering at nBand Communications, where he was responsible for design and implementation of the 802.11a standard on nBand’s proprietary nFlex vector processor. Prior to nBand, Dimitri managed DSP software development for IS-95 baseband ICs at VLSI Technology, and was program manager for CDMA-2000 mobile chipset development at Philips Semiconductor after Philips’ acquisition of VLSI Technology. Dimitri received his MSEE with honors from Bonch-Bruevich St Petersburg Telecommunication University.
Matthew Lewis, CFO
Matthew Lewis joined Rosum as Chief Financial Officer in August 2002. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Mobilink Telecom, Inc., from August 2000 to March 2002, prior to Mobilink's acquisition by Broadcom, and most recently, Chief Financial Officer for Systems Exchange, Inc., from March 2002 to August 2002. Prior to August 2000, he worked at Stanford Telecom for 10 years in various positions including financial management and corporate finance. Previous to Stanford Mr. Lewis worked for Newbridge Networks Incorporated, Teledyne Technologies Incorporated and Halliburton Company. Mr. Lewis holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University and a B.S. degree in Business Administration degree from University of Michigan.
Dr. Jim Omura, Chief Scientist
Jim Omura received his BS and MS degrees from MIT and a Ph.D from Stanford. A former UCLA Professor of Electrical Engineering and founder of two Silicon Valley Companies, Omura has extensive experience bringing technical products and services to market. He was the founder of Cylink and served as its Chairman, CTO, and acting CEO. Cylink marketed network security and wireless products and had a successful IPO in 1996. He has co-authored textbooks including PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND CODING, McGraw-Hill, 1978 (co-authored with A. J. Viterbi) and SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS HANDBOOK, McGraw-Hill, 1994 (co-authored with M. K. Simon, R. A. Scholtz, and B. K. Levitt) and published over 100 technical papers. Omura is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Todd Young, Director of Marketing
Todd directs Rosum's marketing efforts, and brings to the company more than twelve years of experience in product development and product management in telecommunications (Bell Labs, US and Japan), automotive (Ford/Mazda, US and Japan), enterprise information systems (Palm, Inc.), and startup ventures (Young Learning). Todd lived in Japan for five years coordinating joint technology development, and he is fluent in Japanese. Todd is a graduate of UC Berkeley (MBA), Cornell (M.Eng. Computer Science), and North Carolina State University (BSEE).
Jon Metzler, Director of Business Development
Jon Metzler focuses on mobile device and government markets for Rosum. He is also responsible for building the company's presence with regulatory and standards bodies. Prior to joining Rosum, Jon was Vice President at Performance Analysis Inc, a services firm specializing in business development in Asia for technology companies. Jon has five years living experience in Japan and was part of multiple successful launches into the Japanese market. Jon is a graduate of the MBA/MA-Asian Studies program at UC-Berkeley. He is now an advisor to the UC-Berkeley Management of Technology program. Jon also has a B.A. from the University of Michigan.