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Edgar Garay

CEO & Co-Founder

Edgar received the B.S. degree in physics in 2009 and the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2010 from Florida International University, and a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Florida in 2013. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2023. His Ph.D. research focused on zero-power RF/mm-wave signal processing, multi-functional digital transmitter systems for next-generation radar and 5G wireless communication, and power generation for THz IoT devices. He received the Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship in 2015 as the highest honor for new graduate students accepted to the Ph.D. programs at Georgia Tech. In 2016, he also received a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) program and became a Sloan Fellow. In 2017, he was chosen for the National GEM Consortium Fellowship. This fellowship is sponsored by Intel Corporation, thus making him both a GEM fellow and an Intel scholar.

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Pirooz Parvarandeh

Advisor

Pirooz has over 30 years of experience in the high-tech sector. He served as Chief Technology Officer at GF for the AIM (Automotive, Industrial, Multi-Market) SBU. Prior to GF, he served as Chief Operating Officer at Aquantia where, he oversaw Engineering, Manufacturing & Operations, Quality and Reliability and IT.

Prior to Aquantia, he was with Maxim Integrated from 1987-2015. He joined Maxim Integrated in 1987 when it was a pre-IPO company. During his 27 year tenure at Maxim, he has played a key role in Maxim’s growth to a $2.4B/yr. company. As Group President, he has led new product development activities, and has had P&L responsibility for a number of Business Units whose aggregate revenues were approximately $800M/yr.

He led the creation of Maxim’s Automotive Business Unit from the ground up. This business unit has grown to have revenues well in excess of $100M/yr.

He became Maxim’s first CTO in 2011. As CTO he championed innovation, and led advanced technology development organizations that provided foundational technologies for many of Maxim’s products. He also led Maxim Labs which was chartered to develop disruptive technologies that have a 3+ year time horizon.

He has advised many startup companies during his professional tenure. He holds 35 US patents that are issued or pending.

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Sumit Tomar

Advisor

Sumit Tomar currently serves as the CEO of Adura.

Previously, he served as the CEO of pSemi Corporation, where he was responsible for driving technology innovation, design and manufacturing of RF, Analog/Mixed Signal ICs and RF-Front End modules for smart phones, cellular infrastructure and other broad market applications.

Prior to joining pSemi in 2017, he held executive management positions at several prominent technology companies, including Qorvo, Texas Instruments and Skyworks Solutions Inc.

He has a proven track record of driving technology innovations for RF Power Amplifiers, RF Filters, RF Sampling ADCs/DACs, RF and Optical Transceivers and rapid revenue growth through key design wins at Tier-1 OEMs in smartphones, telecom infrastructure, industrial and automotive markets.

He is an alumni of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he received a MSEE and Wharton School of Business where he completed the Advance Finance Program.

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Thomas Cameron

Chief Strategy Officer

Dr. Thomas Cameron joined Falcomm in April 2023 as Chief Strategy Officer after acting as an Advisor since 2021. Dr Cameron retired from Analog Devices in 2019 after a 35-year career in technology research and development and brings a wealth of Wireless Industry knowledge to Falcomm.

During his 12-year tenure at ADI, Dr Cameron contributed significantly to the success of the Communications Business Unit joining ADI as Technical Business Manager and subsequently creating and leading the Systems Engineering Group within the Business Unit. In 2014 he took on the role of CTO of the Communications Business Unit, where he focused on business and technology strategy, positioning the Business Unit for a period of tremendous growth, delivering best in class products and solutions for 4G and 5G.

Prior to joining Analog Devices in 2006, Dr Cameron held leadership and engineering roles in the RF industry at Bell Northern Research, Nortel, Sirenza Microdevices and WJ Communications. He has 7 patents in wireless technology and has authored numerous papers and technical articles.

Dr. Cameron holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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James Kaney

VP of Business Development

James has a background in business, engineering, and physics from Georgia Tech and GSU. After high school, he spent five years working in the oil industry in North Dakota and in sales in the roofing industry in Colorado. In 2018, he made the decision to pursue higher education. Majoring in Physics at Georgia State University, he achieved five consecutive 4.0 GPA semesters before transferring to Georgia Tech in 2020. During his time as a Mechanical Engineering student, he worked on a program to develop autonomous UAVs, focusing on modeling and manufacturing the unmanned vehicle. After two years in the Mechanical Engineering program at Georgia Tech, he changed his major to Business Administration; James decided that his talents may be better suited in the business world by bridging the gap between engineers and businesspeople. In June 2022, James decided to defer graduation from Georgia Tech to focus solely on the success of Falcomm.

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Jonathan Goldman

Advisor

Jonathan Goldman is a Principal at Georgia Tech’s VentureLab and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Georgia Research Alliance; working with faculty and students to create disruptive startups from their research innovations. He has helped spin up several Georgia Tech-derived companies including: Nexidia, Nuventix, Verco Materials, LumoFlex, Suniva (where he served as its Director of Business Development), TCPoly, WEAV3D, EMCOOL, Trellis, Matmerize and Falcomm. During his tenure at VentureLab, he has assisted more than a dozen companies that have raised more than $300M in venture and grant funding.

Jonathan serves as a Technology-to-Market (T2M) resource for 3 ARPA-E projects awarded to GA Tech, and serves on the Advisory Council for Oak Ridge National Labs’ Innovation Crossroads accelerator. He is also active in the NSF’s I-Corps program, having served as a mentor for 5 national teams, and has been on hundreds of Customer Discovery interviews. Recently, he built and lead VentureLab Launch, GA Tech’s summer program for PhDs, graduate students and research engineers. Over his career, he has partnered with hundreds of academic innovators in assessing and developing their inventions into businesses.

Jonathan began his career as an engineer on NASA’s Space Shuttle & Space Station programs for Rockwell International. He received his B.S. Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an M.S. degree from the School of Materials Engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Todd Cutler

Advisor

Todd Cutler retired in March 2020 from his position as vice president and general manager of Keysight Technologies Design and Test Software organization.

Todd began his career as production engineer in the Network Measurements Division (NMD) of the Hewlett Packard Company (HP), working on the team that developed the HP 8510 network analyzer. He later moved to the Netherlands to become one of the founding employees of the European Marketing Center of the Microwave and Communications Group. Todd then returned to Santa Rosa to NMD where he helped found the computer-aided-engineering group that eventually became EEsof. After a 5-year assignment in software field sales, Todd returned to the division, moving to Westlake Village, CA to help integrate the newly-acquired EEsof business into HP.

In 1998, Todd left HP to be CEO of Eagleware Corporation, the EDA company that pioneered the affordable Genesys RF and microwave design software. After Agilent Technologies spun off from HP, Agilent acquired Eagleware in 2005 and Todd rejoined the company. Todd held various positions before coming general manager of Agilent’s EEsof business in 2011. He remained in that role following Keysight’s split from Agilent in 2014. In 2015, Todd expanded his role to lead Keysight’s Design and Test Software organization.

Todd holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, and a Master of Science Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University.

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Sanghoon Lee

CTO & Co-Founder

Sanghoon received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA in 2017 and his M.S. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Silicon-Germanium Devices and Circuits Group led by Dr. John D. Cressler at Georgia Tech. His research interests concern novel antenna-circuits co-design techniques for broadband and reconfigurable RF/mm-Wave/THz integrated circuits and systems. Mr. Lee was awarded the Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship in 2017 as the highest honor for new graduate students accepted to the Ph.D. programs at Georgia Tech and the Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2020. Mr. Lee was a Department of Defense’s National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow in 2018.

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Jeff Ford

Advisor

As founder and CEO of a successful semiconductor startup, ComplexIQ, Jeff developed and licensed industry-leading RF communications silicon and software to Intel, Cisco, and other top-tier international companies for a decade. Prior to founding ComplexIQ, he directed and architected silicon development for the cable and telecom industries at Cisco. Jeff is a battle-tested executive and successful technology entrepreneur internationally known for building world-class teams, products, and services. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University, an MBA from Georgia Institute of Technology, and holds 14 patents in 3D graphics, video processing and communications technologies.

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David Munzer

mmWave RFIC Designer

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Joe Kaiser

GaAs MMIC/ RF Designer

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