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Breakthrough in Electromagnetic Physics

Creators of Holographic Beam Forming®

Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far.  Beamforming was the answer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not.  That’s why we assembled a team experienced in advanced communications and commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, machine learning and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials.  Beyond technology, we also offer the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, cloud-based, end-to-end solutions.

 

Leadership
  • Jay McCandless

    Jay McCandless

    CHIEF RF ENGINEER

    As an expert in microwave and mmWave circuit and antenna design, Jay brings several decades of experience in advanced satcom systems as well as architectures for low cost phased array antennas. Jay is arguably one of the most prolific antenna designers alive today.  Jay received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.

  • Mike Mohn

    Mike Mohn

    CFO

    Mr. Mike Mohn serves as CFO of Pivotal Commware.  Mr. Mohn partners with the Executive Leadership Team to deliver profitable growth, raise capital, and manage business performance.  He joined Pivotal in December of 2021 from Cisco Systems, where he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Service Finance.  Mr. Mohn partnered with the Cisco's Sales and Service leadership globally to deliver profitable growth, enable new business models, and accelerate global sales processes. He joined Cisco in April 2015 from Raytheon Company, where he was Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. He drove finance and business performance by establishing strong partnerships, processes, and metrics. He served as Vice President of Finance for Raytheon Network Centric Systems and was Vice President of Finance for Space and Airborne Systems. He also spent 12 years at Honeywell, where he held a variety of finance roles, including Chief Financial Officer of Military Aircraft, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis, Business Analysis and Planning, and Operations. He holds a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of South Florida.

  • Brian Deutsch

    Brian Deutsch

    CEO

    Prior to launching Pivotal Commware in 2016, Brian helped incubate it and other metamaterial companies as Managing Director of the Metamaterials Commercialization Center for the Invention Science Fund.  Between 2000 and 2010 he refocused and sold Aperto Networks as its turnaround CEO and served as Vice President, Products and Wireless Services, at BSQUARE.  In the 1990s Brian founded, led and sold American Public Communications (APC), an industry leader in the design and manufacture of innovative public telephony products and services for the Regional Bell Operating Companies, and Wavtrace, a mmWave broadband wireless access equipment developer.  Wavtrace was purchased by Harris Corporation (HRS) in 2000.  In 1993, Brian was voted as a finalist and runner-up for the Inc. Magazine/Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for his work at APC.  Prior to APC, Brian spent six years with Motorola in the Portable Products Division. His experience at Motorola included engineering group leader for cellular, paging and two-way products, staff engineer, and senior field applications engineer for the OEM Microelectronics Unit.  Before Motorola, he worked for NASA at Kennedy Space Center in the Launch Processing Systems group.  Brian has been awarded twenty U.S. patents and received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

  • Eric Black

    Eric Black

    CTO

    After receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2010, Eric worked on several DARPA and other defense projects at Boeing Research and Technology.  His interests lie in the design, fabrication, and evaluation of metamaterial-enhanced electromagnetic systems.

  • Kent Lundgren

    Kent Lundgren

    VP MARKETING

    With 25 years of wireless sales and marketing experience from the likes of IBM, Motorola, AT&T, Wavtrace, Harris and Microsoft, Kent joined Pivotal from Intellectual Ventures, where he conducted market research and strategy.  He graduated from Brown University and the Kellogg School.

  • Alex Katko

    Alex Katko

    VP OF PRODUCT ENGINEERING

    Alex has spent over 10 years advancing metamaterials and holographic beamforming systems from the academic lab to real-world deployments. Prior to Pivotal, he worked at the Metamaterials Commercialization Center after receiving his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke. His focus is on developing and implementing innovative communications systems.

    Education: PhD with an Outstanding Dissertation in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.

  • Mersad Cavcic

    Mersad Cavcic

    VP OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

    Mersad Cavcic has designed, implemented and deployed beamforming products and solutions in three industries including wireless telecom, satellite and defense. Prior to Pivotal, he worked at The Boeing Company and Kymeta Corporation. Mersad received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. His expertise is in product strategy, implementation and their impact on unit economics and ecosystem establishment.

    Education: Masters in Electrical Engineering with a focus on RF Circuits and System Design from the University of Washington.

  • Larry Bay

    Larry Bay

    VP OF PRODUCT REALIZATION

    Larry has spent the past 3 decades in Technical Operations management, Electro-Mechanical Design, Process Engineering and Assembly. He has launched several successful telecommunications products and developed process controls for some of the most advanced device packages as they hit the market. As Co-Owner of a Electronic Manufacturing Services company in the Seattle area, he was responsible for technical sales and operations to grow sales 16X in five years. He holds 7 U.S. patents with several of his inventions carried in most outdoor retailers including over 3,000 Walmart stores across the Nation.

    Education: Phoenix Institute of Technology – Specializing in Electro-Mechanical Engineering

Board of Directors
  • Brian Deutsch

    Brian Deutsch

    Brian was the founding CEO of Wavtrace, a broadband wireless equipment provider acquired by Harris Corporation (HRS) in 2000.  More recently, he served as turnaround CEO at ApertoNetworks and EVP at BSQUARE (BSQR).  Brian spent six years with Motorola, worked for NASA at Kennedy Space Center, was a finalist for Inc. magazine’s “Entrepreneur of the Year,” and has been awarded many U.S. patents. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami.

  • Kyle Pickens

    Kyle Pickens

    Kyle Pickens, CFA, serves as Vice President of Strategy and Communications and will be responsible for the overall investor communication strategy of Globalstar as well as helping drive the strategic efforts of the Company across satellite and spectrum initiatives. Mr. Pickens joined Globalstar from Steelhead Partners, a long time Globalstar investor.

    Mr. Pickens joined Steelhead Partners as an analyst at the end of 2009 and was promoted to Partner of the Navigator funds in 2015. At Steelhead, his responsibilities included coverage of the Telecom, Media and Technology space. Previously, Mr. Pickens was with Cadogan Management LLC, a fund-of-funds firm, where he was a director and an investment committee member. He interned at Cadogan while an undergraduate student, then joined full time as an analyst upon graduating in 2002. In 2005, the firm launched a fund of funds/hedge fund hybrid vehicle for which Kyle had day-to-day responsibility. As a senior analyst, he conducted fundamental research in several sectors and countries, managed the fund’s operational issues, and developed client relationships. Mr. Pickens holds a B.S. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

  • Glenn Lurie

    Glenn Lurie

    Glenn Lurie serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Synchronoss Technologies. Glenn joined the Synchronoss team in November, 2017 with nearly 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications and wireless industries.

    Prior to joining Synchronoss, Glenn was President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T’s Mobility and Consumer Operations where he successfully grew the nation’s leading wireless and consumer business. During this time Glenn managed sales and distribution, customer care, operations, home entertainment and video services. Glenn and his team were also responsible for the integration of AT&T’s Direct TV and the company’s digital business.

    After starting his career in the early days of the wireless industry at McCaw Cellular, Glenn helped usher in the modern smartphone era by leading AT&T’s negotiations with Apple to introduce the first iPhone and iPad. He built three groundbreaking business for AT&T: IoT business – bringing wireless connectivity to tablets, cars and consumer electronics; Digital Life – AT&T’s home automation and security business, and finally the launch of Aio Wireless – now Cricket Wireless, the companies’ industry leading prepaid flanker brand.

    In 2014, Glenn was named as one of just 10 “MobileGameChangers” by Russell Reynolds Associates for his mobile-first approach to developing innovative services that enhance the way people live. Glenn was named to the Global Telecom Business “Power 100” multiple times, awarded Wireless Week’s Telecom Leadership Award in 2010, and presented the Atlanta Telecom Professional of the Year Award in 2009 from the Atlanta Telecoms Professionals Association.

    Glenn is active in industry associations and within the community. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the GSMA, Avis Budget Group, Inc., Pivotal Commware, Inc. and the Consumer Technology Industry Association, where he previously served as chairman of the board in 2016. He also serves on the Aptiv Advisory Council and is a member of the executive advisory board of Curing Kids Cancer and the board of the Atlanta Concorde Fire Soccer Club.

    He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business/Marketing from Seattle Pacific University. An avid soccer player, Glenn was a three-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Champion at Seattle Pacific University. He was also a 1st Round Draft pick in the Major Indoor Soccer League and went on to play professionally for teams in Cleveland, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Portland.

  • Peter Detkin

    Peter Detkin

    Peter N. Detkin is a founder of Intellectual Ventures (IV) and focuses on a variety of projects relating to intellectual property and invention. Intellectual Asset Management recently named Mr. Detkin the second most influential “IP market maker” in the world and referred to him as a “legend in the patent transactions and strategy world.”  Mr. Detkin is on the board of directors of Pivotal Commware, Inc., a spinoff from IV.

    Prior to joining IV, Mr. Detkin spent eight years at Intel Corporation where he was a vice president and assistant general counsel. As assistant general counsel, Mr. Detkin was responsible for managing the Intel patent and licensing departments, including all aspects of prosecution and claims management. Mr. Detkin also managed the litigation and competition policy departments, including antitrust.

    Before he joined Intel, Mr. Detkin was an intellectual property partner at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati in Palo Alto, Calif. Mr. Detkin was the first patent lawyer hired at the firm and formed the basis of its highly successful intellectual property practice. While at Wilson Sonsini, he had lead or second chair responsibility for a number of high-profile litigations, including the seminal computer copyright case, Lotus v. Borland.

    Outside of his professional work, Mr. Detkin is the past president of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, an organization dedicated to providing legal services to low-income children and families, people with mental and developmental disabilities, AIDS patients and victims of discrimination. He is currently on the board of directors of the Humane Society of Silicon Valley and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

    Mr. Detkin received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with honors in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering and a J.D. in 1985 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He serves as a member of the board of overseers of the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.

    Mr. Detkin is an inactive member of the state bars of California and New York, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

  • Shaygan Kheradpir

    Shaygan Kheradpir

    Dr. Kheradpir is best known for driving transformational change using technology at Verizon where he was Group CIO, at Barclays Bank as Group COO, at Juniper Networks & Coriant (formerly Tellabs, Siemens Optical, Sycamore) as CEOs and Chairman.

    Dr. Kheradpir was on the founding Executive Leadership Committee of Verizon helping it to transform from a phone company to a premier telecom worldwide with products such as FiOS and 4G-LTE, interactive multi-media, and world-class customer service and efficiency through automation. At Barclays, he was on the bank’s Global Executive Committee as Group COO and helped set the course for 21st century industrialization in financial services — pioneering industry first FinTech products such as peer-to-peer mobile money, bank digitization and automation, lowering risks, and cost reductions via the company’s TRANSFORM Program. As CEO of Juniper, he focused the company by creating and executing its Integrated Operating Plan (IOP) that ultimately drove EBITDA growth double digits, launching Cloud-Builder and High IQ networking products, automation and machine learning. As Chairman & CEO of Coriant, he integrated and reinvented three predecessor companies of Tellabs, Siemens Optical, and Sycamore, dramatically lowering costs, and creating the industry-first Hyper-scale Carrier Architecture (HCA) products that propelled Coriant to become a leading insurgent telecom equipment company across high-speed packet-optical, cloud interconnect, and 5G. The new disruptive products ultimately drove hundreds of millions of dollars of new revenue.

    Dr. Kheradpir currently works with high-tech startups and is also a senior advisor and operating executive at Cerberus Capital with special focus on 5G, Industrial Internet, AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Semiconductors, and Autonomous Systems.

    Dr. Kheradpir received his BS, ME, and Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering from Cornell University in 1982, ’83 and ’87, respectively. He is on the board of MTN Group (260 million subscribers across MEA), Cornell University Engineering Council, the US Department of State’s International Digital Economy & Telecommunications (IDET) Advisory Committee, and served on the Advisory Board of the US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). He was inducted into CIO Hall of Fame in 2006, selected as outstanding young engineer by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1990, and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2014.

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