Cohere Technologies CEO and leadership

Shlomo Rakib leads a team of engineers and wireless industry veterans who are bringing to market major wireless innovations for 4G, 5G and 6G with OTFS and Delay Doppler. Mr. Rakib is a prolific inventor and serial entrepreneur who has launched several companies. Prior to Cohere, Mr. Rakib was with Gainspeed, a company acquired by Nokia in 2016. Mr. Rakib co-founded Terayon in 1993 where he invented Terayon’s S-CDMA technology which is a critical component in the DOCSIS 2.0 cable data specification, and used in tens of millions of cable modems worldwide. The company went IPO in 1998. Terayon was acquired in 2007 by Motorola. Mr. Rakib also co-founded Novafora, a company which developed microprocessors for advanced video applications. Mr. Rakib has been granted more than 50 patents and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Technion University in Israel.

Dr. Ronny Hadani is a mathematical visionary who, together with Shlomo Rakib, created Cohere’s ground-breaking Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) wireless modulation scheme and Delay Doppler channel model - and co-founded the company. Dr. Hadani leads Cohere’s science research into the capabilities of advanced wireless technologies, and how they can enable the next generation of wireless services. In addition to being Cohere’s chief science officer, Dr. Hadani continues to serve as an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Texas in Austin (Texas), a position he held prior to co-founding Cohere. Dr. Hadani’s expertise is in representation theory and harmonic analysis with applications to signal processing. Prior to the University of Texas, Dr. Hadani held the renowned L.E. Dickson Postdoctoral Fellowship in mathematics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Hadani holds an MSc degree in Computer Science from The Weizmann Institute of Science and a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University.

Ram Prasad joined Cohere Technologies as Chief Operating Officer in July 2018. Mr. Prasad brings decades of extensive global operations experience to Cohere. Mr. Prasad’s executive expertise spans successful start-ups and fortune 500 companies, managing SaaS, PaaS, P&L, strategy, new product development, efficient/responsive supply chain development, complex manufacturing, and cloud-based information systems. Prior to joining Cohere, Mr. Prasad was Head of Operations at Nokia (Gainspeed). Mr. Prasad served as Vice President of Operations at Gainspeed until its acquisition by Nokia in 2016. Before joining Gainspeed, Mr. Prasad was the CFO and Vice President of Operations at Purfresh, Inc. and held executive positions at Asyst Technologies, Inc., Amber Networks, Inc. (acquired by Nokia 2001), Sieger Engineering, and Applied Materials, Inc. Throughout his career Mr. Prasad has managed operations across many industries, including: telecommunications, networking, semiconductor capital equipment, contract manufacturing, aerospace, and petrochemical. Mr. Prasad holds M.S. in mechanical engineering from New Mexico State University, and a BE in mechanical engineering from Bangalore University, India.

Shlomo Rakib leads a team of engineers and wireless industry veterans who are bringing to market major wireless innovations for 4G, 5G and 6G with OTFS and Delay Doppler. Mr. Rakib is a prolific inventor and serial entrepreneur who has launched several companies. Prior to Cohere, Mr. Rakib was with Gainspeed, a company acquired by Nokia in 2016. Mr. Rakib co-founded Terayon in 1993 where he invented Terayon’s S-CDMA technology which is a critical component in the DOCSIS 2.0 cable data specification, and used in tens of millions of cable modems worldwide. The company went IPO in 1998. Terayon was acquired in 2007 by Motorola. Mr. Rakib also co-founded Novafora, a company which developed microprocessors for advanced video applications. Mr. Rakib has been granted more than 50 patents and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Technion University in Israel.

Dr. Ronny Hadani is a mathematical visionary who, together with Shlomo Rakib, created Cohere’s ground-breaking Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) wireless modulation scheme and Delay Doppler channel model - and co-founded the company. Dr. Hadani leads Cohere’s science research into the capabilities of advanced wireless technologies, and how they can enable the next generation of wireless services. In addition to being Cohere’s chief science officer, Dr. Hadani continues to serve as an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Texas in Austin (Texas), a position he held prior to co-founding Cohere. Dr. Hadani’s expertise is in representation theory and harmonic analysis with applications to signal processing. Prior to the University of Texas, Dr. Hadani held the renowned L.E. Dickson Postdoctoral Fellowship in mathematics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Hadani holds an MSc degree in Computer Science from The Weizmann Institute of Science and a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University.

Ram Prasad joined Cohere Technologies as Chief Operating Officer in July 2018. Mr. Prasad brings decades of extensive global operations experience to Cohere. Mr. Prasad’s executive expertise spans successful start-ups and fortune 500 companies, managing SaaS, PaaS, P&L, strategy, new product development, efficient/responsive supply chain development, complex manufacturing, and cloud-based information systems. Prior to joining Cohere, Mr. Prasad was Head of Operations at Nokia (Gainspeed). Mr. Prasad served as Vice President of Operations at Gainspeed until its acquisition by Nokia in 2016. Before joining Gainspeed, Mr. Prasad was the CFO and Vice President of Operations at Purfresh, Inc. and held executive positions at Asyst Technologies, Inc., Amber Networks, Inc. (acquired by Nokia 2001), Sieger Engineering, and Applied Materials, Inc. Throughout his career Mr. Prasad has managed operations across many industries, including: telecommunications, networking, semiconductor capital equipment, contract manufacturing, aerospace, and petrochemical. Mr. Prasad holds M.S. in mechanical engineering from New Mexico State University, and a BE in mechanical engineering from Bangalore University, India.