Skyhook CEO and leadership

Highly accomplished, results-oriented technology and business executive with 25-year track record of innovation and success. Proven leadership experience ranging from technology creation, product management, building and managing large world-class teams with diverse skill sets, through the delivery of complex products to demanding customers. Performance driven leader, who drives company decisions through consensus with a focus on the market and business goals. Extensive board-level experience including Skyhook Board member since 2014.

Accomplishments

• Built startup into a world leader in location technology with $250 million in revenue.

• Led product and technology evaluation for 4 technology company acquisitions

• Re-built a 200+ person technology operation into a world-class team.

• Led the creation / acquisition of intellectual property resulting in |$200 million in licensing.

• Inventor on 66 US patents.

• Led cost reduction efforts saving the company $120 million over 5 years.

• Evolved product set through 6 wireless technologies with 6 location technologies

Skills:

• Technology Leadership

• Product Management

• Big Data and Machine Learning

• Internet of Things (IoT)

• Location Technology

• Intellectual Property

• Geospatial

• Standards Strategy

• Wireless

• Software and Hardware engineering

• Signal Processing

• Agile Development

• Regulatory Strategy

• Cloud Computing

• Operations / DevOps

• Software Development

• Hardware Development

• Mobile App Development

Prior to joining TruePosition in January, 2000, Mr. Hoppman was vice president and chief financial officer at Global Telecommunications Solutions Inc. Previously, Mr. Hoppman held similar positions at, The Score Board, Ernst & Young. Mr. Hoppman is a CPA and graduate of Penn State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

Kaveh Pahlavan (born March 16, 1951 in Tehran, Iran), is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is informally considered as the father of WLANs, WiFi and BANs by his colleagues.