Directors and Executive Officers
Malik Khan Mr. Khan co-founded LiveTimeNet in November, 2007 and has served as chief strategy officer and executive chairman of the Board since that time. From July 2005 to July 2007, Mr. Khan served as Chairman and CEO of NexTone, Inc. (“NexTone”), a session border controller (“SBC”) company, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. From 2004 to 2005, Mr. Khan served as Chairman and CEO of Converged Access, Inc., an integrated IP voice and data solutions company, based in Littleton, Massachusetts. Prior to that, Mr. Khan was founder, Chairman and CEO of Sitara Networks from 1996 to 2004 and co-founder and Chairman of Indus River Networks from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Khan served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Flagship Ventures during 1996. Mr. Khan was employed by Motorola Inc. from 1984 to 1996 and served in a variety of executive roles, including Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s Network Systems Division. Under Mr. Khan’s leadership, NexTone grew rapidly to become one of two leaders in the SBC market. NexTone, according to analysts, owned 25% market share in the SBC market by 2007. The company grew at a 50%+ growth rate during Mr. Khan’s tenure. At Motorola, Mr. Khan’s division started and created two successful businesses in frame relay and cable broadband data. Mr. Khan holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Yousef Javadi Mr. Javadi is an accomplished entrepreneur and corporate executive leader in the telecom services and IP technology sector. He brings over 25 years of experience and operational expertise at starting, growing, and running global businesses. Most recently, Mr. Javadi was President of NexTone Communications, a privately held provider of software products. Earlier, Mr. Javadi was President of Sprint International, where as a senior corporate officer he ran all of Sprint’s businesses, alliances, and relationships outside of the U.S. Under Mr. Javadi’s leadership and direction Sprint built its next generation Internet backbone outside of the U.S. Prior to that, he held increasingly important corporate executive positions, including: head of the billion dollar North American operations of Primus Telecom, president of a wireless messaging unit at G.E. Capital, and vice-president of global sales and marketing at OTI, a start up satellite company that was sold to MCI. Mr. Javadi holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Professor Yair Amir Yair Amir is a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Distributed Systems and Networks lab (www.dsn.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Amir is an established expert in building messaging systems and C3I systems. He is the initiator of the Spread group communication and messaging toolkit (www.spread.org), which is used in thousands of installations around the world in commercial, academic and government settings. He also led the development of Secure Spread, which includes the first robust key agreement protocols. Dr. Amir is a creator of the Spines overlay network platform and the SMesh wireless mesh network, the first seamless 802.11 mesh with fast, lossless handoff (www.smesh.org), as well as the Backhand load balancing and Wackamole NxWay fair-over web clustering projects (www.backhand.org). Over the years, Dr. Amir’s academic research was funded by DARPA, NSF, NASA, and the NSA. He was nominated for the agency-wide “Performer with Significant Technical Achievement” DARPA award for 2004, and was awarded the DARPA Dynamic Coalitions program “Bytes for Buck” trophy in 2002. Dr. Amir holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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