MOVE Founders

James Ewan - CEO, President – Over 25 years’ business, operations, and R&D management, as well as hands-on technology development, in wireless electronics and optics. Previously President of SRC Vision and Teledyne Microwave. Founding board member of Wireless Communications Alliance. MS/BS EE UCLA.

Matt Pallakoff - CTO, VP Product Design – Over 15 years’ consumer technology design, development, and management, including 6 years with Apple Computer’s Interactive Media & Advanced Technology Groups. Man-machine interface & user-experience expert. Holds patents for mobile devices, eCommerce platforms, and speech systems. MS EE/CS Stanford University. BA CS U.C. Berkeley.

Board of Advisors

Arif Maskatia, VP of Engineering/CTO at Acer America – Mr. Maskatia has over 30 years' experience leading engineering and product development for personal computer technologies. Prior to joining Acer, Arif had been VP of Zenith Data Systems' Advanced Technology Center, Sr. Director of Technical Operations for Alcatel/ITT Information Systems, and Sr. Director of Engineering for Phoenix Technologies and Poqet Computers. MS & BS EE Cornell University.

Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University – Professor Winograd directs Human-Computer Interaction research and teaching programs in Stanford's Human-Computer Interaction Group. He is a founding faculty member of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design -- a.k.a. the "d.school". And he is a founding member and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Prof. Winograd is on a number of journal editorial boards, including Human Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, and Informatica; and he has written and edited several books on design and artificial intelligence.

Jitendra Kavathekar, Sr. Director of Engineering at Motorola Inc. – A wireless & mobile software engineering expert, Jitendra was previously VP Engineering at wireless software startup DeviceScape; Director of Software Core Technology at PalmOne; VP Engineering at Pixo Inc.; and Director R&D for Hewlett Packard’s Embedded Web Products group. MS & BS CS University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Maurice Jeffery, former VP Sales at OpenWave/Phone.com, investor – At OpenWave, Maurice led business development with leading wireless operators, and contributed to OpenWave's product innovation (co-authoring two patents). Prior to OpenWave, Maurice was European Managing Director at General Magic, Inc.; and he held management positions in business development and marketing at Hewlett-Packard. BS CS and Commercial Studies from GCAT, England.