Energous Corporation Культура компании

Mr. George B. Holmes has been the Chief Executive Officer of Resonant Inc. since January 10, 2017. Mr. Holmes has been Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing at Semblant Limited since October 2015. Mr. Holmes served as President and Chief Commercial Officer of Resonant Inc. since February 29, 2016 until January 13, 2017. Mr. Holmes served as Chief Commercial Officer at Tigo Energy, Inc. since November 18, 2015. Mr. Holmes served as Consultant of Energous Corporation since October 5, 2015. Mr. Holmes has over 30 years of leadership experience in sales & marketing and management spanning a broad range of technologies, including semiconductor, optical components and systems and sub-systems. He has executive management experience in companies of varying sizes, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations, with extensive experience in turn-around and rapid growth opportunities. He served as Chief Commercial Officer of Energous Corporation until October 5, 2015. Mr. Holmes served as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Energous Corporation since May 2014 and served as its Vice President of Sales & Marketing since October 2013 until May 2014. Mr. Holmes served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at SolarBridge Technologies, Inc. from February 2011 to June 2013. He was responsible for all sales, business development, applications and sales operations activities for the SolarBridge. Mr. Holmes served as a Partner at aAgave Solutions, LLC since 2007. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Pure Energy Solutions, Inc. from January 2008 to December 2010. Mr. Holmes served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing and Business Development of X1 Technologies, Inc. since October 2005. He served as acting Vice President of Sales for Powercast Corporation. Prior to X1 Technologies, Mr. Holmes served as Management Consultant focused on the publishing and private equity markets, identifying key market and customer trends. He served as Vice President of North America of Agere Systems, where he was tasked with re-building the North American sales team and developing its national channel strategy. He served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales of Ortel Corporation since November 1997 and served as its Executive Officer since June 1998. He served as Vice President of Broadband Sales of Ortel Corporation from July 1997 to November 1997. He served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Aval Communications from November 1996 to June 1997. He served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Level One Communications from August 1994 to November 1996. Prior to 1994, he served various sales, marketing, operations and finance positions at SymmetriCom. Mr. Holmes has been a Director of Resonant Inc. since February 29, 2016. Mr. Holmes holds a B.A. in Business from University of Puget Sound, Diploma in International Business from Nyenrode University in The Netherlands and completed the AEA Executive Institute, Management of Technology Companies program at Stanford University.

Mr. Cesar Johnston has been Senior Vice President of Engineering at Energous Corporation since July 14, 2014. Previously, Mr. Johnston served as the Vice President of Engineering at Marvell, a leading semiconductor company, where he focused on developing wireless connectivity solutions. He served as the Senior Director of Engineering at Wi-Fi products at Broadcom and as the Senior Director of Systems Engineering at ARC. Mr. Johnston received both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering and holds several patents.

Mr. Jeff McNeil has been Vice President of Operations at Energous Corporation since December 2015 and is responsible to oversee day-to-day global operations. Mr. McNeil has an impressive background in the semiconductor industry -- having spent over two decades with one of the preeminent companies in the Silicon Valley. He held a successful 21 year tenure at Cypress Semiconductor where he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations. In his recent global operations role, he was responsible for worldwide operations for subcon manufacturing, FA, planning and logistics. Significant achievements at Cypress Semiconductor include reducing lead-times by 40 percent, improving on time delivery to ) 99.5% and reducing inventory by ) 30% while delivering exceptional quality product. Earlier in his career, he held extensive operations and engineering leadership positions at companies including Heraeus, Digital Equipment Corporation, Seagate and Memorex. Mr. McNeil holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University.

Mr. Brian J. Sereda has been Chief Financial Officer of Energous Corporation since July 13, 2015 and also serves as its Senior Vice President. Mr. Sereda served as Vice President of Energous Corporation since July 13, 2015. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of ActiveVideo Networks, Inc. since November 2011. Mr. Sereda served as the Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Vice President of Finance at Virage Logic Corporation since September 2008. Mr. Sereda has more than 20 years of financial management experience in both emerging and larger technology firms. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Proxim Wireless Corporation (formerly Terabeam, Inc.) from August 2006 to October 2008 as well as served as its Principal Accounting Officer since August 4, 2006. He served as Vice President of Finance and Controller of Proxim Wireless Corporation from May 2006 to August 2006 and Senior Vice President until October 2008. He served as an Acting Chief Financial Officer, Acting Principal Accounting Officer and Acting Treasurer of Proxim Wireless Corporation from June 22, 2006 to August 4, 2006. He was responsible for Proxim's worldwide financial operations. Mr. Sereda served as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller of Portal Software. He served as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller of Credence Systems Corp. since April 2002. Mr. Sereda served as Treasurer of Sygen plc (Sygen International) from 1999 to 2001. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Sereda served as Treasurer of Handspring, Inc. From 1993 to 1998, He held various positions of increasing responsibility including Assistant Treasurer at Lam Research Corporation. He served as a Director of Abigail (UK) Limited. He served as an Executive director of ARC International Limited. since September 15, 2009. Mr. Sereda holds an MBA degree from St. Mary's College of California, a BSBA from Simon Fraser University and a Diploma of Technology in Petroleum Engineering from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Mr. Michael Aaron Leabman founded the Energous Corporation in October 2012 has been its Chief Technology Officer in October 2013 and its Senior Vice President since March 15, 2017. Mr. Leabman served as the President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at DvineWave Inc. until October 2013. From September 2010 to September 2013, Mr. Leabman served as President of TruePath Wireless, a service provider and equipment provider in the broadband communications industry. Mr. Leabman served as Chief Technology Officer for DataRunway Inc., a wireless communication company providing broadband internet to airlines. Mr. Leabman has been a Director of Energous Corporation since October 2012. Mr. Leabman has served on the board of directors of TruePath Wireless since 2010 and continues to serve on the board today. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Leabman received both his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Neeraj Sahejpal serves as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Energous Corporation. Mr. Sahejpal served as Vice President of Product Marketing at Energous Corporation since November 2015. Mr. Sahejpal is responsible for all aspects of Product Strategy, Product Management and Product Marketing. He joined Energous in November 2014 from Broadcom where he served as Director of Product Marketing. From 2009 to 2014, while at Broadcom, he helped seed and scale the Wireless Entertainment connectivity business. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Sahejpal held a senior Marketing position at PMC Sierra. Prior to that, he co-founded a wireless startup and held Senior positons in ASIC design while working for Inkra Networks, NVIDIA and Oak Technology (now Zoran). Mr. Sahejpal also chairs the Uncoupled Working Committee (UWC) of AirFuel Alliance which was formed by merging PMA and A4WP. Mr. Sahejpal received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India and both MSCE and MBA (Entrepreneurship and Finance) from Santa Clara University.

Mr. Phil Kelly has been Chief Scientist of Energous Corporation since April 2014 and has been its Vice President since December 5, 2015. Mr. Kelly served as Director of Engineering of Energous Corporation until December 5, 2015. From 2004 to 2007 and 2008 to 2014, Mr. Kelly was an engineering specialist at Northrop Grumman working on advanced research and development projects. From 2007 to 2008, he was Chief Scientist at PureWave Networks, an equipment provider for low cost, high capacity wireless data communications. From 1995 to 2004, Mr. Kelly was Director of Systems Engineering at BeamReach Networks, and System and Algorithms Engineer at Radix Technologies working on high performance wireless systems exploiting multiple antenna technologies. From 1988 to 1995, he was a member of the technical staff at Applied Signal Technology, a provider of advanced intelligence products and systems. Prior to 1988 he was assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Idaho, University of California at Davis, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Mr. Kelly received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Davis.

Gordon Bell serves as the Vice President of Marketing of Energous Corporation. Gordon started at Energous Corporation in November of 2016. Gordon is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.