Robert L. Diamond served as Chairman of the Board of CIDCO Incorporated, a manufacturing company of telecommunication products that he co-founded. He is the holder of a Caller ID engineering patent and, in 1996, was the recipient of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Prior to CIDCO, Mr. Diamond was President of Robert Diamond Inc., an engineering consulting and manufacturer's representative firm he founded in 1971. He was previously Director of Marketing for North American Philips' Broadcast T.V. Division and Senior Engineer at Philco Research. He holds a BSEE from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and graduated with high honors. He also holds a Doctor of Engineering honorary degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
William Diamond was previously President, CEO, and 50% equity holder in RDI, Incorporated, an ISO900 electronics engineering and manufacturing company that owns and operates a 90,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China, employing over 700 people. William co-founded Diamond Properties, which over the past decade has acquired over 2,000,000 square feet of Class A and Class B commercial space in New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. William graduated from St. Paul's School in 1987 and from Amherst College in 1991.
Babak Rezvani defines and builds Xanboo hardware, software, and services. Prior to joining Xanboo, Babak worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York where he was involved with design and specification of next generation wearable Internet enabled devices and technologies. During his 12-year career with IBM he delivered a number of products in the areas of communication, multimedia, and personal computing. His work resulted in numerous industry recognized patents and awards such as Comdex Best of Show Award and Byte magazine Product Of The Year Award. Babak holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville & an MS degree in Computer Science from Brooklyn Polytechnic University.
Prior to joining Xanboo as Senior Vice-president of Engineering, Mr. Ghalebi was Chief Executive of Voltek Automation Ltd., which he founded, and where he designed, developed, and marketed Europe's only fully approved intrinsically safe PIR detector, the Securilite product line and other security and energy management products. Under his direction, Voltek Automation achieved ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Standard, EECS Quality Maintenance Approval, and was awarded the Royal Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. Ghalebi has a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England. He is a member of the British Institute of Management, the Institute of Lighting Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Levent Turkmen leads the architecture, design and development of Xanboo Server technologies and solutions. Levent has over 12 years of software engineering and development experience on data communications, systems and network management, database design and modeling, electronic commerce, and the Internet. Prior to joining Xanboo, he worked for General Electric Information Services, where he architected and designed end-to-end, distributed software solutions, including various EDI/Internet trading systems and network/system/application monitoring, diagnostics and automation software products. Levent holds a BS degree in Computer and Controls Engineering and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering.
Tim directs the architecture and design of software for the Xanboo Home Gateway products and their wireless connectivity solutions. Tim has over 20 years of industry experience designing and implementing real-time embedded software for data communications systems. Tim has held a number of positions, most recently he was one of the founding members of NetVision Inc. a startup that produced innovative mutli-layer Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers. When NetVision was acquired by NPI, a leading supplier of Gigabit Ethernet and FDDI multi-layer switches, Tim became Principal Software Architect at NPI. Prior to Netvision/NPI Tim was a Senior Programmer at IBM T.J. Watson Research center where he specialized in wireless networking protocols. Tim holds a BS degree in Computer Science and Cybernetics and an MS degree in Computer science.
Gary Berg joined Xanboo in March 2003 as Chief Financial Officer. From 1986 to March 2003, Mr. Berg worked for Thermo Savant, a Thermo Electron company (a large publicly traded technology company), as their VP-Finance. His experience includes managing the Accounting/Finance function in a manufacturing environment. Previously, he had 6 years experience with several large national public accounting firms(Big 4). Mr. Berg is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York, and is a member of the AICPA and NYS chapter.
Sanjeev Thakkar brings nine plus years of business development experience to Xanboo, with success in deploying new technologies to the consumer market through ISPs, telephone companies, cable operators and wireless carriers. In addition to creating new business opportunities through the network operator channel, he has traveled the globe as a regular speaker and technology evangelist at some of the industry's leading events and trade shows. Sanjeev joins Xanboo from MyCasa Network, a provider of digital applications and services for the connected home, where he served as Director of Business Development. Prior to MyCasa Network, Sanjeev held various positions at Teknema, Inc., an Internet appliance company, which was acquired by Axeda Systems. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Menlo College.