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Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Joel Jorgenson

Joel Jorgenson, Ph.D., has extensive research and development experience in both low-power and high-performance electronics systems. Prior to founding Packet Digital, Dr. Jorgenson was an Electrical Engineering professor at North Dakota State University. Jorgenson has conducted research and published articles in several disciplines, including signal integrity, advanced packaging, testability and advanced design methods. Dr. Jorgenson also worked for nearly 10 years at Rockwell Collins developing microprocessors, application-specific integrated circuits and system-level solutions for cockpit electronics and flight-critical avionics.

Chief Operating Officer, Terri Zimmerman

Terri Zimmerman has wide-ranging business expertise working with private and public companies. Zimmerman has served as COO and CFO of several companies, including Dakota Technologies, Wamnet, and Great Plains Software. At Wamnet, she raised $300M, enabling the company to build one of the world's largest intranets and secure a $900M government contract. While CFO and Vice President of Operations at Great Plains Software, she had a leadership role in growing revenue from $25M to $200M and executing a successful initial public offering. Zimmerman was recently appointed to an economic development board by John Hoeven, Governor of North Dakota.

Advisor, William A. Owens

William A. Owens serves as Managing Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AEA Investors Asia, a private equity company, since April 2006 and also serves as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of CenturyLink since July 1, 2009. Formerly, Mr. Owens served as Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nortel Networks Corporation, a global supplier of communications equipment, from 2004 to 2005, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teledesic LLC, a satellite communications company, from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. military from 1962 until 1996 holding various key leadership positions, including Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is currently a director of Polycom, Inc., Wipro Limited, and Intelius Inc. He has served as a director of AEA Investors, LLC, Flow Mobile, Unifrax Corporation, Amerilink and was Chairman of the Board of Embarq within the past five years.

Advisor, Dr. Rajesh Gupta

Rajesh Gupta, Ph.D., is currently a Computer Science professor and holds the QUALCOMM Chair in Embedded Microsystems at the University of California San Diego. He has authored more than 150 articles and two books on various aspects of embedded systems, design automation, datapath synthesis and system-on-chip modeling. Dr. Gupta is a Fellow of the IEEE. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design and Test of Computers, and Chair of the steering committee on IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.