| Management Team |
Dr. C. Paul SlabyPresident & CEO Dr. Slaby is an experienced high-tech executive and entrepreneur with a track record of building successful companies in the area of semiconductors and information technology. He was a founder and CEO of ATMOS Corporation, a leader in embedded IC memory compilers, from 1994 until its acquisition by Monolithic System Technology (NASDAQ:MOSY). He also founded VoIPshield Systems Inc in 2004 and as its CEO, he grew the company from inception through its first product development and launch, first marquee customers to build the company as an acknowledged industry leader. His other business accomplishments include founding and running an overseas design center, MicroSemiX Ltd, and establishing a non-profit charitable foundation PHF Inc which he ran as President in 1994-1999. Previously he held various engineering and management positions in Bell Northern Research, Nortel, and Carleton University. He is an author of numerous articles, scientific publications and conference papers. He served on the Board of Directors of Strategic Microelectronics Consortium, ATMOS, VoIPshield, and PHF. He also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the National Research Council and as an Advisor to Carleton University Foundry program. Mr. Tom RileyCTO and Founder Mr. Riley is the Chief Technical Officer at KABEN which he founded in 2000. He has over twenty years of experience, in academia and industry, in analog and mixed-signal IC design with emphasis on wireless applications. As a co-inventor of the fractional-N Delta-Sigma synthesizer, his research helped drive industry wide adoption of this type of frequency synthesis. He also invented a novel advanced filtering technique known as Sampled IF (SIF) which is suitable for widespread adoption, especially in reconfigurable radio front ends. He has published over fifteen papers in the integrated circuits field. He is a prolific inventor and holds many patents in the area of mixed-signal RF design. Tom's past career positions include a variety of R&D and advanced engineering functions with companies such as Nortel Semiconductor, Mitel Semiconductor, Gennum, CAL, Conexant (formerly Philsar Semiconductor) and as a research engineer with Carleton University. Dr. Jim WightChief Scientist Dr. Wight is an authority in wireless systems, in particular in OFDM based standards such as WiFi and WiMax, in MIMO techniques, and in phase-locked synchronizers. Previously, Dr. Wight has acted as Chief Architect and Co-Founder of AlleWin Technologies, a DSP innovator of MIMO techniques, Principal Architect and Co-Founder of IceFyre Semiconductor, a fabless provider of high performance WiFi RF solutions, and Senior Radio Architect for Philsar Electronics, a fabless innovator of Bluetooth transceivers. Before migrating to the wireless industry, Dr. Wight held senior positions in several aerospace corporations, including Spread Spectrum Program Manager for CAL Corporation and EMS, and Special Advisor of Advanced Technology for Vistar Aerospace. At Carleton University in Ottawa, Dr. Wight holds the distinguished title and position of Chancellor's Professor. Dr. Bill BerezaDirector, Marketing & Product Management In his position as Director, Marketing & Product Management, Dr. Bereza has assumed an important strategic position bridging business development and engineering, planning strategic direction and advancing Kaben’s product/services mix. Bill comes with a comprehensive experience in semiconductor engineering having worked for nearly 20 years in such companies as Bell-Northern Research, Nortel, SiGe Semiconductor where he was involved in telecom and GSM wireless product developments, PMC Sierra, and most recently Altera where as a Senior Manager he was responsible for SerDes and All-Digital PLL R&D activities. Bill has 7 major publications and has 30 patents granted or pending. His educational background includes a Bachelors of Engineering in Engineering Physics along with M. Eng and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University. Dr. Norm FiliolChief Architect Dr. Filiol has over 15 years of IC design and systems experience in the wireless applications industry. He is an expert in frequency synthesis and transceiver architectures for wireless applications, with more than ten published papers in the wireless communications area and several patents. He spent three years at Nortel Semiconductor working on fractional-N frequency synthesis, after which he joined Philsar Semiconductor. While at Philsar, he was one of the architects that developed the world's lowest power consumption Bluetooth RF transceiver. Dr. Norm Filiol is also an Adjunct Research Professor with the Department of Electronics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and maintains close research ties with University of Oulu in Finland. Mr. Seste Dell'AeraDirector of Sales Mr. Dell'Aera is the Director of Sales at KABEN. He has over twenty five years of experience in technical sales and marketing. During the last thirteen years, he helped to build early stage startup companies and held executive positions with Philsar Semiconductor and OEone Corporation. He has been published numerous times in leading communications magazines and has co-authored several patents. Mr. Terry KennyDirector of Engineering & Operations Mr. Kenny is Director of Engineering & Operations at KABEN. He has over 15 years experience in various engineering management positions. His technical expertise lies in system and circuit design in a range of wireless and wireline products including waveguide filters for satellite transponders, HMIC GaAs MESFET amplifiers, fractional-N frequency synthesizers, E1/T1 digital PLLs, TDMA/CDMA base stations and DOCSIS cable modems. Additionally he has over 10 years experience in the design and development of mixed signal ICs including switched capacitor oversampling ADCs and high order chebychev and elliptical active high pass and low pass filters based upon biquad stages. He has also worked as an independant contractor in a variety of areas including RFID, analog/RF board design and system specification, realtime spectrum analysis, and the development of quality processes for startup companies. |