Board of Directors

Omnitrol Networks’ executives are guided by a Board of Directors that has extensive experience leading and growing innovative technology companies. The Board of Directors counsels the Omnitrol Networks management team on all aspects of the business.

Jed M. Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners

One of the pioneers of Internet commerce, Mr. Katz Jed has spent his 18-year career developing, advising and investing in early stage technology ventures. Prior to joining Javelin Venture Partners, Katz was a Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York, where he was selected in the "Silicon Alley 100", an annual list of the most influential people in New York digital business, by the website Silicon Alley Insider. Prior to DFJ Gotham, Katz was the COO and Founder of Rent Net, the Internet's first rental and relocation guide. Rent Net achieved 95% market penetration and became one of the first profitable Internet companies. It was acquired by Cendant, and three years later, Katz used its infrastructure as the starting point for the formation of Move.com, one of the Internet's largest real estate sites. Move.com grew to 360 employees and was acquired by Homestore (NASDAQ: MOVE) for over $900 million. Katz holds a B.A. in Business Economics from UCLA and an M.B.A. from The Haas School of Business at the University of California – Berkeley, where he was awarded the Price Fellowship from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, of which he is currently on the advisory board.

Raj Saksena, Founder, President & CEO

Mr. Saksena, is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor in the telecom and enterprise software markets. With over 23 years of experience as both a technical and business executive he has led some of the largest global deployments in advanced intelligent networks and distributed real-time database systems. He has successfully led cross-functional multi-national teams across the globe in sales & marketing, engineering, QA, contact center and BPO support. Prior to founding Omnitrol Networks, Raj was a pioneer in the evolution of the VoIP unified network and broadband services infrastructure to the home.

Prior to Omnitrol, Raj was the President of Suntech Data Systems where he led the global business operations for BPO and contact center services for manufacturing, healthcare and insurance verticals. Suntech was acquired by Zensar Technologies (BSE:Zensar). Prior to Suntech, Raj was the President & CEO of Neovin Networks, a company that was on the cutting edge in the delivery of voice-activated mid-call services for cellular phone networks.

Mr. Saksena was previously the CTO and Executive Vice President of Business Development at Empowertel which pioneered the delivery of an integrated telecom VoIP intelligent switch which was awarded "Best of Show" at Networld + Interop and "Product of the Year" by Communications Solutions. He also pioneered the development of the MediaXpress system-on-a-chip which supported the industry’s highest density VoIP switching fabric at the lowest latency for the delivery of a VoIP unified network. Empowertel was acquired by UT Starcom (NASDAQ:UTSI) and IP Unity.

Prior to Empowertel, Raj was the Vice President of Business Development at Lara Technology that delivered high speed memories for the Internet router market. Lara was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ:CY). Prior to Empowertel, Raj managed M&A and business strategy for Enterprise Networks at Nortel, where he also led the Intelligent Networks and next-gen service provisioning products. Prior to Nortel he was instrumental in the delivery of real-time billing and rating system for Cantel mobile subscribers. Mr. Saksena has also held senior management and technical roles at Verizon, AT&T Bell Labs and Teletrak.

Mr. Saksena has a B.S./B.E. Electrical Engineering (Hons) and Computer Science from the City College of New York and New York University. As an industry visionary, Raj has chaired and presented at many leading industry conferences, been published world-wide and interviewed on multiple TV broadcasts.

Gary Wong, President, Westlake International LLC

Mr. Wong joined Westlake in 2002 and has served as CFO, COO, and president of the Chang Family Office. His current responsibilities include overseeing Westlake’s real estate portfolio and developing the company’s land holding. Mr. Wong has extensive experience in finance and the capital markets, serving as senior vice president for corporate finance at Wedbush Morgan Securities for 15 years and as a vice president at the Bank of America for six years.

Mr. Wong is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, the Urban Land Institute, Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He has served on the corporate board and as treasurer of the United Way of Los Angeles and is a Block Leader for the City of Cupertino. He holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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It mitigates technology investment risk by minimizing integration with existing legacy systems; enabling customers to migrate at their own pace while still being future-proofed.

Louis Bianchin,
Senior Analyst,
VDC
Omnitrol’s cutting-edge solution suite automatically collects information from a large variety of sensors and, through predictive analytics, delivers real-time visibility with accurate forecasting between business partner operations. Potentially, any control system or middleware may help an end-user integrate back-end and shop-floor but Omnitrol infrastructure extends business intelligence directly from the operations-floor without the complexity of multiple software layers, thereby minimizing total investment and improving ROI.

Arunkumar J,
Program Manager,
Frost & Sullivan
Omnitrol Networks has become a major force in the industry.

Joe Leone,
President & CTO,
RFID Global Solutions
The OMNITROL appliance's network and business application convergence, compounded by its dramatic economic value proposition, is rapidly transforming the landscape of the real-time enterprise network and appliance-based service delivery.

PG Menon,
VP Marketing,
NextHop Technologies
Successfully deploying asset tracking solutions in the enterprise requires an integrated platform that reduces costs, risks and complexity. Omnitrol's scalable open platform is enhanced by adding Wi-Fi RTLS functionality using Ekahau's RTLS and its open XML/HTTP software interface.

Antti Korhonen,
President & CEO,
Ekahau
Business leaders should care about the benefits that a solution like Omnitrol's could bring to the inherently complex manufacturing models that automotive, aerospace and other large discrete manufacturers face.

Dan Miklovic,
VP Manufacturing,
Gartner
Our current focus is on lean manufacturing, common systems, and ergonomics. To prepare for the next step function improvement in aircraft manufacturing, the Advanced Manufacturing Research & Development organization is exploring network enabled manufacturing, Omnitrol Networks helps us create such an environment by providing the capability to collect, analyze, correlate, and act upon edge device and applications data in a highly adaptive, real-time environment.

Bryan Dods,
Senior Manager, Aerostructures Manufacturing,
Boeing Corporation
The PCB tracking solution combines Texas Instruments’ experience in electronics manufacturing along with our core competency in RFID with Omnitrol Networks' Work-In-Process application appliance.

Mikael Ahlund,
Director of Asset Tracking,
Texas Instruments RFID Systems
I can view the complete status of my shop-floor and quickly identify at-risk orders from my desktop. Instead of discovering late orders through missed delivery dates, thanks to the OMNITROL solution I am always in the know.

Mark Odom,
Vice President of Manufacturing,
Bay Creek Manufacturing
Working with Omnitrol Networks to add UWB capability to their best-in-class WIP visibility solution will offer customers the solution they are seeking to improve their work-in-process operations.

Greg Clawson,
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing,
Time Domain
The OMNITROL appliance has developed a powerful new paradigm in real-time Work-In-Process visibility and traceability. By combining all the computing, networking, and software resources into a single physical device, Omnitrol Networks is going to be a catalyst of the IT transformation that will support the proliferation of intelligent edge networks.

Joseph Robin Mathews,
Associate Editor,
Silicon India
With OMNITROL, end users will not have to upgrade their entire infrastructure to adapt to the latest technology change or workflow improvement. The OMNITROL encapsulates complete business services intelligence on the work-floor where business operations happen.

Brendon Ouimette,
Analyst,
Frost & Sullivan
Omnitrol Networks' offering combines middleware, device management and networking functions that reduce costs and time-to-market for real-time RFID-based edge services. We look forward to continued collaboration with Omnitrol to bring the benefits of RFID to our customers.

Terry Pruett,
Director of Channel Development,
Alien Technology Corporation
Omnitrol's ability to automatically monitor and track what is happening on the factory floor without user intervention is a unique differentiator. It eliminates inconsistent or inaccurate reports of work in process.

Stephanie Neil,
Senior Editor,
Managing Automation
The aerospace and defense industries are constantly looking for better ways to manage complexity. Among their goals are the creation of ‘sense and respond’ supply chains that help warfighters increase availability of their weapons systems to ensure mission readiness. Omnitrol Networks’ award-winning track and trace infrastructure solution is a proven, scalable and elegant approach to help existing ERP, MRO, and logistical systems achieve these goals in the aerospace and defense sectors.

David Croop,
CEO,
Croop-LaFrance Inc
The OMNITROL solution provides Hobart’s manufacturing team with real-time visibility on all our customer orders without any impact on our operations. The solution eliminates the tasks of order tracking and manual entry. More importantly, the solution makes us a better partner to our customers by automatically sharing critical order information with them 24x7.

Rosemary Brester,
President,
Hobart Machined Products
Most middleware is limited, requires extensive customization making it difficult for use to integrators like us.The OMNITROL supports not only all types of wireless, barcode and RFID technologies, but also sensors and PLC systems simplifying integration with our customers installed infrastructure while providing the flexibility to expand, improve and scale their business processes without incurring high costs.

Paul Pope,
Vice-President and General Manager,
Ahearn & Soper
Omnitrol’s web-based in-production dashboard provides us with a unique Work-In-Process solution that is expected to deliver the next level of process innovation and change order management.

David Hall,
SVP and General Manager,
Endwave Defense Systems
This low cost solution can help to transform the business relationship between customers and their key suppliers and deliver better and faster product.

Andrew Hughes,
Director,
AIDC Gartner
We are delighted to be working with Omnitrol as it will strengthen our existing capabilities within BT Supply Chain Solutions and enable us to better address our customers’ requirements to improve the operational efficiency of their supply chains. The versatile OMNITROL platform allows BT Supply Chain Solutions to quickly customize solutions, and to meet individual customer needs.

Keith Sherry,
GM,
BT Supply Chain Solutions
The OMNITROL solution delivers a new generation network appliance encapsulating all RFID processing and management, thereby eliminating back-end development, reducing setup and support costs for edge deployments.

Andrew Nathanson,
Director of VDC's Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) Practice,
VDC Automatic Identification
I was extremely impressed with the capabilities of the OMNITROL appliance approach, and its ability to rapidly create and deploy intelligent edge manufacturing services, which led me to select Omnitrol Networks' solution for my laboratory. The new OMNITROL-based network gives us more flexibility than today's approach, making our research more timely and applicable. In addition, the OMNITROL's capability to integrate with all devices on the shop floor, including PLCs and new sensor technologies like RFID, is giving our students and industry partners access to the latest leading edge technologies.

Can Saygin,
Director of the MSA and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
UTSA
The OMNITROL PCB tracking solution using TI’s RFID chips allows us to automatically maintain traceability on each component that goes into the products we build. We have been able to replace tedious manual scanning with a completely automated process.

Heinz Hornung,
General Manager,
TQ Components