Management Overview

Lorantec’s management team has a combined 100+ years of experience and a unique combination of domain expertise, including 3rd Party Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Wireless Communication, Satellite Communication, Enterprise Applications and Data Centers. Our team comes from industry leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Menlo Logistics, Space Systems/Loral, Oracle, APL, FedEx Logistics and Silicon Graphics and is made up of experienced entrepreneurs with a proven track record in management and leadership roles in both large and small companies.

Vaibhav Malawade  CEO & President

Vaibhav brings 14 years of leadership, engineering and marketing experience & accomplishment of envisioning unique ideas and successfully bringing these to market. His areas of expertise span networking, switching, transaction processing, and server technologies. Vaibhav founded Abeona Networks in 1999 with a vision to build the next generation platform combining networking and processors for Internet applications. Vaibhav was directly responsible for raising over $13M series-A funding from preeminent VCs KPCB and Sequoia, building the company and its team, and helping to win its first key customers (Amazon, CSFB, Franklin Templeton). Vaibhav served as President & CEO of Abeona, after serving for 4 years as the top performance testing and system-tuning expert for Sun Microsystems. He has driven key programs at TRW Financial Systems, Informix, Independence Technologies, and MAI BASIC FOUR. Vaibhav has extensive experience in database and object oriented programming technologies, and was the developer of the 100% Pure Java™ certification program. He has driven the architecture and development of numerous high-availability computing systems and Web infrastructures. Vaibhav holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, India, and has completed graduate course work at the University of California, Berkeley

Stephen brings over 22 years of experience in supply chain management with proven success in designing, selling, and managing supply chain operations and developing and deploying state-of-the-art technology to improve supply chain effectiveness.  Stephen is experienced entrepreneur, having founded two successful supply chain companies, and handled multi-billion dollar supply chain and logistics operations for Menlo Logistics, USPS and P&G.  Stephen holds BS in Aerospace Engineering and Master of Science in Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.

Stephen B. Huggins VP Business Development

Dr. Vijaya Gallagher  PhD  Chief Architect	Vijaya brings over 22 years of experience in the field of satellite and mobile communication and communication based technologies. She is known for her numerous inventions in mobile communication field and has chaired International Mobile Satellite Conference in Pasadena. She has also published numerous papers on satellite, mobile and wireless communication. Vijaya has made significant contributions at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ford Aerospace, Space Systems Loral and Global star. Vijaya holds a B-tech in EE from IIT Bombay, and PhD from Caltech Pasadena, CA.
Andrew completed his MBA from Stanford Business School in June 2002, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.  He worked in marketing at Abeona Networks during the Summer of 2001, leading up to the company's initial product launch.  Prior to Stanford, Andrew worked as an associate with Littlejohn & Co., a $550 million private equity fund, for 3 years and as an investment banking analyst with Salomon Smith Barney for 2 years.		Andrew Housser  Director of Marketing/Business Development

Bruce Inenaga  Director of Hardware Engineering

Bruce brings over 18 years of engineering and project management experience in field of power management, battery performance and electronic packaging for satellite communication. He has successfully led development and qualification of advanced power system management and flight software for Telstar 8 and satmax for Space systems/LORAL. Some of his achievements at Lockheed Missiles and space Co include design of muti-kilowatt deployable solar arrays. He has extensive experience with composite material design, cabling and harnessing, production tooling, stress and thermal analysis. Bruce holds BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

Herman brings over 15 years of management and business development experience with third party logistics providers. Up until recently he served as vice president of national accounts at APL logistics and GATX. His strategic thinking and vision helped him acquire key strategic accounts for GATX e.g. Compaq, Gateway Computers, Dell, Viewsonic, Visioneer, Mitsubishi, Sony, LG and many more. Herman built his logistics expertise at FedEx Logistics, where he helped develop HP and IBM’s early morning delivery network “Running start” which later become a core FedEx product offering

Herman Randle  VP of Sales