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. 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

Jim Schreitmueller
VP of Sales and Marketing

Jim has more than 20 years of success as a senior sales, marketing, product development and operations executive in the international IT marketplace. He served most recently as Vice President, Field Operations for Navis LLC, one of the world's leading suppliers of enterprise software for managing containerized cargo logistics. Under his leadership the company rose from industry pioneer to industry standard. Today, 25% of all world container cargo is processed through Navis systems.
Prior to joining Navis, Jim was a 10 year veteran of Automatic Data Processing, spanning three of the largest divisions of the company in a progression of highly successful sales, national accounts and product development positions. He was responsible for conceiving and launching the PenPro™ product line to key property casualty insurers, earning two key patents for his work. He was also instrumental in launching the industry's first national automotive vehicle and parts locator systems for retail automobile dealers.
Jim received a bachelor's degree in Business and Communications from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Vijaya Gallagher  PhD

Sr. 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.

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.

Shirish Joshi  VP of Operations and Manufacturing

Shirish joins Lorantec from Abeona Networks where he was Dir. of Operations and successfully implemented a world class manufacturing organization. He was successful in forging partnerships and contracts with some of the Tier 1 contract manufacturers. He brings with him over 20 years of Operations, Supply Chain and Quality management experience. He has extensive expertise in the areas of cost and cycle time reduction, implementing ISO 9001 and building organizations from grounds up. During his career he has worked at Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Quantum and Jetstream Communications and has been recognized for his visionary leadership and management abilities. He has a BSEE from the University of Pune and he has completed graduate work at the University of Rhode Island.