Frank Ianna began his professional Career with Bell Laboratories the R&D Subsidiary of AT&T in 1972. In his professional career at AT&T he held various positions in Sales, Marketing, Product Development Operations and International Services. In 1998 Frank was named President of AT&T Network Services, and during his tenure in that capacity was responsible for all voice, data an wireless networks (operations, engineering and capital programs), Business Customer Care Operations, CIO Functions as well as Access Management. In this capacity he reported directly to the CEO, and then later the President of AT&T.

During this time Frank served on the Boards of the privately held companies Wytec (’99-’03), and Cyberfone (’00-’01), and a public Company partially owned by AT&T called Excite@Home (8/’00- 10/’01). Frank also held Board positions on the Non-profit Organizations NACME (’99-’03) and Cancer Hope Network (’98-’03).

After 31 years of service at AT&T Frank retired in September of 2003. Upon retiring he joined the Board of Advanced Fiber Communications, which was purchased by Tellabs in November of 2004, and became a Tellabs Director at that time.

From 1997 to 2007 Frank was on the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology, where he was also the Chairman of Castle Point Holdings (’06-’07), a fully owned Subsidiary of Stevens Institute that funded Startup companies under the Stevens Technogenesis® program. In April 2007 Frank resigned from those Stevens positions to become the CEO and Investor of one of the startups: Attila Technologies, LLC.
Separately, in May of 2007 Frank became a Director of a private Company sponsored by New Venture Partners called Elanti Systems.

In 2008, Frank was nominated by Sprint and joined the Board of Directors of the Clearwire Corporation.In February 2009, Frank joined the Board of the Sprint/Nextel Corporation.

Frank also does consulting for McCreight &Company, based in New Canaan, CT.Frank received his Undergraduate Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1971(BEEE), his Masters Degree From MIT in 1972(MSEE). He also completed the Program for Management Development (PMD) an Executive Education Program of the Harvard Business School in 1985. Frank and his wife Nancy have three children and reside in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

Nicolas Girard is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Attila Technologies, where he leads the development and business positioning of their breakthrough patented technology he invented while a researcher at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

At Stevens, Nicolas focused his research on network security, OS architecture, wireless security, protocol design, cryptography, seamless mobility, QoS and next-generation networks; including 3-4G Cellular, WiMAX, RFID and NFC (Near Field Communication). His research has been supported by different government grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S Army ARDEC (the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center) the Army's principal researcher, developer and sustainer of current and future armament and munitions systems. In 2004, Nicolas received the WINSEC Award for Outstanding Research Achievements. Nicolas was the principal investigator of two cross-institutional (along with the University of Colorado at Boulder and Vanu, Inc) NSF-funded programs that instigated the development of the DPCC™ technology being commercialized by Attila.

Before Stevens, Nicolas held a number of positions with computer security firms and governmental agencies in Europe, such as the DST (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire), the French equivalent of the NSA. Nicolas led the development of a set of benchmarking tools for the European IST project NESSIE, (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity, and Encryption the equivalent of FIPS in the United States), a project carried out in partnership with the UCL Crypto Group in Belgium. Prior to that, Nicolas consulted for many private and public corporations as a Network Security Expert.

Nicolas is a PhD candidate at Universität des Saarlandes in Germany, and holds a M.S in Information Systems from Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, a M.S in Computer Science Engineering from EPITA School of Engineering (Paris, France) and a Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Physics from PARIS XI University (Paris, France). He holds U.S. and E.U patents in network communication and security protocols and algorithms

Mr. Frank Lauria is a respected software and communications technology industry executive who has consistently driven exceptional growth. With successful entrepreneurial and large company experience, Frank has held executive positions with Synchronoss Technologies, Comverse, ADC Telecom, CommTech Corporation, Nortel, and Tekelec. Frank’s experience includes raising capital, managing multi-tiered sales, marketing, and operations teams, creating strategic alliances, acquisitions, and achieving profitable and timely liquidity.

At ADC Telecommunications, Frank was responsible as VP of Business Development for emerging technologies and markets, strategic alliances, mergers, and acquisitions. As a recognized figure bringing networking, OSS/BSS software, and technology together, Frank played a key role in ADC’s go-to-market strategy based on solution selling. Prior to the ADC acquisition of CommTech, Mr. Lauria was VP of Sales and Marketing where his responsibilities included corporate strategy, marketing, product management, and global sales. Building CommTech from less than $2M to over $30M in annual sales, Mr. Lauria also played a critical role working with venture capitalists, investment bankers, and telecom/OSS industry analysts as the company’s primary spokesperson.

Prior to joining CommTech, as Senior Director of Sales at Northern Telecom, Mr. Lauria’s experience led his team to record revenues and earnings. Achieving sales of over $500 million per year, Mr. Lauria successfully directed and motivated his organization, cultivated customer relationships, and managed P&L responsibility. His earlier accomplishments at Tekelec include the establishment of strategic partnerships with AT&T Bell Laboratories, and the design and marketing of a conformance test bed with Bellcore (now Telcordia).

Mr. Lauria has participated and chaired activities in the TMF (Tele-Management Forum), NJTC (New Jersey Technology Council), IEC (International Engineering Consortium), Service Creation Community, T1X1, and SIF (SONET Interoperability Forum). Frank has been published in several engineering and industry journals, is a frequent speaker in network and OSS/BSS events, and has testified before the FCC and congress as an expert on unbundled OSS capabilities. He has contributed to multiple US Patents in digital electronics and software, and is the recipient of many engineering and marketing awards. Mr. Lauria received a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and participates in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Management Program.

Mr. Meyer has more than 27 years of professional experience in senior financial and general management. This experience has included starting, developing, and financing technology-based companies, such as SAIC ($6 billion in revenue), The Titan Corporation ($1 billion in revenue), and REMEC. As a Chief Financial Officer, he has engineered over $500 million in private and public, debt and equity transactions; and as a General Manager grew an Information Technology (IT) business to more than $40 million in annual revenue.

He also developed and managed a number of corporate internal functional areas, including CIO (at SAIC), Contracts and Human Resources (at Titan), and tax and retirement management (at SAIC, Titan, and REMEC), as well as served as President of a $50M group at Titan. Mr. Meyer joined TAIC as Vice President/Administration to oversee Corporate Administration functions, bringing to bear his considerable financial and management background. He assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer in October of 2005.

Mr. Meyer holds a B.A in Mathematics from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (’72) and a MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business, Cambridge, MA (’74).

Mr. Malcolm R. Kahn is Vice President for Enterprise Development & Licensing at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is responsible for the full cycle of business development at Stevens from helping researchers and staff identify markets and applications to the spawning, developing and funding of Stevens’ Technogenesis® Companies. He is also Managing Director of a Stevens Development Fund and a side-by-side Stevens Angel Network that focuses on financing Stevens’ technologies.

Mr. Kahn has been a serial entrepreneur of technology-based companies for more than 25 years. He has an extensive experience in the fields of analytical and scientific instrumentation, membrane filtration, lab-on-chip and technologies, and first-hand knowledge of the medical diagnostics, clean-tech, telecommunications, analytical instrument and biopharmaceutical markets.

Mr. Kahn began his career at Pfizer in their Medical Diagnostics Division and then at Millipore before moving into start-ups. His initial career path was in finance before becoming involved in marketing, and ultimately in general management. Kahn’s past companies include Kratos International plc, a mass-spectrometry, surface-analysis and liquid chromatography company, which he sold to Applied BioSystems (LC) and Shimadzu (MS & SA); Membrex, a membrane filtration company that he sold to Osmonics, which is now part of GE; and Sensicore, a lab-on-chip water-sensing technology company that he sold to GE.
He also sits on the boards of several start-up companies in the fields of Raman Spectroscopy, carbon nanotubes, sequencing using quantum-controlled femto-second lasers and mass spectrometers, and a predictive software company for analyzing water contamination. He also has successfully raised considerable venture capital funding for his companies, and he understands the full process of going from idea to delivered product.

Mr. Kahn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from Fordham University. He has historically served as the Chairman of the Analytical Instrument Association and was elected to a regional high school Board of Education where he served as Board President.

Dr. Helena S. Wisniewski is a technological entrepreneur, with senior executive experience at the CEO, VP, and Board levels. Her experience spans Fortune 500 corporations in aerospace and defense; corporations in medical devices; start up companies; academia; and government. She has led organizations through rapid growth, profitability and technological transformation. She has directed and contributed to major scientific advances and their commercialization in biotechnology, medical devices, biometrics, image compression, neural networks, telecommunications, steganography (interactive advertising and security) and has launched nine technology companies.

She is currently on the Board of Directors of Greatbatch Inc. (NYSE:GB), a manufacturer of technology products for the commercial and implantable medical markets, and a member of its Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, and Technology Innovation Committee. She also serves on the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC), the Navy’s senior scientific advisory board, appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to this position.

Recently, Dr. Wisniewski was the Vice President for University Research & Enterprise Development at Stevens Institute of Technology. She was also the CEO of Castle Point Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Stevens that invested in technology start up companies. Prior to Stevens, she was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Aurora Biometrics, Inc., a company she founded based on her patented technology. Before that she was a Vice President, at the Titan Corporation; Vice President, at ANSER, and a Corporate Director, the Lockheed Corporation Corporate Headquarters. Prior to Lockheed, she created and grew DARPA’s first mathematics program and earlier she served at the CIA. Before that she held the positions of Director of Research; and Department Head, at Seton Hall University.

In addition to being a Director of publicly traded companies, she serves on private company boards and on advisory boards to corporations and universities. She was Chairman, Attila Technologies, provider of a telecommunications system that simultaneously aggregates all available wireless networks for uninterruptible broadband; SPOC, Inc., a diagnostic medical devices company, which she guided to FDA approval; and InStream Media, consumer initiated interactive advertising. She is a member of the Advisory Board of SOAR Technology, Inc., which develops, cognitive software to solve problems in training, modeling & simulation, robotics, and medical informatics. She was Chairman of advisory boards to George Washington University, Virginia Tech, George Mason University and William Paterson University.

Dr. Wisniewski’s corporate accomplishments include improving profitability by establishing new products and effectively marketing them to acquire new business. She has negotiated acquisitions and partnerships and developed corporate wide strategic growth plans. As the Chairman and CEO of a biometrics company that she founded based on her advanced patented technology, she acquired private investment, grew the business and eventually sold the company. In academia she tripled research revenues, with ROIs of 16%; was key to obtaining AACSB accreditation; successfully negotiated acquisitions for start up companies; identified technology ready for commercialization; and launched nine startup companies. She acquired investment for the startups, and guided them to achieve awards and, in the case of a medical device company, obtained FDA approval. In government: She created DARPA’s first mathematics program and within a three year period grew it from $6M to over $30M per year.

Dr. Wisniewski has been an invited speaker at global conferences, and provided testimony to committees of the US Senate on emerging technologies. Government, industry and professional organizations have recognized her for her significant contributions to science, technology, leadership and teaching.

Dr. Wisniewski received her Ph.D., in mathematics, from The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York in 1980; her M.S. from Stevens Institute of Technology;and her B.S. from William Paterson University (Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000).