Joe Golden
Joe Golden has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and networking industry in both operations and investments. Joe is a General Partner of China Broadband Capital and founder of their Silicon Valley office. With his extensive European and Asian operating experience, he brings Ubidyne a unique technical and commercial understanding of the global networking space and international technology transfer and growth. Prior to joining CBC-Capital, Joe was a General Partner and Co-Founder of Accel Partners, London where he served on 16 boards including P-Cube, Kagoor, Icera, Gigle, Ubidyne and SolarFlare. Prior to Accel, Joe was a Vice President at Cisco and the head of Cisco’s investment and acquisition team in EMEA. During Joe’s tenure in this position, Cisco invested over $5 billion in EMEA in strategic acquisitions and technology start-ups. Joe was also active on multiple international boards, including Italtel S.p.A. and Riversoft PLC. Joe received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1988.

Luca Rossetto
Luca Rossetto was appointed to the role of Chief Operating Officer of Omnitel Vodafone in February 2002, reporting to Vittorio Colao, CEO of the company and of Vodafone SEMEA region. His responsibilities comprised commercial and customer relationship management activities, new product and services development, ICT and network, as well as operations. After leaving Vodafone in 2005, he had been involved in the acquisition project of a major European telco operator and currently he is CEO of Upim, a major Italian retailer. Luca joined Autogrill in 1998 as Sales and Logistic Manager and after two years he reached the position of Chief Operating Officer for Italy. He has a degree in economics from Bocconi University in Milan (1986) and an MBA from Stanford University (1993). After his MBA he joined the Boston Consulting Group for five years.

Dr. Richard Roy, Founder (Arraycom)
Richard received his undergraduate degrees from M.I.T. and graduate degrees in physics and engineering from Stanford. His Ph.D. research was in the field of digital signal processing, specifically estimation and parameter identification, and his thesis and subsequent patents formed the basis of the first widely deployed smart antennas in wireless communication systems. Richard’s wide range of experience includes the intelligence industry, oil-well services business, aerospace industry and the telecommunications industry over the last three decades. From 1975 through 1993, he was also a member of the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University where much of the early work in smart antenna technology was conducted. In April of 1992, he founded ArrayComm, Inc., a California corporation involved in the development of intelligent antenna products based on SDMA technology for wireless telecommunication applications. ArrayComm is a global leader in smart antenna-based products. Richard is widely published internationally and holds several patents in the area of intelligent antenna technology and wireless telecommunications.

Magnus Ryde, Partner (Mars Capital Group)
Magnus is a Partner with a US-based investment firm, Mars Capital Group, and is Chairman of the Sweden-based digital communications company, Effnet Holdings AB. Magnus has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in positions including CEO of a leading-edge flexible polymer display company, FlexICs, President of TSMC North America and Corporate Officer and Vice President of KLA-Tencor. He was responsible for worldwide sales of over $1 Billion dollars and served on boards of leading Swedish technology companies. Mr. Ryde earned a M.Sc. in Engineering from Linköping University and a M.E. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Peter Kenington (Linear Communications, Ltd.)
Renowned lecturer at the University of Bristol, he co-founded Wireless Systems International, the pioneer of digital predistortion in wireless base-stations.  He was the CTO of Wireless Systems until its acquisition by Andrew Corporation in 2002.  He spent 4 years at Andrew as the Director of Advanced Technology within the Base Station Subsystems group, before leaving to found his own radio systems consultancy: Linear Communications. He holds the position of Technical Chair within the ‘Open Base Station Architecture Initiative’ (OBSAI). He is a Fellow of the IET, a Chartered Engineer and the author of over 50 patents, 100 technical papers and two books in the RF electronics field.

Beat Mueller, CFO & Co-Founder
Beat brings a wealth of business expertise from more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry where he has held several senior positions in Research and Development, Sales and Marketing and Business Unit Management. In his last position, Beat was the head of the Telematic Division within Burkhalter Group and CEO of Burkhalter Net Works in Switzerland. He has also held positions as Senior Vice President and Head of the Fibre Optics Division of the Huber + Suhner Group, where he established many new activities in Europe, USA, Canada and the Far East, and with Cablecom, Switzerland, where he led a System Integrator Business Unit. Prior to this, Beat worked with Zellweger Luwa’s Power Line Carrier systems for 13 years with responsibilities in R&D, Marketing and Sales and as CEO of Zellweger Australia. Beat earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich – ETH.

In Memory of Werner Korte, Ubidyne Co-Founder,
1946 - 2006
Werner had more than 30 years experience in the field of telecommunications. Prior to co-founding Ubidyne in 2005, he spent 13 years at Siemens Communications, where he held various positions including Head of R&D Radio Access within the Mobile Network Division. Werner had international responsibility for Siemens’ Base Station Subsystem Development coordinating a multi-disciplinary team of approximately 1000 people in 3 countries. Werner was the project lead for Design-to-Cost NodeB, and Senior Vice President Strategic Focus Areas. He is the inventor of CPRI and played a fundamental leadership role in driving CPRI into the leading new standard in mobile base stations globally. Werner spent 8 years at AEG-Telefunken as Head of R&D within Mobile Terminals & PMR Systems Division and CTO of AEG Mobile Communication GmbH. From 1986 to 1989 he was AEG’s Project Lead in a consortium cooperation with Alcatel/SEL and Nokia paving the way towards the pan-European mobile radio standard GSM. Many credit Werner personally for the eventual global success of GSM. Werner began his career as Assistant Professor at the University of Hannover, Germany and he was engaged in a variety of advanced research projects with focus on Audio Source Encoding & Digital Signal Processing, Innovative Digital-to-Analog Conversion, Multi-path Radio Channel Equalization and Satellite Communications. He earned a MSEE degree from the University of Hannover and holds various patents. The GSM Industry and Ubidyne are indebted to Werner for his vision, wisdom and tireless contributions. All that were touched by Werner will miss him dearly and the team at Ubidyne will honor him by bringing his vision to fruition.