CEO, CTO, Founder

Board Member

MAHA ACHOUR, PhD

Maha is a senior leader with more than 20 years’ experience in both public and entrepreneurial start-up companies in the RF, wireless, optics and networking industries. She has a demonstrated track record of: developing an idea from concept to product, delivering industry leading technologies, building teams and companies. Strong technology background combined with leadership, business and marketing skills. Previously, Maha served as co-founder and CTO of Rayspan, where she commercialized the first Metamaterial antennas and RF front-end subsystems for the cell-phone and WLAN industries. She has also pioneered the first broadcast HDTV system over satellite, mm-wave/Free-Space Optical systems for last mile connectivity, and led various DARPA projects in wireless MIMO and Optical devices.

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Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer 

SANDY GODSEY

Sandy is a senior executive counsel and leader with 20 years' experience in public companies, law firms, and start-ups in the wireless, mobile, semiconductor, microprocessor, networking, Internet, commerce, financial, and payments industries. Most of Sandy's career was focused on providing IP guidance to innovators and businesses in emerging high-tech areas, recently including meta-structure innovations for wireless communications. Sandy has a demonstrated track record in effective IP landscaping and analysis, and building and managing patent portfolios through development of internal innovations, acquisitions of third party acquisitions, and in-bound licensing. Sandy is an experienced manager, accomplished in developing talent, team building, and counseling, with strong negotiation skills and analytical capabilities.

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Head of Marketing

KELLY BRIEGER 

Kelly is a corporate marketing professional with 20 years' experience. She develops and executes Metawave's marketing programs, including message and brand, PR, website design and content, thought leadership content development, social media, and events. She has led and executed communications strategies for leading companies including Arduino, Xerox PARC, and VeriSign. She is excited to be working at Metawave to communicate how groundbreaking technology will advance autonomous driving and 5G deployments. She earned her BS degree from San Jose State University.

Chief Customer Officer
Board Member

CONNY MARX

Conny brings 30+ years' international experience in traditional and high-tech industries. He has a successful track record engaging and closing deals with a broad spectrum of companies ranging from start-ups to F500 companies with $30+ billion in annual revenues. Prior to joining Metawave, Conny was Sr. Director of Business Development at PARC, with focus on communications, manufacturing, and automotive. Prior, Conny worked for Oracle as Strategic Sales Director, assigned to Global Network Equipment Provider OEM Accounts, representing $400M+ in systems revenue. At Sun Microsystems, he was Sr. Manager of Strategic Account Development, and was assigned to global accounts representing $800M+ in revenue. Conny holds a Hochschule für Technik, Esslingen, Germany: Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur (M.S. in Business & Engineering).

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Chief Financial Officer

JERVIS WILLIAMS

Jervis joins Metawave with 20 years' experience in finance, M&A and business operations leadership at industry-leading companies such as Hughes Aircraft (Radar Systems Group), Apple, Hewlett Packard, Wind River, VMware and Citrix.  At Citrix, he discovered a passion for working with start-ups, providing finance and business operations management to internal start-up teams. To continue his passion working with start-ups, Jervis launched Swerve Financial, a financial services firm helping founders of early-stage companies - including Metawave before coming on board full time.   Jervis holds a B.A. degree in Political Science with Business Emphasis from UCLA and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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