About
The Mission
oneNav’s mission is to empower the modern world with small, ultra-low-power, precise and reliable L5-band GNSS solutions for military, government, commercial and consumer applications.
The Company
Founded in the Silicon Valley by visionaries Steve Poizner and Paul McBurney, oneNav’s global team of experts leverages the power of modern satellite signals to deliver cutting-edge location solutions for military, government, commercial and consumer applications. Critical infrastructure, military devices such as drones and trackers, military and commercial aviation, and consumer devices are examples in a vast pool of possible applications of oneNav’s technology where accuracy, resiliency, and reliability matter at all times.
Steve Poizner
Co-Founder and CEO
About Steve
Steve is the co-founder and CEO of oneNav, his fourth technology startup based in Silicon Valley. His second company, SnapTrack, pioneered the integration of GPS technology into mobile phones. SnapTrack was acquired by Qualcomm, and SnapTrack technology is now embedded in billions of smart phones around the world. Over the course of his career, Steve has launched, grown, and sold three technology companies, managed a portfolio of a dozen startups as an SVP at Qualcomm, worked at the highest levels in state and federal government and volunteered for a year as a public high school teacher. He was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014. Steve holds a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from Stanford.
Dr. Paul McBurney
Co-Founder and CTO
About Paul
Paul is the co-founder and CTO of oneNav, his second GNSS startup. He began his focus on GNSS while earning his PhD in electrical engineering, and has since been developing location technology and systems at Stanford Telecom, Trimble, eRide (his first GNSS startup as co-founder and CTO), and GopherHush (his location analytics startup). Most recently Paul was a GNSS architect at Apple. At Trimble Labs, he co-invented a host-based GPS IP that was successfully licensed into consumer and automotive segments. eRide successfully licensed GPS IP into the Japanese mobile phone and automotive segments and was acquired by Furuno. Paul holds a BS in Engineering and Physics from St. Ambrose University, and a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Iowa State University. Paul has over 50 location related patents.
The Management Team
Vivian Pham
CFO
About Vivan
Vivian is the CFO at oneNav. Vivian has over 25 years of experience in finance and treasury executive roles in a range of technology businesses, from Fortune 200 companies to startups. She has combined her strategic and tactical financial leadership in all areas of finance, producing quantifiable bottom line results and financial strength. Most recently, Vivian served as President at Mirapath, Inc. Prior to that she was VP of Finance and Operations at Olivela, Inc., Director of Operations at Qualcomm Education and VP of Finance & Accounting at Empowered Careers. Earlier in her career, she held senior level finance roles at Zong, Paypal, Microsoft, and Danger. Vivian received her BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Davis.
Babak Bastani
SVP Engineering
About Babak
Babak is a seasoned leader in the wireless and semiconductor industry, with more than 35 years of experience driving innovation, organizational transformation, and business growth. He has held executive leadership roles across a number of pioneering technology companies, most recently serving as the VP of Wireless Products at Alif Semiconductor, CEO of Endura Technologies, and EVP of the Wireless Business Unit at Imagination Technologies. Prior to that, he served as COO at Cambridge Touch Technologies and SVP of Engineering at Samsung Electronics.
Earlier in his career, Babak held senior engineering and product leadership positions at several leading semiconductor companies, including VP of Global Chip Design at Cambridge Silicon Radio and VP of Engineering at SiRF Technology. At SiRF, and later at CSR, he led the development of the highly successful SiRFStarIV and SiRFStarV GNSS platforms, which shipped in more than 100 million smartphones worldwide.
Throughout his career, Babak has built and led high-performance global engineering organizations, delivering complex semiconductors and wireless platforms from architecture through high-volume production.
Babak holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honors from King’s College London and a master’s degree in Satellite Communication Engineering from University of Surrey. He is also an inventor on more than 20 issued U.S. patents, with several additional patents pending.
Paul Conflitti
VP GNSS Hardware Receiver Technology
About Paul
Paul is the VP of GNSS Receiver Hardware Technology at oneNav. With 35 years experience in the satellite communication industry, Paul has designed and developed numerous GNSS mobile positioning platforms. He helped pioneer SnapTrack’s mobile GPS platform, the first GPS technology to be deployed in cell phones. Paul led the design and development of 9 generations of GNSS product platforms at Qualcomm. Over a 17-year period, Paul’s mobile GNSS designs have shipped in over 10 billion mobile devices. Paul earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Paul continued his extensive education in circuit design, signal processing and communication systems through advanced graduate courses at Stanford and Santa Clara University. Paul has authored 9 patents in the GNSS field.
Donovan Trisko
VP Program Management
About Donovan
Donovan is the Vice President (VP) of Program Management for Product Development and Customer Operations at oneNav.
Prior to oneNav, Donovan spent 10 years at Qualcomm program managing their Location team. During this time, he oversaw four generations of Autonomous and Assisted GNSS platforms as well as Wi-Fi/WWAN location technologies. Notably, Donovan led the incorporation of GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, and QZSS into GNSS receivers across four generations. He also served as Senior Director of Program Management for the newly formed Qualcomm Automotive business unit.
Before joining Qualcomm, Donovan held system engineering lead and engineering project manager positions at Copper Mountain Networks, ADC Wireless, and Pacific Communication Sciences. There, he focused on techniques and products for overlaying data traffic over existing wired and wireless telecommunication products.
Donovan began his career as a systems and electrical engineer, working on air and underwater autonomous vehicles and guidance/navigation systems for 13 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) and a Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Minnesota and San Diego State University, respectively.
Dr. Florean Curticapean
VP GNSS Software Systems
About Florean
GNSS multi-constellation positioning engine, cloud-based positioning engines, and embedded SW design expert
For the past 20 years, Florean focused his career on designing and implementing algorithms for GNSS, indoor positioning, and IoT applications. Before joining oneNav, Florean held various design and management positions at uNav Microelectronics, Atheros Communications, Qualcomm, and Wirepas.
Florean holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Applied Electronics from Cluj-Napoca University of Technology in Romania and a Ph.D. in Digital Systems and Signal Processing from Tampere University in Finland. Additionally, he has co-authored 13 patents related to positioning technologies.
Tim McCarthy
VP Product
About Tim
Tim, who leads product management, brings over 20 years of GNSS and location product leadership to oneNav. He led the Motorola OnCore GNSS team, managed the GNSS roadmap for SiRF, managed the GNSS team at Atheros, and then joined the location team at Qualcomm where he continued to lead the GNSS roadmap and developed the Wi-Fi location roadmap. Tim holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg school of management.
Anthony Tsangaropoulos
VP RF Engineering
About Anthony
Anthony Tsangaropoulos is a wireless systems engineering leader with over 30 years of experience architecting cellular, connectivity, navigation, and timing systems at both the board and silicon level. As VP of RF Engineering, he leads system definition, product architecture, and validation for oneNav’s L5-direct GNSS receiver technology. He draws on deep expertise across GNSS, timing, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular communications, and radar technologies, as well as receiver, transmitter, and PLL architectures spanning from VHF to mmWave.
The Advisory Board
Mohamed Awad
About Mohamed
Mohamed Awad has more than two decades of experience working in the semiconductor industry. He is currently Senior Vice President and General Manager for the IoT and Embedded Line of Business at ARM, where he manages the teams that develop and market a range of processor IP, development tools and products.
Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom where he founded the Mixed Signal Asic Products (MSAP) division and grew it to be a billion-dollar business focused on serving the largest mobile phone platforms in the world. Other businesses he notably led while at Broadcom include Location (GNSS) and Mobile Payments (NFC & Security). He has also served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, an early IoT startup, where he founded their European subsidiary.
His career started at Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks and Avici Systems, where he held various leadership roles. Mohamed has been named inventor or co-inventor on seven patents and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. He also serves as a board director at Arduino.
Dr. Cormac S.G. Conroy
About Cormac
Julius Genachowski
About Julius
Julius Genachowski is former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, serving from 2009 to 2013. He presided at the FCC during a period of robust innovation and investment around communications technology and software, including wired and wireless broadband applications, devices and networks. Under his leadership, the FCC took major actions to extend broadband access, accelerate the rollout of advanced wireless networks, free up spectrum for wireless communications, preserve a vibrant Internet and media landscape, foster competition and enhance public safety communications. He also extended the FCC’s international engagement, visiting more than 20 countries, leading U.S. delegations and working on agreements involving global Internet policy, technology, spectrum, national security, cybersecurity and privacy. During his tenure, the FCC was named the most improved agency in the Federal government, and one of Wired Magazine’s “Top 7 Disruptions.”
Previously Julius was a senior executive and member of the Office of the Chairman at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where he helped Barry Diller acquire and operate multiple Internet and media businesses, including Expedia, Ticketmaster and USA Network. During this time, BusinessWeek named Genachowski one of 25 “Managers to Watch” in the media sector.
Julius is currently a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, and on the boards of directors of Mastercard and Sonos.
He graduated from Columbia College and Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, serving on the Harvard Law Review with President Barack Obama. Julius has long advised President Obama on technology issues. He is the son of immigrants and led the U.S. delegation to the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Luis Pineda
About Luis
Luis brings to oneNav more than 35 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry. Luis served as a senior executive at Qualcomm’s multi-billion dollar semiconductor business for 18 years. As a founding member of Qualcomm’s semiconductor business, he held the position of Senior Vice President, leading QCT’s product management, marketing, and business development through its early start to industry market share leader in semiconductor and software solutions for mobile phones, PCs, tablets and wireless infrastructure. Luis was a member of QCT’s executive team throughout his QCT career and worked closely with Qualcomm’s CEO, President and CFO.
Luis is an executive advisor for several high-tech companies, both public and private. Luis has experience as a frequent industry conference keynote speaker, including panel speakerships at CES, Mobile World Congress, CTIA, and Computex. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the UC San Diego Alumni Association and the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering Corporate Board of Advisors.
Luis holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering, and an MBA from UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.
Eric Reifschneider
About Eric
With over 20 years of experience in global technology and intellectual property leadership, Eric is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Marconi LLC, a company dedicated to transforming the way that licensing is done to make it more collaborative and more efficient. In doing this, Marconi’s aim is to accelerate the sharing of new technologies to generate new uses and more value.
Prior to Marconi, Eric served as senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Technology Licensing. There, he played a lead role in driving growth for the company’s licensing programs. Previously, Eric was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, where he chaired the global technology and intellectual property group, and was a partner in the Palo Alto office of Cooley Godward, where he led the firm’s technology transactions practice.
Eric holds a JD from Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and BS degrees in physics and mathematics from M.I.T., where he was named the top male scholar-athlete in his senior class.
Logan Scott
About Logan
Logan is one of the world’s leading jamming/spoofing experts with over 40 years of military and civil GPS systems engineering experience. He currently serves as a member of the President’s National PNT Advisory Board. Logan specializes in radio frequency signal processing and waveform design. At Texas Instruments, he pioneered approaches for building high performance, jamming resistant digital receivers and adaptive arrays. Logan is a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Admiral Mark Montgomery
About Mark
Mark is the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He serves as the Executive Director of Cybersolarium.org, a non-profit organization which works to implement the recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was Executive Director from 2019 to 2021. Previously, Mark was Policy Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee for Senator John S. McCain. Mark completed 32 years as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral. His flag officer assignments included Director of Operations at U.S. Pacific Command; Commander of Carrier Strike Group 5; and Deputy Director, Plans, Policy and Strategy at U.S. European Command.
Admiral James A. Winnefeld Jr.
About "Sandy"
Admiral James A. Winnefeld Jr. retired from the U.S. Navy after serving as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, he was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Nation’s second highest-ranking military officer. Admiral Winnefeld served with three fighter squadrons flying the F-14 Tomcat and as an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School. His unit commands at sea include Fighter Squadron 211, USS Cleveland, and USS Enterprise. He led “Big E” through her 18th deployment, which included combat operations in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom immediately after the terrorist acts of Sept. 11, 2001. As a flag officer he served as the Commander of Carrier Strike Group Two, the United States SIXTH Fleet, the United States Northern Command, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD.
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