THE TEAM

Nagaraj Shivaramaiah is a Director of GNSS Engineering at oneNav Inc. He has prior experience in systems engineering across generations of multi-GNSS receivers with focus on innovative hardware correlators, weak signal acquisition, high sensitivity tracking, multipath mitigation, interference localization and low power techniques. Initially he was a senior project leader at Accord Software & Systems, India involved in indigenous receiver hardware and software development for automotive and space markets. Later he worked at Freescale Semiconductors as an AGPS Connectivity Architect integrating RTOS framework for mobile phone chipsets, as a senior researcher at ACSER on Earth Observation carrier-phase receiver payload for Cubesats and at University of Colorado at Boulder on Radio Occultation receiver and recently at Intel within the Cellular Products Group. Nagaraj holds a BE in Electronics and Communication Engg. from University of Mysore, India, an MSc (Engg) from IISc, India (thesis on hardware GNSS correlator) and a PhD from UNSW, Australia (thesis on GNSS E5/L5 receivers). Nagaraj has 7 GNSS related patents.

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.

Cormac has over 25 years of business, engineering and executive leadership experience in both start-ups (Berkäna Wireless co-founder, acquired by Qualcomm) and large technology companies (GM/executive at Intel and Qualcomm). He held multiple VP leadership roles at Qualcomm including oversight for cellular RF, connectivity and the entire GNSS/location portfolio.

As Corporate Vice President and GM at Intel, Cormac led all of Intel’s client/device wireless communications products, technology and business, including 4G/5G modem and GNSS location solutions. He is currently a consultant and advisor providing strategic business and technology advice to large, medium and small companies in the hardware, software, and semiconductor domains.

Cormac received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, has 32 issued US patents, and more than 20 publications in technical journals and conferences.

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.

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.