The Team
The Team
Management Team

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, PhD
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 40 location related patents.

Kamil Grajski
SVP Engineering
About Kamil

Paul Conflitti
VP of GNSS Receiver Hardware Technology
About Paul

Ellen Kirk
VP Strategic Marketing and Business Development
About Ellen

Vivian Pham
CFO
About Vivian

Greg Turetzky
VP Strategy and Ecosystem Development
About Greg
Greg is the VP of Strategy and Ecosystem Development at oneNav. Prior to oneNav, Greg was Director of Business Development at Intel, supporting the connectivity and IOT groups, and developing Intel’s ecosystem of customers, suppliers and partners. Previously, he was Director of Business Development for the GNSS core technology team, was responsible for product strategy and helped Intel win the GNSS business at Apple. Prior to Intel, Greg spent 19 years at SiRF Technology where he led the product marketing team through multiple generations of the SiRFstar line of silicon and IP for customers such as Garmin, Nextel, Blackberry, and Toyota. At SiRF, Greg brought GNSS technology for E911 to cell phones, and worked closely with the FCC and many standards bodies to develop GNSS protocols for cellular networks from 2G to 5G. Early in his career, Greg worked in engineering at Trimble, Stanford Telecom, and the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Greg holds a BA in Physics from Cornell and an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins.

Engineering Team
30+ top GNSS experts, based in Silicon Valley, guided by oneNav’s advanced research team
Dr. Norman Krasner, PhD Co-Founder/CTO at SnapTrack, inventor of Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
Dr. Nagaraj Shivaramaiah, PhD Positioning and navigation technology expert
Dr. Mahdi Mareef, PhD Former postdoc research fellow at UC Irvine, navigation engine and machine learning expert
Dr. Drew Compston, PhD Qualcomm, RF systems and microelectronics expert
Dr. Florean Curticapean, PhD GNSS multi-constellation positioning engine, cloud-based positioning engines, and embedded SW design expert
Dr. Vesa Ruuska, PhD Navigation software design engineer, multi-constellation GNSS positioning engine and sensor fusion expert
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
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.

Julius Genachowski
About Julius
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 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
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.

Anthony Tsangaropoulos
About Anthony
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