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| Christopher J. Carter |
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Chris is interested in advanced broadband wireless application technologies, which allow mobile devices to fully utilize capabilities traditionally reserved only for fixed fiber-optic networks. Chris defines Jarvinian’s focus on Enabled Media opportunities that extend the envelope of high speed interactive capability for wireless networks.
Prior to founding Jarvinian, Chris was a principal at Innosight, where he specialized in the development and marketing of disruptive technological innovation. Before this, he was a founding General Partner at the early stage venture fund, Sherbrooke Capital. Earlier in his private equity career, Chris worked for Capital Resource Partners and the Thomas H. Lee Company. Chris received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA magne cum laude from Harvard College. Like all Jarvinian directors and associates, Chris is an FCC licensed wireless operator.
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| John A. Dooley |
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John’s interests center on technologies that help networks turn limited wireless spectrum into infinite mobile broadband capacity. At Jarvinian, John examines Core Infrastructure innovations that make mobile networks smarter, faster, and more reliable.
Prior to establishing Jarvinian, John was the founder of Novatics, a research and development corporation focused on the practical enabling of emerging mobile broadband standards. At Novatics, John led the creation of numerous proprietary technologies for the enhancement of advanced mobile data infrastructure. Before this, John conducted early research into ultra-high speed wireless local area networks and pioneered the use of passive repeater technology in urban cellular applications. John holds patents in advanced wireless and intelligent computing technologies. His work is found in graduate textbooks on wireless design and is considered a foundation for next-generation mobile network deployment. |
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| Thomas P. Eddy |
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Tom is interested in next-generation material technologies that enhance the performance and utility of advanced wireless devices. He helps form Jarvinian’s focus on Advanced Component technologies that significantly extend mobile device functionality.
Prior to founding Jarvinian, Tom was Chief Operating Officer and a Senior General Partner at Atlas Venture, where he directed both the firm’s worldwide operations and the build out of services offered to portfolio companies. Before this, Tom was Managing Director and head of New England operations for Robertson Stephens & Company. Earlier in his career, Tom was a Vice President in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley & Co. He has completed more than 150 financing and M&A transactions for high technology companies. Tom received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a JD from Duquesne University School of Law, and a BS from the University of Virginia. |
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| Milton Bordwin |
| Senior Legal Advisor |
Milton Bordwin is a partner at the 87+ year old law firm of Rubin and Rudman LLP, having begun with the firm part-time while still serving as a member of the Harvard Law School Faculty.
Throughout his lengthy career, he has done legal work for a broad range of diverse businesses, including those in the high technology and venture capital arenas. In addition, Milton writes extensively on legal issues relevant to business, particularly those concerning preventive law and avoidance of litigation for high technology companies. As an expert in preventive law for business, Milton has served as Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Preventative Law Committee and is a founding member of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Preventative Law.
Milton is a member of the bars of Massachusetts, New York, and the Supreme Court of the United States, where he successfully argued a landmark Federal civil procedure case (Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178). He is a graduate (BBA, cum laude, Accounting) of the Baruch School of Business Administration (City College of New York) and holds two law degrees from Harvard Law School, JD and LLM.
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| Andrew Lippman, PhD |
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Andrew Lippman has a more than thirty-year history at MIT. His work at the Media Lab has ranged from wearable computers to global digital television. Andy heads the Lab's Viral Communications program, which examines scalable, real-time wireless networks whose capacity increases with the number of members. This new approach to telephony, sensor interconnection, and broadcasting transfers "mainframe communications" technology to distributed, personally defined, cooperative communicators. In addition, he co-directs MIT's interdisciplinary Communications Futures program.
Currently, he is on the science councils of both non-profit and for-profit companies addressing global information infrastructures. Andy established and directs the Digital Life consortium, which works to create a networked world where communication becomes fully embedded in our daily lives. He has written both technical and lay articles about our digital future and given over 250 presentations throughout the world on the future of information and its commercial and social impact. Andy received his PhD from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| Frank Valletta |
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Frank Valletta co-founded the executive search firm Valletta Ritson & Company in 1989. Over the past two decades, Frank has conducted a broad range of senior executive level placements in the high technology arena with specialized expertise in semiconductor, semiconductor capital equipment, wireless telecommunications, and defense.
Prior to entering the Executive Search field, he held key positions in Human Resources, specializing in Staffing and Management Resources Planning with the Eastman Kodak Company, Eaton Corporation, and Harris Corporation. Frank graduated from the Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business with a Masters of Labor and Human Resources. He earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Ithaca College.
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