Ted Morgan founded Skyhook with Michael Shean in 2003 to capitalize on the explosive growth of Wi-Fi usage and the emerging demand for location-based services. Prior to founding Skyhook, Mr. Morgan was the Vice President of Marketing for edocs Inc., a provider of customer self-service solutions that was sold to Siebel Systems in January 2005. At edocs, he ran marketing communications, inside sales, product marketing, and product management. Prior to edocs, Mr. Morgan was Group Product Manager for Open Market, one of the early leaders of the e-commerce revolution. Prior to that, he was a product manager for Harbinger Net Services in Atlanta. Prior to the technology industry, Mr. Morgan spent four years in the financial services industry, as part of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Alliance Capital, and Allen & Company. Mr. Morgan has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Cormac Conroy received the PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from UC Berkeley, and worked at multiple companies in Silicon Valley. In 2001, he co-founded Berkäna Wireless – a company developing highly integrated RF CMOS transceivers for cell phones. Berkäna was acquired by Qualcomm in 2006 and its technology was widely deployed across Qualcomm mobile phone platforms. Cormac is currently Vice President at Qualcomm, and leads the technology and product development, as well as associated product management and business development, for all of Qualcomm’s GPS/GNSS and end-to-end location technology and products. He is based in Santa Clara, California.

About Ekahau - For over 10 years, since year 2000, Ekahau has been the center of innovation for Wi-Fi based software and Real Time Location Systems - birthplace of the first commercially available Wi-Fi based location tracking system, the first visual Wi-Fi site survey tool, and the next-generation Wi-Fi tag family. Ekahau is U.S. Delaware Corporation, headquartered in Reston, VA, and has other offices in Saratoga, CA Helsinki, Finland, and Hong Kong, China.
About Antti Korhonen - Antti has over 20 years of experience in high tech and IT industries and executive leadership, and has been leading Ekahau worldwide operation now for 10 years. Prior to joining Ekahau in January 2002, Antti worked at Vaisala Inc. Boston office as the General Manager of Vaisala’s Industrial Business Division. Antti is an active speaker and panelist at key industry forums on topics including RFID, RTLS and Wi-Fi based technologies and applications.

Pratap Misra is a research associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University. He has been active in research on satellite-based navigation for over 20 years, with focus on civil aviation applications. A Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION) and a Fellow of the IEEE, he has served as Chair of the ION Satellite Division, and is the coauthor (with Professor Per Enge of Stanford University) of a widely used graduate-level engineering textbook on GPS (www.GPStextbook.com).

Dr. Frank van Diggelen is Senior Technical Director for GPS at Broadcom, and is a consulting Professor at Stanford University where he teaches a graduate class on GPS. He received the Institute of Navigation Thurlow Award for “the outstanding contribution to the science of navigation in 2010”, and is a member of the ION executive committee (2012-13). He is the author of the bestselling text book on A-GPS “A-GPS, Assisted GPS, GNSS and SBAS”. He holds over sixty issued US patents on A-GPS and has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cambridge University.

Dr Lionel J. Garin is currently Senior Director of Technology, at Qualcomm Inc., based in Santa Clara California, leading the Indoor Positioning and Navigation engineering efforts.
He has been involved in GPS and GNSS industry for more than 20 years, starting in 1989 with Ashtech , in the surveying business where he has been one of the co-inventors and of the implementers of the Z semi-codeless technology. He held several positions there, one as of Z-surveyor project manager, the successor of the well known Z12. Another position was head of system engineering team, focusing on multipath technology for surveying applications, where he has been quite involved in the ideation, and the implementation of the “Strobe Correlator” (also known as “Double Delta Correlator”).
He moved on to SiRF in 1998, in the consumer business, where he developed the system and algorithms team, internally pioneering the A-GPS technology, then moving on to develop the High Sensitivity Concept and technologies, server based extended ephemeris, and introduce the client based or opportunistic ephemeris predictions.
He joined NemeriX in 2006, a Swiss based company as the CTO. He created there a novel alternate solution to the extended ephemeris, the NEX technology, and promoted the use of sensors for urban canyons and indoor positioning, including the pressure sensors for multipath mitigation.
He has more than 40 patent either granted, or applications filed, in the domain of the A-GPS, Multipath mitigation, extended ephemeris predictions, sensor hybridization, and Indoor Positioning.
He holds a PhD in Geomatics from University of Calgary (2010), an MSEE equivalent degree in Digital Communications, System Control and Estimation Theory from ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications) Paris , France and BS in Fundamental Physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris France.

Dinesh Manandhar is a Senior Researcher at GNSS Technologies Inc. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo. He received Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 2001. He is one of the developers of IMES message structure and is currently involved in developing indoor navigation system based on IMES for seamless navigation. He has served Japan-US QZSS IMES Sub-Working Committee in the past. His research area includes software receiver, indoor navigation and GNSS signal authentication.

As the Director of Systems Engineering at Skyhook, Christopher Steger is responsible for algorithms that grow, maintain, and enhance the performance of Skyhook's positioning systems. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University in 2008 under the direction of Behnaam Aazhang and Ashutosh Sabharwal with research focused on information theory applied to wireless communications.

Iftekhar Rahman has been working in Research and Development in the field of communications and communication networks for over 30 years. Since 1998, he has also been working in wireless location technologies, location networks, location protocols and device location software/firmware. He is one of the principal contributors to the industry accepted “CDG Test Plan Document for Location Determination Technologies”. He has published in the I. E. E. E. Transactions on Communications, has been awarded 11 patents by the USPTO and the European Patent Office and has filed an additional 12 patents with the USPTO in communications, wireless location and wireless device security. He has a Ph.D. in E. E. from Northeastern University and has worked in AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories and GTE/Verizon Labs. He is currently employed as a Principal Engineer in Product Development – Device Technology by Verizon Wireless.

Kirk Burroughs, a Sr. Directory of Technology for QUALCOMM Engineering Services Group since 1999, provides system engineering support for both the QUALCOMM gpsOne™ and the QUALCOMM’s QPoint product lines. He is also a representative for QUALCOMM at the 3GPP, 3GPP2, and OMA standards bodies. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.

Steve Howser has worked in the LBS and E911 industries since 2000 and is currently with Nokia Siemens Networks working on positioning solutions for LTE carriers. His background includes participating in standards committees and industry forums for Location, including the 3GPP, OMA, CDG, NENA and ATIS ESIF. He holds a Master of Engineering degree from City University London.

Dr. Nader Moayeri has been with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1997, where he founded and managed the Wireless Communications Technologies Group for 11 years. His present research interests are in mission-critical networking and situation-awareness. Specifically, he is engaged in projects dealing with indoor localization for first responders, miners, and positioning and navigation for various military applications, post-incident communications in various structures, including underground mines, sensor network standardization, and cognitive radio networks.
Dr. Moayeri was with the Imaging Technology Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, from 1994 to 1997 and on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, from 1986 to 1994. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Michigan in 1986.

As a member of Skyhook's executive team, Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz is responsible for the research & development of Skyhook's positioning technology. Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz has 20 years of industrial experience in the design and implementation of satellite and wireless networks. Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz was a proud member of the design and implementation team of the first three satellite-based mobile networks at Hughes Network Systems: ICO, Thuraya and Inmarsat. He proposed the first complete analytical model to carry out an analysis of single-hop and multi-hop ad hoc networks and 802.11 based on WLANs. Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz is on the faculty of Boston University and received his Ph.D. from George Washington University and M.Sc. from Tehran University.

Jagdish Girimaji is currently a Sr. Manager, Product Marketing in the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco. He has spent the last 12 years at Cisco in various Product Management roles. Prior to Cisco Jagdish was a Business Development Manager at CellNet Data Systems. Jagdish has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada and a Certificate in Marketing from University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Naser El-Sheimy is Professor and former Head of the Department of Geomatics Engineering, the University of Calgary. He is the CEO of Trusted Positioning Inc., Calgary. He holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Mobile Multi-sensor Systems and the scientific director of Tecterra Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research. His research expertise includesGeomatics multi-sensor systems, GPS/INS integration, and mobile mapping systems.
Dr. El-Sheimy published two books and over 350 papers in academic journals, conference and workshop proceedings, in which he has received over 30 national and international paper awards. He supervised and graduated over 35 Masters and PhD students. He is the recipient of many national and international awards including the ASTech “Leadership in Alberta Technology” Award the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) Educational Excellence Award.Dr. El-Sheimy is the president of Commission I on "Sensors and Platforms" of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).He organized and participated in organizing many national and international conferences and chaired many conferencessuch as the USA Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Dr. El-Sheimy is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Survey Review, Journal of Applied Geodesy, and Coordinates. He served as a member of the Alberta Geomatics Group Board of Directors, Geoide NCE Board of Directors, Technical Committee Member of the ASPRS Direct Georeferencing Committee.

Shahrokh Valaee received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Tehran, and the PhD degree from McGill University, all in electrical engineering. From 1994 to 1995, he was a Research Associate at INRS Telecom, University of Quebec.From 1996 to 2001, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology. Since 2001 he has been a faculty member of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he is the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, holds the Nortel Institute Junior Chair of Communication Networks and is the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab). Prof. Valaee is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and anAssociate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is the TPC Co-Chair and the Chair of the Organizing Committee of IEEE PIMRC 2011. He was the Co-Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, a Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, a Guest Editor for Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and a Guest Editor of EURASIPJournal on Advances in Signal Processing. His current research is focused on location estimation, wireless vehicular and sensor networks, and cellular systems.

Xinrong Li received a B.E. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1995, a M.E. degree from the National University of Singapore in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass, USA, in 2003, all in electrical engineering. From 2003 to 2004, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, WPI. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Tex, USA, as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and then, he became an Associate Professor in 2010. His recent research has been focused on statistical signal processing theory and its applications in wireless and sensor network systems. He is also interested in the development of wireless sensor network systems for practical applications.