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Panos C. Lekkas Managing Member,
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer.
Mr. Lekkas is a wireless communications & security pioneer, a microelectronics
technology expert with both digital & analog background, a successful serial entrepreneur, and a respected technical author
& inventor. His intensive, diversified, and global hands-on experience spans almost 3 decades in the areas of advanced
technology-, product-, business-, and corporate development. Before co-founding SpectroDynamics, he co-founded and led multiple
cutting-edge companies. Among them, at Asyrmatos, he and his team patented the world’s first 10.3Gbps wireless transceivers
operating at 94GHz and at 140GHz; at Ecsagon, he architected & designed OFDMA-based cognitive radio technologies for dynamic
spectrum allocation in TV white space frequencies. In
prior years he has set up multiple hi-tech companies, raised tens of millions of dollars in private equity, took one of his
companies public, and was part of the leadership teams of multiple companies involved in areas like VLSI design of secure
processors, tactical communications equipment, software-defined radio, UAV & satellite systems, electro-optics, optical
amplifiers, etc. Earlier in his career he has held multiple positions with IBM both in the US and Europe, including leading
CPU and memory management unit architecture work in what eventually became one of IBM’s successful supercomputer families
of products. In recent
years and in parallel to his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Lekkas has also set up & owned a successful engineering-services
and management consulting practice, Xstream Technologies LLC, through which he has acted as a trusted advisor to senior
executives in both government and industry working with leading managers from both very large & very small companies
introducing new technologies, and performing advisory roles in mergers & acquisitions.
Mr. Lekkas authored for McGraw-Hill a best-selling technical book on very-fast
chipset architectures titled “NETWORK PROCESSORS” and he coauthored the technical bestseller “WIRELESS SECURITY”
together with Professor Randall K. Nichols. It is perhaps worth noting that the foreword of “WIRELESS SECURITY”
has been written by Admiral Michael McConnell, ex Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and until recently US Director
of National Intelligence. Mr. Lekkas has multiple graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Rice
University, Houston, TX and from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. At Rice he was a graduate student of
Nobel laureate Prof.Dr. Robert Curl. Mr.Lekkas did his MBA work in Corporate Finance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
in Belgium and he is unusually fluent in a dozen spoken & written Asian & European languages.
David McClain, PhD Co-Founder & Chief
Scientist
Dr. McClain is a signal-processing pioneer, a world-class physicist & computer scientist with very deep
and broad background from both industry and top-secret US Government realms, an acknowledged authority in algorithm development,
software language compilers and operating systems internals, an engineering & design tool developer, a technology visionary
& hands-on leader, an embedded systems expert with an equal tremendous list of accomplishments in the wireless communications
and professional recording industries. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, and a high-level management consultant whose
intensive and diversified experience spans more than 3 decades in the areas of technology-, and product development. Before co-founding SpectroDynamics,
where he pioneered the conception & implementation of advanced simulation platforms for signal processing algorithm development,
distributed computing platforms, and massive distributed object-oriented databases, he has been involved as a co-founder and
Sr.VP of Embedded Systems at both Asyrmatos, where he was instrumental for the introduction of the world’s first 10Gbps
wireless transceivers working at 140GHz, and at Ecsagon, where he worked on TV white-space-based DSA (dynamic-spectrum allocation)
software-defined radio transceivers for cellular and mobile ATSC TV. In
prior years, for work done directly for the US Intelligence Services (SIGINT, COMINT) through Hughes and subsequently through
Raytheon Missile Systems, Dr. McClain has been the leading scientist for signal & image processing systems for data acquisition,
analysis, as well as for algorithm development for the EKV (Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle) Program. Prior to that, while at
Kaman Aerospace Corp., he was the creator of a massively parallel processor for helicopter-borne LIDAR scanning systems for
underwater mine detection. He started his career as a chip designer with IBM and has worked in many areas of system software
development including operating system kernels, compilers & development tools. Through one of his companies, Refined Audiometrics Laboratory, he has been
involved for many years in advanced research into the physical nature of human loudness perception, and he is the creator
of advanced musical-hearing correction systems, enhancers, and top-of-the-line phase-linear equalization systems currently
used in the professional recording industry.
Dr. McClain did his PhD
work in Infrared Astrophysics at the University of Wyoming and his PhD work in Computer Science at the University of Arizona.
He got his MA and BA degrees, both in physics, from The City College of New York and from the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology,
respectively.
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