Shoa-Kai Liu is an experienced early stage technology investor with substantial operating and management experience. Presently, he serves as a Senior Advisor to Cendana Capital and as a Venture Partner for Mobility Ventures in Dallas. Before joining Cendana Capital, he was a Senior Advisor at Rustic Canyon Partners, an early stage VC firm in Santa Monica. He has 25 years of diverse technical and management experience in telecommunication networks and services, data and optical networking, and semiconductors. Shoa-Kai is also a proven entrepreneur, serving as co-founder and Vice President of Market Development at Avanex (NASDAQ: AVNX), where he helped the company grow into one of the largest optical component suppliers worldwide during the period of 1997- 1999. Shoa-Kai graduated from Northern Illinois University with a MSCS,
earned an MSEE at George Washington University, and earned an M.B.A. focused on International Management from the University of Dallas.
Mohit Bhushan is the SVP of Business Development and Sales in Movandi. He was previously Vice President and General Manager of Corporate Marketing at MediaTek and Vice President of Converged Products Category for Motorola Mobility. Mohit has several years of wireless industry experience, starting as an Engineer in 1993 at Qualcomm. In 2002, he advanced into a Strategic Marketing role in Qualcomm’s Technologies and Ventures group. From 2004-2010, Mohit managed Qualcomm’s UMTS product-line. Mohit led the definition of chipsets for smartphones and tablets, built strong customer relationships, and contributed significantly in establishing Qualcomm’s UMTS chipset business. Since January 2011, Mohit was managing the Atrix and Xoom products at Motorola Mobility. Mohit was a founding member of startup focused on IP-enabled wireless base stations. He is presently serving as an advisor to Smartplay Technologies based in India. Mohit Bhushan holds a BSEE from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, MSEE from University of Kentucky and an MBA from San Diego State University.
Yoshioki Chika is a member of the Board of Directors for the Multi-Fire Alliance, an Executive Technical Advisor for the XGP Forum and SVP of BB-Backbone, a telecommunications service provider supporting customer in dark fiber, spectrum services and sXGP services. Yoshioki has 35 years of experience in architecture, R&D, planning, building, optimizing and operating mobile networks around the world. He was CTO for WCP (Wireless City Planning), TD-LTE division of SoftBank, where he led the deployment of more than 60K TD-LTE sites in three years and supporting more than 60% of SoftBank mobile traffic. Yoshioki served as technical advisor for the Chairman of Sprint, as a result of SoftBank investment in Sprint, where lead mass deployment of wireless indoor small cells (Magic Box) and HPUE (High Power UE) to quickly and easily improve Sprint network performance. Prior to SoftBank, he led design and development of PHS mobile systems at KDDI and was appointed to CTO and EVP at WILLCOM. Yoshioki graduated with a BA in Physics from Ibaraki University in Japan.
Allwyn Sequeira is currently CEO, Highway9 Networks, a newly founded startup based in Silicon Valley. Prior, Allwyn served several executive roles at VMware, most recently serving as SVP/GM or Telco Cloud BU, and prior SVP/GM Hybrid Cloud Services, and prior SVP/GM of vCloud Air, VMware’s Cloud. Prior, Sequeira was VP R&D and CTO, Network & Security BU, responsible for R&D and delivery of vSphere Networking and the industry leading SDN platform NSX, including integration of Nicira NCP and VMW Network & Security solutions. Sequeira joined VMware in 2008, via the acquisition of the leading security virtualization company, Bluelane, where he served as SVP Products & CTO. From 2000, Sequeira was EVP/CTO and Board member at internet route control company netVMG, acquired by InterNap in 2004. From 1993, Sequeira was founder, EVP Products & CTO, and Board member at data/video/voice networking company First Virtual Communications, which had a successful IPO in 1998. Sequeira has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry, and is a recognized leader in the areas of cloud infrastructure, virtualization, network & security, internet solutions. Sequeira has led several industry innovations, including hybrid / telco / edge cloud platforms, SDN (NSX, VXLAN), distributed routing, firewalls & load balancers, and security virtualization (vShield). Sequeira holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mr. Bross was Chairman and CEO of Compass Networks that utilizes photonic backplane technology for ultra-bandwidth dense routers. He is the former Global CTO of Huawei, former British Telecom Group CTO, former CEO of BT Innovate, and former CTO of Williams Communications. Mr. Bross is one of the most cited industry visionaries and has demonstrated effectiveness in making early implementations of new technologies and innovating around services that improve communications. He is Chairman of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and serves on the Board of Directors of NASDAQ traded DZS, Inspira Enterprise, Axellio, Anova Data, Sonus Networks, X-IO Technologies and the non-profit EastWest Institute. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the U.S.-based Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), Secerno Limited, ONI Systems, and the Global Innovation Research Centre of Malaysia. In 2007, Mr. Bross was awarded a William Pitt Fellowship by Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge.