Management
WiChorus, a Tellabs Company, is led by a seasoned management team with strong backgrounds in the wireless, IP networking and telecommunication industries. WiChorus has an exceptional engineering team with a proven track record in delivering industry-leading high-performance carrier-grade systems. With expertise in OFDMA, IP networking, 3G-wireless, and fundamental wireless research, the WiChorus team has the right blend of skills to build and deliver advanced wireless 4G infrastructure products.
The Management Team:
Rehan Jalil, President
Sheldon Gilbert, Vice President of Business Development
Eric Andrews, Vice President of Product Management
Kamal Avlani, Senior Director of Engineering
Charles E. Perkins, Technical Fellow
Lee Khan, Vice President Operations
The Management Team:
Rehan Jalil, President
Rehan has over 15 years of technical management and sales experience in telecommunications, networking and multi-core processors. Prior to WiChorus he was the chief architect for Aperto Networks and played diverse leadership roles in technology and sales. He led development of multiple generations of broadband wireless silicon, carrier-grade wireless telecom equipment, and also brought in multi-million dollar orders in his sales role. These systems are used to deploy networks globally, in over 75 countries, by more than 400 operators. At Sun Microsystems, he helped develop one of the industry’s earliest advanced multi-core multithreaded processor for throughput computing and graphics applications. Part of the technology is now used in Sun’s 32-threaded Niagra & Rock processors. At Siemens, he managed large-scale projects related to system-level design and implementation. He regularly contributes to social entrepreneurship projects and is a charter member of OPEN Silicon Valley. He has over 25 patents pending and graduated with an MSEE from Purdue University.
Sheldon Gilbert, Vice President of Business Development
Sheldon has over 20 years of executive management experience in the communications and semiconductor industries. Sheldon has helped found and has been an early key team member at four venture-backed start-ups and holds more than 12 patents in various aspects of wired and wireless communications. Most recently, Sheldon founded Ensemble Communications, which with over 250 employees around the world, was a founding member of WiMAX, a key contributor of technology to that standard, and a leading developer of broadband wireless and LMDS equipment. Prior to that, Sheldon was responsible for the development of one of the earliest smart-antenna wireless systems, which has been deployed at over 100,000 sites throughout Japan’s PHS system. He graduated with a BSEE from the University of Illinois, Urbana and an MSEE from MIT.
Eric Andrews, Vice President of Product Management
Eric brings over 20 years of marketing and executive management experience in the networking industry to WiChorus. Prior to WiChorus, Eric was Vice President of Marketing for NetDevices (now part of Alcatel), a startup company delivering integrated networking and security solutions for the enterprise market. Prior to NetDevices, Eric was Vice President of Marketing for Turnstone Systems, a pioneer in local-loop management for DSL carriers, where he managed all aspects of marketing from the company’s inception, to profitability, and launching a successful IPO. Prior to Turnstone, Eric held various marketing and product management roles at networking companies such as Newbridge Networks and Penril DataComm Networks. Eric holds an MS and BS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kamal Avlani, Senior Director of Engineering
Kamal leads the engineering organization and brings over 20 years of engineering and executive management experience. He was a founding team member of two high-end IP platforms at Cisco, the 7500 series and the GSR 12000. Kamal has a proven track record of delivering to market high performance systems such as IP routers, ethernet/storage switches and servers, during his tenure at established companies such as Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems as well as at startups. Kamal earned an MSEE from Purdue University and a BSEE from Bombay University (India).
Charles E. Perkins, Technical Fellow
Charles is a Technical Fellow at WiChorus. He a co-inventor of Mobile IPv4, MobileIPv6, Service Discovery Protocols and some original concepts related to seamless mobility in IP networks. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Nokia/ NSN. Before that he has held research positions with Sun Microsystems Netcentricity group and IBM TJ Watson Research Center. He has authored several books on Mobile IP, Mobile IPv6 and adhoc networking. He has served on Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and has authored over 25 RFCs. He has served on various committees for the National Research Council, as well as numerous technical assessment boards for Army Research Lab and the Swiss MICS program. He has also served as associate editor for Mobile Communications and Computing Review, the official publication of ACM SIGMOBILE, and has served on the editorial staff for IEEE Internet Computing magazine. In addition to designing advanced features for LTE and WiMAX, he continues strong interest in research activities for adhoc networking and scalability and performance issues. He graduated with a B.A in Mathematics & M.E.E (Masters of Electrical Engineering) from Rice University and an M.A in Mathematics from Columbia University.
Lee Khan, Vice President Operations
Lee has over 20 years of manufacturing and operations experience. He was the VP of Manufacturing Operations at IP Unity, a start-up providing carrier-grade media services, application servers and real-time multimedia applications. In his previous role as Executive Vice President and Principal Partner at Nexar Technologies, he took the company through IPO within two years, leading design and product development of a cross architecture platform, the PC industry's first "future ready" PC, leading to patent awards. Prior to that, Lee was Executive Vice President and principal owner of Intellisys for four years before merging with Dynasys to form Nexar. He started this desktop computer manufacturing company from the ground up to a successful private company with $36M annual revenues. Lee was educated at Western Michigan University and holds a Masters of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering.
WiChorus Management: 4G Communication
