Thomas Kaiser

Founder and CEO

René Kantehm

VP Finance

René Kantehm has more than 8 years experience in financial control. René started his career in building up the sales control for Abit AG, a German software company. In 2002, René joined IKB AG and worked as a credit analyst with a main focus on IT financing.  Thereafter, he was responsible for investor relations. In 2008 René worked as a director of cash equity in the investment banking division of WestLB. René studied business administration, is a certified credit analyst and an MBA holder with the main focus on controlling and financing.

Brian Robertson has more than 18 years experience in many segments of the semiconductor market place. Brian has served as a senior sales & business development manager in companies such as VLSI Technology, managing the digital ASIC sales to Ericsson AB. Merging with Philips Semiconductors, Brian continued to grow this business before leaving to work with Sondrel, a specialist ASIC consultancy. A successful position as Business development manager with TTPCom followed. Most recently, Brian served as Global Business Development Manager with Texas Instruments, responsible for digital baseband solution sales into Asian handset manufacturers.

Jan Westmeijer started his career as an IC design engineer at 1989 first at Micronas, Finland and later on as a senior IC design engineer at Ericsson, Sweden. He designed various chips ranging from mixed signal to RF. In 1996, Jan joined Nokia Research Centre, Germany as a Research Manager with the primary focus on building up the baseband radio design group serving Nokia internal customers. Together with his team he did several point-to-point radio designs, DVB-T/H and radio IPs ending into Nokia products. Over time the content of the team shifted to early technology enabling prototyping such as enhanced WLAN 11a, DRM and finally he headed the physical layer advanced development of LTE Rel 8. Since 2005 Jan has been very much dealing with the definition and introduction of baseband SDR technology as a responsible research manager at Nokia's handset side primarily in collaboration with the semiconductor and fabless industry. He holds a Dutch Ingenieur's degree in electrical engineering of the Hogeschool of Alkmaar.

Willem Mulder

VP Standards & IP

Willem Mulder has over 20 years of experience in the frontline of wireless and semiconductor industry. Willem started his career in 1985 in the ITT-Alcatel HALOCS Venture Team and moved in 1993 to Ericsson, where he managed the Radio Platform '97 project and headed the Radio Technology Development team. In 2000, Willem moved to Lucent to manage the ASIC & DSP team developing WiFi for Apple and drive IEEE 802.11 standardization. In 2002, Willem was asked to lead the Advanced Development team developing OFDM and MIMO IP for WiFi. After demonstrating the first 162 Mbps WiFi transmission on the Agere 3x3 MIMO testbed in 2002 and founding the TGnsync consortium with Intel and Cisco, Willem has been heavily involved in IEEE 802.11n and 802.16e standardization. The last years prior to joining mimoOn Willem worked as an independent consultant on WiMAX, LTE and Femtocells.

Peter Walther

VP Business Development

Peter Walther has more than 25 years experience across the wireless market and is currently based in San Jose, California.   Peter's experience extends into companies such as TTPCom, Texas Instruments, 7layers USA and Lucent, with whom he relocated to the US 12 years ago.  Previously,  Peter was Head of Department of Daimler Benz InterServices BU, which is now Comneon.  Prior to joining mimoOn, Peter was located in the CTO office of ADC Telecommunications, designing Smart Distributed Antenna Systems for indoor coverage.  Peter holds an M.S.E.E. degree and several patents in the area of indoor coverage.

Theo Kreul

VP Quality & Test

Theo Kreul has more than 16 years experience in telecoms. He graduated in 1993 and gained experience with GSM network planning at E-Plus.  In 7 years at Siemens Mobile Phones, Theo contributed to UMTS standardization, built up Siemens link level simulation chain for TDD and led Siemens first UMTS/FDD base-band prototype project. Finaly, he headed 'Next Generation Technologies' focusing on 4G, next generation wireless and SDR technology. Before joining mimoOn, Theo was with Ericsson Mobile Platforms, in charge of system design and technical coordination of HSPA+ and Multicarrier prototype projects.