Thomas Kaiser

Founder and CEO

Dirk Friebel

COO

Dirk Friebel has more than 26 years of working experience and has an extensive industrial network along the value chain of telecommunication, multimedia and microelectronics. During the last 19 years he has held several different management positions in research, marketing and general management in companies like Nokia, Infineon, NEC and Siemens. Dirk is chairman of the Executive Board GMM-VDE/VDI Society microelectronics, microsystems and precision engineering and President of nomiko e.V – talent management company. He holds a Master of Engineering, a Master of business administration and studied business pedagogic.

René Kantehm

Vice President 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 Meads has 28 years experience in communications/telecommunications as a software engineer and sales/marketing executive. He spent his early career years developing real-time software for military communications systems in the US and Germany. Several years as a freelance engineer broadened his experience into Unix systems and provided the opportunity to work on the first generation of GSM mobiles at Siemens AG. Joining GSM startup Optimay in 1994, he led user interface development before taking time off to complete an MBA in Strategy, Information and Technology at EDHEC in Nice, France. Returning to Optimay in a commercial role, he became Marketing Director and led all software sales and marketing activities as the company was acquired by Lucent Microelectronics (now Intel Mobile Communications). He then moved to Philips Semiconductors (now ST-Ericsson) as Software Product Marketing Manager and later to MCCI Corporation, a world leader in USB software, as VP Marketing. He has negotiated licensing agreements for software and hardware IP used by semiconductor and consumer product vendors in close to a billion end user products around the world. In addition to his MBA, Brian holds a B.S.E.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

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

Vice President 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

Vice President Sales Americas

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.  Currently, Peter resides in the San Jose area, California.