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Leadership
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The knowledge and experience of our team of visionary leaders and strategic thinkers has enabled us to become a market leader and drives us to new and exciting developments so we can continue to deliver innovative solutions and services to our customers worldwide.
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Donte Kim - Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
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With a background in credit card processing, database management and software engineering, Donte Kim brings a breadth of knowledge and experience to his position as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Nodus. Prior to spinning off Nodus Technologies from Mekorma, Donte held several key positions at Mekorma, including Director of Operations. In that capacity he was responsible for developing a strategy that included cutting costs and increasing revenue through traditional sales channels and maintenance renewals, transforming Mekorma into a highly profitable venture in a matter of months.
Having begun his career at a major financial institution as a Credit Manager, Donte held positions at various levels of the organizational hierarchy serving as QA consultant, senior developer, and product manager. In addition to his broad-based managerial and technical background, Donte has been a Lecturer and Instructor for Cal State University, San Bernardino and Riverside Community College on a variety of technical topics in the programming and networking arenas.
Donte holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from California State University, San Bernardino and a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside and is fluent in Korean.
Hussain Zaidi - Chief Technical Officer
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Coming from a highly technical software development background, Hussain is well-versed in a wide range of hardware platforms, languages, development environments, technologies, databases, automated testing tools, case tools, and graphic design packages.
Hussain began his career as a Systems Analyst for the Pakistan International Airline Corporation in Karachi, Pakistan. During his tenure there he analyzed the airline's Online Tracking and Scheduling System, and designed relational database for improved performance and reliability. From there he moved on to serve as a Programmer Analyst for Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates. He also worked as a systems analyst for Systems (Pvt.) Ltd. & IBM, automating the Karachi Stock Exchange.
Prior to joining Nodus, Hussain worked as a software design engineer for Safetran Systems. While there, he helped develop a revolutionary geographic train control system based on a linear network of railway signalling objects. Previously, he was a project manager at California State University, San Bernardino responsible for the design and implementation of the Graduate Admission System for the Computer Science Department.
Hussain earned his Master of Computer Science degree from the California State University San Bernardino and his Bachelor of Computer Science Degree from the FAST Institute of Computer Science, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Simon Lam - Advisor
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Mr. Simon Lam has over 20 years of product development, marketing and business development experience in data and voice networking, wireless communication, software and eCommerce.
Simon was recruited by MICOM Communications in 1982 as product development manager to create a family of new X.25 products. In 1986, he was promoted to General Manager of MICOM Asia, in charge of offshore manufacturing outsourcing and market development. In 1989, he was appointed as the VP Product and Business Development to pioneer the development of Voice over IP, Voice over Frame Relay, and Voice over ATM. The resulting Marathon data/voice product lines successfully ignited a new industry trend in Integrated Access for Voice and Data over Frame Relay, ATM, and IP, and propelled the MICOM to a successful IPO. Simon was an active leader that launched the industry's Voice over IP Forum. From there, he quickly closed a joint development alliance with Nortel Networks, leading to Nortel's acquisition of MICOM in 1996.
As Nortel's VP of Strategic Technologies and Business Development, Simon continued to drive product strategies and business development of Data/Voice Integrated Access products at Nortel. He drove Nortel's product strategies for Integrated ATM broadband access, Voice over IP and wireless access. He secured a major ATM integrated access equipment contract with AT&T, developed and grew a DCME business substantially, with minimal additional development effort.
Simon later left Nortel to found TelSurf Networks in 1999, a company specializing on Voice on the Web technology for wireless users, on an innovative middle-ware platform XML and XSL technology. Telsuf grew to be a leading Voice Portal supplier with major strengths in Latin Americas. The company was sold to Prosodie Interactive (a French company) in early 2002.
Simon received his B. Eng. in Engineering Physics, at McMaster University, and his MBA, at York University, Canada. He holds three patents in packet voice technology.
Victor Sim - Board Member
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Mr. Sim focuses his practice on venture capital, business development, mergers and acquisitions and corporate securities. Mr. Sim's representations include public companies, early stage technology companies and venture capital funds. He is experienced in business plan drafting, revenue models and strategic planning. He has also handled diverse financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, strategic alliances and securities compliance matters.
As chief strategic officer and co-founder of HeyAnita, Inc., a privately held voice access and Internet data company, Mr. Sim pitched, negotiated and closed its initial financing and formed a joint venture in Korea with Softbank and the TriGem Group. He was responsible for the company's international growth and oversaw the strategic direction of its operations.
Ora Goldman - Board Member / CEO of Mekorma
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Ora Goldman is the chief executive officer and software development manager of Mekorma, an award winning company that develops and markets accounting system enhancement products. While in this position, Ora has grown Mekorma from one to 20 employees and has been recognized over five consecutive years for excellence in sales additions and product quality. Prior to founding Mekorma, Ora founded a hardware start up company as well as a computer consulting practice. Ora graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Suma Cum Laude with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA and furthered her studies at the UCLA Andersen School of Management.
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