Leadership Team
Victoria Pereira
Co-Founder / CEO and President
Victoria Pereira co-founded Otava after 30 years of leading design teams since the 1990’s on module, hybrid, and integrated circuit designs that were considered state of the art at the time of development…
Wen Zheng
Co-Founder / Vice President of Engineering
Wen has 15+ years experience designing ICs in the defense industry, with a focus on radar, electronic warfare (EW) systems, space, and communications. Her IC design expertise ranges from…
Leopold Pellon
senior fellow
Mr. Pellon joined Otava after his retirement as a Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow, and is focused on developing new innovations in support of phased arrays for 5G and DoD applications. He is a leading developer and researcher in the field of RF sensor systems, advanced components, and subsystems with an emphasis on…
Cecile Masse
Vice president of Systems Engineering
Cecile has 20+ years of experience in the wireless and semiconductor industry. Cecile has held a number of roles, ranging from radio design to IC products specification, system modeling…
Advisory Board
Jim Beneke
advisory board member
Jim Beneke has over 35 years experience in technology management, business and strategy development, technical marketing, research and development, and design engineering. For the past 12 years, he has held executive positions as Vice President of Products and Emerging Technology and Vice President of Global Technical…
Dr. Prasad Gudem
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Prasad S. Gudem (M’96-SM’15) received the B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1996. During his tenure at Qualcomm from 2002-2018…
Jim Cable
Advisory Board Member
Jim is currently Finwave Semiconductor Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. Previously, Jim served in as the CTO, CEO and Chairman at Peregrine Semiconductor (now pSemi). Under his guidance, Peregrine had a successful IPO in 2012. In 2014, pSemi was acquired by Murata Manufacturing Company. He…
Celeste Ford
Advisory Board
Celeste is a Board Chair and Founder of Stellar Solutions, Inc., and Managing Director at Stellar Ventures. She established Stellar Solutions Foundation in 1998, QuakeFinder humanitarian R&D program in 2001, and expanded om and France in 2003 and 2017, respectively. She launched Stellar Ventures in 2022…
David Anderman
Advisory Board
David is a seasoned executive with a passion for business strategy and technology, digital media, aerospace, and consumer sectors. He is the co-Founder and Operating Partner of Stellar Ventures, a fund investing in early-stage space start-ups. He most recently served as the General Counsel of SpaceX, a rocket…
Michael D. Griffin
Advisory Board Member
Michael D. Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Administrator of NASA, the U.S. space agency, from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA Administrator Griffin oversaw such areas…
Lisa Porter
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Lisa J. Porter is an American scientist and founding Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Prior to this position, she was the Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research at NASA and a senior scientist in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects…