Peter McCabe, Founder, President: Former mergers & acquisitions and securities lawyer for Latham & Watkins; venture capital, public offerings and mergers with total negotiated deal value in excess of $6 billion; accountant and technology executive. Clients included Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Chevron, Safeway, and Kendall-Jackson. JD, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, and BS Finance, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California.

John Lin, PhD, Founder, CTO: ZigBee and Bluetooth expert; technical editor of ZigBee specifications; Global Head of wireless development for TUV Rheinland. PhD Physics, Osaka University, Japan, MA Physics, University of Texas at Austin, and BA Physics, Cornell University.

Shahin Tahmassebi, Operations: 25 years experience in Engineering and Operations. Senior manager role in successful start ups of SGI and TiVo. Inventor of several patents at SGI and TiVo. MS Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee, and BS Electrical Engineering, University of North Carolina.

Robert Fries, Chief Software Architect: Creator of server-side Javascript for ZigBee (Gluescript); developed software for companies such as Locus Computing Corporation, Veritas Software, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, TRW Financial Systems, Lucent Technologies, and many others. Founding member and Chief Architect at Pario Software, later acquired by Lucent Technologies.

Don Sturek, Technical Advisor: Co-founder and CTO of figure 8 Wireless, a startup company in the machine-to-machine, mesh networking space. Served in a senior technical role through a merger with a private radio-frequency (RF) semiconductor company (Chipcon) and sale to Texas Instruments. Don currently serves as chairman of the ZigBee/HomePlug Technical Working Group Platform team and is also the chairman of the ZigBee Alliance Core Stack Working Group. Over 20 years of experience in the wireless data communication and data-networking field.