Management Team
Marcell
Enoch - President/Founder/CEO
Mr. Enoch has over 27 years of experience in Hardware, System, and Product
design related to communication and peripheral markets involving Modems, Ethernet,
Token Ring, Wireless Cellular Technologies, Printing Technologies, Industrial
Control, and Custom ASICs. Mr. Enoch specializes in understanding the disciplines
in all facets of manufacturing a product. These disciplines include; Hardware
Design, Software Design, Custom/Standard Component Design, Board Design, Packaging
Design, Mechanical Design, and Regulatory Approvals. Mr. Enoch also specializes
in understanding people, their motivations, their purpose, and their values.
Mr. Enoch has great respect for his peers and often gets the same respect
in return.
Mr. Enoch has designed and developed an AES encryption core for the company. This intellectual property is licensed to system houses and will be used as a building block for StarGate semiconductors. Shortly before founding StarGate, he was one of the founding members of MetroVidia Communications where he helped define and architect a carrier-class switch delivering Video, Voice, and Data. Prior to that, Mr. Enoch was at WaveMark Technologies where he was a key contributor in developing an ASIC enabling high-speed color printing for the laser and ink-jet printer markets. This acceleration technology allowed manufactures of Color Laser Printers to lower their costs and compete with Monochrome Printers. The success of this project led to the sale of the company to Motorola for $35M.
Prior to WaveMark, Mr. Enoch worked on his own startup venture designing USB core functions for the communications market at CorpX Technologies. Before CorpX Technologies, he worked for Xionics as a consultant where he was responsible for researching Modem Core and peripheral technologies used to build and define a large custom MFP ASIC that was co-developed with IBM. The success of the ASIC and other milestones led to a successful IPO for the company.
In 1996 Mr. Enoch completed an ASIC for Steinbrecher Corp. supporting wireless digital communications for the indoor/outdoor PCS cellular market. His activities included defining tools and ASIC foundry partners as well as prototyping the initial proof of concept of wideband transmultiplexing. The ASIC was co-developed with AT&T and the success of the project led to the sale of the Company to TellLabs Wireless in March of 96 for $76M. Mr. Enoch spent much of his career consulting and contracting to Companies such as Hewlett Packard, Digital Products (now NetSilicon), Codex Motorola, Powerline Communications, CAMEX, Atex, Avco, Simmonds Precision, Analogic, GE, Wang, Gould Modicon, Digital Equipment and Centronics.
In 1975 Mr. Enoch Graduated US Naval Electronics BEE
and Radar (A1-3) School at Great Lakes, IL.
Ken Kelly - Vice Presesident
of Engineering
Mr. Kelly has over 25 years of technical management experience in both large
companies and startup companies.
Before joining StarGate, Mr. Kelly served as a senior partner and founding member at the Selmont Group LLC. His Company provided Competitive Analysis Programs which provided customers with vital information about thier competitors and thier competitors’ products, allowing them to gain market share and compete-to-win. This thorough analysis provided thier customers with all the information they needed to intelligently define, price and position thier products. This knowledge about a competition is a powerful sales and marketing advantage.
As Vice President of Engineering and Vice President of Development for Pumatech, Inc.(1996 IPO), Ken, starting with only a few developers, built a worldclass engineering team Pumatech needed to produce quality products in an organized and efficient manner. Nearing the end of his tenure at Pumatech, Ken was managing more than 300 people at five subdivision located domestically and overseas.
Ken Kell worked as Senior Engineering Manager at Digital Equipment Corp, where Ken built the Software team that produced the world's first truly portable, light, and thin notebook computers, the Hinote and HiNote Ultra. These new notebook computers were recieved well by the industry and started a new trend of ultra portable computing.
Prior to Digital, Ken built SystemSoft Inc's (1994 IPO) engineering team that produced the original PCMCIA software shipping in Microsoft WindowsTM. He also led SystemSoft's Japanese Sales and Marketing effort, growing sales from under $1Million to over $3Million in one year.
Ken has also held management and architect positions
at Data General and at Wang Labs. Ken attended Lowell Technological Institute's
BSEE program.
Andrew Ostrom - Vice Presesident
of Marketing and Sales
Mr. Ostrom has over 24 years experience in high-tech where he has created
a reputation for achieving success in developing and bringing to market cutting
edge technology products. Mr. Ostrom has held a variety of technical, marketing
and general management positions in both small and large organizations. Most
recently, Mr. Ostrom was Director of Product Marketing at Rational Software,
where he was responsible for all marketing activities in support of Rational's
$85M Automated Testing Business Group. During his tenure the product division
achieved over 40% growth and successfully launched three major new products.
Prior to joining Rational Software in 2001, Mr. Ostrom held the position of Director of Marketing at GN Nettest, a Danish-owned provider of communications testing hardware and software solutions. Mr. Ostrom's organization, with locations in the US, Canada, and Denmark, had world-wide P&L, marketing, and general management responsibility for all data communications testing products sold to telecommunications carriers and large commercial and government customers. While at Nettest he integrated marketing and product management activities across the varied locations and directed an integrated set of world-wide marketing programs to support Nettest's goal of expansion in the US and European markets. Additionally, as a member of Nettest's senior management team, he helped define a new business and product strategy for the company to enable the reuse of product technology, reducing product cost and enhancing time-to-market.
In 1997 Mr. Ostrom was recruited to join FTP Software as Director of Product Marketing for FTP's Server Solutions and Java Agent business units. There, he directed a multi-national team of marketing, product management, and pre-sales professionals and reversed an eighteen month downward trend in both product sales volume and revenue. He implemented a new product management process that rescued a foundering development program and resulted in the delivery to market of two major products within twelve months. As Senior Product Line Manager at Process Software, from 1995 to 1997, he revamped product management, marketing programs, sales channels and customer communications for the company's TCP/IP software product line. As general manager of the business unit, these products generated 75+% of the company's revenue ($15+M), and the changes ended 8 consecutive quarters of declining revenue, resulting in a 28% annual growth rate and return to profitability in the first year.
Mr. Ostrom began his high-tech career in 1979 at Digital Equipment Corporation where he was part of several high performance technology solutions teams. He progressed through a variety of technical and individual contributor roles into senior engineering management, business development and marketing positions, with both hardware and software product groups. Among other accomplishments he held senior marketing positions in both the Networks and Communications and Internet Business Groups.
Mr. Ostrom attended Swarthmore College and has since participated in a variety of professional development programs.
James
C. Johnston - Chief Financial Officer
Founder of Johnston Company CFO Services
in 1986, Jim has nearly 20 years of experience providing senior financial
and strategic advice to businesses, with extensive experience working with
companies in the technology sector. His manufacturing experience includes
financial management positions with Cummins Engine Company Inc. and its Cadec
Systems Inc. subsidiary. Jim has been CFO of several technology companies
including WaveMark Technologies, DSP Software Engineering and Granitar. He
was also on the Board at Aurora Technologies. Jim earned an MBA from the University
of Chicago and a BA, Economics from Princeton University. He is a member of
the Editorial Advisory Board of CFO Magazine and an occasional columnist for
Mass High Tech newspaper. Jim has been published in Computerworld and CFO
Magazine, and has made numerous teaching and speaking engagements.
Johnston Company has provided part-time CFO and controller services for about 50 management teams, including 9 who have sold their companies for proceeds totaling $200M. We work with funded ventures, profitable and growing companies, and distressed companies. We¹ve helped our clients get to breakeven more quickly, or to build more sustainable revenue streams.
Johnston Company is especially strong in bringing interactive driver-based forecasting and financial awareness into the hearts and minds of management teams, so they can reach their goals with minimum risk and maximum credibility with investors and lenders.
Every company should have a way to track spending,
and to generate forecasts of revenue, spending, and burn rate that tie to
fundamental drivers of the business. If the president is doing these things
now, it is likely detracting from other priorities. If no one is doing these
things, Johnston Company can help you.
Gene Zarkhin - Director
of Software Engineering
Mr. Zarkhin has 23 years of experience in both Hardware and Software design
for embedded systems such as digital cameras, laptop computers, industrial
control systems, and medical devices.
Most recently Mr. Zarkhin was a principal firmware design engineer at Sound Vision, Inc. where he developed Low Level Software and participated in Hardware design for several digital cameras, docking stations for digital cameras and other consumer electronics products with different types of removable media and USB host and device functionality. While being at Sound Vision, Inc. Mr. Zarkhin provided consulting services to Digital Ink, Inc. participating in digital pen design and implementation.
Prior to Sound Vision, Inc. Mr. Zarkhin worked as a lead Software/Hardware engineer at Product Genesis, Inc. where he designed several innovative medical devices and received a US patent for one of them.
Before Product Genesis, Inc. Mr. Zarkhin was at SystemSoft Corporation where he developed system BIOS for Symbol Technology bar code readers/PDAs and HP Omnibook laptops and designed Software for HP Omnibook docking stations and port replicators. At SystemSoft Corporation he also developed PCMCIA drivers and implemented USB functionality for Epson and Canon printers and scanners.
Mr. Zarkhin holds BS in Computer Systems and an MS
in Electrical Engineering from Leningrad Academy of Telecommunication, USSR.
Mr. Zarkhin also holds two US patents.
Boris Shajenko - Lead Hardware
Engineering
Mr. Boris Shajenko has over 14 years of engineering experience and engineering
team leadership, with technical expertise and direct involvement in full product
development cycles, from concept to production. His engineering experience,
include networking, computer hardware, data acquisition, biomedical, and software
industries. Throughout his engineering career, he has taken on many challenging
assignments, and has taken on the responsibility and determination to bringing
them to completion as successful products. He is equally strong in both hardware
and software development, frequently leveraging his skills in both fields
to achieve a high level of efficiency.
His expertise includes ASIC and FPGA logic design and verification employing latest methodologies, Verilog, VHDL, testbench development, logic verification and debugging, Gigabit Ethernet, TCP/IP Protocol implementation in hardware, PCI and ISA board level design, DSP Firmware development, device driver development for Windows NT / 2000, Embedded Systems, Data Acquisition board development, Windows application development in Visual C/SDK and C++/MFC, and Unix test-bench development.
Prior to joining StarGate Semiconductor, Boris held Principal ASIC Engineer positions at Ipsil and LSI Logic where he was responsible for development and integration of high speed networking cores and System-on-Chip architectures. Mr. Shajenko's most recent experience involves developing a TCP/IP protocol processing engine ASIC operating line speed at gigabit rates. The work required architecture, design, developing cycle accurate models in C++, RTL implementation in Verilog, testbench development, verification, system testing, demonstrating working logic on Xilinx Virtex-II Pro, and ASIC targeting.
From 1996 to 2000, Boris was the Chief Technology Officer at United Electronic Industries responsible for developing an extensive line of data acquisition products and successfully bringing a test and measurement instrumentation startup to profitable growth status. Other duties included lead Engineer in the full cycle design and development of the PowerDAQ MF and MFS series of PCI data acquisition boards. Leveraged broad experience in hardware, software, and data acquisition to make the products successful both technically and in the market. Assumed responsibility in making critical technical decisions in product specification and development that would lead to profitability and revenue growth. These goals were successfully met.
From 1991 to 1996 Boris' positions included Senior Software Engineer at Ortho Diagnostic Systems and the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory. Mr. Shajenko played a key role in full cycle development of three generations of the Ortho CytoronABSOLUTE flow cytometry instrument.
Mr. Shajenko holds a BSEE degree from the University of Connecticut. Emphasis in Computer Software, Hardware and Biomedical Engineering.
