Chief Executive Officer
Lee Gopadze
Lee Gopadze is a twenty-five year wireless communications industry executive having held senior management roles at both large and small wireless communications companies. Mr. Gopadze most recently was Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Wholesale Business Division of Covad Communications. Mr. Gopadze oversaw all sales, marketing, product management, and operations for that division. Mr. Gopadze also held similar positions with Covads Branded Business and Wireless Divisions during his 6-year tenure there. Mr. Gopadze began his career in wireless communications in 1981. He has held a variety of senior executive positions in Marketing, Sales and Operations at the wireless subsidiaries of Metromedia Telecommunications, Southwestern Bell, and AirTouch Communications.
Vice President Sales
Mark S. Bittner
Mark Bittner joined Novariant in August 2012 as senior vice president of Global sales and services and is responsible for driving Novariant’s global growth and market leadership by delivering and supporting the full range of Novariant products, services and solutions to organizations in established and new markets around the world. He is also responsible for enhancing global alliance partner and channel relationships and ensuring that Novariant’s customer facing sales and services professionals understand and communicate the unique value that Novariant brings to customers and business partners. Mark brings more than 25 years of precision agriculture and high tech sales executive leadership experience to Novariant.
Before joining the company, Mark was General Manager-Enterprise Solutions Division for Topcon Corporation and has held senior management positions at Trimble Navigation, Proxim Wireless and Exxon.
Engineering
Thomas Enochs
Enochs joined in February 2013 to assume a new role leading Vertafore’s customer support, professional services, data center, enterprise applications and IT functions. He has a strong track record of helping technology and services companies efficiently scale operations to meet market opportunities, particularly involving SaaS.
He previously was VP of professional services at Azaleos, which provides Microsoft back-office collaboration tools to medium and large clients via a SaaS model.
Earlier he held roles leading engineering, professional services and operations at growing technology companies including Globys, Qpass and Terrabeam.
He began his career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he ran Andersen’s technology competence practice in the Pacific Northwest.
He holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia.
Vice President Engineering
Gordana Pance
Gordana Pance is a co-founder of Exalt and serves as its Chief Operating Officer and a board member of the company. A seasoned executive with extensive operating background, Gordana has over 20 years of experience in the wireless networking industry.
Prior to Exalt, Gordana held various management roles at Western Multiplex, Glenayre and Proxim, most recently as senior vice president of engineering and product management leading multiple teams responsible for all products including point-to-point radios, pointto-multipoint, wireless LAN, and WiMAX.
Gordana was a key driver behind the development and introduction of multiple generations of highly successful and best-in-class microwave backhaul products.
Gordana holds a BSEE degree from the University of Belgrade, and MS and PhD degrees, also in electrical engineering, from the University of Rochester, New York.
Director Engineering
Husam Kal
Husam Kal joined Novariant in November 2012 as Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Engineering. Husam has a proven track record of leading by example, developing fully compliant organizations and transforming his team into a lean, profitable machine. Husam is also responsible for driving improvements in product cost, strategic sourcing, quality, global processes, supplier relationships, new product introduction and overall organizational efficiency. Husam brings to Novariant more than 20 years of experience in high tech executive leadership.
Before joining Novariant, Husam held executive leadership roles at Lucent Technologies, Proxim Wireless, Trimble Navigation and Tria Beauty.
Husam holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.
Director
Arogyaswami Paulraj