Management Team
Randy Battat
Named CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Network Communications Council in April 2005, Randy joined Airvana from Motorola, where he was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Internet and Networking Group, responsible for a full line of wireline and wireless access solutions, broadband communications, corporate networking, wireless content services and platform software. Prior to Motorola, Randy spent thirteen years at Apple Computer where he held several strategic positions, including Vice President of the PowerBook Division, and Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. Randy holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Randy is also the recipient of the New England Technology Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2004 Award.
Vedat Eyuboglu
Prior to founding Airvana, Vedat was most recently Vice President and General Manager of Home Networking Product Operation in Motorola's Internet and Networking Group. Prior to this role, he was Vice President of Technical Staff in Research and Advanced Development at Motorola, responsible for advanced technology in high-speed communications and digital signal processing. Vedat, who was a Dan Noble Fellow at Motorola, holds over 30 patents on technologies related to high-speed modems, multimedia, and wireless communications. Vedat was an active participant in several TIA and ITU standards groups and was a leading contributor to commercially successful ITU modem standards V.34 and V.90. Vedat is a Fellow of the IEEE and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
Sanjeev Verma
A Co-Founder of Airvana, Sanjeev manages the company’s UMTS and CDMA2000 Femtocell business; he is also responsible for Corporate Development activities including acquisitions, partnerships and strategy. Prior to co-Founding Airvana, Sanjeev held the position of Director of Marketing and Business Development for Broadband Networking at Motorola, where he was responsible for wireless and wireline broadband residential gateway solutions. Sanjeev started his career in communications software development and led the development of the industry’s first V.34 modem. Sanjeev holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.
David P. Gamache
David P. Gamache joined Airvana in 2000 and served as Vice President of Finance since 2005 and Treasurer since 2007. He served as Vice President of Operations from 2005 to 2008. He was named Chief Financial Officer in 2010. Prior to joining Airvana, Mr. Gamache was Chief Financial Officer at Indus River Networks, a provider of Virtual Private Networking products that was sold to Cabletron in 2000. From 1983 to 1998, he served in a number of financial roles including Vice President and Corporate Controller at Stratus Computer. Mr. Gamache holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.
Michael Clark
Mike Clark joins Airvana from JDS Uniphase where he was Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Customer Service for JDS Uniphase’s Communication and Commercial Optical Products. Mike brings a wide range of experience across multiple communication markets – including wireless and wire-line service providers, network equipment manufactures and major enterprises throughout the world – to his position at Airvana. Mike has also held senior level sales, marketing and management roles at Acterna, Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett Packard. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Wright State University.
David Nowicki
David Nowicki joined Airvana from Bytemobile, where he was Vice President, Marketing & Product Management. Over a five year period, David helped grow the business to more than 70 wireless operator customers by delivering a compelling set of core network solutions. Prior to Bytemobile, David was the Vice President of Marketing with ArrayComm, where his group launched and managed several leading-edge wireless data products, including the world’s first smart antenna base station as well as an innovative mobile broadband system. During his eight years at ArrayComm, Nowicki spent several years in Japan working closely with operators to introduce wireless data services. David started his career at Resonex, and also worked in HP’s corporate strategy group. He has an MBA and a masters in electrical engineering from Cornell University as well as a bachelor of science in applied physics from the University of California at Davis.
Mark Rau
Mark Rau joined Airvana from Carrius Technologies, where he was Vice President of Engineering responsible for the development of Intelligent IP service platforms. Mark’s prior positions include Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at SOMA Networks and Vice President/General Manager of the Broadband Wireless division at Nortel Networks. Mark is a high tech veteran with a record of successfully developing and deploying leading edge carrier grade system solutions for the telecom and wireless markets. He brings over 20 years of engineering, operations, and executive leadership in both startup and large corporate companies. Mark holds a BS in Mathematics from South Dakota State University and a MSMAS with an Operations Research concentration from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Laura Cranmer
Laura Cranmer brings to Airvana more than 15 years of experience in operations management. She joined Airvana from EFI, Inc., where she served as Vice President of Manufacturing for the company’s Inkjet Division. There, she managed the integration of a multi-plant acquisition, more than doubling capacity while improving quality and reducing cost. Prior to her tenure at EFI, Cranmer held operations management positions at Celestica, Inc., Ford Motor Company, and IBM. Cranmer, a Professional Engineer, holds B.S.I.E and M.S.I.E degrees from Kansas State University and an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Shantigram Jagannath
Prior to joining Airvana, Jagan was a Senior Software Architect at Photonex where he was responsible for architecture and delivery of system software and protocols for an ultra-long haul optical network system. Jagan started his career in research in the areas of congestion control, performance of TCP/IP networks and performance in ATM networks. He has authored several papers and has made several presentations and tutorials in the areas of Quality of Service, congestion control and TCP/IP. In Bay Networks, later Nortel Networks, Jagan was part of the high end router team as a senior architect in the software group where he was responsible for the control plane software controlling the high speed fabric. Jagan also has 8 US Patents to his name in the areas of routing protocols, VPN protocols and algorithms for scheduling in high speed fabrics. Jagan has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India, MS from North Carolina State University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York.
