Advisors

Tei Iki

Former Senior Vice President, Sony Display Systems; Former North American R&D Lead, Sony Corporation of America; Co-chair for the New Space Theater Initiative, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

Tei Iki has spent a four decade long career in the Electronic Display Business. He is retired from Sony Electronics, Inc. where he founded and headed a multibillion dollar computer display business and also was in charge of Sony's North American R&D. During his career, Tei has worked with Tektronix, Hewlett Packard and Sony and held a variety of technical and management positions. Tei is most notably credited in the industry as one of the developers of color CRT displays for the computer industry. During the course of his career, the display business unit headed by Tei was awarded the business performance award for growth and profitability for three years in a row. Tei now spends his time as a consultant helping others commercialize new technologies and is a board member of several companies. Tei studied Physics and Chemistry at UC Berkeley and is still involved with the insitution through the UC San Diego School of Engineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Michael Jones, MA

President, ProFinance Associates; Co-founder and Chair, The Security Network

Michael is the Founder and President of The Security Network and The Maritime Alliance.  Michael is also President of ProFinance® Associates, Inc. (www.profinance.com), an investment banking firm (Broker-Dealer firm - member of FINRA / SIPC) headquartered in San Diego that has focused on security since its inception in 1985 and CFO of SeaBotix (www.seabotix.com), a fast growing manufacturer of mini-ROVs (underwater tethered robots).  Michael has sat on a number of corporate Boards of Directors nationwide.  In San Diego, on the non-profit side, Michael sits on the Advisory Board for the San Diego Chapter of AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International), the Board of the San Diego chapter of MTS (Marine Technology Society) and at San Diego State University sits on the Advisory Boards of the EMC (Entrepreneurial Management Center) and of the College of Engineering, and lectures periodically in the Business School.

Michael was born in Germany and grew up in Arizona.  He earned a Masters Degree from the Johns Hopkins University "School of Advanced International Studies" (SAIS).  His graduate studies included a year in Bologna, Italy; a year at the Catholic University in Lima, Peru; and internships at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and at the European Community headquarters in Brussels.  He can defend himself in five languages.  He is a graduate of the FBI Citizens' Academy and a member of the FBI InfraGard program and various other professional organizations.

Drasko Sotirovski, MASc PEng

Senior Software Architect, Raytheon

Drasko is a software architect at Raytheon Company in California. Drasko has specialized in program design, fault tolerant systems, and distributed systems during more than twenty years of experience developing large-scale real-time software for defense, simulation, transport, and telecommunication systems. Drasko has the real-time and distributed system experience necessary to create industry-standard and compliant solutions.

Reuven Granot, PhD

Former Chief Scientist, Israeli Ministry of Defense - Scientific Deputy for Research and Technology; Consultant to several Israeli industries; Professor at University of Haifa and Israel Institute of Technology

In his previous role with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Reuven led the development of Israeli supercomputer and introduced state-of-the-art computer technologies into the defence community. Reuven's research is in the area of development of robotic software control agents to represent a human operator interfacing with a complex tele-robotic system environment as well as the progression from tele-operated equipment to human supervised autonomous control.