Management Team

Adam Gould, Chief Executive Officer

adam.gould(at)sensinode.com
+1 858-549-4173

Adam has more than 24 years of experience in the wireless industry, and has extensive experience in leading engineering development teams, managing organizations and budgets of all sizes, creating technology strategies, contract negotiation, and leading business development, marketing and sales activities. Adam joined NextWave in 2005, and was the GM of the business unit developing consumer products around NextWave semiconductor products, as well as being Senior Vice President for semiconductor Sales and Marketing. His previous role at Nextwave was SVP Product Development, responsible for consumer product development, product planning, product management, program management and business development. Prior to joining NextWave, Adam was Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering for Nokia Mobile Phones' CDMA unit, where he worked for almost 13 years. In this role, he was responsible for setting the technology direction and strategy for the CDMA group as well as managing all of the Nokia CDMA technology development, including all levels of SW development, RF and RFIC, and digital ASIC development. Adam grew this team from a starting point of 50 to over 450 engineers. Prior to his becoming CTO, he held various positions in management, signal processing, systems and software engineering development. Before joining Nokia, he was a member of the engineering team at Motorola that developed the world’s first GSM phone, where he developed all of the signal processing software for that product. Adam holds more than 7 patents, and has degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently on the Board of Directors or on the Advisory Board for several companies

Mikko Saarnivala, Chief Technology Officer

mikko.saarnivala(at)sensinode.com
+358 10-387-8686

Mikko has more than 11 years of experience in wireless communications, ranging from heading R&D to academic research, and as a result he provides a broad perspective to the management of the company. Mikko has been working in the field of telecommunications research since 1999 at VTT and later at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, where he studied Theoretical Physics. Mikko has a wide experience in implementing new and novel networking protocols and algorithms. He has also been responsible of software in several large projects. Mikko is one of the founders of Sensinode.

Zach Shelby, Head of Research

zach.shelby(at)sensinode.com
+358 10-387-8689

Zach is a renowned industry visionary and is a main contributor to the standardization of both 6LoWPAN and CoAP, the key technologies behind the Wireless Embedded Internet. From this work, Zach wrote the first ever book about 6LoWPAN – Wiley & Sons. Zach worked for 10 years as a research scientist and research manager first for VTT and later for the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC). Zach has been responsible for developing innovative research in the area of wireless embedded networking. His results include a large portfolio of publications, public talks, broad research cooperation and key patents. Zach has an M.Sc. (Eng.) from the University of Oulu and a B.Sc. (Eng.) from Michigan Technological University. Zach is one of the founders of Sensinode.

Veli-Matti Enkenberg, Director, Operations

veli-matti.enkenberg(at)sensinode.com
+358 10-387-8685

Veli-Matti has 21 years of experience in management, marketing, R&D and production. In Product marketing, he has held positions as Marketing manager in WCDMA base station products and Product manager for WCDMA products for 8 years. In Product management, his positions include Business deployment manager responsible of transferring country business units in Europe to new business model. In R&D, he was responsible for integrating logistics thinking into the early design phase of development. In production, he was responsible for allocating and designing factory production and production lines according to a new strategy. He has experience in telecom, networks and chemicals at Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Neste.

Juha Auer, Director, North American Operations

juha.auer(at)sensinode.com
+1 858-232-3199

Juha has 20 years experience in international wireless/high-technology business development and sales at Elektrobit USA, Northrop-Grumman, CERN and SITRA.