Daniel Bland

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Danny is a serial entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to finding and developing cutting-edge technologies that can make a significant difference to consumers around the world. He was CEO of EMPYREAN DIAGNOSTICS, INC. a company developing a low-cost and rapid HIV test that was designed to save lives in low-income regions around the world. Daniel also was a co-founder of STOP AIDS WORLDWIDE, a non-profit company dedicated to providing free HIV testing to people in Africa and India.

Danny was founder and CEO of UPGRADE INTERNATIONAL, INC. UPGRADE invested in technologies focused on increasing the storage capacity on a credit card format, thereby substantially increasing the functionality of the credit card form factor. One of the UPGRADE INTERNATIONAL investments was “STORCARD”, a co-investment with Finis Connor, co-founder of SEAGATE and founder of CONNER PERIPHERALS.

Daniel is the founder of 5BARZ International, Inc and has been the driving force for the past 10 years navigating the company through the research and development stage and now commercialization of a revolutionary patented technology that boosts weak mobile phone signals in homes and offices.

Samartha Raghava N

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Samartha enjoys building challenging products and profitably deploying across geographies. In a span of 3 decades he has built several products which has reached hundreds of millions of people across the globe. He has led engineering of telecom switches, wireline & wireless protocol stacks, 250+ models of phones (predominantly Kyocera and Sanyo) sold in 10+ countries, 10+ base stations of various 3G & 4G technologies deployed across 20+ countries, field analytics products for largest retails in India, network extenders, smart wifi routers and IOT devices & hubs deployed in various parts of globe.

As a CEO/ President in 4 public companies, he has steered higher company value with his technology and business acumen. As founder/ co-founder of 3 companies, he has delivered rapid growth and profitable exits for those companies. Managed teams over 1500 Engineers, executive of USD 2 to 3 Bn PnLs, and inspired high IP innovations, leading to over 100 patents from his teams.

With close to 3 decades leading global telecom, and data analytics companies, his vision is to blend the innovations in these industries to provide higher value to the Consumer!!

Gill Amelio

Chairmain

He is a Visionary Leader, Business executive, Inventor of 17 Patents. Bell Laboratories, Fairchild and One of the 50 Pioneers that Built Silicon Valley (as recognised by the Computer History Museum and Stanford University) and Co-inventor of first solid state image sensor (12 patents) + 5 others. Transformed 5 businesses in 3 different industries creating ≈ $10B of shareholder value, Rockwell International: transformation of Rockwell Semiconductor (taught at Harvard), Author of Profit from Experience, a business book best seller and  2 others. He was a Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, Chairman and CEO of National Semiconductor, President Rockwell Telecommunications and President Rockwell Semiconductor, Member of the AT&T Board of Directors (18 yrs), Advisor to 3 U.S. Presidents and numerous other governmental leaders and Venture Capitalist (Sienna Ventures & Beneventure Partners)