About the Company
Kamran Mahbobi
Cofounder and Managing Director of MaXentric Technologies, LLC, Kamran Mahbobi is responsible for setting the company's product development and portfolio strategies, as well as managing MaXentric's services operations. He has over seventeen years of experience in the design and development of wireless communication systems and technical research of advanced communications.
Most recently, Mr. Mahbobi served as the Chief Technology Officer of Tetra Tech Wireless, the wireless engineering division of Tetra Tech Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK). He was also a cofounder of eXpert Wireless Solutions, a wireless engineering company acquired by Tetra Tech. Mr. Mahbobi's responsibilities included the oversight of wireless technology R&D and hardware and software product development and support. In addition, he led the technical consulting group of Tetra Tech Wireless, which offered RF planning, program management and system optimization services in all aspects of wireless communications. Prior to forming eXpert, Kamran served as Staff Director, Technology Planning for NYNEX Mobile Communications.
In 1997, Mr. Mahbobi was awarded the prestigious E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award in New Jersey for his exceptional achievements as an entrepreneur. Mr. Mahbobi has a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is also a candidate for a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Houman Ghajari
Director of Government Systems and Technology at MaXentric Technologies, LLC, Houman Ghajari is responsible for setting the company’s government business strategies, as well as managing MaXentric’s government operations. He has over five years of experience in the design and development of wireless communication systems and technical research of advanced communications.
Mr. Ghajari has been involved in research and design of wireless communication systems including studies on wireless communication transceivers. His main area of expertise is RF front-end designs. Currently, he is involved in the design and creation of a V-band Wireless LAN system. In the past, he was engaged in a project involving the research and design of a transceiver for a 28 GHz based LMDS system. This project addressed different transceiver architectures for LMDS with related design of CMOS based RF components. In this field, he has also completed projects in a full design of CMOS technology based RF components for a 2 GHz based transceiver.
Mr. Ghajari has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics from San Jose State University. He received his Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.
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Donald Kimball
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at MaXentric Technologies, LLC, Donald Kimball is responsible for establishing MaXentric’s technical vision and leading all aspects of the company’s technology development. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the design and development of wireless communication systems and technical research in advanced communication schemes.
Mr. Kimball has been involved in research and development of wireless communication systems including design of wireless communication transmitters and receivers at the physical layer. His main area of expertise is in High Efficiency Power Amplifiers, Linearization Schemes, Power Management, and Electromagnetic Compatibility. Currently, he is involved in the design and creation of high efficiency high linearity wide band power amplifiers and advanced modulation techniques. In the recent past, he was a researcher and lab manager for the University of California San Diego (UCSD) at the California Institute for Information Technology and Telecommunications (Calit2). At UCSD he developed research platforms that established UCSD as a world leader in high efficiency microwave communication radios. Prior to his appointment at UCSD, Donald worked at Ericsson Wireless Communications, Qualcomm Inc., Data Products Corporation, and Data General Corporation. During this time Donald worked on Electromagnetic Compatibility in severe environments, and TEMPEST compliance for secure computing systems.
Mr. Kimball has a Bachelor and a Master’s of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis on radar and communications from The Ohio State University. He holds 7 United States Patents in the area of microwave power amplifiers with 3 additional patents pending. Donald is also the author of over 37 peer reviewed technical papers.
