Advisory Board

Joseph Garodnick

Joseph Garodnick, Ph.D., was previously the President and CEO of Widax Corporation. The company, through innovative implementation of sophisticated telecommunications systems and proprietary integrated circuits, developed extremely high-speed wireless Internet access products and systems. The systems conformed to international standards established for the next generation (4G & 5G) wireless networks. Prior to the founding of Widax, he was the Chief Technical Officer of Golden Bridge Technologies, Inc. (GBT), a technology developer and innovator of spread spectrum application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to be used in wireless equipment. While with GBT, he filed four spread spectrum patents and guided the technical team in the design of four ASICs. He represented the company in the TIA US standard group, the ETSI European standard group and designed GBT's third and fourth generation wireless systems.

Prior to joining the GBT, he was Executive Vice President of InterDigital Communications Corp. (IDCC:NASDAQ), a $52M, 250 employee, publicly owned company, and worldwide supplier of digital wireless communications equipment. Dr. Garodnick established strategic and tactical relationships with equipment companies and service providers in many foreign countries including Bangladesh, Japan, Australia, Russia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Brazil, and Mexico.

From 1986 until 1992, Dr. Garodnick was the Corporate Vice President of Fibronics International, Inc. (FBRX: NASDAQ), a $62M, high-tech, 480-employee fiber optic local area network equipment supplier. Through responsibility for the international marketing, and research and development programs, the Company became a major player in systems areas including high-speed local area networks.

In 1981 he co-founded and was Chief Scientist of Phasecom Corporation (now Vyyo, VYYO: NASDAQ), a manufacturing company that designs and manufactures CATV and high-speed data communication equipment. In 1975, Dr. Garodnick co-founded Stern Telecommunications Corporation, a system design company where, under contract from General Instruments, he designed and developed the first direct broadcast satellite systems. Other developments included patented CATV scrambling systems, and high-speed fiber optic private urban networks for MCI and the New York stock exchanges. He began his career at ITT Avionics in 1966 as a design engineer and moved to ATT Bell Laboratories after receiving his doctorate in 1972.

Dr. Garodnick has published over 30 papers, was an officer in the IEEE, and holds 14 patents. He received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York, where he taught as an adjunct professor for nine years.

David Spomer

Mr. Spomer has been associated with retail, marketing, sales and product management activities in the consumer electronics business for over 29 years. His background includes seven years in retail management positions plus 22 years of marketing, sales, product management and senior management P&L responsibilities with GE, then with Thomson Inc. after their 1988 acquisition of the combined RCA/GE consumer electronics businesses.

In 1992, Mr. Spomer was promoted to RCA Brand Manager where he was responsible for national and regional marketing activities associated with all RCA brand products, a position he held for four years. He was then promoted to Vice President – DBS Product Management in December, 1996 where he managed full business P&L responsibility of video and broadband digital products for North America and Latin America.

Mr. Spomer holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Washington State University and is currently a business development consultant in the consumer electronics and technology industries.

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