IOCOM Advisory Board

Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003, when Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc., a Baltimore based VPN technology and security products company. He continues to serve as a consultant and member of the Federal Advisory Board at SafeNet.

Crowell came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions in operations, strategic planning, research and development, and finance. In early 1994 he was appointed as the Deputy Director of NSA and served in that post until his retirement in late 1997 From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, now a subsidiary of Titan Systems, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems.

In April 1999, Crowell was appointed to the President’s Export Council (PEC), which advised the administration on trade and export policy. He served as chairman of the PEC Subcommittee on Encryption, which worked with the Administration, Congress and private industry to substantially loosen restrictions on the export of encryption products and technology.

Since 9/11 he has served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published three landmark studies on Homeland Security and information sharing and has also served on numerous panels to investigate and improve military command and control, intelligence and security systems. In August 2007 he was named Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group.

Crowell is an expert on network and information security issues. In May 2007 he co-authored the book, “Physical and Logical Security Convergence,” published by Elsevier. He has been quoted in many trade and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Information Week, Network World, Computer World, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine and the San Jose Mercury News. Crowell has also appeared on CBS MarketWatch, CNET News, CNBC and KNTV’s Silicon Valley Business. He was the technical advisor to the TV series, “Threat Matrix” during its run on ABC in the 2003 season.

Scott Helbing is an experienced leader in the digital media world. Having a solid foundation which includes years of experience in building world class brands, driving competitive businesses, developing new business models and acting as a corporate change agent, he has spent the past three years focused on digital media and understanding the consumer’s needs and wants.

As the first officer selected to lead the AT&T Entertainment Services team, Scott’s vision helped build an organization charged with delivering a significant revenue stream for the corporation. The organization was the first of its kind in the telecom industry and featured a senior team of experienced executives, many from outside of AT&T. He also served as the CMO for the Consumer Business at AT&T prior to his assignment running Entertainment Services.

Prior to joining SBC (which became AT&T), Scott was the VP Global Brand Strategy at Dell. Again, being the first officer selected to hold this position, there was the proverbial “blank canvass” with regards to defining and building the Dell brand. As a result of the cleanly defined and executed brand tools (mission, architecture, naming, design,) strong executive leadership and breakthrough ad campaigns like “Steven”, Dell became the number One Most respected consumer brand (ahead of Apple, SONY, Nike, Coke) as reported by Interbrand, in 2001. The power of the Dell brand enhanced sales efforts in both the corporate and consumer spaces where Dell competed.

Scott has also worked extensively on a global basis in the QSR (restaurant) business and the athletic footwear & apparel industry, and domestically in the financial services, packaged goods, aviation (commercial airlines and private aviation), professional sports and publishing.

A graduate of the University of Colorado with a BS in Journalism, Scott serves on multiple boards and is a member of many organizations in the community.

Raghu Rau is a creative, global management professional with strong operational, marketing and strategic leadership experience and relationships in the technology industry. He has an impressive record of bringing disruptive technologies to market and invests and advises start up companies in the Internet, mobile video and telecommunications space, internationally.

Rau was a Senior Vice President at Motorola Inc. until 2008, holding positions of increasing responsibility since 1992, in the USA, Europe and Asia. He won the coveted CEO Leadership Award in 2007 for his many accomplishments.

As the Chief Strategy Officer of Motorola's $13b Networks and Enterprise business, he directed the business to industry leading levels of profitability and leadership positions in new technologies such as WiMAX. He was involved in multiple acquisitions of both small and large companies, developing strategic industry alliances and optimizing multi billion dollar R&D investments.

As the Chief Marketing Officer of Motorola's Networks business he marketed its wireless and wire line solutions to carriers world wide, dramatically transforming the value proposition by changing the focus from Radio Access Network products to complete network solutions that included: packet core networks, soft switches, service delivery platforms and high value services. He also designed and successfully executed strategic marketing programs, new product launches and integrated communications plans using traditional and new media, winning industry awards.

Rau also led the Canopy Wireless Broadband business and doubled its revenues two years consecutively, while delivering double digit operating margins. He also led the centralized professional services organization substantially growing global revenues to about $ 1 b. He was also instrumental in winning over 55% market share for Motorola's infrastructure business in India when licenses were first awarded in 1994. Based for three years in London, he also helped in the significant turnaround of the networks business in the Europe, Middle East Africa region.

Before joining Motorola, Rau was the General Manager and Co founder of a telecommunications services company in Qatar and prior to that was the General Manager of a multinational in India.

Rau has served as the Chairman of the Quest Forum, the leading quality standards organization in the global telecommunications industry, the Board of the Center of Telecom Management at USC and the Motorola France Telecom partnership Board.

Rau has authored case studies on Global Marketing that have been taught at leading international universities and is a sought after speaker at industry and technology forums.

Rau has a Bachelors degree in Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Jeff Hughes is a leader in technology and media convergence. He is the former Executive Vice President of BSkyB (Sky) in London. Sky is a very successful satellite pay TV operator, broadband provider, telephony provider, and creator and supplier content to over 9 million households in the UK. While Executive Vice President, Jeff oversaw the creation of new business ventures and opportunities and sat on the overall executive committee of the company. Prior to this role Jeff was the Group Director for IT and Strategy (CIO) where he lead the technology teams within Sky. During this time he oversaw the technical implementation of Sky’s Broadband roll-out and network build, the creation of the new online platforms and portals, and the launch of an end to end CRM system. In addition he was responsible for all of the IT infrastructure and hardware for the company.

Prior to joining BSkyB Jeff was an executive at IBM. He was a successful program manager and IT transformation professional at PwC (which was later acquired by IBM) and has had many successful implementations throughout Europe and the UK. Jeff started his management consulting career at Andersen Consulting in the US and progressed rapidly through the ranks until reaching partner at IBM just before joining BSkyB.

Professor Stevens is the long time Head, Computing and Communications Futures Laboratory at Argonne National Laboratory, as well as the Leader of the Petascale Computing and Theory Initiative. Stevens has recently completed appointments as Associate Laboratory Directors for both Physical, Biological and Computing Sciences and Computing and Life Sciences.

Prof. Stevens is also a Committee Member of the Open Source Software for HPC PITAC Subcommittee, and a member of the University of Chicago's Computer Science Department and Division Director of its Mathematics and Computer Science Division.

Professor Stevens advises IOCOM on overall software development and architecture as well as the latest trends and needs in the research community.

The IOCOM Strategic Advisory Board is comprised of premier business and technology leaders that bring in-depth industry expertise and knowledge to the company. The group is an invaluable resource, providing IOCOM with critical insight, which helps to shape business and product developments.

IOCOM’s Strategic Advisory Board assists the company in all aspects of the development lifecycle of the product, sales and marketing, customer service, and corporate development.