While working as a satcom engineer, Adam invented a fast technique for frequency estimation. During a few weeks in the summer after his first year of engineering school, he rewrote the entire BASIC interpreter and kernel of the Commodore 64 so that it can be programmed in Arabic instead of English. A few days after he finished making the computer programmable in a version of BASIC that he designed alone, he received a letter from Commodore informing him that it cannot be done. Adams lifelong interest in wireless communication, music, business and improving the lives of people through technology led him to establish Sirenada.
Adam enjoys the theater, improving his French language skills, foreign movies, writing poetry, discovering new music, long distance biking, and spending time with friends, family and his two canine children: Magic and Mara. From time-to-time, Adam can be found putting his Extra Class license AA4PX to use on the 20 meter (14 MHz) amateur radio band looking for new friends in distant places.
Dino Lorenzini, the Chairman & CEO of Spacequest, Inc. in Fairfax, VA, is a co-inventor of the technology employed in the devices under development. Mr. Lorenzini is a co-founder of Spacequest, a leader in the low-earth orbit satellite industry with over ten satellites in orbit. During his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, Col. Lorenzini held senior management responsibilities for several major space development projects, including the Apollo Lunar Module, the Peacekeeper Missile Guidance and Control System, the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System, the High Energy Space Based Laser and the Strategic Defense Initiative System. As Director of the Pilot Architecture Study, Dr. Lorenzini led the technical efforts of over 75 leading scientists and engineers in the conceptual design and analysis of a National Ballistic Defense System.
Dr. Lorenzini was also founder and President of EYETEL International, the very first low-earth orbit satellite system for worldwide asset tracking and environmental monitoring, where he guided the project's concept formulation, licensing, funding, development, and operation.
He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also earned an MBA in Business Administration and Executive Management from Auburn University in Alabama.
Mark Kanawati, the VP of Spacequest, Inc. in Fairfax, VA, is a co-inventor of the technology employed in the devices under development. Mr. Kanawati is a co-founder of Spacequest, a leader in the low-earth orbit satellite industry with over ten satellites in orbit.
With over a dozen years of experiencei n VHF/UHF radio communications, Mr. Kanawati has been extensively involved with the development, operation and use of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. He has been responsible for the design, assembly, integration and testing of several small satellite communications terminals. He also directed the development, installation and operatoin of a Microsat Command Station for controlling one of the world's first commercial LEO satellites, and he was the Principal Investigator for the development and delivery of portable ground terminals to the National Science Foundation for use in Antarctica to provide communications support to fixed sites and remote field parties.
Mr. Kanawati has detailed knowledge, understanding and hands-on experience with nanosatellite design and construction; parts and materials selection, procurement and screening; spacecraft systems assembly and integration; launch vehicle integration and spacecraft preparation; and post-launch-on-orbit and telemetry analysis.
Mr. Kanawati was the chief engineer for the development, launch and operation of the first Eyetel International satellite, Eyesat-1 in 1993.
At FCC his work focused on developing policies for cutting edge radio technologies such as spread spectrum/CDMA and millimeterwaves. Wi-Fi is one outcome of his early leadership. While assigned to the enforcement part of the FCC he developed a low cost PC-based DSP system for fingerprinting radio transmitters and for analyzing the Soviet jamming signals targeted at Voice of America. He extended this detailed signal analysis with his work on the 1986 “Captain Midnight” satellite jamming case and the 1987 Playboy satellite jamming case which were both prosecuted successfully. Awarded a Mike Mansfield Fellowship in 1997, he studied the Japanese language and spent at year at the FCC's Japanese counterpart.
He retired from FCC in March 2004 after serving as a senior technical advisor to the Spectrum Policy Task Force and codirecting the preparation of the FCC's cognitive radio rulemaking. He is now Director of Marcus Spectrum Solutions, an independent consulting firm in wireless technology and policy. He was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE “for leadership in the development of spectrum management policies.”