Board of Directors

Dr. Georges Karam, Chairman
President and Chief Executive Officer
Before founding Sequans Communications, Georges Karam was vice president of cable access for Juniper Networks, running the cable engineering and marketing departments and managing the cable sales launch in EMEA. He joined Juniper Networks when the company acquired Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC), where he was the first executive to join the founding team to act as vice president of engineering and general manager for Europe. Georges has served in a variety of senior management positions at Alcatel, SAGEM and Philips. He is a senior member of IEEE, has authored numerous technical and scientific papers, and holds several patents in digital communications.

James Patterson
CEO and Co-founder of Mobile Symmetry
James Patterson is currently the chief executive officer and co-founder of Mobile Symmetry, a mobile and database applications company.
Prior to that, Jim held various leadership roles during his 15 year tenure with Sprint, including President of Wholesale Services from 2008 to 2009, Vice President of Cable Solutions from 2005 to 2008, Vice President of Carrier Markets and of Network Access Management from 2001 to 2005, and Vice President of Sprint E|Solutions Finance from 2000 to 2001. Earlier, Jim was a consultant to the financial services industry at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
Jim holds a bachelor’s in economics from Davidson College and an MBA from the University of Virginia. He has also studied British literature and economic history at Cambridge University and completed additional post-graduate work at Georgetown University.

Hubert de Pesquidoux
Advisor, HDP Consulting
Hubert de Pesquidoux has a long career in senior financial and operational management in the telecommunications industry. He is currently a consultant with HDP Consulting where he advises several private companies in telecommunications and invests in private firms. He is also currently chairman of the board and member of the audit committee of Tekelec, a public US technology company; and board member of Telemar, a private US technology company. Earlier, Hubert was CFO at Alcatel-Lucent and president and CEO of Alcatel-Lucent’s Enterprise Business Group. He was also president and CEO of Alcatel North America and Alcatel Canada (formerly Newbridge Networks). Hubert holds a Master’s in Law from Nancy University, a Master’s in Economics and Finance from Sciences Po Paris, and a Master’s in International Affairs from Paris Dauphine. He was also elected Young Global Leader by the Economic World Forum.

Dominique Pitteloud
Partner, Endeavour Vision

Dominique Pitteloud has served as a member of Sequans’ board of directors since January 2005. Dominique is a Partner at Endeavour Vision and has been working in venture capital since 2001. Dominique focuses on investments in the internet, communication and cloud computing sectors, specializing in wireless technologies. He has led or co-led investments in Kobojo, Amplidata, CommProve, where he is a Director, as well as Staccato Communications, Media Lario Technologies, Sphera, eProject, Native Networks (sold to Alcatel) and M7 (sold to BEA). Dominique is also an Advisor with ASSIA, a leader in DSL management solutions.
Prior to venture capital, Dominique was Vice President of Marketing at 8×8, a Silicon Valley telecommunication company. Dominique joined 8×8 in 1999 as part of the acquisition of Odisei, a telecommunication start-up from Sophia Antipolis, France. Prior to Odisei, Dominique held various engineering and management positions at Logitech, a market leader in computer peripherals, including Vice President of the scanner and video camera business units.
Dominique received a BSc degree in Telecommunications from the School of Business and Engineering Vaud, Switzerland and a MBA from Santa Clara University, USA.

Dr. Alok Sharma
Consultant
Dr. Alok Sharma is currently an independent consultant.
From February 2009 to August 2010, Alok was senior vice president, Corporate Development and Alliances, at Aviat Networks (earlier known as Harris-Stratex), where he was responsible for leading corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, as well as the development of key strategic relationships for the company. Beginning in June 2004, Alok was the founder and chief executive officer of Telsima Corporation, a provider of WiMAX broadband wireless solutions, until it was acquired by Aviat Networks in February 2009. Prior to Telsima, Alok was vice president and general manager of the Worldwide Cable Business at Juniper Networks from December 2001 to May 2003. Before Juniper Networks, Alok was the founder and chief executive officer of Pacific Broadband Communications, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in December 2001. Prior to that, Alok held senior management and technical positions at Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu/Amdahl, Integrated Device Technology and Siara Systems, a metro routing company acquired by Redback/Ericsson.
Dr. Sharma holds a bachelor of engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Zvi Slonimsky
Chairman of the Board, Teledata
Zvi Slonimsky is currently chairman of the board of Teledata and a board member of Alvarion. He served as CEO of Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) from 2001 to October 2005, following Alvarion’s establishment via merger of BreezeCOM and Floware in August 2001. Prior to the merger, Zvi was CEO of BreezeCom. Before that, he served as president and CEO of MTS Ltd. and was general manager of DSP Group, Israel. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at several Israeli telecom companies, including C.Mer and Tadiran.
Zvi holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Technion Israel Institute for Technology and an MBA degree from Tel-Aviv University.