Cen

Ed Guy started his career at General Electric and Digital Equipment but joined the VoIP industry right at its inception. He worked initially with Bellcore/Telcordia and then moved to Pulver.com where he built and launched Free World DialUp – the world’s first network to offer free voice calls over the Internet. The ensuing furore led to the Pulver Act which has ensured net neutrality for communications companies over the last 20 years. He is therefore considered one of the fathers of VoIP. He is a serial startup CTO who founded IPeerx, the VoIP peering exchange, in 2000 which was sold in 2006. He was chief architect for Truphone, a mobile virtual network operator, from 2006 to 2014 and more recently from 2013 to the present has been CTO of Uniphy Health, a medical communications company where he works part-time, 30 hours per week the remaining time free to work on startup activities. He has served as a VoIP instructor to Internet2.0 community and FCC and, authored RFC 5456 and related RFCs. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and has broad experience in network-based, large-scale & highly-available voice and data systems. He founded CEN in Feb 2018 and primarily serves as its CTO currently dividing his time between CEN and his job with the Uniphy Health.

Erik Viirre is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in the Departments of Neurosciences, Surgery and Cognitive Science. Dr Viirre has extensive experience in cognitive systems development for interaction between humans and technology. Between 2012 and 2017, he was the Medical and Technical Director of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a technology competition for consumer-driven mobile health platforms with embedded Artificial Intelligence. Dr Viirre has worked on human safety and medical applications of VR and its human factors with funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Navy, DARPA, NASA and numerous corporate sources. Dr Viirre has participated in a variety of start-up companies, including Zero G Corporation, 3E Therapeutics and Otosound LLC, which has developed his patented medical device for treatment of tinnitus. He has a PhD in Neurology and is a Medical Doctor, specialising in disorders of the inner ear. Dr Viirre is a practising physician and serves as a Professor of Neurosciences, Surgery and Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, San Diego where he has been since June 1997, this is his primary job. Erik Viirre has served on a consulting basis as our Chief Information Officer since inception in Feb 2018 and spends around 4 hours per week working on Cen primarily as its CIO.

James Tagg is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning author. He was one of the original inventors of the touchscreen and has founded several companies that specialize in man-machine interfaces and communications. He founded Truphone, the world’s first global mobile network, sending the first SMS over the Internet, making the first mobile phone call over the Internet and developing the eSIM for mobile communications. He holds over 200 patents and his first book, Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? explores the limits of Artificial Intelligence and the differences between humans and computers. He studied Physics and Computer Science at Manchester University and Engineering at Cambridge University. Prior to founding Cen Inc. Mr Tagg served as CEO of Truphone Ltd, a mobile virtual network operator from 2006 until 2009 when he became CTO and then CIO in 2015 until he left in October 2016 to found The Roger Penrose Institute, a research institute studying physics, and the differences between the human mind and computers, where he serves as Director. He founded CEN in Feb 2018 serves primarily as its CEO. He currently divides his time equally between CEN and his job with The Penrose Institute spending around 30 hours per week on each.

Manju Kesani has led marketing and commercial teams for 20 years at communication companies such as; EE, Truphone, Lebara Group and the Vodafone partners in Lithuania and Latvia. He blends his passion for brand and marketing with the analytical rigor he gained as a Wharton MBA. Most recently (2016 until 2017) he was Director of Pay Monthly, responsible for managing the £4 billion revenue consumer P&L for EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator. During this period, EE posted its best consumer results ever. From 2013-2015 he served as Chief Marketing Officer and then Commercial Officer for Truphone, where he led all its brand and commercial activities across eight countries and served as Chief Marketing Officer for the Lebara Group, one of the fastest growing MVNOs in the world, where he was responsible for all marketing and brand activities across their footprint. Outside the communications sphere, he has acted as an advisor to WorldRemit, one of Europe’s most successful fintech startups and raised $43 million in equity and $400 million in debt to start a new airline in India. Manju has a masters degree in business administration (MBA) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, from Bangalore University (India), which he received with high honors. Manju Kesani has served as our Chief Commercial Officer on a consulting basis since inception in Feb 2018 and maintains a consulting practise advising companies on commercial and marketing matters. He spends around 4 hours per week working on Cen primarily as its COO.

Andy had his first job in marketing, events and communications at age 14 when he was working in media relations for a professional sports team in Philadelphia, and since then he’s never stopped. Over the past 44 years, Andy has been on all sides of the marketing communications triangle-client, agency, and media and has operated his value creation communications agency, Comunicano, since 1992. Andy has also been heard and seen as a technology correspondent and interviewed on CNET, TMCnet, Voice of Disruption, Business Rockstars, KenRadio, the BBC’s ClickOnline and his online sites, VoIPWatch, WineScene, and WorkingAnywhere. Often quoted by media on travel, marketing, and technology, he holds a degree in Journalism from Temple University. He is currently CEO of Comunicano, Inc., a global value strategy agency, working with startups and companies in transition, with 45 exits to his credit in the last 18 years in addition to serving on the advisory boards of early stage and privately held companies.

Dan first made his foray into international business by building and executing the marketing strategy for a children's’ brand that went from zero to one hundred million dollars in sales with no marketing budget outside of Facebook. He moved on to run social media monetization for a handful of A-list celebrities, generating millions of dollars from their social media accounts; from there he co-founded the leading AI-powered influencer marketing company. Dan has spent the past year entrenched in the blockchain community and is advising a select number of companies and projects.

David Brin is a scientist, tech speaker/consultant, and author. His new novel about our survival in the near future is Existence. A film by Kevin Costner was based on The Postman. His 16 novels, including NY Times Bestsellers and Hugo Award winners, have been translated into more than twenty languages. Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and the world wide web. Dr. Brin serves on the external advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts program (NIAC). David appears frequently on shows such as Nova and The Universe and Life After People, speaking about science and future trends. He has keynoted scores of major events hosted by the likes of IBM, GE, Google and the Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technologies. His non-fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? -- won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.

Gioia Messinger is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, executive and corporate director with extensive background in connected devices, digital health, robotics/AI and video technologies. She serves as Founder and Principal of LinkedObjects, Inc. and as Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, she was Founder and CEO of Avaak, Inc. (acquired by NETGEAR), a venture-funded company that created Arlo. Prior to Avaak, Gioia founded SUMMIT Design Technologies, Inc., a San Diego based engineering services firm. In that role, she contributed to the development of the first wireless Endoscopic Capsule or PillCam™. She is a member of the screening committee of the Triton Technology Fund, an early-stage seed fund dedicated to investing in UCSD related companies, and a visiting lecturer at the Rady School of Management at UCSD. She serves as an independent director for several private technology firms. Formerly, she served on the board of Vicon Industries (NYSE:VII). Ms. Messinger is involved in a number of not-for-profit and educational organizations. and serves as a judge for the Anu and Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE. She received her master's degree in Business Administration from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. She is the recipient of the Women Who Move the City Award and Athena Pinnacle Award.