Executive Team
Dr. Robert W. Dean, President and CEO
Bob joined Vialogy as President and CEO in October, 2007, from SAIC where he was Corporate Senior Vice President for Market Development. SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States. Previously, he held senior executive positions with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace Corp. Bob also served in senior executive positions in the U.S. government at the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and at the White House as Special Assistant to the President during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, Harvard University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver.
Hugo Fruehauf, Chief Operating Officer and VP, Engineering.
Hugo Fruehauf is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and VP – Engineering for ViaLogy LLC, Pasadena CA. He comes to ViaLogy from Frequency Electronics Inc., (FEI), NY, where he served as VP and Chief Technology Officer. He has had a distinguished career as President/CEO and CTO for four global-reach companies serving the electronics/telecom industry for both commercial and military/governmental markets. He lead two startup companies to $11M and $55M sales in a short time and headed the Defense Group of Alliant Techsystems, an aerospace company in MN, with sales of ~$500M.
Earlier in his career he served as Systems Designer and Chief Engineer for satellite and launch vehicles systems. He is privileged of having been the Chief Engineer for the design and development of the GPS satellite for the now famous Global Positioning System at (then) Rockwell International (RI). Also at RI, he was R&D/test Chief for the second stage of the Saturn Launch Vehicle that brought America to the moon.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer, State of California; MBA graduate (Pepperdine) and Electronic Engineering graduate (DeVry University), an international speaker, has numerous patents and the author of a religious book “God Without Dogma”. In addition, he presently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University for Data Analysis/Decision Science as well as Global Economics/International Trade; he is also fluent in German.
Dr. Sandeep Gulati, Co-founder, Chief Technical Officer and VP, Product Development.
Prior to joining ViaLogy Dr. Gulati headed the Ultracomputing Technologies (UCT) Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA. During his 12 year tenure at JPL, he led computational advances in spacecraft autonomy, autonomous diagnostics and prognostics of complex systems, sensor fusion, neural networks, signal processing, command decision modeling and intelligence analysis. At JPL he was a Principal Scientist on a number of programs of national relevance such as DOD's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), NASA's Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), oil industry's DEEPLOOK Consortium, predictive intelligence capability for Army’s All-Source Analysis System, and subsurface imaging for cleanup of formerly used contaminated defense sites. He collaborated on strategic programs with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell, Pratt & Whitney, and NASA Centers (MSFC, GSFC, LeRC, LaRC, ARC, KSFC).
At ViaLogy, he developed a novel signal amplification computational technology, Quantum Resonance Interferometry (“QRI”) to detect and quantitate weak signals and events in high clutter and background noise. Vialogy is currently deploying QRI for life sciences applications in analysis of microarrays, mass spectrometry, next generation surveillance platforms and missile seekers. Dr. Gulati has over 13 issued patents, over 30 patents pending and over 100 publications in archival journals and conferencing proceedings. He has consulted extensively with the financial services, entertainment, aerospace and networking companies. Dr. Gulati holds an MBA from Pepperdine University, a B. Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a PhD in Computer Science from Louisiana State University.
Bob Kern, VP of Sales and Marketing
Bob Kern comes to ViaLogy from SAIC Inc., (SAI), where he served as VP for Business Development and the UK Strategic Account Manager. His other positions at SAIC included leading business development for the Operations, Intelligence and Security Business Unit ($700M) and running a European line organization with 300 employees in seven countries serving the same markets. He had a President’s Club career in sales at both Sun and SGI prior to joining SAIC.
Earlier in his career he served as an officer in the US Air Force specializing in Intelligence and Security. At Autometric, he also performed program/product management for visualization systems and business development within the Defense community.
He has a BA (Languages); MA (Management) and numerous professional certificates in sales, marketing, business development and strategic planning.
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