Prior to co-founding Veea in 2014, Mr. Salmasi was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of NextWave Telecom Inc. and, its spin-off, NextWave Wireless Inc. (“NextWave”), a San Diego-based company. In partnership with MCI Communications Corporation, NextWave developed and substantially implemented the first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (“MVNO”) service in the US. NextWave Telecom was acquired by Verizon in 2005 and its spin-off NextWave Wireless was acquired by AT&T in 2013.

Prior to NextWave since 1988, he served as the first President of QCT (wireless business division), Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Qualcomm Incorporated, where he initiated and led the business development activities for the first digital cellular 2G products, including its chipset and handset developments and production, based on Code Division Multiple Access (“CDMA”) technology, which became the first global wireless standard as 3G and gave birth to smartphones. Prior to Qualcomm, from 1983 to 1988, Mr. Salmasi was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Omninet Corporation, which developed and launched OmniTRACS product and services in 1985. As the first large scale commercial application of spread spectrum communications incorporating CDMA, OmniTRACS became the world’s first and largest commercial terrestrial mobile satellite communications service for two-way messaging and position reporting service through 2000s.

He holds two Bachelor of Science degrees with honors in Electrical Engineering and Business Management and Economics from Purdue University and two Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Purdue University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He then completed the coursework at University of Southern California towards a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering.