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The Team
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Myra Schulman, CEO |
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Tom Zamojdo, COO |
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Christopher Grabowski, CTO |
The concept of the Virtual Cable™ technology did not come from basic research or narrowly defined, specialized skills in any single field of science or engineering. Our breakthrough was accomplished by applying our knowledge of several, seemingly disconnected, areas of engineering and science to produce a new and powerful technology. Developing the Virtual Cable™ idea into a mature design required our specialized knowledge of advanced optical design, laser optics and real-time computer software design.
Chris and Tom have been engaged in car navigation projects for more than 11 years. Their original effort resulted in the creation of a new method of displaying a map to a driver. In 1997, they applied and obtained (in 2001) a US patent US06272431 on their invention. The idea relied on HUD technology that is still too expensive to be commercially feasible.
Chris and Tom continued their work on their HUD map display. The concept of the Virtual Cable™ was conceived in 2001 when they realized that their map could be far more effective when reduced to just a single line, but only if such line was displayed in true 3D. Applying Chris's knowledge of advanced optical design and laser optics and Tom's knowledge of real-time computer software, they came up with several unique designs for true 3D HUDs. After some experimentation and refinement, they determined that they had found a commercially feasible design for a 3D HUD (capable of displaying a true 3D line).
Myra, who had worked with Tom on several projects since 1983, joined our team in 2005. She has been providing our company with a clear business direction and day-to-day management. Her main challenge has been in directing our efforts to design a marketable display that can be installed in the existing car models and can be integrated with any existing method of route planning.
Biographies:
Myra Schulman, CEO
After attaining a BS in Economics from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Myra worked for 5 years at a management consulting firm (Towers Perrin). After attaining a MS in computer science (at Fairleigh Dickinson), she spent the next 22 years at AT&T and Bell Communications Research (later Telecordia Technologies) designing large, core-business engineering software systems for the telecommunications industry. After taking early retirement, she joined our team in 2005.
Tom Zamojdo, COO
Tom is the co-inventor of the Virtual Cable. He worked for 10 years at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research where he met and worked with Myra on several large computer systems including network monitoring and security. Tom left Bell Communications Research to start a software engineering consulting company in North Carolina, which provided custom software solutions to such clients as Wachovia, Bank of America and Duke Energy. After 8 years, Tom returned to New York to work on the Virtual Cable™.
Christopher Grabowski, CTO
Chris is the principal inventor and designer of the Virtual Cable™ technology. For the last 18 years he has been a software engineer (at The Clearing House in NYC) responsible for a real-time multilateral netting and settlement system which transfers more than one trillion dollars a day between the major financial institutions worldwide.
What we recognized in each other was a determination and ability to get where we wanted to go and to work on what interested us most, no matter how improbable. We each have been successful in designing and implementing creative, practical and cost effective solutions in very complex, rigid environments. We've done it both in our professional and in private lives:
- Myra, the first in her family to attend college, graduated from an Ivy League business school as one of only 10 women in her graduating class of 400.
- Chris and Tom grew up in Communist Poland and became good friends in grade school, upon discovering they were reading the same college-level physics textbooks. While in high school, Chris designed and built optics for astronomical telescopes at the optics lab at Warsaw University. At the same time, Tom worked with his father (an accomplished engineer and inventor) on building a medical sonographic scanner and other projects. Even though their true passion was physics, they were attracted to the theoretical math because it was one of the few scientific disciplines in which serious study did not require any funding (controlled by the Communist Party). In 1978, both Chris and Tom escaped Poland just prior to graduating with MS in mathematics. After graduation, they would have been subject to the compulsory 1 to 5 years military service in the "people's army" (which was under Soviet control), possibly followed by a 1 to 10 year ban on foreign travel. They mastered computer science while living in an Austrian refugee camp, waiting for a US visa. They arrived in New York in 1979 with $700 between the two of them.