Management

Jonathan Curtiss, President & CEO

Jonathan is the Founder and co-Founder of two companies focused on management consulting, raising capital and market entry business development for technology startups in Europe and Israel. With over 15 years of experience focused primarily on the Defense, Aerospace and Technology markets, Jonathan also currently sits of the Board or Advisory Board of a number of companies ranging from a Gesture Recognition company, a pan-European Human Resources firm, a reader-free smart card technology start up, and until recently 5min.com, a company that was aquired by AOL. Jonathan is a graduate of the Oxford School of Business.

Mario Neves, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Sales

Mario brings 25 years of experience in business, strategic management and international sales and marketing. He has earned a reputation for his expertise in negotiating and managing complicated commercial transactions and working in multi-cultural environments.

Previously, Mario worked as a business executive focusing in business development with companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Radisys, BMW, and ARM. Before moving to the United States in 1994, He has lived most of his life in Europe and the Middle East, and is a graduate from the Université de Reims, in Champagne, France with a BSc in Enology. Mario has also completed an executive MBA in Strategy and Organization at Stanford University School of Business in Palo Alto, California.

Mario is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, and has conversational skills in Arabic and German.

Klony Lieberman, Chief Scientist

Since joining Lumio at its inception, Klony has been responsible for research and development activities as well as maintaining and growing the company’s IP portfolio. Prior to joining Lumio, he was co-founder and CTO of the Nanonics group of companies where he oversaw the development of the world’s first commercial near-field scanning optical microscope. Klony is an expert in advanced optical imaging techniques and has 20 years’ experience in optical system design and manufacture. He has authored over 40 scientific papers in the world’s leading journals and holds numerous patents and received his PhD in Applied Physics and Electro-Optics.

Dan Gunders, Vice President Engineering

Dan is responsible for all product, engineering and development activities. Prior to joining Lumio, he was director of system design & integration for Flextronics Semiconductor, where he was responsible for the SoC business in Europe, including engineering, sales, and marketing. He has more than 17 years of hands-on experience in the design of electronics systems – both at the silicon and system levels.

In 1994, Dan founded Sagitta Engineering Solutions, a design engineering contracting company that developed complete custom systems (algorithms, electronics, optics, s/w and mechanics) for companies in the gaming/entertainment, industrial and telecommunications sectors.

In 1988 Dan received a BSc in both electrical engineering, and physics and computer technology.