Paul Nikolich — Chief Strategy Officer

Mr. Nikolich is currently working with YAS Broadband Ventures, LLC as the Chief Strategy Officer in the technology, standards, intellectual property and venture investing fields since September 2001. Paul plays a leadership role in the IEEE Standards Association, currently serves as Chairman of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards project and is an IEEE Fellow. Mr. Nikolich co-founded Broadband Access Systems, Inc. in February 1998 where he was Vice President of Technology and Standards. The BAS team invented and produced carrier-class next-generation Cable Modem Termination Systems. BAS merged with ADC in September 2000. Prior to co-founding BAS, Mr. Nikolich was a co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Sarnoff Digital Communications in September 1996, a company specializing in developing high performance modems for digital video (SDTV and HDTV) and high speed data systems. Mr. Nikolich has held a number of technical positions of increasing responsibility at several communications & medical imaging technology companies beginning in 1978 such as Motorola, Analogic and Racal Datacom . He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y.