RFinity Team

Management Team

Steven McCown, Interim CEO, CTO

Steve McCown was most recently a Principle Investigator leading research efforts in cellular phone vulnerability analysis and exploitation, supporting various government organizations, at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. In parallel with this research, Steve invented security and transaction technologies that have become the basis for RFinity technology. Steve's research interestes include: Mobile Devices, Communication Technologies, Information Security, and Embedded Systems.

Board Members and Advisors

Rajiv Dutta

Rajiv Dutta was most recently the President of eBay Marketplaces and Executive Vice President of eBay Inc. with overall responsibility for eBay Marketplaces, a global business unit that contributed about 70-percent of eBay Inc.'s total 2007 revenue of nearly $7.7 billion. Previously, Rajiv was President of PayPal overseeing a period of rapid growth and expansion, particularly in the company's merchant services segment. Rajiv was also President of Skype, and previously Chief Financial Officer of eBay. During his tenure as CFO, eBay's market capitalization increased six-fold, growing from $750 million to $4.5 billion, and the employee base growing to nearly 12,000 employees. Rajiv continues to be a member of eBay's Board of Directors.

Bill Nixon

Bill Nixon is Chairman and CEO of Policy Impact Communications, Inc., a full-service public- and government relations company. After working as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, Nixon served for more than 15 years as a senior staff member and speech writer on Capitol Hill, the majority of the time with Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware. He also worked for Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, and on the professional staffs of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and Government Affairs Committee. Nixon is also the author of several published books. The first, Strategic Compromise, was published in 1990.

Mabel Chu

Gideon Yu

Gideon Yu was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, where he led finance, accounting, investor relations, and real estate operations. Before joining Facebook, Gideon was the CFO of YouTube, where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to Google. Gideon was also the Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for Yahoo and led corporate finance, M&A / business development evaluation, cash management, real estate and treasury operations.

James Hughes

James is currently a principal architect at Huawei, and a former Fellow at Sun Microsystems, Storage Technology and Network Systems Corporation. His research interests include Operating Systems, Storage, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography.