David Ly es el líder visionario y fundador de Iveda. David ha ocupado el cargo de consejero delegado y presidente del consejo de administración desde la creación de la empresa. También fue presidente hasta febrero de 2014. David cuenta con más de 20 años de experiencia en datos inalámbricos, telefonía móvil, tecnologías de la información y videovigilancia en la nube. Tenía solo 27 años cuando fundó la empresa en 2003 y se ha convertido en un líder dinámico, creando una infraestructura pionera de alojamiento de vídeo en la nube y videovigilancia en tiempo real. Entre los principales logros de David se incluyen la obtención de más de $12 millones a través de inversores ángeles, la creación de plataformas de vídeo en la nube e IoT de clase empresarial, la salida a bolsa de la empresa y la adquisición de una empresa de tecnología de seguridad en Taiwán, lo que ha posicionado a Iveda para su crecimiento global. David también es responsable de conseguir las cuentas de la empresa en Estados Unidos y a nivel internacional, así como de forjar alianzas estratégicas con grandes organizaciones. Antes de fundar la empresa, David desarrolló una exitosa carrera en el ámbito de las ventas y la ingeniería de aplicaciones. Ocupó cargos en varias grandes empresas, entre ellos el de ingeniero de aplicaciones en Metricom, Inc., el de ventas corporativas en Nextel Communications, el de director de mercado en Door To Door Storage y el de director de ventas B2B en T-Mobile USA. Durante su etapa en T-Mobile, David obtuvo el premio al mejor vendedor del President’s Club. La experiencia de David en ventas y marketing, así como su clara visión de la videovigilancia a través de la computación en la nube, han sido fundamentales para el éxito de la empresa. Ha formado parte de numerosos consejos de administración y consejos asesores en los ámbitos de la tecnología, la comunidad y las fuerzas del orden. David se licenció en Ingeniería Civil con una especialización en Negocios Internacionales por la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco, en California.
Bob Brilon returned to Iveda in December 2013. Bob is a senior executive with over 30 years of experience as a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for both private and public companies. Most recently, Bob served as CFO and EVP of Business Development for Brain State Technologies, a leading system for Brainwave Optimization®. During his tenure there, he was successful in raising capital while also providing leadership in financial operations, technology licensing programs, and channel development. Prior to that, Bob held CFO positions for various companies that required his expertise including MD Helicopters and Iveda (2008 to 2010). He was instrumental in Iveda becoming a fully reporting public company and subsequently structuring the transaction that led to the acquisition of MEGAsys, Iveda’s subsidiary in Taiwan. Bob served as the CEO and CFO for InPlay Technologies (NASDAQ:NPLA), formerly Duraswitch (NASDAQ:DSWT) patent holder and global licensor of magnetic switches, from 1998 to 2007. Other positions held include CFO at Gietz Master Builders, Corporate Controller at Rental Service Corp. (NYSE:RRR) and CFO and Vice President of Operations at DataHand Systems, Inc. Bob was also CFO at Go-Video (AMEX:VCR), manufacturer of the first dual-deck VCR. Prior to his career in the corporate world, Bob obtained CPA certification and accumulated four years of audit and tax experience with such “Big Four” CPA firms as McGladrey & Pullen, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte & Touche. Bob oversees the financial well-being of the Company and all aspects of accounting and finance, administration, and human resources functions. He develops and manages banking/vendor relationships, financial reports, budgets, and internal control systems. Bob is also in charge of investor relations and capital strategies to support the company’s growth. Bob received his B.S. Degree in Business Administration from University of Iowa.
Greg Omi joined Iveda as CTO in May 2021 He was an early seed investor in 2006 and served on Iveda’s Board from 2011 to 2016. Greg has decades of experience as a software developer in the Computer Games Industry. He is responsible for shaping Iveda’s technology roadmap, overseeing new technology development including a web-based dashboard to centrally manage information and functionalities for video surveillance systems, AI video search platform, and IoT smart devices. Greg specializes in writing engine and effects code, game objects and tools code, data compression and quantization. He has also written the firmware for a CD drive, RSA and MD5 code. Greg worked for Zynga as software architect from November 2009 to 2019, writing online games in Flash for Facebook (i.e., FarmVille). As a senior engineer, Greg joined the Auto Pilot Team at Tesla in 2019. Greg also worked at Monkey Gods, LLC, a video game developer, designing Facebook applications as a programmer, until Zynga bought the company. From October 2006 to January 2009, Greg worked at Flektor, Inc., focused on Flash 9 / Flex 2 / Action Script 3, C, XML and Ruby programming for a web application, including video and image processing. Flektor was acquired by FOX Interactive Media in 2007 while he was working there. From October 1996 to June 2006, Greg held the position of Senior Programmer with Naughty Dog, a computer game company, which was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment. He designed the rendering engines for the award-winning Crash Bandicoot 2, 3 and CTR for PlayStation 1, as well as the Jak and Daxter game series. Greg is credited as co-creator and co-developer of other iconic games including Crash Team Racing, Streetsports Baseball/Basketball, Jak II/3/X and many other published games.
Sam Chen joined Iveda in December 2018. Prior to joining Iveda, Sam managed manufacturing companies in Taiwan that generated multi-million dollars (USD) in annual revenue. With over 30 years of contract manufacturing experience in a variety of industry segments, Sam is experienced in industry standard manufacturing, purchasing and engineering processes, and a hands-on executive involved in product development processes, from Marketing Requirement Document (MRD), Process Verification Testing (PVT), Design Verification Testing (DVT), Product Mass Production (MP), and customer final product delivery. Sam’s product expertise includes PC mother boards and system integration solution products. Since 2009, Sam has dedicated his time on emerging technologies including IoT, IIoT, M2M, and smart industrial power panel, catering to global tier one telco and MSO. In recent years, Sam has delivered IoT Smart Home devices to global power utilities. Sam received his B.S. Degree in Engineering at the Westlake Industry Engineering College in Taiwan.
Ing-Hang Shiau has been working very closely with the Iveda management team since the acquisition of Iveda Taiwan (fka MEGAsys) in 2010. Mr. Shiau co-founded Iveda Taiwan in 1991 and has since deployed multi-million dollar safe city projects in Taiwan and neighboring countries. He has 35 years of experience in security systems. With his many years of experience in the industry, Iveda relies on his relationships with contract manufacturers to deliver the best devices at the lowest price for our customers. Prior to Iveda Taiwan, Mr. Shiau spent most of his professional career at Panasonic Taiwan and he is currently a member of the Board of Directors at NTE, a Panasonic agency in Taiwan. Mr. Shiau received his B.S. Degree in Math from Soochow University in Taiwan.
Richard Tsay has been working for Iveda since October 2011. Richard heads our product development team in Taiwan and has been instrumental in all Iveda’s product introductions including our cloud-video hosting platform, intelligent search technology, and IoT technology. Richard also manages our deployments with our telco partners. His expertise working with various ODMs has been invaluable to Iveda as we constantly seek new devices enabled for our software. Richard held mid-management positions in companies in Taiwan including Motorola, Danger Inc./Microsoft, RFIC Technology Corp. and Tuntex Telecommunications Co., Ltd. He also held similar positions in companies in California including RFIC Integrated Corp., AROMA Electronics, and RF-Link Technology, Inc. Richard received his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration at International Technology University in San Jose,CA.
