Leadership

Prior to co-founding Veea in 2014, Mr. Salmasi was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of NextWave Telecom Inc. and, its spin-off, NextWave Wireless Inc. (“NextWave”), a San Diego-based company. In partnership with MCI Communications Corporation, NextWave developed and substantially implemented the first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (“MVNO”) service in the US. NextWave Telecom was acquired by Verizon in 2005 and its spin-off NextWave Wireless was acquired by AT&T in 2013.

Prior to NextWave since 1988, he served as the first President of QCT (wireless business division), Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Qualcomm Incorporated, where he initiated and led the business development activities for the first digital cellular 2G products, including its chipset and handset developments and production, based on Code Division Multiple Access (“CDMA”) technology, which became the first global wireless standard as 3G and gave birth to smartphones. Prior to Qualcomm, from 1983 to 1988, Mr. Salmasi was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Omninet Corporation, which developed and launched OmniTRACS product and services in 1985. As the first large scale commercial application of spread spectrum communications incorporating CDMA, OmniTRACS became the world’s first and largest commercial terrestrial mobile satellite communications service for two-way messaging and position reporting service through 2000s.

He holds two Bachelor of Science degrees with honors in Electrical Engineering and Business Management and Economics from Purdue University and two Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Purdue University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He then completed the coursework at University of Southern California towards a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering.

Greg D Deisher is our EVP - Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Deisher previously served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Deisher has served in senior financial and operational leadership roles for over 20 years including multiple international postings. He spent 13 years in Russia and seven years in China & Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Deisher served as CFO of Wallarm Inc (2024 – 2026) a cybersecurity company specializing in API Security. Prior to that as CFO of Vapor IO (2019 – 2024), an ultra low latency edge datacenter company. Mr. Deisher is a CPA. He began his career with PwC (Dallas & Almaty offices) where he served his clients consisting of international telecom, oil & gas (including ExxonMobil, Chevron & Shell) and FMCGs (Unilever, P&G plus both Coca-Cola and Pepsi).

Michael is the CEO of Veea Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Veea, and a co-founder of Veea Inc. In his role as CEO, Michael spearheads initiatives and engages with partners to deliver edge computing solutions to customers in a range of verticals, including Smart Retail, Smart Buildings, and Smart Agriculture.

Michael holds a MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, and previously held positions UBS Financial Services.

Mark Tubinis has been Chief Commercial Officer of Veea since 2020. He is a seasoned technology executive recognized for building and managing global product and services organizations. He has broad experience in virtualized and cloud-based fixed and mobile service delivery (voice, video, data and IoT), and has worked in engineering management, product management, business development, and strategic planning throughout his career.

He previously served as Senior Vice President of SeaChange International, an OTC-listed supplier of video delivery software; as the Chairman of the Board of Airfusion, a private AI driven data analytics company; and as a director of Classco, Inc., a specialist in Calling Line ID technologies. He holds an MSEE/Computer Engineering and Communications from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BSEE from Boston University.

Helder Antunes serves as our Chief Revenue Officer. Mr. Antunes is an entrepreneur, technologist, and executive with over 30 years of experience in Silicon Valley and around the world. Until May 2025, Mr. Antunes served as CEO of Crowdkeep, an Internet of Things (IoT) company specializing in asset, people, and condition tracking across multiple industries.

From January 2019 to January 2022, Mr. Antunes was the CEO of Cyvolve. Mr. Antunes previously served as a Cisco executive for over 20 years, crucial in leading corporate innovation and in the development of many of Cisco’s many security products, such as IoS imbedded security, Cisco Virtual Office (CVO), and Dynamic Multipoint VPN, as well as leading projects like Cisco Connected Car, founding the OpenFog Consortium, and developing the reference architecture for all things IoT. A renowned expert in data security, Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, and disruptive innovation, Mr. Antunes speaks at numerous conferences and symposiums around the world every year and has presented to the U.S. Congress, and the parliaments of countries like Norway and Portugal on the topics of technology and innovation.

Mr. Antunes has also served as an advisor to the Government of Portugal and the Regional Government of the Azores, counseling on the topics of stimulating high tech development, fostering investment environments, and promoting science & technology education.

Mr. Kerr is involved in the day to day operations, supply chain management, and manufacturing for Veea Products. Mr. Kerr previously held positions of senior management and C-suite positions in semiconductors, supply chain, operations, Quality, and engineering design.

He was the initial business leader to form Qualcomm QCT division as GM. He has also held positions with NextWave, as SVP business development, CEO of Public Wireless, and various others.

Thomas Latiolais is Chief Marketing Officer of Veea. He brings more than two decades of experience across software development, product strategy, user experience, technical marketing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence.
Prior to joining Veea, Mr. Latiolais held engineering, product, and strategy roles at Vapor IO, an early leader in edge infrastructure. Over the past 18 months working with Veea, he has helped shape the company’s product planning, market positioning, edge AI strategy, solution architecture, and market engagement, while accelerating the integration of AI-enabled capabilities across Veea’s product and solution portfolio.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Mr. Latiolais leads Veea’s global marketing strategy, product marketing, corporate positioning, and market development initiatives, working across engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership to drive adoption of Veea’s AI-native edge infrastructure platform.