Management Team

RAYSPAN's management team brings a rare combination of technical expertise and savvy business acumen to the company. Taken together, they bring many decades of hands-on serial success in launching and building great wireless companies. Their passion is to create true breakthrough solutions that always increase their customers’ product value, decrease their costs and simplify their business processes.

Franz Birkner
Co-Founder President and CEO

Maha Achour, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and CTO

Gregory Poilasne, Ph.D.
Vice President, Business Development

Sandy Godsey, J.D.
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel

Ajay Gummalla, Ph.D.
Vice President of Applied Research