A team of talented leaders in commercial and government industries and technology have contributed significantly to the success of Scalable Network Technologies to date.

Directors

Rajive Bagrodia, Ph.D.
Founder & President, Scalable Network Technologies
Chairman of the Board

Dr. Bagrodia is currently on leave of absence as a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, where he continues to lead an active research program in mobile computing and parallel & distributed programming.

Dr. Bagrodia obtained a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1981. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1983 and 1987 respectively.

Dr. Bagrodia has made significant innovations in the theory and practice of performance prediction of complex, large scale computer and communication systems. His research group at UCLA has produced widely used simulation systems that include Maisie, a parallel simulation language, its successor Parsec (Parallel Simulation Environment for Complex Systems), and the GloMoSim library for simulation of large, mobile ad hoc networks. He has published over a hundred research papers in Computer Science journals and international conferences on high performance computing, wireless networking, and parallel simulation.

His scientific contributions have been recognized via a number of awards including the Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, Outstanding Young Teacher award from the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Best Paper Awards at the 1998 and the 2001 PADS Workshop.

Dr. Bagrodia is actively involved in the research community, having served as the Program Chair, General Chair, and member of the Steering Committee for the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) and the Program Committee of numerous conferences including Mobicom, PADS, ICDCS, and WSC. He also serves as an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Systems (TOMACS).

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Major General George W. "Nordie" Norwood, USAF (Ret)
Board of Directors

Former Air Force Major General George "Nordie" Norwood brings defense industry leadership to Scalable Network Technologies. General Norwood has extensive experience in the management of command and control systems inside the United States Department of Defense and internationally.

Over his long career in the US Air Force, General Norwood was a tactical fighter pilot and Air Force officer, planner and leader, serving in posts throughout Europe and Asia. More recently, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the United Nations Command and United States Forces in Korea. In this role, General Norwood was responsible for critical general officer level negotiations with North Koreans. He was also Commander of the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa Air Base in Japan, where he was the senior US Military Member in Northern Japan.

Since retiring from the Air Force, General Norwood has served in a variety of professional capacities. He is on the Board of Directors for the Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) and the WidePoint Corporation and serves on the Board of Strategic Advisors for AtHoc, Inc.

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