Philippe Kahn
CEO at Fullpower Technologies, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area

Summary
Successful repeat entrepreneur founded four leadership companies: Fullpower Technologies, Inc. ( www.fullpower.com ), LightSurf the worldwide leader in MMS solutions and services (Successfully acquired by Verisign for $300+M), Starfish Technologies, Inc. (successfully acquired by Motorola for $250+M) and Borland (NASDAQ: BORL).

Specialties
Technology innovator and visionary in the fields of telecommunications, Life-Sciences, Biotech, Sensors, Monitors, Devices and high tech.

Experience

CEO
Fullpower Technologies
Telecommunications Industry
December 2004 – Present
Fullpower is converging Wireless and Life-Sciences, building breakthrough, innovative solutions.

CEO
LightSurf Technologies, Inc.
Telecommunications Industry
1998 – December 2004 (6 years)
LightSurf is the worldwide leader for MMS solutions and services, successfully acquired by Verisign for $300+M. Notably Philippe built LightSurf on retained earnings, without need to raise venture capital.

CEO
Starfish Software, Inc.
Telecommunications Industry
1994 – 1998 (4 years)
Starfish pioneered the integration of wireless and wireline devices. The company's founding vision was: "Global synchronization and integration of wireless and wireline devices". Motorola successfully acquired Starfish for $250+M in 1998. Notably Philippe built Starfish on retained earnings, without need to raise venture capital.

CEO
Borland (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL)
Computer Software Industry
1982 – 1994 (12 years)
Founder and CEO of Borland. Built the company from startup to $500M/year run-rate and 3500+ employees. Notably Philippe built Borland on retained earnings, without need to raise venture capital.

Education

ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Swiss Polytechnic Institute), University of Nice, France
Masters, Mathematics

Zurich Music Conservatory, Switzerland
Musicology and classical flute

Awards
Philippe Kahn has received numerous awards including his induction into the industry hall of fame, recognition by BYTE Magazine as one of the Top 20 Most Important People in the history of the computer industry, selection for Upside Magazine's Elite 100 list, as well as being the recipient of numerous awards for innovation and technical excellence.

Computer History Museum
computerhistory.org
September 2003
Philippe was honored for 3 decades of innovation.
http://www.fullpower.com/?Page=Vision&Side=Blog&View=2001-2003&ID=2003-September-23

International Imaging Industry Association
i3a.org
February 2002
Leadership of the Year Award

Additional Notes
Philippe Kahn is author of dozens of patents and associated with core innovations such as:

The first non-kit personal computer
The Micral was the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a micro-processor, the Intel 8008. Thi Truong developed the computer and Philippe Kahn the software. Truong, founder and president of the French company R2E, created the Micral as a replacement for minicomputers in situations that didn't require high performance. Selling for $1,750, the Micral never penetrated the U.S. market. In 1979, Truong sold Micral to Bull.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1973

Fundamentals of device synchronization
http://www.syncml.org

Camera-Phones
http://www.lightsurf.com/
The vision for the first camera-phone was formed in June 1997. Motorola worked with Philippe to build the first camera-phone. LightSurf designed, developed, and managed the service infrastructure and did the reference design for the hardware. This became a secret internal Motorola project. Sadly, later in 2001 Motorola cancelled the project which would have given them at least an 18 month lead on the industry. Mistakes happen!

Interestingly, the old Soviet KGB reconverted into an industrial information gathering organization, didn't miss a beat. Here is what they put on the web in 2000. So much for secrecy! http://news.hpc.ru/news/news2000_09_22.shtml#1043