Software-as-a-service company Plume has appointed former Ubiety Chief Technology Officer and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Mik Cox as Senior Vice President of Technology Innovation.
Cox will lead the company’s new technology innovation team, working across product, engineering, sales, and data teams to translate frontier research into new solutions for ISPs.
Plume said that Cox will also help to set technology priorities for the company and deploy them at scale.
Cox joins Plume from Ubiety, where he rose from founding engineer to CTO. He led the creation of Ubiety’s novel presence detection platform, the first AI system that determines presence using wireless signals emitted by electronic devices.
At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cox helped develop NASA’s first Alexa skill and led the popular Open Source Rover project. His team prototyped and delivered smart home and other connected technologies that improved the NASA campus by blending AI, data science, RFID systems, and other sensor networks.
“Mik brings a mix of engineering chops, entrepreneurial spirit, and forward-looking thinking to this newly created role which will help create the roadmap for our next category-defining products for customers,” said Dan Herscovici, CEO of Plume.
“Service providers are moving beyond speed to a world where personalised experiences and reliability will win the day. Mik will help to identify these opportunities with his team and align our product technology strategy accordingly. He and his team are already hard at work.”
The company said that the move was part of a wider company effort to reshape its executive team as it moves to provide more reliable, proactive, and personalized Wi-Fi experiences in the home.
The company also appointed Gavin Rawson as Vice President, Engineering for the EU market and Sean Li as Vice President of Operations. In July it appointed former CUJO AI Senior Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships, Marcio Avillez as Chief Commercial Officer.
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