Steve Papa

About Steve Papa

Founder of Parallel Wireless - worlds first fully 5G-native architecture for 2G/3G/4G/5G that is build on 100% open COTS components from RAN through core. Engaged with operators in >60 countries seeking to bring more coverage and capacity to billions around the world.Active founder, investor, board member and mentor sponsoring the creation of a wide variety of tech companies in software, mobile, and telecommunications.Founded the enterprise software company Endeca in and was its CEO until it was Oracle\'s 6th largest acquisition ever (reported at $1.1 billion on announcement in 2011). Endeca pioneered Guided Navigation, one of the leading search innovations of the decade, and made it an industry standard online. Endeca\'s solutions today play a key role in the online commerce, enterprise business intelligence and national security markets. Prior to its acquisition, Endeca had achieved $750M in cumulative worldwide revenue and 700 customers, and had built an exceptionally talented team of over 500 headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Endeca was named the fastest growing private company in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal and recognized as one of the winners of the E&Y EOY awards program.Prior to Endeca, part of the original MIT $50K team creating Akamai, a member of the early team at Inktomi in charge of creating the company’s infrastructure caching business, and spent time at Teradata and also at Venrock, the Rockefeller Family\'s venture capital arm. MBA from Harvard and a BS in Operations Research and Economics from Princeton University. Active as an advisory board member for the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard and Keller Center at Princeton.Specialties: All

Experience

1. Founder and CEO

   Parallel Wireless

   Dec 2012 — Present · Nashua, NH, US

   Parallel Wireless is Reimagining the Wireless Network. Moore\'s law is disrupting how we can build the key components used in the $50B/yr cap ex cellular radio network.enabling Parallel Wireless to build a 5G-native architecture that makes 2G/3G/4G/5G networks as easy to build as Wi-Fi networks. Whether macro, metro, small cell, public safety or enterprise, we are re-imagining how to accelerate the cellular network build out with the HetNet Gateway. The new technology that we are building uses open fully 3GPP-compliant interfaces, allows real-time network orchestration, supports new services, and reduces the time/cost to build, optimize, secure, and evolve the RAN/EPC.

Education

• State University of New York at Delhi

  Associate of Science (A.S.), Engineering Science

  1989 — 1990

• Princeton University

  BSE, Engineering and Economics

  1990 — 1994

• Harvard Business School

  MBA, MBA

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Search
• Product Management
• Business Alliances
• Business Intelligence
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Senior Executive Leadership
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Mobile Applications
• Angel Investing
• Data Mining
• Cloud Computing
• Enterprise Search
• Thought Leadership
• Telecommunications
• Strategic Partnerships
• Lead Generation
• Endeca
• Big Data
• Business Development
• Storage
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Executive Management
• Solution Selling
• Integration
• Mergers
• Start-Ups
• Professional Services
• Saas
• Enterprise Software
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Mobile Devices
• Venture Capital
• Product Marketing
• IT Strategy
• Leadership