Management Team

Rakesh Jhaveri

Rakesh currently serves as tkLABS's President and leads the business team. Prior to that, Rakesh worked for Lightsurf Technologies in the development of the camera phone as well as providing integration and training support to their OEM PictureMail clients. Earlier in his career, Rakesh worked for Bell Labs in the development of Long Distance Call Switches. In 1996 he joined Motorola, where he was instrumental in developing iDEN mobile technology.

Rakesh received his B.S in Computer Engineering from University of Puerto Rico.

Douglas Lenz

Douglas currently serves as tkLABS's Vice President. Douglas leads the Embedded Software and Electrical development teams as well as supporting the company wide infrastructure. At tkLABS, he has also led the product team for the Nextel BlackBerry products.  Previous employment saw Doug at LightSurf Technologies where he lead the embedded development team and prior to that, 12 years at Motorola, where he introduced iDEN mobile technology.

Douglas received his B.S in Electrical Engineering and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Alex Wang

Alex Wang leads the Mobile Applications and Client-Server Application teams.

He introduced iDEN mobile technology at Motorola where he was for 9 years. Prior to that, during his employment at LightSurf Technologies, he specialized in MMS technologies and helped Motorola release its first camera phone.

Alex received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University.

Todd Russell

Todd Russell leads the Data Protocols team specializing in all areas of Mobile IP, NAT, and TCP/IP. After 7 years with Motorola, he worked for LightSurf Technologies leading the development of the BREW version of LightSurf's PictureMail client.

Earlier in his career, Todd worked for IBM where he helped develop their first color laser printer.

Todd received his B.S. in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science and his Masters of Engineering in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science from J.B. Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville.

Alan Chan

Alan Chan leads the Embedded Java development team at tkLABS and is the resident expert on ZigBee technology. He previously worked for LightSurf Technologies helping Motorola release their first camera phone as well as leading the development of the J2ME version of LightSurf's Picturemail client. Before that, Alan was with Motorola for 10 years.

Alan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University.

Brett Gilmer

Brett Gilmer leads the Windows Mobile development team at tkLABS. Previously, Brett helped LightSurf Technologies release the Windows Mobile version of LightSurf's Picturemail client, having previously worked for Motorola 6 years. 

Brett received his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Richmond.