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Mike West
Genos Corporation / GenosTV™ - Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Mike West is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of GenosTV™ and the Genos Corporation. He is a graduate of The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, holding Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical and Natural Sciences. He has 25 US patents issued plus numerous other inventions and publications.
GenosTV™ brings together multiple technologies that are simultaneously reaching the perfect moment in their development.
Mike brings 28 years of technical leadership experience from IBM, where he held a number of technical leadership positions in engineering, architecture, strategy, business development and client consulting. He is a subject matter expert in Consumer Electronics, including Multimedia, Video Games, Digital TV, Mobile Media, Mobile Games, and Digital Camera platforms. He has directed multi-disciplined development and client-facing technical teams in international and multi-national environments. He was a pioneer in the IBM initiative that led to custom IBM processors in every major video game console available today. Prior to joining GenosTV™ and the Genos Corporation, Mike was the Chief Technology Officer and Director of Innovation at SMARTvt and SMART Holding USA.
Kevin Bachus
Genos Corporation / GenosTV™ - Chief Operating Officer
One of the best-known and most highly respected executives in the video game industry and an active investor in the digital media sector, Kevin was one of the original group of four individuals at Microsoft Corporation who came up with the idea for the Xbox videogame system, an initiative that grew in part out of his role as group product manager for DirectX. As Microsoft’s first director of third-party relations for Xbox, Kevin secured support for Xbox from all major game publishers worldwide and created and managed the programs and processes that would ultimately lead to the strongest software line-up ever for the launch of a game console.
Think of GenosTV™ as the missing link between content providers and their audience.
Kevin co-founded and served in an executive capacity at a number of innovative, venture-backed companies including Capital Entertainment Group, the video game industry’s first independent production company; Infinium Labs, a pioneer in the field of digital software distribution whose flagship product was a finalist for Best Hardware at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo; and Nival Interactive, the largest independent game developer in Eastern Europe. Although he developed a number of games on his own during the early ‘80s, Kevin attended the prestigious University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television where he majored in screenwriting and directing before combining his two passions, technology and entertainment, in the interactive entertainment industry. Engaging, interactive and entertainment, Kevin’s expertise and leadership will give GenosTV™ the ultimate experience in gaming technology and infrastructure for entertaining the next evolution of television as we know of it.
Extended Team
Gary Kellmann
Managing Director,CHZ International Co. Ltd, Shenzhen, China
Consultant and Consumer Electronics Advisor to Genos™ Corporation
Great technology should be transparent to the user and easy to use — GenosTV™ and Cyclops™ are just such great technologies.
Accomplished Entrepreneur – inventor of the world famous consumer products: Belly Lights and Braid Lights and author of "White Ghost in China", published in 2008. Kellmann sold his company (Beyond Mars Inc) in 2004 and has lived in China for the past 6 years. Now, part owner of a Chinese company called CHZ International, based in Shenzhen, China. With over 10 years of operating in China, the CHZ team has become specialists in OEM/ODM and fabricating of industrial and consumer goods. With an emphasis on PCBA based consumer electronics, LED lighting technology and fusing these technologies with glass, metals and plastics. Moreover, CHZ is a large supplier to world wide direct importers who sell to QVC, HSN, catalogs, e-commerce, mass, DIY, specialty and drug retail channels.
Thomas M. Walsh
SNR Denton – Legal Cousel and Intellectual Property Advisor
Mr. Walsh has over 25 years experience advising corporations, boards of directors, officers and shareholders of companies on a variety of complex matters including merger and acquisition transactions, public and private securities offerings, joint ventures, corporate governance issues, venture capital and angel investments, and debt financing transactions. He serves as general counsel to a number of companies. Mr. Walsh works with public companies, privately-held entities, start-up companies and entrepreneurs. He has worked with a number of the fastest growing health care, biotech and technology based companies. He counsels venture capital funds and angel investors with respect to investments in early-stage companies. He represents investment bankers, financial advisors and other intermediaries in corporate transactions and sophisticated opinion matters. He regularly counsels clients on strategic and business planning matters. He also represents clients with respect to public policy matters. Mr. Walsh is active in a number of professional, civic, community and political affairs. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
Tarek Fahmi
SNR Denton – Intellectual Property Attorney
Named one of the Leading IP Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal, Mr. Fahmi is a member of SNR Denton’s Intellectual Property & Technology and the Venture Technology Practice Groups and counsels business leaders in intellectual property-related matters across a broad range of technologies and industries.
His practice includes:
- structuring and negotiating transactions involving IP assets, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, strategic investments, licenses and strategic alliances;
- preparing and prosecuting complex patent applications involving communication and data networks, computer software and hardware, analog and digital circuits, semiconductor technologies, Internet technologies, and RF and GPS systems;
- leading due diligence investigations in connection with transactions in the telecommunications, electronics, and semiconductor industries;
- IP asset assessment and valuation, and risk and portfolio analyses;
- rendering of patent infringement/validity opinions;
- counseling concerning trade secret protections and strategies for IP portfolio management and development;
- litigating complex patent infringement suits relating to technologies as diverse as power management for two-way pagers, Internet caching technology, and automated software update distribution systems.
