About OTO Technologies
Background
The world is becoming more connected. High speed wired and wireless networks, powerful mobile devices and computers are all making the world smaller. Opportunities abound. Oto Technologies was formed to take advantage of these opportunities by creating a world-class technology research and development team comprised of technology innovators and leaders in distributed computing systems.
Near the end of 2008, Oto Technologies was conceived of by a group of technologists with significant experience and a long history with peer-to-peer networking, digital imaging, and audio/video digital media. The founders, having worked together previously, were successful in their efforts to launch and fund the operation in January 2009.
Our Mission
Oto Technologies is a software and IP development company that focuses on handheld computing and communications devices, systems, and services. The Company concentrates on internal IP and technology development and supplements that effort with acquisitions. Oto’s key employees have had prior success working at similar companies that have licensed their innovations to the technology industry. The company has significant funding from venture investors.
Who Is Oto
We are an innovation company. Distributed computing systems is our domain. We develop advanced technology for distributed media, and communications services. We find ways to connect things in cool new ways. We make things work together in clever configurations yielding higher throughput, increased security, better performance, increased reliability, and more predictably.
Our engineering groups are staffed with personnel comprised of researchers, staff engineers, principal engineers, and technology domain experts. Many have advanced degrees. The engineering groups work on projects focused on specific markets and technology problems in a rigorous collaborative process. Are you interested in licensing our technology or IP? Contact us.
Management Team
Eric Gregg, CEO
Eric Gregg is Chief Executive Officer of Oto Technologies. Prior to joining Oto, Eric spent 15 years in the investment banking industry with stints at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, and most recently Credit Suisse. For the six years prior to Oto, Eric advised C-Level executives of Credit Suisse’s corporate clients on value maximization strategies employing value based management principles. Prior to that effort, Eric spent time in equity capital markets, debt capital markets, and credit while in the investment banking industry. Eric graduated from Bowdoin College in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts.
GREG EVANS, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Greg Evans is the Chief Technology Officer overseeing Oto R&D and operations. Greg’s expertise includes system architecture, mobile technologies, broadband access, advanced networking, and multimedia delivery. His career spans nearly 30 years in research, development, and commercialization of consumer and telecom products. Greg has led software and hardware teams with ECI Telecom, Research Triangle Institute, and BroadBand Technologies. His projects have ranged from federally funded basic research to venture backed development and deployment of large scale subscriber access systems. Greg received his BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1981.
Boris Bakovic, Director of Business Development
Boris is the Director of Business Development at Oto Technologies and works from the San Francisco office. He has over 17 years of leadership and corporate finance experience developed at premier global brand companies. He was most recently Senior Manager of Corporate Finance at Apple Inc., a small impact team responsible for key aspects of Apple’s overall financial strategy including corporate acquisitions, strategic investments, real estate and equipment investments, complex financial analysis, and research projects. Prior to Apple, Boris was part of the San Francisco Corporate Banking team at Bank of America responsible for developing comprehensive finance solutions for Fortune 1000 clients.
Boris received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and his undergraduate degree in economics from Santa Clara University.
ERIC HALBER, CORPORATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COUNSEL
Eric Halber is the IP Counsel for Oto Technologies. He has been a practicing attorney since 1990. Before joining Oto he was in-house IP counsel for Fortune 500 companies Pitney Bowes and Nortel. Prior to that he held litigation counsel positions with prominent law firms including Sughrue Mion in Washington, D.C. and Phelps Dunbar in New Orleans, Louisiana. Eric has participated as lead trial counsel in several IP-related suits as well as numerous commercial cases. He received his B.S.M.E. from Lafayette College in 1985, his J.D. from the New England School of Law in 1990 and his LL.M. from Tulane Law School in 1992.