Tatara Systems’ CTO Asa Kalavade Honored as One of the 2007 “Women to Watch"

03/08/2007 - ACTON, MA – Tatara Systems today announced that its founder and Chief Technology Officer, Asa Kalavade, was named one of the 2007 “Women to Watch” by Mass High Tech, the journal of New England technology.      
 
Dr. Asa Kalavade has over 17 years of experience in the areas of wireless, multimedia services, and real-time embedded systems. Asa co-founded Tatara Systems in 2001 with the vision of the convergence of IP and mobile networks. This vision is realized in the Tatara Mobile Services Convergence Portfolio of products with marquee customers such as Vodafone, O2, Helio, Bell Mobility, and Telus Mobility and in Tatara’s leading position in the rapidly emerging femtocell market. Prior to Tatara, she was Vice President of Technology at Savos (acquired by Infospace), where she led the development and launch of the Media Crossbar Gateway for real-time streaming of audio over wireless networks. Asa also spent several years at Bell Labs where she invented patent-pending technologies for wireless multimedia streaming, reconfigurable network interfaces, and real-time multiprocessor DSP systems. She is frequently invited to speak at a variety of international organizations, conferences, and universities. Asa has published several book chapters, in addition to numerous articles and journals. She holds 8 patents and received her MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.
 
Mass High Tech profiles 10 women each year who exemplify the best and brightest among women at the highest level of technology businesses in New England. The women chosen are recognized for their outstanding dedication to technology, entrepreneurship, lifelong learning and civic responsibility. Mass High Tech’s advisory committee for its “Women to Watch” program consists of members chosen based on their extensive industry expertise as well as their strong ties to the technology and science communities. Mass High Tech received more than 100 entries for the 2007 “Women to Watch” award program.
 
“These are women executives who are not only starting their own technology companies, but in many cases are starting movements within the largest corporations in the region,” said Doug Banks, Mass High Tech editor. Banks continued, “Also noteworthy is their interest in giving back - mentoring younger women who are trying to succeed in a very competitive environment.”
 
“I am honored to be a recipient of this award,” stated Asa Kalavade, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tatara Systems. “Massachusetts is a leading corridor for advanced technologies, and I am delighted to see that Mass High Tech has chosen to institute this award for women entrepreneurs. I take this award as a responsibility for women such as myself to further evangelize entrepreneurship in women from different backgrounds and technologies.”
 
About Tatara Systems
Tatara Systems invents, develops, and deploys convergence products for service providers allowing them to offer converged mobile services to their subscribers across the widest base of available end-user devices (i.e. PCs and current mobile phones). Tatara’s fixed-mobile convergence strategy is focused on femtocell convergence as a powerful FMC approach for mobile operators that takes advantage of current cellular handsets to provide improved coverage and IP-based voice and data services via an economical in-home cellular access point. Tatara’s products also enable the industry’s broadest set of PC convergence solutions, from a mobile broadband service to advanced services, like a PC mobile softphone or intelligent content delivery. Tatara is proud to count some of the industry’s largest operators as customers of its award-winning Tatara Mobile Services Convergence Portfolio™ of products. For more information, visit www.tatarasystems.com