Tom H. Scholl
Director/Board Member at University of Maryland
Profile
In addition to his role with Novak Biddle Venture partners, Mr. Scholl is a co-founder of Telogy Networks.
In 1990, he founded Telogy Networks, a leader in providing embedded communications software products for wireless and IP networks.
Telogy's award-winning products were proven market successes with world-class customers such as Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, Nortel, Alcatel and NEC.
In 1998, Motorola purchased Telogy's digital cellular technology and development team for over $40M, and in 1999, Texas Instruments purchased Telogy for its leadership in embedded VOIP software for over $700M.
Prior to joining Novak Biddle, he co-founded and became chairman of Cognio, a developer of spectrum management and MIMO technology for short-range wireless applications.
In 1995, Mr. Scholl was recognized as the Joseph A.
Sciulli Entrepreneur of the Year by the Maryland High Technology Council.
Prior to Telogy, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Hughes Network Systems, a combination of M/A-Com DCC and Linkabit He has patents relating to software, the Internet, and digital telephone systems, and he is the author of Packet Switching in McGraw Hill's Electronic Communications Handbook.
He is on the Board of Visitors at the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and he is the Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee.
He's a member of IEEE and ACM.
Mr. Scholl is an alumnus of Purdue University and the Executive Management program at MIT Sloan School.
Tom H. Scholl active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland | Director/Board Member | - |
| Purdue University | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.
 The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. provides educational and scientific computing services. It offers journals & magazines, conferences, workshops, electronic forums, and online books & courses. The company has office in China. Association for Computing Machinery was founded on September 15, 1947 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
eSat Global , Inc.
 eSat Global , Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications eSat Global, Inc. provides direct-to-satellite connectivity to low-cost IoT devices. The company is based in Solana Beach, CA. The company's patented architecture uses existing and reliable geo MSS satellite platforms, requiring no terrestrial infrastructure or back-haul while providing coverage. IoT devices equipped with eSat communications modules communicate directly with geo MSS satellites, enabling years of operation on a single battery. The company was founded by Michael Parr and Michelle Hays, and the CEO is Rick Somerton. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of Tom H. Scholl
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Novak Biddle Venture Partners
 Novak Biddle Venture Partners Investment ManagersFinance Novak Biddle Venture Partners (Novak Biddle Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Biddle III A. G. W. and Novak Jr E Rogers. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. | Private Equity Investor | 2013-12-30 |
Avail Media, Inc.
 Avail Media, Inc. BroadcastingConsumer Services Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements. | Director/Board Member | 2010-09-30 |
Blackberry RF, Inc.
 Blackberry RF, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology Blackberry RF, Inc. designs and manufactures radio frequency front-end component solutions for mobile wireless applications. The company was founded by Louise C. Sengupta in 1998 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH. | Chairman | - |
SOHOware, Inc.
 SOHOware, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications SOHOware, Inc. provides secure wired and wireless networking solutions. It offers its services to the hotels, hotspots, event centers, academic, municipal library and medical facilities. The firm also provides aerogate solutions that target hotels and hotspots, business conference centers and multi-tenant communities. The company was founded by C. T. Wu in 1990 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
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Training of Tom H. Scholl
| Purdue University | Undergraduate Degree |
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| Private companies | 16 |
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Digital Bridge, Inc.
 Digital Bridge, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Part of M&A West, Inc., Digital Bridge, Inc. provides turnkey development of vertical Web businesses for clients and for its own account. The company is based in Burlingame, CA. Digital Bridge was acquired by M&A West, Inc. on May 24, 1999. | Technology Services |
Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Novak Biddle Venture Partners Investment ManagersFinance Novak Biddle Venture Partners (Novak Biddle Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Biddle III A. G. W. and Novak Jr E Rogers. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. | Finance |
Cognio, Inc.
 Cognio, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Cognio, Inc. provides wireless networking solutions. Its Intelligent Spectrum Management (ISM) technology brings spectrum analysis to the IT world solving critical challenges in maintaining the integrity of wireless communications. The company was founded by Neil Diener and Gary Sugar in November 2000 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Technology Services |
SOHOware, Inc.
SOHOware, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications SOHOware, Inc. provides secure wired and wireless networking solutions. It offers its services to the hotels, hotspots, event centers, academic, municipal library and medical facilities. The firm also provides aerogate solutions that target hotels and hotspots, business conference centers and multi-tenant communities. The company was founded by C. T. Wu in 1990 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Communications |
Avail Media, Inc.
Avail Media, Inc. BroadcastingConsumer Services Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements. | Consumer Services |
Centice Corp.
 Centice Corp. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology Centice Corp. delivers unique technology and systems for identification and verification of chemical substances. It offers MFL-3000 is a product which focuses on chemical identification of narcotics, cutting agents and controlled prescription drugs. The firm serves the law enforcement, healthcare and pharmacy operations sectors. The company was founded by David J. Brady, Todd A. Creech and Prasant Potuluri in 2004 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC. | Health Technology |
FiberZone Networks, Inc.
 FiberZone Networks, Inc. Electrical ProductsProducer Manufacturing FiberZone Networks, Inc. develops and markets fiber management systems. It delivers remote fiber connectivity solutions to datacenters and networks with its Automatic Fiber Management (AFM) product line, delivering reliability, flexibility, fault tolerance and management to the fiber infrastructure. The company was founded in 2003 by Joseph Arol and Zohar Avrahami and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD. | Producer Manufacturing |
Telogy Networks, Inc.
 Telogy Networks, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Telogy Networks, Inc. provides embedded communications software solutions. It provides solutions for voice, fax, and data over IP. The company was founded by Jack Hangen, Thomas H. Scholl, and William E. Witowsky in 1990 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD | Technology Services |
Blackberry RF, Inc.
Blackberry RF, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology Blackberry RF, Inc. designs and manufactures radio frequency front-end component solutions for mobile wireless applications. The company was founded by Louise C. Sengupta in 1998 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH. | Electronic Technology |
Princeton Optronics, Inc.
 Princeton Optronics, Inc. Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Princeton Optronics, Inc. develops and manufactures optical devices and subsystems. It produces custom products including low noise tunable lasers, pump laser packages, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers in the visible and near IR region. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Mercerville, NJ. | Electronic Technology |
The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.
The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
Hughes Network Systems LLC
 Hughes Network Systems LLC Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Hughes Network Systems LLC provides broadband satellite networking services. The company offers small business, enterprise, government, defense, hospitality, utilities, cellular backhaul and manufacturing services. Hughes Network Systems was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD. | Communications |
Salient Federal - Command, Inc.
 Salient Federal - Command, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Salient Federal-Command, Inc. provides information technology and network services. It is a net-centric IT solutions company providing customers with technology, objective consulting and engineering to leverage next generation Internet applications and services. The company was founded by Thomas Walter Patterson in 2005 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA. | Technology Services |
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. provides educational and scientific computing services. It offers journals & magazines, conferences, workshops, electronic forums, and online books & courses. The company has office in China. Association for Computing Machinery was founded on September 15, 1947 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
eSat Global , Inc.
eSat Global , Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications eSat Global, Inc. provides direct-to-satellite connectivity to low-cost IoT devices. The company is based in Solana Beach, CA. The company's patented architecture uses existing and reliable geo MSS satellite platforms, requiring no terrestrial infrastructure or back-haul while providing coverage. IoT devices equipped with eSat communications modules communicate directly with geo MSS satellites, enabling years of operation on a single battery. The company was founded by Michael Parr and Michelle Hays, and the CEO is Rick Somerton. | Communications |
FiberZone Networks Ltd.
 FiberZone Networks Ltd. Electrical ProductsProducer Manufacturing FiberZone Networks Ltd. develops and markets fiber management systems. It delivers remote fiber connectivity solutions to datacenters and networks with its Automatic Fiber Management product line, delivering reliability, flexibility, fault tolerance and management to the fiber infrastructure. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel. | Producer Manufacturing |
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