World Mobile Holdings, Inc. announced that Dr. Thomas Lu from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the California Institute of Technology joined the Board of WMHI as a Executive Board Director on October 1, 2012. He joined NASA JPL in Caltech as a senior researcher in 2004. In his time with NASA JPL, he has received many honors including the NASA Honors Award for exemplary performance in development and transition of first-of-its-kind intelligent autonomy technology derived from NASA flight missions to Navy applications, 2011, and NASA Board Award for "DSN Performance Dashboards" By NASA Inventions and Contributions Board, 2009.

Dr. Lu is also a President of Rema International.