Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Charles Yeomans
CEO
Charles has over 25 years of experience in executive management and investment banking. He was previously CEO Trigemina, a biotech firm, and also was CEO of an employee benefits technology firm, Portal Group Holdings. He was COO at Frenkel & Co., Inc., in New York City, and EVP of Ultralink, a Southern California-based technology firm. He has been the architect of several successful company foundings, three of which resulted in the creation of some of the nation’s largest insurance brokerages. Prior to becoming a manager, Mr. Yeomans was an investment banker for Drexel Burnham Lambert, and was also an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Yeomans holds an AB degree from Kenyon College and an MBA from Stanford.
Asghar Riahi
Chief Technical Officer
Asghar is the originator of the original idea for AtomBeam and is responsible for development of AtomBeam’s product and IP. Asghar is a leading technology innovator, with over 25 years of international experience in software and IT solutions focusing on managing system programming and software development in the areas of Cloud, IoT, security, and disaster recovery solutions. Prior to AtomBeam, Asghar managed technical and software teams towards designing and implementing IT solutions for data center management, cybersecurity, virtualization, and high availability, including holding technical lead positions at University of California at Berkeley, RedHat Inc, Seagate Technology, Hewlett Packard (HP), and Siemens. At HP, Asghar was a pioneer in Cloud implementation as he worked closely with the HP Labs to deliver the first Cloud solutions to HP customers. Asghar holds a MS in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology.
Kent Warren
Chief Revenue Officer
Besides his role at AtomBeam, Kent is a prinicipal with K3 Clouds, a data center contractor. Kent splits his time approximately evenly between K3 and AtomBeam. Kent was an SVP at @RISK Technologies, focused on the firm’s global channel and strategic efforts. Before joining @RISK, Kent was the President of ManTech Commercial Services, and prior to that started two IT solution companies. Kent spent thirteen years at SAP, focused on helping the United States Department of Defense transform its Supply Chain with SAP products and services. Prior to SAP, Kent worked Oracle. Mr. Warren holds a bachelors from Radford University.
Josh Cooper, PhD
Chief Scientist
Josh is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina and Data Science/Machine Learning Consultant. He is AtomBeam’s chief software architect and plays a key role in product and IP development, spending approximately 20 hours per month in that role. He holds a BS in Mathematics and Linguistics from MIT and PhD in Mathematics (Extremal Combinatorics) from UCSD and has published 40+ papers on a variety of subjects in discrete mathematics and computer science. Specialties: Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (more specifically: Quasirandomness/Discrepancy, Spectral Graph/Hypergraph Theory, Discrete/Computational Geometry, Universal Cycles, Combinatorial Number Theory, Coding Theory, Extremal Combinatorics, Permutation Patterns, Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Combinatorial Algorithms, Complexity Theory, Cryptography) and Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics/NLP, Sentiment/Emotional Analysis).
Mojgan Haddad, PhD
Director
Mojgan Haddad, PhD is Senior Director of Software Engineering at Corin. Mojgan spends approximately 10 hours per month working with AtomBeam. Prior to Corin, Dr. Haddad was Senior Director, Bioinformatics & Software of Talis Biomedical Corporation, managing a software development effort and supervising over 60 software developers. Dr. Haddad has 20+ years of experience in research informatics and has served in various roles at Monogram Biosciences, a LabCorp company, including Director of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, and Director of Software Engineering, from 2000 to 2014. During Mojgan’s tenure with Talis, she led the Bioinformatics and Software group where she directed her team’s efforts towards advancing the company’s software, analytics, bioinformatics tools, algorithms, and infrastructure to enable efficient data-driven decision making with respect to Talis’ medical diagnostic products. Dr. Haddad serves as an editor for several scientific journals, and has published extensively in the area of data science for virology, oncology, and personalized medicine.
Courtney Benham
Director
Courtney is a wine producer in Napa Valley, and owns the Martin Ray wine and label there, among other labels, including Courtney Benham wines. He spends about 10 hours per month working with AtomBeam.
