Tom Klaff

Hyperwave invents, markets and sells innovative cooking appliances leveraging its proprietary heating technology platform that toast, sear, brown and bake foods fast, that taste great.

We created GrekTek - An mHealth platform to help patients, caregivers and doctors manage chronic illness with dignity. Our first product, HealthyWatch, is an EKG-enabled wristwatch designed to monitor and detect atrial fibrillation for diagnosed a-fib patients and those who may be at-risk. HealthyWatch continuously monitors heart rate and heart rate variability using our proprietary algorithms and enables patients to easily take their EKG when prompted. Our mHealth platform supports multiple conditions and Bluetooth wearable devices. It is HIPAA compliant; it integrates with electronic health records; it tracks meals and manages medications; sends alerts to caregivers, patients and providers; and it aggregates and synthesizes data into easy-to-access patient health dashboards for providers.

Founded and grew a new venture manufacturing consulting practice that provides entrepreneur-in-residence services to corporations. Using a proprietary process, we identify opportunities to convert our clients’ intellectual property into innovative products, solutions, and ventures. Results: With a multi-billion dollar global transportation management company, developed a plan to launch a new product/innovation group to leverage their competencies in fleet operations to build exciting, new business models and solutions to transform themselves and their industry. With a prominent automotive dealer group, designed and developed Concourse Express, a workflow-integrated, easy-to-use loaner vehicle management solution that delivered superior customer experiences, greater dealer profitability and maximum control over their loaner fleet. With an IT services company, developed an insurance-backed solution to disrupt the multi-billion dollar OEM network equipment maintenance market.

Co-founded and launched a software company that developed workflow-integrated, mobile and easy-to-use loaner vehicle management solutions for dealerships that leveraged the connected vehicle, “big data”, and mobility solutions to deliver superior customer experiences and improve dealer profitability. Sold business to Canadian telematics company in June 2015. Results: Delivered 60% cost savings to pilot dealer groups in year one; Vaulted each store to the 95th % for loaner car customer satisfactionas measured by J.D. Power; Spun out company to market/sell Concourse Express to over 18,000 dealerships in the U.S.; and Negotiated preferred solution status with General Motors and their 3,000 dealer network.

Served as President and CEO for an IT security software company that designed and developed a web-based “digital notary” solution to enable R&D organizations to protect and legally defend their intellectual property. Sold to a private equity firm in 2011. Results: Acquired the top laboratories and R&D agencies in the world as customers, including Bose, Lawrence Livermore Labs, Writers Guild of America West, Astra Zeneca, Tokyo Electron and Roche Diagnostics; Built sales and distribution channels into the Korean market through Samsung and LG; Protected over $3.4B of intellectual property; Delivered over 1 million digital notarization tokens in 3 years; and Established sales channels into Agilent Technologies, Hitachi, CSC, Microsoft and Open Text

Co-founded and led this network management solutions company that built, marketed and sold an audience management application to Internet, mobile network, content delivery network and satellite network service providers, as well as enterprises, to cost effectively manage, measure, control and deliver scalable, live online events to their customers and stakeholders. Reliacast was sold to Comcast for $110M. Results: Raised $20M in venture capital along with strategic partner investments; Signed UUNET, Loral CyberStar, Hughes, Inktomi and Akamai as first customers/partners; Built sales channels into Cisco and Sun Microsystems; and Built a dedicated, seasoned and accomplished management team.

Defined, built and led this economic development organization’s Internet-based initiatives to complement its mission to enable Virginia’s technology businesses to compete in the new global economy

Founded and built the first online list marketing service, enabling college admissions officers to search and purchase the names of prospective students who registered/researched colleges using the collegetown.com web-based portal. Results: Launched the first college admissions destination site on the Internet; Registered 20,000 students in three months by sending a poster to 1,200 high school guidance counselors; Negotiated our first online sales channel with CompuServe; Signed up 300 college and university admissions departments in first 9 months, each for a $4,000 annual subscription license; and Sold list marketing services to admissions departments, 40% less than the College Board and with prospective students captured earlier in their college search process.