Yuri Luskind

Co-Founder, President & CEO @ Zemfyre

About

Engineering leader with many years of experience managing technology, building highly efficient R&D teams, and delivering high-tech products through the complete product life cycle. Passionate about building great engineering teams, products, and successful enterprises. Specialties: Technology product development, product strategy, and roadmap planning. Project/program management. Extensive experience in telecommunications, networking, industrial ethernet technologies, wireless, optical transport, IIoT, Cybersecurity, Cloud & Hybrid cloud applications, automaton control, enterprise communication, SmartGrid, electrical utility substation automation, automation control, image processing, dsp/signal processing, Hardware/FPGA, embedded & application software/firmware, mechanical, certification, agile/lean product development process.

Country

Canada

City

Greater Toronto Area

Industry

Telecommunications

Skill

Product Management, Telecommunications, Product Development, Engineering Management, Ethernet, Embedded Systems, Project Management, Wireless, Engineering, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Project Planning, Semiconductors, Program Management, Embedded Software, Team Leadership, Hardware, Automation, Strategic Planning, Leadership, Software Design

Experience

Co-Founder, President & CEO

Zemfyre

2021-4 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Zemfyre is a global provider of innovative, patent-pending Industrial Ethernet Solutions designed to enable secure IIoT Cloud connectivity and accelerate Industry 4.0 adoption. Zemfyre utilizes the latest game-changing Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) standard to provide seamless, secure Ethernet connectivity and power to field-level IIoT devices.

Founder

Ipecore

2019-8 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

Toronto, Canada

Head of Product Strategy

CyBeats

2019-10 - 2021-3 · 1 yr 6 mos

CTO

iS5 Communications Inc.

2013-10 - 2019-3 · 5 yrs 6 mos

(Acquired by Phoenix Contact) Responsible for company technology direction, vision, and innovation. Building engineering organization from the ground up. Defining product strategy and roadmap. Architected and led the development of RAPTOR, a revolutionary cyber-secure IT/OT communications platform. Promoting company technology with customers and stakeholders. Published three patents related to Raptor system design, redundant protocols, and critical infrastructure cybersecurity frameworks. Contributed to a number of publications and presented papers as a member of IEEE PES and CIGRE.

VP, Engineering

Sangoma

2012-9 - 2013-10 · 1 yr 2 mos

Led development of the company’s IP communications systems including Media Gateways and Session Border Controllers. Responsible for the design, development, company roadmap and new product introduction.

Director, Engineering

Siemens

2006-9 - 2012-9 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Established engineering team and product development process. Spearheaded delivery of strategic product lines that produced 10 times increase in revenue in less than four years. Led engineering team of software, hardware, mechanical, and QA in delivering mission-critical communications products to industrial, utilities and other OT customers. Mentor technical management and staff to ensure continual professional growth and improvement. Managed agency approvals and compliance certifications. Published two patents related to system design and IEEE 1588 timing distribution algorithms.

Director, Hardware Engineering

OpVista

2003-5 - 2006-9 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Milpitas, California, United States

Led Opvista ultra-DWDM optical transport product development. Built engineering development organization, including hardware, software and mechanical/compliance groups. Instituted a product development and release to manufacturing process, streamlining all facets of the operations. Managed budget, headcount, project planning, and product management.

Manager, Hardware Engineering

Cratos Networks

2001-3 - 2003-5 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Acton, Massachusetts, United States

Managed hardware development of the company's Optical Multi-Service Provisioning Platform. Responsible for design, planning, software integration, compliance and new product introduction.