David A. Moschella
President and CEO
David Moschella’s combination of technical and business expertise has enabled him to establish a long track record of success as a business owner, corporate executive and technologist. At Fractal Antenna, he has built the business infrastructure required to sustain profitable growth and is driving the company’s expansion into new markets.
Prior to Fractal Antenna, Moschella was vice president of product development for adAlive.com, where he led the team responsible for developing one of the industry’s first platforms for enabling PDA wireless access to the Internet. Before adAlive.com, Moschella was co-owner of Pronto Product Development Corp., which provided high tech companies with product engineering services designed to speed time to market. Moschella was also co-founder and president of Ellipsis Products, Inc., developers of database connectivity software for LabVIEW, which was sold in 1996 to National Instruments. Moschella began his career as an inertial instrument engineer and data analyst with C.S. Draper Laboratory.
Moschella holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Bucknell University.
Dr. Nathan Cohen
Founder and CTO
Dr. Nathan Cohen is the founder and technology visionary behind Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. An accomplished academic and astrophysicist, Dr. Cohen is widely recognized as the “father” of fractal element antenna technology.
Dr. Cohen began his academic career studying under some of the world’s foremost scientists, including Jack Pierce and Irwin Shapiro at Harvard and Frank Drake at Cornell. He has spent three decades as an active radio astronomer, with special emphasis on antenna and array techniques.
In 1988, Dr. Cohen built the world’s first fractal element antenna and, after working to perfect his methodology, founded Fractal Antenna in 1995 to commercialize his research. He has since become recognized as one of the world’s most innovative antenna designers, with fractal element antennas proving to be far more compact, versatile and powerful than traditional antenna designs.
Dr. Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Brandeis University, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in astrophysics from Cornell University. He retired as a professor from Boston University in 2002. He is the inventor on a dozen patents to date; has published over 80 articles, and two books. His innovation has been widely recognized in Scientific American; Discover; CNN; Business Week; Wireless Week; and many other publications. He is widely sought as a speaker at technical and business conferences.
Mary L. Shelman
Chairman of the Board
Mary Shelman brings to Fractal Antenna more than 20 years of leadership experience as a corporate executive, business consultant and board member. At Fractal Antenna, she has guided the company through its early phases of product and technology development and successfully presided over the company’s initial introduction to the marketplace.
Prior to Fractal Antenna, Shelman was chairman of RiceTec, Inc., a fully integrated agribusiness venture dedicated to developing new high-yield, high-value rice lines. She also served on the boards of Stiftung Furst Liechtenstein and RiceTec AG. During her career, Shelman has also been a consultant for Bain and Company and a chemical engineer and marketing representative for Texaco, Inc.
Shelman holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky, an MBA with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, and, as a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow, has completed additional work in business economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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