Management

Dr. John M. Davidson

CEO and Founder

John is a successful entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in the communications networking industry. Early in his career, John served as the University of Hawaii’s liaison to the Technical Working Group for the ARPANET program, out of which the Internet was born. His role in the ARPANET program included participating in the design and implementation of the TCP/IP protocols. John founded and led two successful communications networking companies. The first company was Ungermann-Bass, Inc., the networking industry’s first Local Area Networking company, which he co-founded in 1979. He served as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and helped grow the company to $400 million in revenues and 1,600 employees. John led the company’s development efforts through its IPO in 1983, and its $260 million sale to Tandem Computers in 1988. John left Ungermann-Bass (Tandem Computers) in 1993 to found his second company, Network Telesystems, Inc., a self-funded internet infrastructure software company, where he served as Chairman and CEO. The company supplied Internet Protocol software to ISPs, carriers and enterprise customers. NTS was acquired by Efficient Networks in 2000, which itself was acquired by Siemens in 2001.

Matthew F. White

Software Engineer and Founder

Matthew F. White is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering and a Minor in Computer Science. He worked for two years writing software for a telecommunications company in Massachusetts. In 2002, he moved to Hawai’i to start Kahala Code Factory. As Director of Research & Development, Matthew is responsible for coordinating the development of new products and technologies.