Pete Popov - CEO

With more than 14 years of experience in the high tech industry and entrepreneurial engagements in a number of countries around the world, Pete Popov continues to build Embedded Alley's momentum, expanding its leadership position in embedded Linux solutions. In four short years, following a clear strategy of only hiring the very best talent, Pete has built a distributed engineering company with impeccable reputation in the industry. Before founding Embedded Alley, Pete held management roles at MontaVista Software in both product development and professional services. He managed the development of MontaVista's Consumer Electronics Edition product, and later helped build and grow MontaVista's professional services department. Pete holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Paul Staudacher - President

Paul brings over twenty-five years of embedded industry experience to Embedded Alley's rapidly growing software business. In his long career, Paul Staudacher has served in engineering, sales, professional services, and business development. One of MontaVista Software's founding members, Paul was instrumental in helping shape business models and market strategies, and held management roles in business development, channel development, and strategic account development. Prior to MontaVista, Paul was the worldwide IP licensing manager for the Microtec division of Mentor Graphics.

Dan Malek - CTO

Dan Malek has over 25 years of embedded hard real-time experience. He pioneered much of the embedded Linux for PowerPC, and continues to be an active community developer and maintainer. As one of the first MontaVista Software employees, he played a key role in defining the MontaVista Linux product. Dan has held senior systems architect positions in a number of companies, some of whom have become customers of Embedded Alley.

Matt Porter - Chief Architect

Matt Porter has more than 12 years experience with embedded software at IBM, Motorola, and MontaVista Software. He has worked in the defense market, developing cryptographic platforms and secure real time operating systems. At Motorola Computer Group, Matt was a leader in developing and maintaining Linux kernel support for PowerPC-based VME and CompactPCI single board computers. Also an early employee of MontaVista Software, Matt took a leadership role in defining how that company would work with the Linux community on a daily basis and helped to define the MontaVista product offering.

Matthew Locke - COO

Matthew Locke has more than 12 years experience in technology and business leadership roles for companies such as MontaVista Software and Lockheed Martin. Prior to Embedded Alley, Matt held the CTO positions at several startups including NomadGS, which focused on building custom embedded Linux solutions for the consumer device market, and Suunnata, a company developing a system for the secure delivery of services to networked connected devices. As the Product Architect for the highly successful MontaVista Linux Consumer Electronics Edition, Matt was responsible for the overall product architecture and led the development of key technologies for running Linux on consumer devices. Matthew Locke received a BSEE from University of Maryland, College Park.

Ken Keller - Vice President of Engineering

Ken brings over two decades of technology and management experience to Embedded Alley. Starting in 2000, Ken founded and ran the MontaVista Software Design Center in Tempe, Arizona, where his team specialized in kernel and networking development in concert with the Linux developer community. His team there also pioneered the design and development of the first Carrier Grade Linux implementations. Prior to MontaVista, Ken was manager and chief architect for Motorola Computer Group Cross Industry Business Unit, responsible for  system architecture and embedded OS support for VME, CompactPCI and motherboard product lines based on Power and Intel Architectures. Ken also conveys additional applications experience in automotive systems, process control, robotics and automated test equipment.