Roger Nolan
Roger was a co-founder of Sonopia - an affinity-based MVNO - and served there as VP Engineering and CTO. Roger lived in Ukraine for two years where he built Sonopia's 100-strong team from scratch. At the end, the team was made up of 40 Java and C++ developers, with supporting Test, QA, Design and Art teams. Sonopia raised over $20M in funding from Sevin Rosen, Comventures and Cardinal.
Before Sonopia, Roger worked at TI, where he defined the Wireless Terminal Businees Unit's global software strategy and helped the OMAP software engineering team to define new processes to reduce implementation costs and increase quality. He also worked closely with ARM Limited to define the software architecture for the Coretex family of processors.
And before that, Roger worked at Symbian for seven years. Unlike the thousands of people who tell you they were there at the beginning, Roger really was a founder of Symbian. During seven action-packed years, he held several roles from Engineering Manager to running Symbian's Technology Management group - mapping the software strategy and technology roadmap for the entire company.
Roger's favourite drink is nice pint of beer with some pork scratchings.