About Redpoint
Redpoint exists because one of its founders knows what it means to wait for someone to find you. Everything we build comes back to one idea: know exactly where people and machines are, and act on it before anyone gets hurt.
Chapter oneThe lab
Redpoint’s founders, Chunjie Duan and Georgiy Pekhteryev, are award-winning technologists and location experts. They met at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), where they worked on a variety of highly advanced research and development projects.
Among Chunjie’s work there was research in location services technology — knowing, precisely, where something is.
Chapter twoThe mountain
A serious snowboarding accident left Chunjie stranded alone for six hours on a mountain in Niseko, Japan, waiting for rescue. Instead of panicking, he spent the time thinking about how to put his research in location technology to work in real-world situations.
After his rescue, he thought more about how location technology could improve safety and visibility in a complex, moving world. It was then that he decided to team up with his friend and collaborator, Georgiy, to found Redpoint.
Chapter threeThe company
The Redpoint team has completed over 15 years of fundamental research on ultra-wideband (UWB) and positioning technology, and has led the industry in the development of location tracking systems — including the world’s first IEEE 802.15.4a positioning system.
Today that research runs on real floors: it locates people, forklifts and robots to within 10 cm, and closes the loop from detection to a truck slowing or stopping in under 100 milliseconds.
There are no limits to our solutions and our potential, only challenges yet to be solved.
What we believe
We pride ourselves on strong client relationships and a connected team spirit. We solve problems with the people who live with them.
A team of passionate technologists, problem solvers and thought leaders — behind leading-edge, patented technology.
Responsive to our customers and to each other — because the people on your floor can’t wait on us.
Our team
A team of passionate technologists, problem solvers and thought leaders.
CEO, Co-Founder
Chunjie is a recognized innovator in wireless and location technologies with over 50 related patents. He continues to lead our research and development team to develop more groundbreaking location and communication technologies.
Prior to co-founding Redpoint, Chunjie was a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), focusing on advancing digital communication and signal processing theory. He represented MERL on multiple international standards committees and was a recipient of the President’s Award. Chunjie also held senior engineering positions at Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Alcatel.
He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado and is a senior member of IEEE and SIAM.
Engineering, Co-Founder
Georgiy has over 20 years of experience in product development for wireless communication systems and digital networks. He met Chunjie at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) where Georgiy led the development of multiple projects that included transmitting voice/image over Zigbee, Location Centric Networks, and the DLNA standard for interoperability.
Prior to MERL, Georgiy worked as a technical lead for several companies, developing a broad range of technologies and products including warehouse management and health monitoring systems.
Georgiy holds a MSc degree in System Engineering from Kharkiv Aviation Institute in Ukraine.
Head of Finance
Jay has 30+ years of financial and entrepreneurial experience. He is the founding partner of Cambridge Venture, a CFO service provider to the technology community across the greater Boston area.
Jay is also the co-founder of Dental Equity Group where he was instrumental in bringing to market an on-demand mobile dental laboratory and a dental practice group in Boston, New York, and New Jersey.
Previously, he co-founded The Barbarian Group, the internationally acclaimed digital agency with offices in San Francisco and New York. As CFO he shepherded the company from inception and through its successful acquisition by Cheil Worldwide.
He holds a BBA, Accounting degree from Baruch College.
Engineering
Jack joined Redpoint in 2017 as Head of Engineering and has led successful product releases in APAC. Prior to Redpoint, Jack was responsible for Program Management and Engineering Management, with over 18 years’ experience on teams at DHC, Nortel Networks and Thomson in the telecommunications industry, and at a leading global e-commerce company.
During that time, Jack established a successful track record in both the conception and development of differentiated products and solutions with a strong focus on bringing value to customers. Jack has been a driving force behind our organization, leading technology development in the fast, changing and competitive landscape through engineering transformation to Agile and offshore development.
Jack holds TL9000, CMMI, and Agile Scrum certifications and master’s degree in Computer Science from Dalian University of Technology, China.
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