Cardinal Optimization is founded by experts in optimization and numerical linear algebra with a shared mission to transform academic research into practical commercial applications.
Team Members
Holly Jin: President, Chief Scientist and Co-founder
Ph.D. in Operations Research, University of Toronto, jointly with Stanford University
Principal developer of the SpaseLoc suite of node localization algorithms
Winner of Stanford-Berkeley Innovators' Challenge 2005
Work experience in the telecommunications and social networking industries
Brett Paulson: Vice President, Business Development and Marketing
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and BSEE, University of Texas at Austin
Over eight years of management, sales, marketing and engineering experience in the technology industry
Managed all 2.5G/3G worldwide business and technical efforts for two strategic wireless customers at Texas Instruments (TI)
Worked in business development and strategic marketing for TI's WLAN group focused on building a product and support strategy for emerging markets. He has also held product marketing roles at TI and worked at Analog Devices on design/verification teams architecting high performance digital signal processors
Started his career working for startups developing wireless technologies and has also spent time at the Boston Consulting Group
