Team Ossia

Doug Stovall is a wireless industry veteran, executive, board member, and strategic advisor. His experience is rooted in both public and private telecommunications, Cloud/SaaS, Mobile and Integrated Circuit companies. As a strategic executive, he has a proven track record of successfully guiding leading-edge technology startups and growth stage companies to exits. This includes nine successful exits, acquisitions, and numerous IPOs.

As a transformation leader, Doug’s progressive influence and hands on approach has cultivated teams that have broken barriers within sales, technological challenges, and wireless innovation. Doug is responsible for executing a complex set of initiatives including corporate vision, addressing sustainability challenges, raising capital, and monetizing Cota Wireless Power Technology on a global scale.

Previous to Ossia, Doug held executive positions with Mobivity, Hipcricket, Inc., Acuity Mobile, Inc., TeleCommunications Systems, Inc., Aether Systems, Inc. and Xpedior, Inc.

Doug’s passion for technology has established him as a respected leader within the technology startup world. From proven track record of delivering significant value to his motivating leadership style, Doug is a global visionary and entrepreneur.

Hatem Zeine, Founder and President at Ossia, is an avid inventor and proven technologist with more than two decades of technical development experience and expertise. Hatem founded Ossia in 2008, invented and developed Cota in stealth mode, launched the company in 2013 at TechCrunch Disrupt, and now closely manages Ossia’s global team of engineers who are responsible for both the vision and execution of Cota. ​ Cota is the first functional Wi-Fi-like technology of its kind and is poised to revolutionize the world by offering a solution to one of the biggest engineering challenges, how to send and receive power. ​Prior to founding Ossia, Hatem was a Director/Principal Engineer at Microsoft, leading PM, Development, and Test initiatives. He filed seven patents during his tenure. ​ Earlier in his career, he founded Zeine Technological Applications, known later as Estarta Solutions, which today is the largest CISCO technical assistant partner. He also served as co-founder and vice chairman of the Information Technology Association of Jordan before he relocated to the U.S. in 2005. Hatem holds a BS in Physics from the University of Manchester in the UK. Hatem is a recognized expert on wireless power and its potential, speaking regularly at events and conferences on innovation and the visionary thinking that drives his entrepreneurial spirit. Hatem holds tens of granted patents globally related to Ossia’s Cota technology and beyond.

Jerry brings decades of financial leadership experience within leading-edge, emerging industries and markets, including technology, wireless internet, telecommunications, SaaS, digital media, cybersecurity, professional service, health and wellness, cleantech, and retail. 

Most recently, the CFO at Upgrade Labs, Jerry has a successful track record of leading and asisting early-stage, public and private companies with financial management, strategy, capital raising and implementation of financial and operational infrastrcture necessary for rapid growth and exit. Jerry was also CFO at several other startup and emerging-growth companies including Avalara, Loudeye, Imperium Renewables, Changepoint, IOActive and Tippr, and VP Finance at Clearwire, all of which became global leaders in their fields. Jerry is also a personal financial investor in over 20 technology startups.

Jerry began his career the public accounting firm of Deloitte. He is a CPA-inactive certificate holder in the State of Washington and received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration with honors from Seattle University. He is a member of the Washington Statee Society of CPAs (WSCPA) and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).