David Wong

Dr. David Wong has more than 30 years of experience developing and leading communications companies. He began his career as a research scientist on voice compression algorithms, and was part of the ARPA team that completed the first phone call over Arpanet in 1974. After a career as a scientist, professor, and technical manager from 1974 to 1987, Dr. Wong became co-founder and CEO of Spectron Microsystems in 1987, which invented the world’s first DSP o/s that ultimately formed the basis of Texas Instruments DSP BIOS. Dr. Wong then co-founded D2 Technologies in 1993 and Connected Systems in 1997, a leading voice messaging and unified messaging ODM. In 2000, D2 Technologies was acquired by Virata and Dr. Wong became vice president of VoIP at GlobespanVirata (later merged into Conexant).

In 2003, he restarted D2 Technologies to help make the next generation of IP communications technology a reality. In 2016 he started D2 Nova which develops and markets SaaS communications products.

Dr. Wong also serves on the board of several communication technology startups, most notably, Trellisware (San Diego, USA) and Fanvil (Shenzhen, China.) He holds multple patents in signal processing and IP communications, a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.