Mohammed Smadi

Mohammed Smadi is the managing director of PenguinIN, where he leads the business and technical development of opportunistic, managed indoor positioning solutions. Prior to PenguinIN, Mohammed founded Karmatix, a telematics-based loyalty program where he coined the term “road-as-a-service”.

Before Karmatix, Mohammed was a principal researcher at BlackBerry driving Quality of Experience over Wi-Fi. Mohammed is also the co-founder of ErgoWiFi: technology provider for solar-powered Wi-Fi mesh access points. Mohammed holds +25 granted/pending patents in addition to authoring several refereed papers and book chapters.

Mohammed has a PhD, M.A.Sc and B.Eng. & Mgmt. from McMaster University’s ECE where he is currently an adjunct assistant professor.