Brian Deutsch

Prior to launching Pivotal Commware in 2016, Brian helped incubate it and other metamaterial companies as Managing Director of the Metamaterials Commercialization Center for the Invention Science Fund. Between 2000 and 2010 he refocused and sold Aperto Networks as its turnaround CEO and served as Vice President, Products and Wireless Services, at BSQUARE. In the 1990s Brian founded, led and sold American Public Communications (APC), an industry leader in the design and manufacture of innovative public telephony products and services for the Regional Bell Operating Companies, and Wavtrace, a mmWave broadband wireless access equipment developer. Wavtrace was purchased by Harris Corporation (HRS) in 2000. In 1993, Brian was voted as a finalist and runner-up for the Inc. Magazine/Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for his work at APC. Prior to APC, Brian spent six years with Motorola in the Portable Products Division. His experience at Motorola included engineering group leader for cellular, paging and two-way products, staff engineer, and senior field applications engineer for the OEM Microelectronics Unit. Before Motorola, he worked for NASA at Kennedy Space Center in the Launch Processing Systems group. Brian has been awarded twenty U.S. patents and received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering.