Tom H. Scholl

In addition to his role with Novak Biddle Venture partners, Mr. Scholl is a co-founder of Telogy Networks.
In 1990, he founded Telogy Networks, a leader in providing embedded communications software products for wireless and IP networks.
Telogy's award-winning products were proven market successes with world-class customers such as Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, Nortel, Alcatel and NEC.
In 1998, Motorola purchased Telogy's digital cellular technology and development team for over $40M, and in 1999, Texas Instruments purchased Telogy for its leadership in embedded VOIP software for over $700M.
Prior to joining Novak Biddle, he co-founded and became chairman of Cognio, a developer of spectrum management and MIMO technology for short-range wireless applications.
In 1995, Mr. Scholl was recognized as the Joseph A. Sciulli Entrepreneur of the Year by the Maryland High Technology Council.
Prior to Telogy, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Hughes Network Systems, a combination of M/A-Com DCC and Linkabit He has patents relating to software, the Internet, and digital telephone systems, and he is the author of Packet Switching in McGraw Hill's Electronic Communications Handbook.
He is on the Board of Visitors at the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and he is the Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee.
He's a member of IEEE and ACM.
Mr. Scholl is an alumnus of Purdue University and the Executive Management program at MIT Sloan School.