Team Ossia
Ossia's team includes talented and experienced professionals in technology and related aspects of business. Come meet the people who are advancing wireless power for all of us!
Meet Our Management Team
Doug Stovall
Chief Executive Officer
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 & President
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.
Marty Feuerstein
Chief Operating Officer
Marty has over thirty years of experience with wireless products and services in industry, academia and consulting, involving significant expertise in mobile telecommunication systems, networks, and devices. He is Chief Operating Officer of Ossia, leading the implementation of Cota wireless technologies for mobility industry applications, including wireless power, sensors and Internet of Things products.
Prior to Ossia, Marty served as a Chief Technology Officer, Chief Executive Officer or other management roles working on mobile telecommunication systems, networks, and products at telecommunication companies such as Recon Dynamics, Polaris Wireless, Lucent/AT&T Bell Labs, Verizon, Metawave Communications. He also has significant consulting experience, including for engagement clients such as T-Mobile, Verizon, IBM, Ericsson and Motorola. Marty has a Doctorate degree from Virginia Tech in Electrical Engineering with a Dissertation in the area of wireless communications and location. He earned a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University in Electrical Engineering with a Thesis in the area of electromagnetics and antennas.
Jennifer Grenz
Chief Revenue Officer
Jen has been a successful marketer in the mobile application and consumer electronics space for over a decade. Beginning her career at P&G, she went on to be a key executive of several successful mobile start-ups. Jen has also spent time in the corporate space leading Global Products and Marketing for Symbian Foundation / Nokia. Bringing her passion for technology and helping early stage startups through the years of funding, product launch, growth and exit.
Jerry Goade
Chief Financial Officer
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 assisting early-stage, public and private companies with financial management, strategy, capital raising and implementation of financial and operational infrastructure 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 at 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 State Society of CPAs (WSCPA) and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).
Jason Crum
Chief Customer Officer
Jason has over thirty years of experience bringing both hardware and software products to market in the business and consumer spaces. He has served in executive leadership positions for several early-stage companies to include wearable tech, IoT, SaaS BI, and strategic consulting. Jason's passion is helping grow companies, build amazing teams, solve complex customer problems, and strive for the best outcomes for the clients. Jason received his BS in Physics from the University of Richmond and MS in Computer Science from The George Washington University. While not working, Jason loves to shred the mountains in the winter with his wife and kids and relax on the beach in the summers.
