Wham!, Inc. is a new communications product company.
Wham! is building a revolutionary video product with a friends and family value proposition.
Wham! is targeting the home environment with its easy to use solutions.
Matthew B. Shoemake, PhD
CEO and Founder
Wham! was founded by Matthew B. Shoemake in May of 2008
Dr. Shoemake is a serial entrepreneur. He was employee #4 at Alantro Communications, Inc., which was acquired by Texas Instruments for $300M. Alantro solutions were included in Wi-Fi offerings from Dell, US Robotics, Linksys and Intel's Centrino technology. Dr. Shoemake is co-inventor of PBCC, the basis for the IEEE 802.11b+ standard.
He chaired the IEEE 802.11g standard, which is the basis for 54 Mbps Wi-Fi. He is the founder of WiQuest Communications, Inc., the leading semiconductor supplier of ultrawideband computer chips for very high-speed wireless connections. WiQuest has raised $57M from Tier 1 Venture Capitalists and is now ramping revenue via design wins at Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Belkin and D-Link. Dr. Shoemake holds B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. Dr. Shoemake is a member of the IEEE and serves on the Advisory Board for the Texas A&M University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Nadeem Ahmed, PhD
CTO, Chief Architect and
Co-Founder
Nadeem Ahmed joined Wham! as a Co-Founder in August of 2008.
Dr. Ahmed most recently was at WiQuest Communications, the leading ultrawideband semiconductor supplier, where he was responsible for architecting, simulating and developing baseband and system level algorithms. Dr. Ahmed has spent time working with several research centers including Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TRLabs), Nokia's R&D Center, and Texas Instruments DSP Solutions R & D center. His research interests lie in signal processing techniques for communications.
He has worked on modulation, detection, equalization and power distribution techniques for both wireline and wireless applications. Dr. Ahmed received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 2000 and 2004, respectively. At Rice University he was a member of the Digital Signal Processing group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he was a Texas Instruments Fellow and NSERC PGS A and B recipient. He is the author of numerous publications and has 8 patents and pending applications.
