[b]AdvancedIO Systems[/b]
-founded in 2004
-lists public address as Suite 601 – 3292 Production Way in Burnaby, B.C
-its old public address was Suite 502 - 595 Howe Street (http://www.electronicspecifier.com/company/AdvancedIO-Systems-Inc.asp)
-another old address was Suite 6 - 3170 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V6K 1R7 when applying for Trademark status in the US (http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78501780)
-lists public Phone: 604.331.1600 and 877.331.7755
-Its old public phone number in 2004 was 604-816-1215 (http://web.archive.org/web/20041130002132/http://www.advancedio.com)
-lists public Fax: 604.331.1800
-lists public eMail contactus@advancedio.com
-President/CEO is Mohammad Darwish, eMail is mdarwish@advancedio.com (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb389819.htm
-Darwish worked for Spectrum Signal Processing with Cecil Lau, and his work eMail was Mohammad_Darwish@spectrumsignal.com (www.spectrumsignal.com/publications/SmartAntennas.pdf)
-In 2008, AdvancedIO employees Mohammad Darwish and Paul Gurney applied for a patent on a "System and Method of Offloading Protocol Functions" (www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080304481)
-----This detail gives us the name of several other employees listed as co-inventors, Mohsen Nahvi, May Huang Hui and Wesam Darwish (www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080304481)
-Mohammad M. Darwish graduated with his M.A. Sc (Electrical Engineering). in August 1994 from UBC after getting his Bachelors in Computer Engineering, was employed as a Research Engineer by UBC from August 95 to August 96(ipl.ece.ubc.ca/cvrababw.pdf), and was a rather unpopular Comp Sci. professor as of 2011 (http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1546471) who teaches CPSC213 and has the staff phone number : (604) 822 2652 and staff eMail address of mdarwish@cs.ubc.ca(https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/mohammad-darwish) and resides in office 247(http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs213/winter10t2/)(http://www.cadencedesign.info/re-netlist-extraction-from-layout)
-Darwish's personal phone number was (604) 222 8128 (https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.vhdl/tree/browse_frm/month/1993-07?_done=/group/comp.lang.vhdl/browse_frm/month/1993-07?&&hl=da)
-Darwish's address is 5775 Toronto Road, Vancouver, BC, and phone number is 604-224-9300 (http://www.locatefamily.com/D/Daniluk_to_Dauphinee/Dartopp_to_Dasa/Darwish/Darwish_Mohammad_M_bc332691.html)
-Ibrahim J. Gedeon sits on the Board of Directors for AdvancedIO; but this is primarily interesting because he also happens to be the [b]Chief Technology Officer of Telus[/b] and was formerly [b]Nortel's Senior Vice President of Wireless Engineering[/b](http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=50016787&privcapId=22641839&previousCapId=22641839&previousTitle=AdvancedIO%20Systems%20Inc.)
-Gedeon has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986 (in Lebanon) and a Masters' in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University(http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=50016787&privcapId=22641839&previousCapId=22641839&previousTitle=AdvancedIO%20Systems%20Inc. and http://www.aub.edu.lb/development/campaign_report/Pages/ComprehensiveDonorList_1.aspx)
-As of 2001, he was the Ottawa chair for the IEEE (www.comsoc.org/files/About%2520Comsoc/Chapters/RCCC/EMEA/2001/3.pdf)
-While at Carleton University, Gedeon helped author a paper on "real-time cepstral analysis of speech feature extraction"(http://asadl.org/jasa/resource/1/jasman/v85/iS1/pS27_s3?bypassSSO=1)
-Nabih A. Faris, of Penn West Petroleum, sits on the AdvancedIO board of directors (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=50016787)
Ray Milhem, of Oasis 500, sits on the AdvancedIO board of directors (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=50016787)
Resve Saleh, of Vennsa Technologies, sits on the AdvancedIO board of directors (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=50016787)
Rabab K. Ward, of Webtech Wireless, sits on the AdvancedIO board of directors (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=50016787)
Julian Elliott, of Carmanah Technologies, sits on the AdvancedIO board of directors (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=50016787)juli
-Julian Elliott is on the Board of Directors (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb561179.htm)
-We got the name Mohsen Nahvi off the patent above, we plug it in and we find out he's the Principal Engineer of AdvancedIO and of course has the eMail mnahvi@advancedio.com (http://www.advancedio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AIO_XCELL_Q1_06.pdf) This document also gives us the name Ronny Muller as Director of Program Management.
-Looks like Nahvi has been working in this field since at least 2002 (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/n/Nahvi:Mohsen.html)
-Mohsen Nahvi is also associated with UBC (where Darwish works/studied), and he plays Ping Pong (and was 5/4 on wins in 2009, if you care)(http://sports-ladder.net/ubc-ecegsa/results.php)(http://soc.ece.ubc.ca/soc/publications/index.html confirms this is the same Nahvi as discussed above)
-was a former executive member of the UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Association (http://gsa.ece.ubc.ca/Executive_Alumni)
-He subscribes to ASICDESIGN@yahoogroups.com as of 2010(http://dics.voicecontrol.ro/process_mails/arata_discutia/1369/Using_Struct_in_generate_construct.html)
-A reviewer for the Journal of Electronic Testing (http://www.springerlink.com/content/k083411p74027188/)
-Attended InternationalTestCconference2002 in Baltimore (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1500/minutes/p1500.attendees.021007.html)
-Ronny Muller, Director of Program Management at AdvancedIO (http://www.advancedio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AIO_XCELL_Q1_06.pdf)
-Vice President of Sales is Mary Briggs, formerly employed at Epic Data, Spectrum Signal Processing, Blast Radius and most recently at JustSystems (http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20090204005083/en)
-lists Cheryl Stevenson as Marketing/Communications Director (ext. 216), eMail is cstevenson@advancedio.com(http://www.hughescom.net/pressroom/Advancedio/R4/AdvancedIO%20Selects%20VP%20of%20Sales_Final.doc)
-lists Rob Kraft (ext. 209) as Vice President of Marketing and confirms his eMail address is rkraft@advancedio.com (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb564121.htm)
-Jennifer Thibert is Customer Service Finance/Accounting Administrative Services Manager and eMail address is jthibert@advancedio.com (http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/ccc/srch/nvgt.do?lang=eng&prtl=1&sbPrtl=&estblmntNo=234567116026&profile=cmpltPrfl&profileId=1422&app=sold)
-Paul Gurney was listed as media contact (www.prweb.com/releases/2005/06/prweb248385.htm) Looks like private eMail might have been paul_gurney@mindlink.bc.ca
-telephone extensions 208 and 215 are both sales-related (http://www.bctechnology.com/scripts/display_news.cfm?profile_id=3062&id=29054&allmatches=1&company_list=AdvancedIO%20Systems|comma|%20Inc&posted=all&by_x=ins_date and http://www.bctechnology.com/scripts/display_news.cfm?profile_id=3062&id=27760&allmatches=1&company_list=AdvancedIO%20Systems|comma|%20Inc&posted=all&by_x=ins_date)
-listed its business partners in 2004 as Avnet Electronics Marketing, Arrow Electronics, Dynamic Details Incorporated, Dorigo Systems and PJ PWB Design Services (http://web.archive.org/web/20050204154054/http://advancedio.com/our_partners.htm)
-took a 2007 contract for $500,000 to develop avionics systems for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from Lockheed Martin (http://www.vmecritical.com/news/Contracts/8967)
-considered a military exports company by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, for their desire to export military equipment directly to Israel (http://coat.ncf.ca/ARMX/cansec/AP_Israel_extra.htm)
-As of 2011, they were advertising on http://www.bctechnology.com to hire a "buyer" to "Manage relationships with suppliers, communicate requirements and schedules to them", etc (http://www.wowjobs.ca/job/Buyer-advancedio+systems-burnaby+bc-10288321, reference to T-NET points to above url)
-called "Big Brother Incorporated" for its "Internet Monitoring/Mass surveillance" by Privacy International (https://www.privacyinternational.org/big-brother-incorporated/countries/Canada/AdvancedIO)