Welcome to Helium
Helium was founded in 2013 by Shawn Fanning, Amir Haleem, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices.
Meet the Helium TeamIn order to build the world's first decentralized wireless network, Helium has gathered a team with a diverse, yet complimentary, skillset within radio and hardware, manufacturing, distributed systems, peer-to-peer and blockchain technologies.
Amir Haleem
CEO & Co-Founder
Amir is the CEO & co-founder of Helium. Prior to Helium, Amir served a long career in the videogame industry as CTO at gaming startup Diversion, and member of the original team behind Battlefield 1942 at DICE in Stockholm, Sweden. Outside of work, Amir is a former world champion esports gamer, co-founder of the popular esports community esreality.com, and builds and races 90's Japanese sports cars.
Marc Nijdam
CTO
Marc Nijdam is proven technology leader with over 25 years of experience. His background ranges commercializing research at Hewlett-Packard, to leading the technology and teams behind a number of Qualcomm products and services. Marc focuses on the design, scalability, and resilience of product, software, and development teams. Beyond being a typical Dutch guy, he likes to sail fast boats and hang out with his wife and dog in wide open spaces.
Frank Mong
COO
Frank Mong is COO at Helium, where he is responsible for sales, marketing and business development for the company. Before Helium, Mong spent 20 years in cyber security including CMO at Hortonworks, SVP of Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and VP/GM of security at HP.
Chris Bruce
VP Product & Technology
Chris Bruce is an award winning product and technology leader. With a strong background in both product and engineering, he has served on the founding teams of several venture-backed startups with exits to Electronic Arts and Mattel.
Andrew Allen
Engineering
Pierre Defebvre
Engineering
Rahul Garg
Engineering
Dal Gemmell
Head of Product Marketing
Beau Grotins
Operations
Robert Keith
Engineering
Jay Kickliter
Engineering
Peter Main
Creative Director
Victor Mu
Engineering
Emily Murray
Marketing
Katey Osborn
Office Manager
Mark Phillips
VP, Customer Success
Michael Starman
Engineering
Coco Tang
Director of Product
Ned Taylor
VP, Business Development
Louis Thiery
Engineering
Andrew Thompson
VP, Engineering
Frank Vasquez
Engineering
Board & Advisors
Bruce Armstrong
Partner, Khosla Ventures
Eric Dresselhuys
Former EVP Sales & Co-Founder of Silver Spring Networks
Shawn Fanning
Founder, Helium, Rupture, Path, Snocap, Napster
Greg Gotts
Founder of Invisileash
John Hamm
Founding Partner, Soda Rock Partners
Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
Jacqueline LeSage Krause
Munich Re / HSB Ventures
Aaron Levie
Founder & CEO, Box
Alex Roetter
Former SVP Engineering, Twitter
Matt Turck
Partner, FirstMark Capital
Robert Wenig
Founder TeaLeaf, Former CTO SAP
Andy Wheeler
Partner, GV
Our Investors
Helium has raised equity funding from some of the most prominent Venture Capital (VC) firms in the world including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, HSB/MunichRe Ventures and others.
