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.

In 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

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 Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), HSB/MunichRe Ventures and others.