Meet the Management Team for GenAudio® Corporation

Jerry Mahabub

Jerry Mahabub,
GenAudio's Founder & CEO

Mr. Mahabub founded GenAudio in 2003 and is the inventor of the core technology, AstoundSound® with over 23 years of continuous R&D as of present. His activities include strategic planning with respect to the overall integrated business and technical direction, patent filing, capital formation, business development including forming partnerships/strategic alliances and license negotiations, and works directly with the software development team when necessary for testing, advancements to the technology, and new software features. Mr. Mahabub also outright owns Astound Studios of which GenAudio uses as it's primary studio facility under a partnership agreement. Mr. Mahabub recently formed and owns Astound Records to bring new artists to market with their content or albums mixed in AstoundSound at Astound Studios.

Prior to founding GenAudio, he was owner and Executive Manager of Rapid Prototype Technologies, LLC from 1998 to 2003, where he designed and developed new and innovative technologies for a large variety of government contracts and mainstream commercial markets. His responsibilities there included design engineering, business development, technology commercialization, and licensing. In addition, Mr. Mahabub was often asked to assess technologies for investment firms and assist with IP based independent valuation analysis. Mr. Mahabub has negotiated many world-wide licensing deals, channel partnerships and strategic alliances with multiple divisions of Hewlett Packard and many other companies in an effort to create marketable, state of the art, disruptive and cost-effective products, and has also consulted for both hardware and software engineering projects. Prior to his position at Rapid Prototype Technologies, Mr. Mahabub was Director of Engineering at Ines Inc./SPYR Technologies Inc. from 1995 to 1998, where he established that company as a GSA/8A provider for government contracts. The work involved research and analysis of market trends for commercialization efforts, competition and market analysis, product marketing strategy, print and digital advertisements, ISO 9001 compliance, and negotiation of several government contracts in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and Government Procurement Policies for numerous branches of the armed forces. A cursory list of entities for which he has designed, developed and/or transferred, including through licensing, technologies are SAIC, Miltope, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Motorola, Siemens, Philips, Boeing, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the US Naval Warfare Center, Quantico, the US Army Missile Research and Development Engineering Center (MRDEC), TMDE, and many others.

Mr. Mahabub started attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY doing coursework and lab work from the age of 13 and entering as a full time student at the age of 16. In 1988, at 16, he was hired to work part-time at a Superconducting Research Laboratory while attending RPI full-time and also worked, from the age of 13, in Dr. Charles P. Bean and Ivar Gaiver's lab (Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of Superconducting Tunneling in 1971). He was the youngest to be accepted into the special school for entrepreneurship at RPI where he helped to grow three high-tech incubator companies from the age of 16. He double-majored in Physics (B.S) and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering - ECSE (B.E.) with a Minor in Philosophy/Symbolic Logic.


Gary Smith

Gary Smith,
SVP Software Engineering

Gary Smith brings to GenAudio over 20 years of experience in the computing and software engineering field. His deep knowledge of, and experience with, GenAudio's technology has proven instrumental in the management and development of the AstoundSound platform and associated products. Mr. Smith has over 15 years of engineering and management experience in the aerospace industry (Raytheon Company and Hughes Aircraft Company), where he held positions as an integrated product team manager, software architect, principal software engineer, systems engineering lead, and principal investigator for research and development. The remainder of Mr. Smith's experience was in both the supply chain management (Manugistics Inc.) and telecommunications (Rhythms NetConnections, and Reason Inc.) industries, where he held positions as a senior software engineer, technical manager, and chief software architect. His expertise includes software team leadership, large-scale software architecture and development, and mathematical optimization algorithms.

Mr. Smith received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, and his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado.


Greg Morgenstein

Greg Morgenstein,
SVP Audio Engineering

Greg Morgenstein is a multi-talented engineer, producer, composer, sound designer and editor. He's built an all star client roster by being reliable, innovative and always ready to jump into any audio project thrown his way. Determined not to silo himself, Mr. Morgenstein has worked with hip hop's best and brightest stars such as Ludacris and Missy Elliot, teamed up with pop star greats Jennifer Lopez and Janet Jackson and partnered with several legends along the way like Guns & Roses and Aretha Franklin. Outside of the music realm, Mr. Morgenstein was the sound designer for four of the DVD re-mastered James Bond films. Additionally, Mr. Morgenstein composed music for "Moulin Rouge" and "The Break Up."

Most recently, Mr. Morgenstein has become a full time employee of the GenAudio management team, works with our dev team to assist with developing new software, and he has both processed (using our software), mixed, and managed over the professional audio engineering services when necessary relating to any post production project that comes in our door. Mr. Morgenstein has also brought many projects to the table and his solid track record and extensive entertainment industry contacts continues to bring us new projects in the door ranging from new film titles for theatrical release, new album projects from multi-platinum artists in multiple genres, among many others. Mr. Morgenstein received his Bachelor of Science in Music from Berklee College of Music in 1997.

Mr. Morgenstein is not just a great professional audio/mix engineer. He is devoted to making this company and our technology become the next "Gold Standard" of the audio industry across all verticals of entertainment.


Jim Devine

Jim Devine,
Secretary and SVP of Finance

James Devine joins GenAudio from Quinella Corp., a Certified Public Accounting firm whose practice includes tax, accounting and consulting services to both public and private companies in a wide range of industries. Devine also provided credit, due diligence and subject analysis services for finance clients at US Escrow & Financial Services; in addition to consulting services for structured deals where he served as principal.

Mr. Devine received a Bachelor degree from Concordia College, Morehead, MN and is a Certified Public Accountant, Minnesota.


Jim Mattos

Jim Mattos,
Manager Support Services

Jim Mattos has a combined 20 years experience in political science research, international public relations and sales management. He is responsible for working with in-house and outside sales personnel to coordinate sales efforts, maintaining customer relations for new and existing accounts and attending trade shows. Mr. Mattos brings to GenAudio a strong track record in delivering consistent year after year growth in retail sales.

Mr. Mattos graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Government from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition, he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science.


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