Management Team

Scott McDermaid - Founder and CEO
Mr. McDermaid brings to Talon over 22 years of embedded product development experience, management and entrepreneurial experience. He has held various technical and senior management level positions at Hughes Aircraft Company, Megatek Corporation, Tiernan Communications and Aegis Broadband. Additionally he has completed numerous consulting projects resulting in wireless, wired and video based projects. Mr. McDermaid received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1985, and is currently working on his MSEE (emphasis on Wireless Communications and DSP) thesis from San Diego State University. Mr. McDermaid is an active member of the community and participates in the American Electronics Association, National Defense Industrial Association, San Diego DEFCOMM and the San Diego Telecom Council.

Shimon Gersten - Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Gersten brings to Talon over 25 years of computer engineering technology, developing products for the consumer, business and military markets. Mr. Gersten continues to be a major contributor to the development of embedded devices focusing on short-range low power/cost wireless. He brings to Talon 14 years of rich and varied product development experience gained as a consultant providing Embedded Software development services. His activities include product realization phases from requirements, specifications, architecture, code, test, integration, field support and management to pre and post project engagement. With specialties in ZigBee, 802.11, PAN, set-top, storage and data communication. Prior to his 14 year consulting career, Mr. Gersten developed network storage devices at Emerald Systems as Director of Systems Engineering. Before that he held the I/O Group manager post at NCR in Rancho Bernardo, developing numerous high performance transaction processing products. Mr. Gersten represented NCR and Emerald in several ANSI standard committees developing data communication protocols. He holds BSEE from Israel and MBA from the USA.

Manny Enriquez - Founder and Vice President Engineering
Mr. Enriquez brings to Talon over 27 years experience in the electronics industry including significant ASIC, FPGA and systems design. Mr. Enriquez has extensive hands-on experience with tools from all the major commercial EDA suppliers as well as having architected and implemented numerous proprietary tools and methodologies. He has developed many chip designs across a broad range of product applications from graphics to communications. Prior to joining Talon, Mr. Enriquez held both technical and management level positions at Megatek Corporation over a twenty year period. Mr. Enriquez organized and led multiple ASIC teams and was primarily responsible for the architecture of the Company's most complex high end 3D graphics chipsets. He is a recognized expert in VHDL.

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