| Pieter van Rooyen founded Zyray Wireless in August of 2000 with Michiel Lotter and had secured venture funding for the company in early 2001. After successfully establishing the core development team in San Diego, van Rooyen has focused on new technology development in the areas of Smart Antennas and Space-Time Processing to further enhance Zyray's growing product family. Since then, he has filed 15 patents in these areas. Previously, van Rooyen founded and served as Director of the Alcatel Research Unit for Wireless Access (ARUWA), conducting research into mobile communications systems with a particular emphasis on WCDMA/Smart Antenna cellular technology. He has also worked at the Sony Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory (Tokyo, Japan), where he conducted research and product development on Software Define Radio and Space-Time Processing techniques for next generation wireless communications. Prior to that, van Rooyen spent two years at Alcatel Altech Telecoms and has served as a full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. van Rooyen has published over 60 technical papers, holds 19 technical patents in the area of digital communications and is co-author of two books related to WCDMA/Smart Antenna mobile systems. He is also a member of Zyray's distinguished Scientific Advisory Board. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa, in the area of CDMA and smart antenna techniques. | 
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