Sales Computer Science

VLADIMIR M. BRAJOVI C

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ENTREPRENEUR IAL EXECUTIVE, TECHNOLOGY L EADER

Visionary entrepreneur, pragmatic leader, and consultant focused on technology, marketing, and strategy. Developing

innovative global insights and providing strategic direction for accelerating value creation, technology adoption, and

continued growth. Led teams that executed projects from business concept, through development, to

commercialization and acquisition.

P ROFESSIONAL EXPERIE NCE

President, Chief Technology Officer, Founder 2003 to Present

Intrigue Technologies, Inc.

Developed profitable business from ground up. Full profit and loss responsibility. Responsible for managing all

aspects of business strategy, business development, new product development, team building, sales, marketing,

customer acquisition and care, financial management, operations, intellectual property, product valuation,

licensing, and negotiations.

Raised $2.5M in funding from the Federal and State governments through various R&D and technology

commercialization grants. Developed and led a team of top-notch engineers and scientists. Developed several

innovative and patented products and systems including: a 3D (shape sensing) camera prototype, an IP

surveillance camera for high-dynamic range imaging, an animated robotic hunting decoy, and Shadow

Illuminator™ Photoshop® plugin (www.intrigueplugins.com).

Developed a $3M Technology Innovation and Consulting business unit. Led a team of engineers to deliver new

and innovative solutions to drive customers’ business goals.

Active in the local entrepreneurial and business community. Member of Technology Commercialization Advisory

Board (TCAB) at the Technology Collaborative, Inc. (now Innovation Works, Inc.). Mentor and executive coach

(pro-bono) for early stage ventures associated with Thrill Mill, Pittsburgh.

Four patents, several journal and conference papers.

Consultant for Tagnetics, Inc. 2012 to present

Intrigue Technologies, Inc.

Invited by the CTO to accelerate the value creation for a $12M VC-backed startup focusing on delivering the next

generation electronic shelf label systems to retail, supply chain, and inventory management applications. The

system is a network of tens of thousands of small ePaper displays replacing traditional paper labels, such as

price labels in a supermarket. Tagnetics system is currently deployed in 40 Whole Foods supermarkets in the

Western U.S.

Played a key role, at first as a technical solution provider (with Intrigue’s team), and then as a strategic advisor

and liaison between the internal technology development team and executive team.

Vice President, Co-Founder, 2011 to 2013

Double Take Decoys, LLC

Co-founded a consumer electronics company focused on a single product – a predator hunting motion decoy.

Secured the development funding, strategically invented a particular technical solution for strong value

proposition, market positioning, and defensible IP position.

Engaged and negotiated with Primos Hunting, a major player in the hunting industry, and concluded a successful

acquisition. The product is now marketed by Primos as “Stray Cat Predator Decoy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb-Y09vIzdQ.

Consultant for Advantech US, Inc., Advisor to the CEO 2009 to 2014

Intrigue Technologies, Inc.

Played a key leadership role within a $30M VC-backed startup specializing in advanced flat panel OLED display

production technologies.

As an advisor to the CEO, participated in strategic business decisions and served as a liaison between the

company and customers, suppliers, investors, and display industry community at key industry events.

Led own team (Intrigue) to provide technology solutions and innovations for imaging/display electronics, thin-

film transistor fabrication process, products demonstrations for end users, investors and tradeshows. Provided

considerable guidance to the client’s internal key decision makers.

Proposed and demonstrated a new product opportunity that attracted $6M in additional investment.

Formulated a business plan for an alternative product line to immediately leverage available capabilities of the

client’s technology, while bypassing capabilities still under development.

Research Scientist/Research Faculty, Director of the VLSI Computational Sensor Laboratory 1996 to 2004

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Identified research opportunities in the area of on-chip image sensing and processing and computer vision.

Raised approximately $6.75M in funding from the U.S. government and industry. Planned budgets and spending.

Led and mentored a research team of several graduate students and two visiting scientists. Planned projects,

lead the execution and delivered promised groundbreaking solutions to sponsors.

Consultant: 1) helped companies develop and implement best technical solutions in the area of computer vision,

industrial sensing, and robotics (MSA, Hatch, Kaiser); 2) helped government agencies identify the most pressing

research issues (DoD, DARPA, NSF); 3) served on the National Science Foundation grant proposal review

panelist; 4) Assisted CMU’s Technology Transfer Office with valuation and licensing of innovative university

technologies to industry.

Two patents and more than 20 journal and conference publications. Numerous invited presentations and panel

participations.

A CADEMIC PREPARATION

MBA, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon, GPA 4.06 2000

Graduated with University honors. Elected president for the “management game” team. Led the team to increase

profitability from lowest among five firms to the second highest, while achieving cost leadership and the lowest

inventory in the industry.

Ph.D. Robotics/Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, GPA 3.96 1996

Received Anton Philips best paper award at the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Takeo Kanade. Focus on adaptive image sensor innovations for advanced robot vision.

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, GPA 4.00

Graduated summa cum laude. Graduate Advisor: Dr. Joseph Wilder. Focus on computer vision and image processing.

B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, GPA 3.85

Focus on Electronics and Real-Time Systems.

A DDITIONAL INFORMATI ON

Honors: Anton Philips best paper award at 1996 IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation.

Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary membership recognizing business excellence.

Memberships: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Sandler Sales Training 2012

Self-Study and Interests: Marketing, Communications, Design, Economics, Management, and Psychology.

Fun: Guitar, Jazz, Sailing, Meeting People.

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