Corporate

Strategic Advisors

Dr. Adam Berger
Founder and CTO
Penthera Partners, Inc.

In the last seven years, Dr. Berger has founded and grown two companies whose mission is to extend the capabilities of mobile phones past voice into compelling, usable new data services.  Penthera, based in Pittsburgh, develops software solutions for efficient delivery of high-quality video to wireless handsets.  At Penthera, Berger has served as CTO, vice president, and director.

Previously, at Nokia, Adam ran an advanced technology group (R&D group) within Nokia’s Enterprise Systems Division where he was responsible for the development and prosecution of IP portfolio related to mobile email, browsing, and synchronization software.  In that capacity he coordinated with peer groups in Technology Platforms, Nokia Ventures Organization (NVO), and Multimedia division, based in Helsinki.  He also served as IP/patent reviewer and technology consultant to Nokia Ventures Organization and Innovent (Nokia venturing unit).

In 2000, Berger co-founded Eizel Technologies Inc., a venture-backed startup that developed a corporate mobile email system.  Eizel was sold to Nokia in 2003 and became a component of the newly-formed Enterprise Systems division.  The Eizel product line grew into the Nokia One Business Server™ product, developed in conjunction with development efforts in Dallas and Finland offices.  

Dr. Berger was trained as a researcher in the field of computer science.  His expertise relates to the transmission, compression, and processing of text.  He has presented at leading international conferences in the fields of artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and language processing, and has served as a reviewer for journals and conferences in the field of machine learning, speech and language analysis, and neural processing. 

From 1992 to 1995, Berger was a member of the Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory at IBM, where he participated in developing systems for speech recognition and language translation based on stochastic models of text and voice.  He has also held a research position at Clairvoyance Corporation, a Japanese-funded R&D firm specializing in information management.  Berger holds a B.A. in physics and an M.S. in computer science from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.  He is a recipient of an IBM Graduate Fellowship, a Harvard College Scholarship, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.