Our Leadership

Meet our co-founders driving the Helikai vision, technical innovation, and operational excellence in our company. They embrace a "customer first" mentality that has been the foundation of their beliefs in launching and servicing products/solutions to the Fortune 500 (enterprise) customers, SMB companies, and global Service Providers over the last three decades.

Ross Fujii

Jamie Lerner

Jamie has over 30 years of experience leading technology businesses, including engineering, sales, data center/cloud operations, AI/ML infrastructure, and high growth/large scale company management. He has been both the founder/CEO of startup companies as well as Chairman and CEO of Nasdaq and NYSE publicly traded companies. Jamie has driven the development and sales of award-winning software, hardware, and cloud services, and managed large businesses at public companies, including Cisco, Seagate, and Quantum. Ross and Jamie have worked side by side for over 30 years and their friendship forms the foundation of Helikai's culture and direction.

Ross has over 30 years of experience developing and servicing technology solutions deployed across hybrid environments and guiding enterprise customers through market transitions, now targeting Generative AI. He has held C-level and key leadership positions at both Bay Area startups and public corporations, including Quantum, SolarWinds, Cisco, and EDS (HP / DXC). His breadth of experience spans strategy, product, engineering, architecture, service delivery, managed services, and project management. "Fuj" is native to Honolulu, Hawaii and shares a deep love of the ocean/Kai with Jamie along with a passion for building heart-centered businesses with vibrant work cultures.

Dan began working with Jamie and Ross nearly 25 years ago and since then has held executive positions at Verizon and National Grid. His career has spanned leadership and direct ownership of operations, account management, professional services, forward deployed engineering, business process management, mergers & acquisitions, product management, sales engineering, platform engineering, and enterrpise digital transformation.

Based in Boston, Dan is an avid and competitive rower and technology enthusiast. Dan belives, as a business professional and leader that lasting success and growth comes from the powerful combination open, unbiased dialogue, diversity or perspective, constant communication, and inherent individual accountability.

Dan Jablonski

Sean Naughton

Sean brings over 25 years of experience in enterprise sales, financial services, and life sciences. Sean runs Helikai's sales operations, customer service, and partner programs across APAC. Sean has rooted his career on building and maintaining lifelong personal relationships. Sean is based in New South Wales.

Karl Ko

Karl is an experienced AI and software architect, leading our most advanced projects with our largest customers. Karl has over 25 years of experience working on application software and firmware with Micron, Seagate, Koxia, and Applied Signal Technology. Karl is also a professional photographer and contributes to our advanced image processing AI projects and capabilities.