Leadership Team

Vanu Bose, President and CEO Vanu Bose is the President and CEO of Vanu, Inc. Vanu earned all of his degrees from MIT, receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1999, his Master's degree in EECS in 1992, and two Bachelor's degrees, one in EECS and one in Math, in 1988. As a graduate student, Vanu worked on the MIT SpectrumWare project at the MIT lab for Computer Science, an effort to bring a software oriented approach to wireless communication and distributed signal processing. There, he performed the software radio research that would later evolve into Vanu, Inc. Prior to graduate school, Vanu developed a technical teaching curriculum and onboard medical, computer and satellite communications systems for a DC-10 flying hospital for Project Orbis, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to fighting world blindness. Vanu is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Boston Museum of Science.

Andy Beard, Chief Operating Officer Andy Beard has been an employee of Vanu, Inc. since it began operations. He was associated with the Boston based law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP from 1993 until he joined Vanu, Inc. Andy specialized in the firm's business practice area primarily representing small businesses and investment funds with respect to corporate transactional and securities matters. Andy graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1993 and from Dartmouth College, with a B.A. in Philosophy, in 1987.