RALPH PETROFF

Ralph Petroff is a CEO with 30 years of successful global experience in high technology, including businesses in wireless communications, remote data acquisition and asset tracking, and clean technologies.  Currently, he is CEO of Magna Vista Group, providing management and strategic consulting to a variety of companies.

In 1975, Petroff, his brothers and father founded ADS Environmental Services, a pollution monitoring company utilizing NASA technology.  As CEO, Petroff grew the company to become a worldwide market leader.  Independent estimates show that ADS saved its municipal customers in excess of $10 billion in water and wastewater infrastructure improvement costs.  In 1996, Petroff became CEO at Time Domain Corporation and was credited with creating the UWB (ultrawideband) industry which employs a novel pulse radio transmission.  In 2005 Petroff was recruited by an Australian private technology center, NICTA, to become their "Entrepreneur in Residence".  He developed commercialization plans and provided strategic management to their most promising  start-ups.

Petroff has provided expert witness to 10 Congressional Committees on subjects ranging from water quality, infrastructure repair, spectrum management, to defense modernization.  He has been invited to speak at over 100 industry conferences such as Comdex, including 6 keynote speeches.

Petroff was born in Canada, and raised in Vietnam and the U.S.  His family moved to Huntsville where his father, Peter Petroff supported Von Braun's moon landing team.  Petroff is a graduate of Stanford University and is married with four teenage children.  He is an avid history reader, bicyclist, soccer player, and movie buff.