LIGHTSTREAM - Key Persons


Dr. Jay Misra

Job Titles:
  • Inventor & Sr. Technical Advisor
Jay is a networking and cybersecurity researcher, and an Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science at New Mexico State University. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2009 and his broad research interests include Internet of Things, Smart Grid, Future Internet Architecture, Blockchains and Machine Learning Security, and Quantum Computing.

Dr. Reza Tourani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Inventor & Technical Advisor
Reza is an Assistant Prof. of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New Mexico State University in 2018. Reza's research is broadly in the areas of Internet Architecture, Security and privacy, Edge Computing, and Cyber-Physical Systems.

Jason Rigby

Job Titles:
  • Creative Director
Jason is a Digital Marketing Expert for over 20 years and provides strategic direction for client digital marketing campaigns To accomplish business objectives. Jason regularly speaks about marketing, leadership, and branding at conferences and more.

Shelly Hirshon - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
Accomplished legal career. Licensed and exited technology from Harvard University. Shelly was a senior member of Proskauer Rose LLP's Corporate Department until his retirement in 2012. With 40 years of experience as a corporate and transactional attorney, Shelly developed a broad-based practice encompassing complex domestic and international matters. Shelly's cross-disciplinary interests enabled him to act as a business advisor, as well as an attorney, in matters involving particularly sensitive or difficult issues. During his legal career Shelly helped launch a biotech-life sciences company and was a serial entrepreneur in the non-profit sector. Since retiring, Shelly is involved in local politics and developing media programs.

Travis Kellerman

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder / Co - Founder of High - Growth Tech Startups.
Travis is a serial entrepreneur and tech strategist. His startups in the US and SE Asia saw dramatic growth, challenges, funding, and valuations. He has led 4000% revenue growth, full-stack teams of 5 to 100, and global expansions into eighty countries. As a technical producer, he focused on building predictive data platforms and saw the importance of the provenance of data. Travis joined LightStream after his experience in guiding strategy for petabyte-level data refineries which increasingly relied on ground sensor data from IoT networks.

Victor Hughes - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
Victor is a pragmatic innovative entrepreneur and ethical security-minded futurist with a Military Intelligence background and experience founding cryptocurrency startups. The LightStream technology immediately resonated with him conceptually, performance results captured his attention, and he's confident the immense and urgent need for lightweight E2EE systems will continue to grow in parallel with the global explosion in IoT device deployment.