Leadership that drives innovation

Dmitry Turbiner is the Founder and CEO of General Radar whose mission is to build the World’s first 100% commercial AESA radar with flagship DoD performance. General Radar has secured over $35M in venture capital investment and is executing on several DoD and commercial contracts.

Prior to General Radar, Dmitry was an RF and Antenna Engineer at NASA/JPL where he served as the Cognizant Engineer for the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Mission’s Radio Occultation Antenna Array. Currently, twelve of Dmitry’s phased array antennas are orbiting on a constellation of six heavy NASA satellites.

Dmitry has a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a partial MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, from which he dropped out in order to found General Radar.

Okie Williams joined Dmitry as Co-Founder and CTO of General Radar in 2016.
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Prior to General Radar, Okie worked at Apple, Analog Devices, and a handful of hardware start-ups around Cambridge, MA as both a co-founder and an engineer. Okie holds patents in multiple areas, from sensor data processing algorithms for mobile devices, augmented reality gaming, technology related to micro pick-and-place robots, and radar innovations regarding work at General Radar.
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Okie studied EECS as an undergraduate at MIT after which he started a company building custom machine learning chips for robotics applications.

Chip Wolcott joins General Radar as the Senior Vice President of Engineering. Chip brings his extensive and broad-based experience in phased array radar development, missile defense programs, national asset fielding and sustainment, foreign military sales and technical leadership. 

Chip has over 30 years of technical leadership experience in capital equipment, research, and radar development, test, fielding, and sustainment including 4 years at the MIT Bates Linear Accelerator and 22 years at Raytheon Technologies. In his prior role as the Chief Engineer of Strategic Systems and Sensors (S3) for Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Chip oversaw all technical activities of the S3 scope across multiple missile defense programs including radar hardware, software, systems development and production, flight and ground test, modeling and simulations, classified programs, foreign military sales, radar fielding and sustainment, and strategic growth activities. 

Chip has been recognized with major awards from both the DoD and Raytheon. His awards include technology achievement awards from the Navy and MDA, as well as the Excellence in Engineering and Technology (EiET) award and two President’s awards from Raytheon. 

Chip earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Merrimack College in 1993.

Sergio joined General Radar in 2018 and brings considerable Government and Military experience to the team from his time on active duty as a Naval Officer conducting two overseas deployments and as a Reservist at the Pentagon and deploying to Afghanistan in 2009 and assignment with the Joint Chiefs of Staff supporting the Director of Intelligence.
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His achievements include earning the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, NATO Medal, and Humanitarian Service Medal. He was appointed to the Trade Finance Advisory Council by the Secretary of Commerce and Fraud Working Group by the Federal Reserve Board. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Naval War College.

Mike Powell is Senior Vice President of Sales at General Radar. With a 30-year career in delivering advanced technologies, Mike has proven himself a proactive force in serving the DoD. His expertise encompasses DoD capture management, strategy, market entry, and product management. Mike’s primary mission is to deploy General Radar’s best in class Radar for National and Regional Security, for CONUS and OCONUS.
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Mike's work with the USARMY earned him the esteemed "Innovator of the Year" award in 2014 from the state of Arizona for his outstanding force protection and border security solutions.

Throughout his career, Mike has demonstrated his ability to secure large contract awards and foster successful collaborations with the DoD, DHS and Industry Partners. He played a key role in capturing, and deploying warfighter protection systems with the USARMY, USMC and Industry. For the past 20 years, Mike has been an advocate of life saving innovations, forging DoD and industry collaborations that have strengthened force protection capabilities and mission success most recently as a subject matter expert on Counter Drone Technology.

Mike has marked his legacy with pioneering innovations, award achievements and fruitful strategic partnerships. As the SVP of Sales at General Radar, Mike and his team are supporting the DoD in the deployment of Military grade, long and medium range radar to enable advanced missile defense. Mike is deeply committed to deploying solutions that protect and save lives.

Adam joins General Radar as the Director of Architecture and Systems Engineering, bringing to the team over 24 years of DoD radar experience. 

Previously, Adam was a Principal Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Technologies, where he was most recently the Technical Director and System Architect for the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS). Prior to that, he was the Technical Director and Chief Engineer for the missile defense radar programs, including AN/TPY-2, the Sea-Based X-band (SBX) radar, the Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR), and Cobra Dane. Adam's expertise includes radar development with focus on target discrimination and resource optimization, flight test, real world operations, and interface development with the external elements of the overall system. Adam started his career at Raytheon in 1998 and also worked at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works from 2002 - 2003. 

Adam was recognized with two Missile Defense Agency Technology Achievement awards and two Raytheon Excellence in Engineering and Technology awards for his work on missile defense radars and systems. 

Adam earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997 and a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1998.

Jeff joins General Radar as the Director of Software Engineering, bringing to the team over 36years of experience with a variety of DoD systems.

Previously, Jeff was an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Technologies. Jeff's extensive experience encompasses a diverse range of applications, including Radar Systems, Command and Controls Systems, Battlefield Simulations, and Maintenance Training Systems.  Jeff has successfully led organizations consisting of 6-10 Scrum teams, guiding them through the entire development life cycle. From the initial design phases through system integration and ultimately fielding and sustainment. His leadership roles as Chief Product Owner (CPO) and Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead have showcased his ability to effectively coordinate and execute the development of large-scale applications by multi-disciplinary Scrum teams.

Jeff earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Merrimack College in 1986.

Tools define humanity’s domain and unlock the future, and Cody unifies design and discipline to implement these modern instruments. With experience founding and advising multiple instrument and technology based startups he demonstrates success in architecting and commercializing complex, multi-domain technology enterprises into relevant market positions.
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Cody’s roots lie in traditional machine design, learning classic machining in his father’s shop and studying precision machine design and systems at MIT. Previously he founded 3Scan, a company that synthesized high bandwidth imaging and high speed automation to redefine pathology methods. This company successfully exited in an acquisition by Strateos, a leader in lab automation and drug discovery workflows. Notable accolades include a recognition in 2018 by Forbes 30 Under 30 for his work with 3Scan as well as a Guinness World Record in 2011 for manufacture of the World’s Largest Clock.

Jim brings profound private and public sector experience to the team.

He has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in two publicly traded corporations: CSRA from 2016-2018 (an information technology company acquired by General Dynamics in 2018) and SIGA Technologies from 2012-2016 (a biotechnology company), as well as General Counsel at Rubicon Carbon from 2022-2024 (a market-driven climate technology and trading company). Jim was also Chief Corporate Counsel for Chevron Corporation from 2008-2012, and twice a partner in the international law firm of Jenner & Block prior to 2001.

Jim has held two Senate-confirmed Presidentially-appointed offices: General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2001-2008), and General Counsel of the Department of the Army (1990-1993).