Amin Shokrollahi, CEO and Founder of Kandou, has been at the forefront of research in information communication for the last 20 years. A Fellow of IEEE, he has published more than 150 papers, and has approximately 150 granted and filed patents in the area of information transmission. Amin was Chief Scientist of Digital Fountain, a company specializing in the transmission of data on unreliable networks, acquired by Qualcomm in 2009. He also invented Raptor codes, a class of codes standardized by 3GPP, DVB, IPTV and other standards bodies. He is co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Society best paper award; co-recipient of the 2008 IEEE Eric E. Sumner award; and recipient of the 2008 joint IEEE information theory and communication theory society best paper award. He was presented with the 2014 ISSCC Jan van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper presented at the ISSCC. In 2012, Amin was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, a prestigious IEEE award.