CEO and Co-Founder
ECSite

Subbu Meiyappan is a leader in wireless telecom with over 25 years of entrepreneurial and technology development experience. He is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded NextNav, an inventor and an author. As CEO of ECSite, he is responsible for leading the company’s vision to automate everything, everywhere, helping transform the Telecom industry into the all-digital era.

Subbu previously co-founded NextNav in 2007 – an indoor location company. Prior to NextNav, Subbu was Principal Engineer at Qualcomm and Airgo Networks leading the development of first commercial implementations of MIMO WiFi ICs.

Subbu has over 30 issued US and international patents and several more pending. He has written several technical publications and spoken at industry and academic conferences. He also taught courses at Arizona State University and has been on several industry standards committees.

He also co-founded a non-profit organization Vetrivelfoundation.org that is helping take world-class education to the masses by converting Khan Academy videos into Indian regional languages.

Subbu is from Pulankurichy, and lives with his wife Jayanti Subramanian and children Nivetha and Sanjay in San Jose, CA.