Leadership
Vik Grover, CFA
President & CEO Himalaya Technologies, Inc.
Vik Grover has a 25+ year track record as a leading thought provider and research analyst in the financial markets covering the emerging communications and technology sectors. Grover received a B.A. degree in marketing from the University of California at San Diego in 1992 and graduated with a M.S. degree in management from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995.
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Grover transitioned to investment banking in 2006 to leverage numerous C-level relationships across public and private companies in the emerging communications and technology sectors, with a focus on emerging growth and micro-cap companies. He then moved to management and financial consulting to assist clients in building their businesses.
John Conklin, M.Sc.
COO Himalaya Technologies, Inc.
John has over 40 years of industrial, commercial, and renewable and alternative energy experience; has provided companies strategic management, operations, and governance expertise, and provided technical and business consulting services to more than 50 technology, manufacturing, and industrial process companies from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations.
Mr. Conklin has been a dynamic team builder, synergist, and leader offering striking success propelling entrepreneurial startups and turning around start-up, small, and mid-size companies through optimizing comprehensive, integrated change across all areas of operations. Strategic management and advising of companies focus on effective management of the Company’s business; make strategic and operational decisions for the company, responsible for ensuring that the company meets its statutory obligations, and participate in board meetings to enable the board to reach strategic and operational decisions to ensure company obligations are fulfilled. He has developed and been a leader in strategic management, operations, and the development of technology from concept to proof of concepts has been a key focus. Operations strategies focus on leading innovation and development, has advised on the company operations strategy, financing, creation of company culture, human resources, product and technology development, compliance, safety, and investor and public relations (IR/PR). Conklin has also developed and held seats as a Director on Executive Boards and as a Technical Advisor. As a Director on the Company Board of Directors, he’s been responsible for the effective management of the Company’s business; they make the strategic and operational decisions of the company and are responsible for ensuring that the company meets its statutory obligations.
Mr. Conklin has invented or co-invented more than 20 U.S. and International Patent filings; and developed over 20 Trademark filings.
Advisory Board
Ron Zilkowski, CFA, MBA
Entrepreneur & Financial Executive
Entrepreneur and former financial executive with Fortune 500 companies as well as those with less than $150 million in revenue. Relentless bottom-line driver with a career history of exceeding corporate goals by uncovering opportunities that drive aggressive growth. Expert in implementing and automating rational systems that turn data into useful information for management and significantly improve accounting and forecasting. Extensive International experience in China, Europe and a number of other countries. Currently President/Owner of private company Lykins Signtek Inc., he previously worked for public companies as CFO of Cuisine Solutions, CAO at Landauer and Controller at Chindex Intl.
Charles Nahabedian
Chief Executive Officer at VK Digital Health
Charles Nahabedian has spent over 55 years in the telecommunications industry, mostly with Fortune 100 companies, where he developed and managed the realization of innovative systems and services both in international and domestic markets. A graduate of Northeastern University and Seton Hall University, he holds a BSEE, a MSEE, and an MBA in finance and marketing. He was an Adjunct Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson's Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies for eight years, having taught graduate courses in Innovation Management, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Small Business Management, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Financing.
Mr. Nahabedian started his career at Bell Labs and AT&T and has received two patents and a national award for “Outstanding Contributions in a Field of Science”. His organizations have developed and supported projects such as the first cordless telephone, the first coin telephone aboard the Metroliner, a portable cellular telephone, and interactive-touchscreen kiosks for DisneyWorld’s EPCOT theme park connected by miles of fiber optics and video disc arrays run by supercomputers that were ahead of their time. He has held executive positions at AT&T, Fidelity Investment’s venture capital group, Hazeltine Corporation, and Cingular Interactive, with positions in marketing, services management, program management, corporate development, and head of business. Charlie was also a management consultant and partner at Ultrapro International, Inc., a boutique telecom consulting firm where he helped triple the company’s revenue to $15 million annually.
From 2006-2020, Mr. Nahabedian founded and headed VideoKall, a company which won an international award for innovation in advanced person-to-person communication systems with funds transfer products and services for migrant workers. He is now CEO of VK Digital Health (“VKD”; https://www.vkdigitalhealth.com/), a business that is addressing the high costs of outpatient services utilizing medical, healthcare and technology expertise.