The home of AstoundSound and its 4D Sound Enhancement Technology
GenAudio based in Englewood, Colorado has developed AstoundSound®, a 4D sound localization cue technology intended for professional and consumer software and hardware product integration. This immense 360-degree spherical sound field experience is changing how people everywhere listen to audio, with a variety of products for consumers and professional audio engineers.
Find out more >Interested in AstoundSound® for audio professionals?
- Check out the next dimension in virtual surround sound. AstoundSurround allows the professional
audio engineer the ability to integrate GenAudio's unique 3D audio technology within a multi-channel mix. To find out more, click on the AstoundSurround logo below.
- Check out the first high-end audio studio facility built specifically for the purpose of mixing and mastering using GenAudio's AstoundSound technology. To find out more, click on the AstoundStudios logo below.
Meet the Board of Directors for
the GenAudio® Corporation
Jerry Mahabub,
GenAudio's Founder & CEO
Mr. Mahabub founded GenAudio in 2003 and is the inventor of the core technology, AstoundSound® with over 23 years of continuous R&D as of present. His activities include strategic planning with respect to the overall integrated business and technical direction, patent filing, capital formation, business development including forming partnerships/strategic alliances and license negotiations, and works directly with the software development team when necessary for testing, advancements to the technology, and new software features. Mr. Mahabub also outright owns Astound Studios of which GenAudio uses as it's primary studio facility under a partnership agreement. Mr. Mahabub recently formed and owns Astound Records to bring new artists to market with their content or albums mixed in AstoundSound at Astound Studios.
Prior to founding GenAudio, he was owner and Executive Manager of Rapid Prototype Technologies, LLC from 1998 to 2003, where he designed and developed new and innovative technologies for a large variety of government contracts and mainstream commercial markets. His responsibilities there included design engineering, business development, technology commercialization, and licensing. In addition, Mr. Mahabub was often asked to assess technologies for investment firms and assist with IP based independent valuation analysis. Mr. Mahabub has negotiated many world-wide licensing deals, channel partnerships and strategic alliances with multiple divisions of Hewlett Packard and many other companies in an effort to create marketable, state of the art, disruptive and cost-effective products, and has also consulted for both hardware and software engineering projects. Prior to his position at Rapid Prototype Technologies, Mr. Mahabub was Director of Engineering at Ines Inc./SPYR Technologies Inc. from 1995 to 1998, where he established that company as a GSA/8A provider for government contracts. The work involved research and analysis of market trends for commercialization efforts, competition and market analysis, product marketing strategy, print and digital advertisements, ISO 9001 compliance, and negotiation of several government contracts in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and Government Procurement Policies for numerous branches of the armed forces. A cursory list of entities for which he has designed, developed and/or transferred, including through licensing, technologies are SAIC, Miltope, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Motorola, Siemens, Philips, Boeing, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the US Naval Warfare Center, Quantico, the US Army Missile Research and Development Engineering Center (MRDEC), TMDE, and many others.
Mr. Mahabub started attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY doing coursework and lab work from the age of 13 and entering as a full time student at the age of 16. In 1988, at 16, he was hired to work part-time at a Superconducting Research Laboratory while attending RPI full-time and also worked, from the age of 13, in Dr. Charles P. Bean and Ivar Gaiver's lab (Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of Superconducting Tunneling in 1971). He was the youngest to be accepted into the special school for entrepreneurship at RPI where he helped to grow three high-tech incubator companies from the age of 16. He double-majored in Physics (B.S) and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering - ECSE (B.E.) with a Minor in Philosophy/Symbolic Logic.
Dell Skluzak,
Board Member
Dell is the owner of PHC Inc., a manufacturer of specialty tools for the building restoration industry and brings nearly 30 years of experience in starting and running small business operations. A 1984 graduate of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Metallurgical engineering, he started his professional career with ALCOA. During his 15-year career with ALCOA he held position in Quality Assurance, Technical Field Service Engineer, Marketing and General Management. He started the Alcoa Aerospace Center in 1991 from concept stage which involved integrating raw material MRP requirements fromlarge aerospace subcontractors such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Northrop with production facilities at ALCOA and performing value added metal working processes. The Alcoa Aerospace Center revolutionized supply of large fuselage sheet products by delivering exact quantities to individual processing centers with true JIT systems. He was involved in site selection, sales and marketing, employee hiring and served as its General Manager for 5 years. The business grew rapidly from a single employee to over 200 and was a $100 Million company within 2 years
Concurrent with his career at ALCOA, Dell purchased two small manufacturing businesses in Colorado and after leaving ALCOA in 1999 took over active management of thefacilities. In 2000, he sold one of his companies to a large German composite company and continued growing the tool business. In 2001, Dell started consulting with ALCOA, Eclipse Aviation and TW Metals to develop supply chain management for large volume aerospace material contracts. He traveled extensively to Asia, Latin America, Europe and Canada eventually developing a series of facilities for worldwide supply of aerospace materials for customers such as Cessna, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier, and several Asian aerospace subcontractors
Dell is the owner of several patents during his time at Alcoa and PHC Inc., and currently has two additional patent pending products. He has been an active purchaser of the Company's stock for nearly a decade and is a substantial shareholder.
Brent Kaviar,
Board Member
Brent D. Kaviar came to California to start west coast operations, marketing, and business development for Darlab's, Inc., maker of Mod-Tap networking products. After a few years in the early days of computer networking, he segued to the entertainment business, first working in commercial editing for Stuart Waks and Co. and then in post production on a number of independent films directed by Dutch filmmaker Ate De Jung . Brent joined the mini-major, New Line Cinema, starting in inventory management then rising in the ranks over 18 years to Senior Vice President of Post Production. Brent oversaw digital cinema, 3D, archiving , post production marketing and the 35mm and digital releases of all New Line's films.
Brent also had a key role in the theatrical release of all New Line, Fine Line and Picture House films from Robert Altman's The Player to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings (winner of 11 Academy Awards). Other films in which Brent had a key role include: The Rush Hour series, Austin Powers series, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Shortcuts. Brent Kaviar was the New Line Post Production executive on Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, the world's first live action 3D film. Brent's work in 3D continued after New Line Cinema, and included the 3D release of Jim Cameron's Avatar for Fox Studios. Brent has been consulting and working as the Post Production Executive for GenAudio Inc. since 2009.
Brent graduated from Binghamton University with a BA. He is a contributing member of two committees awarded Science and Technical Achievement Awards from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for Trailer Audio Standards Association (TASA) and The Cyan Tracks Committee.