Scott A. Hotes, Ph.D. is the CTO and VP Engineering of WaveMarket, a leader in the mobility and location-based services market. Hotes' specialty is launching industrial-grade software implementing advanced algorithms - ranging from UNIX kernel to cryptography. Prior to WaveMarket, Dr. Hotes was at the United States Department of Defense, where he oversaw software development teams at Ft. Meade, MD and at the Army Research Lab at Austin, TX. The systems developed supported large military customers, employing the use of advanced data mining and machine learning algorithms in Internet security and traffic modeling applications.