Alex Maleki

Alex Maleki currently serves as the President of OEwaves. Prior to joining in 2025, Alex spent 18 months commercializing photonic technology as CEO of Comet Communication Systems. Prior to Comet, Alex served as a Managing Director at Mandala Space Systems and at Idealab, where his responsibilities included fundraising, recruiting, providing strategic guidance to entrepreneurs, and evaluating new business-ideas for commercialization.

Before joining Idealab in 2008, Alex held senior roles at two venture-backed startups in the enterprise software and services space (Net Effect and Mobile Automation), both of which were successfully acquired. He holds a BA from UCSB, a JD from Southwestern University, and currently serves on the boards of Xosphere, an Idealab company, and OEwaves.