Our Leadership

Meet our co-founders driving the Helikai vision, technical innovation, and operational excellence in our company. They embrace a "customer first" mentality that has been the foundation of their beliefs in launching and servicing products/solutions to the Fortune 500 (enterprise) customers, SMB companies, and global Service Providers over the last three decades.

Ross Fujii

Jamie Lerner

Jamie has over 30 years of experience leading technology businesses, including engineering, sales, data center/cloud operations, AI/ML infrastructure, and high growth/large scale company management. He has been both the founder/CEO of startup companies as well as Chairman and CEO of Nasdaq and NYSE publicly traded companies. Jamie has driven the development and sales of award-winning software, hardware, and cloud services, and managed large businesses at public companies, including Cisco, Seagate, and Quantum. Ross and Jamie have worked side by side for over 30 years and their friendship forms the foundation of Helikai's culture and direction.

Ross has over 30 years of experience developing and servicing technology solutions deployed across hybrid environments and guiding enterprise customers through market transitions, now targeting Generative AI. He has held C-level and key leadership positions at both Bay Area startups and public corporations, including Quantum, SolarWinds, Cisco, and EDS (HP / DXC). His breadth of experience spans strategy, product, engineering, architecture, service delivery, managed services, and project management. "Fuj" is native to Honolulu, Hawaii and shares a deep love of the ocean/Kai with Jamie along with a passion for building heart-centered businesses with vibrant work cultures.