Stephen Pales
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Retired Chief of Police with more than three decades of law enforcement leadership. After
retiring, built a regional security agency and watched organized retail crime and human
trafficking persist beyond the reach of traditional policing. In 2020, he and Jim Cords designed
the foundation of what is now the BlueWave ecosystem, bringing nearly sixty years of combined
investigative experience to a platform built to close the data silos and operational gaps that have
protected criminal networks for decades. They did not build a product. They built a reckoning.
Don “DJ” Carr
Co-Founder & Systems Architect
Inventor, patent holder, technologist, and advocate. Every architectural decision BlueWave has
ever made is human-centered, privacy-first, and built to hold up in court. He did not come to this
work through a market opportunity. He came to it through lived proximity to the problem. For
years he owned and operated private security firms in Seattle, a life in the throes of liability and
risk, where duty of care was not a doctrine on paper but a daily reality. Designer of BlueWave’s
three-class system infrastructure: Class A identity-first systems, Class B incident-first systems,
and Class C passive signal infrastructure, plus the GRID Network (Global Responsible
Intelligence with Dignity), the national network connecting frontline organizations, retailers, and
law enforcement. The systems he architects are not products. They are infrastructure for the
people the system was never built to protect.
Hiren Mowji
Co-Founding Executive Board Member, BlueWave Technology
A decade-plus career spanning hospitality operations, business development, robotics adoption,
and AI-driven retail technology, including co-founding the hospitality technology firm aavgo.
Today he serves as Head of Americas at Veesion, the AI-powered gesture detection platform
whose existing customer base is the first live deployment environment for the integrated system.
Hiren structured the Veesion x BlueWave partnership and is leading the pilots currently in
deployment. He is the bridge between two platforms that were always meant to converge.
Joseph-Israel Kadjo
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Founder-level engineer. Twenty years building the foundations that other engineers build on top
of. For the last two years, working at the frontier of applied AI infrastructure, developing ZI², a
custom language purpose-built for AI system construction rather than adapted from what
already exists. The CaseTrace platform is an early expression of that work. His first act as CTO
was a live field deployment at two retail locations in New York: analog infrastructure, no
credentials, no documentation, and both sites live the same day. The result is a new category of
plug-and-play, walk-away architecture. The system he has built has not yet shown its ceiling.
Jim Cords
Co-Founder & Chief Protection & Intelligence Officer
Nearly three decades in federal service: FBI, Department of Homeland Security’s Child
Exploitation Investigative Unit, and the Office of Inspector General. He spent nine years in San
Francisco as a forensic interviewer in child exploitation cases, then operated at the crossroads
of national security and digital evidence. He did not advise on BlueWave’s architecture after it
was built. He shaped it before the first line of code was written, defining what chain of custody
means in practice and what a prosecutor needs to act. That is not consulting. That is co-
founding.
Mukesh Mowji
Advisory Board Member, BlueWave Technology
Three decades at the intersection of hospitality operations, enterprise technology sales, and
industry leadership. Former Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at LogicVision, a
semiconductor technology company. Former Chairman of AAHOA (2006 to 2007), the Asian
American Hotel Owners Association, which today represents roughly 20,000 members and
nearly 60 percent of all US hotel properties. When Mukesh is in the room, the industry is in the
room.
