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. Architect of BlueWave’s three-class system infrastructure: Class A identity-first systems, Class B incident-first systems, and Class C passive signal infrastructure — and CORE, the national network connecting frontline organizations, retailers, and law enforcement. The tools he builds are not products. They are infrastructure built for the people the system was never built to protect.
Hiren Mowji
Co-Founding Executive Board Member, BlueWave Technology
Head of Americas at Veesion — the AI-powered gesture detection platform whose existing customer base is the first live deployment environment for the Veesion + Powered by BlueWave system. Hiren structured the Veesion x BlueWave partnership and is leading the pilots currently in deployment. Before Veesion, a decade-plus career spanning hospitality operations, business development, robotics adoption, and AI-driven retail technology — including co-founding aavgo. 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 custom languages purpose-built for AI system construction, not adapting what 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 — both devices live on the first visit. The architecture 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. His entire career operated at the crossroads of child exploitation, 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, Hotelligence
Three decades at the intersection of hospitality operations, enterprise technology sales, and industry leadership. Former Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at LogicVision. Former President & CEO of AAHOA — the Asian American Hotel Owners Association — representing more than 18,000 members and nearly 60 percent of all US hotel properties. When Mukesh is in the room, the industry is in the room.
