Meet our leadership team

Daniel Shaddock is also a Professor in Physics at the Australian National University. His research focuses on precision measurements using advanced digital signal processing. Prof Shaddock led Australia’s involvement in GRACE Follow-on, a satellite mission launched on May 22, 2018 to track the Earth’s water movement. Prior to this work Daniel was a Director’s Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he served as NASA’s Interferometer Architect for the LISA mission. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and his publications have been cited over 20,000 times. Daniel was a co-author on the paper announcing the observation of gravitational waves, an achievement that was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Danielle received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Australian National University for developing FPGA algorithms and instrumentation for satellite-based laser ranging systems. Previously she was a Senior Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto where she worked on interferometric imaging and metrology systems. Danielle leads US operations, strategy, and partnerships.

Ben Nizette currently serves as Director of Product at Liquid Instruments, the leader in precision software-defined instrumentation, revolutionizing the way that students, scientists, and engineers learn, discover, and create. In his role at Liquid Instruments, Ben spearheaded the Moku:Go project, delivering the company’s first consumer product with a focus on education at an accessible price point. The first-ever engineer hired at Liquid Instruments, Ben is fueled by a deep passion for technology, and hopes to remove some of the fear and intimidation around the core equipment used in the test and measurement field every day.

Paul earned his Ph.D. in experimental quantum physics at the Australian National University in 2012, before moving to Germany to take up an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for quantum optics in Garching. His research has spanned a range of fields across physics and precision measurement, including ultracold quantum gases, atom interferometry, precision gravimetry, dark matter, cavity quantum electrodynamics and gravitational wave detection. Paul has co-authored over 100 journal articles and was a member of the Nobel-Prize-winning team that made the first detection of gravitational waves from a pair of colliding black holes in 2016. At Liquid Instruments, Paul is responsible for designing the instruments and user interfaces that provide scientists and engineers with industry-leading usability and features.

Accomplished hands-on finance leader with proven track record in driving financial and operational performance. Providing strategic business partnership in formulating and executing growth initiatives. Building innovative organizations and delivering on financial results to increase shareholders value. Proactively anticipating needs and problem solving. Continually supporting and driving key initiatives and goals. Strengths include the ability to organize, meeting deadlines, and multitasking. Proficient in all areas of finance, including financial planning & analysis, general ledger, accounting research, audit and contract interpretation.

Ben graduated with a degree in software engineering before beginning a Ph.D in Computer Science where his research centered on developing verifiable and radiation tolerant avionics for unmanned aerial vehicles. Ben gained valuable experience managing highly-technical software projects while working in the defense industry before discovering a passion for field-programmable gate-arrays and embedded software development. Ben is responsible for the design of the system architecture, device firmware and the quality practices of the software team.

Pejman (Pej) Roshan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Liquid Instruments, where he leads the company’s global marketing organization. Pej brings over 25 years of B2B product and marketing experience to role,  selling to businesses of all sizes including enterprise, service provider across technology, IT, and cybersecurity markets

Pej joins Liquid Instruments from Menlo Security, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer, leading global marketing for the company in the browsers and AI security space.

Prior to Menlo Security, Pej was the Vice President of data center products and marketing at Xilinx (later AMD, following its 2022 acquisition of Xilinx), and was Vice President of Products and Marketing at Teridion, a startup providing cloud-based SD-WAN solutions for enterprises, where he led product strategy, go-to-market, and channel creation and growth. Before joining Teridion, Pej led the product management organization for Aruba Networks’ (now HPE) enterprise cloud services business, spearheading Aruba’s strategic shift to cloud-based delivery models for campus networking and analytics.

Earlier in his career, Pej was Vice President of Product Management at ShoreTel, where he led product and messaging transformation as ShoreTel pivoted to a cloud services model. He joined ShoreTel through its acquisition of Agito Networks, where he was co-founder and chief marketing/product officer; Agito pioneered enterprise Fixed-Mobile Convergence, patenting key technologies and successfully creating and promoting an entirely new product category. Before founding Agito, he held various product management and leadership roles at Cisco Systems.

Pej has authored several protocol and design patents and was a key contributor to the IEEE 802.11 task groups responsible for wireless LAN security and QoS. He is a published author, having co-written ‘802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals,’ published by Cisco Press in 2004.

Pej holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly).