Roger Santos
Principal and Founder. Sets NGCC5's direction and Pion's product vision, drawing on experience in communications infrastructure, telemedicine, and global health initiatives.
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Clear responsibility for product and engineering.
NGCC5 combines the founder's product direction with engineering leadership focused on a reproducible implementation, traceable claims, and verification.
The people accountable for the next stage
Eugene Menshikov
Fractional CTO. Leads Pion engineering since August 2026, with an emphasis on reliable implementation, clearly defined controls, and repeatable testing.
Roger Santos
Principal & Founder, Next Generation Communication Computing 5 (NGCC5)
Founded NGCC5 and sets the direction for Pion, after nearly four decades in enterprise communications infrastructure, telemedicine systems and global health programmes.
Eugene Menshikov
Fractional CTO, NGCC5
Restored the transferred codebase to a building state, traced every workspace control to what it does today, built the governed path on it, and runs it on Azure.
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Roger Santos
Principal & Founder, Next Generation Communication Computing 5 (NGCC5)
Professional summary
Roger Santos is a technology executive, strategic consultant, and solo founder with nearly four decades of experience spanning enterprise communications infrastructure, telemedicine systems, digital platform development, and global health initiatives. As Founder and Principal of NGCC5 LLC, he is building Pion. He also served as COO and Board Member of Fight Cancer Global, where he applied his expertise to improve cancer awareness and understanding as well as worked to increase access to cancer treatment for underserved and low-income communities worldwide.
Current venture
As solo founder of NGCC5 LLC, Roger is developing Pion.
Professional experience
2015 – Present
Independent Technology Business Solutions Consultant & COO / Board Member, Fight Cancer Global
Provide strategic technology consulting and operational leadership for a global nonprofit dedicated to cancer education and awareness for communities and clinics, elevating the need for early detection, and driving the access to care in underserved regions. Lead infrastructure, telemedicine, and collaboration initiatives supporting medical training and service delivery across multiple continents and facilitating the development of small modular cancer labs for testing, research, and better regional data collection.
2005 – 2014
Manager & Lead Engineer, Telemedicine and AV Systems, UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Led the technology design, implementation, and operations of the school of medicine at the Sacramento campus, as well as the telemedicine program, tele-education, and advanced AV/multimedia systems supporting onsite and remote medical education, clinical collaboration, and facility-wide communications, including remote patient care with telerobotic surgery and doctor/patient clinical encounters.
2002 – 2004
Producer and Talk Radio Show Host, KAHI Radio, Auburn, CA
Produced and hosted “Knowing Your Home,” a local radio program focused on working-from-home office requirements and considerations, business technology and home care maintenance from construction to repairs.
1993 – 2002
Sr. Global AV and Communication Infrastructure Engineer, Intel Corporation
Designed and deployed enterprise-wide communications infrastructure, including Intel’s first permanent global communications TV studio and early video conferencing solutions used in high-stakes legal proceedings, global marketing and sales, global executive training programs, new facility construction, and next generation technology presentation events.
1990 – 1993
Sr. Video Conferencing Technologist (Independent Contractor), supporting Apple Corp initiatives, Mountain View, CA
Supported early video conferencing and collaboration technology development for next-generation mobile and computing platforms.
1986 – 1990
Lead AV Technician, Photo & Sound / EISI, Los Altos and Mountain View, CA
Selected projects & achievements
- Architected and implemented Intel’s global satellite communications network using the PanAmSat system with advanced encryption and key management, enabling secure bidirectional communications across more than 15 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
- Built Intel’s first permanent global communications television studio at corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
- Deployed one of the earliest enterprise video conferencing solutions supporting Intel’s legal team during the landmark Intel/AMD trials (Sherman, Texas to Santa Clara HQ).
- Installed and supported early CLI Rembrandt/Sony CODEC systems between Apple and its development partners, contributing to foundational work that led to modern mobile video and collaboration technologies.
- Designed, managed, and operated the new UC Davis School of Medicine tele-education and telemedicine facility and established unified B2B/B2C telemedicine infrastructure for major health systems including Providence Health & Services (Seattle/Redmond, Washington).
- Led global infrastructure and collaboration initiatives for Fight Cancer Global, supporting medical education, training, and care delivery programs in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, São Paulo (Brazil), and other underserved regions across Africa and South America.
- Developed a strategic business roadmap and partnership relations plan for use by Zurich North America Risk Management Group framing future opportunities in support of Oklo Inc. (Small Modular Reactor technology Co.).
- Contributed to the development of mobile cancer bio-lab testing and analysis capabilities for deployment in resource-limited settings on behalf of Fight Cancer Global.
- Co-developed, with Dr. Renee Exelbert, collaborative cancer education and specialist training programs connecting U.S. medical experts with hospitals and clinics in urban and rural communities across Africa and South America.
- Supported corporate expansion and Middle East headquarters establishment initiatives in Dubai, UAE.
Core competencies
- Design and deployment of secure global satellite, AV, and unified communications networks
- Telemedicine platform architecture and large-scale rollout for health systems and nonprofits
- Domestic and international business development, board governance, and strategic partnerships
- Data lake design, analytics, and digital transformation leadership
Education
- University of California, Davis — M.S. Informatics, 2011
- Santa Clara University — B.A. Broadcast Communication and Technical Theater, 1986
Eugene Menshikov
Fractional CTO, NGCC5
Professional summary
Eugene Menshikov is a software engineer with a software-quality background, and has led Pion's engineering since August 2026. He starts from verification rather than from features: what a system does today, established by reading it and running it, before anything is built on top of it. He designs, builds and tests the work himself, so each claim this site makes about the platform is one he can show on a screen.
Work on Pion
His first work on Pion, in August 2026, was a continuation baseline: the transferred package restored to a building state, the build written down so that anyone can repeat it, and every workspace control traced to what it does today against NGCC5's own three status categories. That baseline is delivered, and the governed path followed it: the authorization gate NGCC5 draws at step 11 of its own workflow, the re-read of the device at step 13 and the record written at step 14, built on one path rather than widened across many and demonstrated end to end on a simulated estate. Since 1 October 2026 that path has run on one Azure server, over a simulated estate with no client on it yet, under the release process he built.
Selected projects & achievements
- Delivered the Continuation Baseline for Pion: the transferred package restored and building, a written runbook anyone can repeat, an inventory of what the codebase contains, and a control-by-control audit of every workspace with an end-to-end trace matrix.
- After the baseline, built these parts of Pion: the governed path through steps 11, 13 and 14; the evidence anchor outside the database; EALAI's first version, with its citations and its source check; client onboarding and the service desk; Identity / Cloud; sign-in with Microsoft accounts; and the first connector, which reads Azure and acts on nothing. He has run the platform on Azure since 1 October 2026: a release goes live only after its health check, the previous one returns on its own if it fails, backups run nightly to geo-redundant storage, and an outside check watches its health.
- Built the walkthrough on this site. It reproduces the platform's own canonical record format and its linked record hashes byte for byte against a real export from Pion, so a reader can be refused as the requester, approve as the right role, then alter a record and watch the verifier name the break.
- Built and runs a quarterly fuel-tax filing system for an interstate carrier: a filing that took an hour against the deadline takes three minutes, and a review step reads every return before it is sent.
- Ships and maintains production software single-handed, each application with a regression suite that runs on every change.
Core competencies
- Verification engineering: acceptance criteria, trace matrices and regression suites that hold a claim to its evidence
- Systems in which a model recommends and a person authorizes, with the boundary between the two written into the code
- Audit trails: canonical records, linked hashes, and the tooling that proves a trail unbroken
- React and TypeScript interfaces; .NET and Python services
- Continuous integration that fails a build on a claim the software cannot support
- Linux and cloud operations, containers, and infrastructure as code
Our next development and commercial milestones
Our proposed sequence moves from a connected operational workflow to measured client value and repeatable delivery. Each stage has defined acceptance conditions.
- 01
Demonstrate a connected operating scope
Implement the required connectors, production identity, and governed execution controls, then verify the selected workflow against its acceptance criteria.
- 02
Demonstrate client value
Run a bounded evaluation with a documented baseline, agreed measures, and a review of benefit, full cost, and operating burden.
- 03
Demonstrate repeatability
Use a second implementation to test which integration and support work can be reused, then measure the cost of delivery and continuing service.
Milestone timing depends on scope, resources, integrations, and validation. Discuss the current development plan with NGCC5 as part of the investment conversation.
Begin with the investment conversation
Discuss the NGCC5 strategy, Pion's development milestones, and the assumptions behind the commercial plan. Request access to the private material when you are ready to examine the workflow and supporting documents.
The walkthrough and investor room require an access code. The overview on this page is public.