We Build Transformative Technology
to Save Lives
RapidSOS provides life-saving data from millions of connected devices directly to 9-1-1 and first responders in an emergency – providing faster, more effective response for over 150 million emergencies annually.

We’re partnering with public safety to deliver
the future of emergency response, today.
The infrastructure behind 911 often dates to the 1960s and 1970s – limiting emergencies to an analogue voice call. We’ve spent over six years working with 4,000+ first responders and studying millions of 9-1-1 calls to transform that system from a 1960s phone call to a cutting-edge technology platform.
Our founders created RapidSOS to provide a link between connected devices and emergency services. Today there are over 3,500 agencies receiving life-saving data from RapidSOS for over 150 million emergencies annually.
Life-Saving Emergency Data
Whether it’s a connected car in a crash, a smart home during a fire, a wearable in a medical incident, or a mobile app during a natural disaster, information from Internet of Things devices can transform emergency response. RapidSOS puts situational emergency data in the hands of 9-1-1 and first responders to help them save more lives.
A Lifeline from Any Device
We work with technology companies to make any device or application a lifeline. RapidSOS-powered safety, security, and digital health devices provide the fastest, most effective emergency response possible.
Modernizing Emergency Infrastructure
Existing emergency services are often trapped in antiquated infrastructure from the 1960s. The result is the information flow into most legacy 9-1-1 systems is limited to only 512 bytes – less data than was transmitted in the very first TransAtlantic telegram in 1858. RapidSOS offers modern, cloud-based emergency infrastructure that provides a digital data connection between the Internet of Things and emergency services.
Together with technology companies and the
public safety community, we are creating the
Internet of Life-Saving Things.
The RapidSOS mission has brought together experts from across industries to work on life-saving technology.
Our team brings expertise in emergency technology, 9-1-1 dispatch, telecommunications, connected devices, and critical infrastructure.
We’re entrepreneurs, technologists, and public servants with a shared vision for how the Internet of Things can transform emergency response.
By Department

Michael Martin
CEO, co-founder
Michael Martin is a leading voice on public safety, personal security, and technology innovation. Michael has spoken before federal agencies and at top industry events on innovation, technology, safety, and security. Michael is co-founder and CEO of RapidSOS, an advanced emergency tech company, commercializing technology to predict and preempt emergencies before they occur, dynamically warn people in harm’s way, and provide a rich data link from any device directly to first responders globally.Michael’s personal experiences around the challenges of emergency communication led him to found RapidSOS in 2013.
Michael brings extensive experience in start-up commercialization, financing, and strategy to RapidSOS. Previously, Michael worked at Braemar Energy Ventures, a $600M venture capital firm focused on energy technology. Michael also co-founded MS Consulting, a start-up strategy, financing, and operations consulting company with clients in the internet and mobile sectors. Between Braemar and MS Consulting, Michael served as a Board Member or Board Observer for eight companies in four countries. Before Braemar, Michael worked at Piper Jaffray in the Clean Technology Group. In the course of his principal investing activities and advisory work, Michael assisted nearly 50 companies commercialize their technologies, helping them secure in excess of $2 billion of capital.
Michael Martin
CEO, co-founder

Nick Horelik, PhD
CTO, co-founder
Nick first experienced the challenges of locating individuals in emergencies while volunteering in student services during college at Tufts University. These experiences led Nick to co-found RapidSOS to ensure that technology was never an impediment to emergency response.
Nick brings expertise in modern computing systems and data interfaces as well as modern IoT device developments, including cloud platform deployment logistics, and integrations with data platforms specific to smartphones and IoT devices – specifically as it pertains to integrations with emergency services from a security, reliability, and compliance standpoint. He has been an active participant in public safety standards-development working groups, and has personally architected the implementation of several NG functional elements that are delivering data to municipal emergency services networks today. Nick also routinely represents RapidSOS at NENA and EENA industry collaboration events, ensuring that RapidSOS’s originating call applications, location information servers, and additional data repositories are tested to ensure interoperability.
Nick has a wide breadth of educational and professional experience, holding a BSc in chemical engineering with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from Tufts University, as well as a MSc and PhD in nuclear engineering with a minor in entrepreneurship from MIT. He has published on public policy while working for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, worked at the Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories while developing highly-optimized parallel algorithms for nuclear reactor simulations on the Titan and Mira supercomputers, published in international conference proceedings and DOE technical reports, been primary system administrator on several MIT supercomputing clusters containing sensitive nuclear data, was one of the core developers of the MIT “BEAVRS” pressurized water reactor benchmark as well as the OpenMC open-source neutron transport code (at the time one of the most activ open-source Fortran projects on Github), and co-authored numerous patent applications related to modern technology uses in emergency services. Previously, he also worked at TerraPower, a Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures funded company.
Outside of coding, reading, thinking, and writing, Nick enjoys reading fantasy novels, hiking with his wife, cuddling with his cat, and daydreaming about the future of human space exploration.
Michael Martin
CEO, co-founder

Lucas Eager Leavitt
Engineering
Lucas is a software engineer, working on the backend team as well as all things web development for RapidSOS. As such, he has a passion for building technology that improves lives on a daily basis. The product we are building at RapidSOS has provided the perfect platform to do exactly that.
With experience working at companies spanning every size in the industry, Lucas has served as an engineer at huge corporations such as Intel, where he developed an enterprise logging service used by developers across the entire company to this day, down to ground level startups such as Champio, where he served as lead engineer, prior to joining RapidSOS.
As a versatile software engineer, Lucas has worked in 10 different programming languages, contributing to production applications in 4 of them. An enthusiast of all things programming, he enjoys learning and teaching programming technologies as much as he does using them, and even formerly ran weekly workshops and tech talks for fellow students looking to learn more about the field while in college.
A self proclaimed “hacker”, Lucas enjoys building small applications in his spare time that make life easier and more interesting, particularly in ways related to music. He has built an award-winning playlist crowd-sourcing application, being honored as the “Best use of Rdio API”, and many other side projects.
Brian Evans
Engineering

Gabe Mahoney
Engineering
Gabe is a veteran iOS developer with over seven years of experience building robust, award-winning applications. Prior to joining the RapidSOS team, he worked for five years as a developer on KAYAK’s mobile team, bringing the KAYAK app from an experiment to an indispensable travel tool used by millions – one that he still uses frequently.
At KAYAK, he worked on nearly every aspect of the iOS app at various points. Highlights include building comprehensive trip management tool, and creating an iPad version of the KAYAK app that was available in the app store the same day the iPad was released.
After six years at KAYAK, Gabe left to travel the world and develop apps as a freelancer. He took two client applications from the brainstorming phase to the App Store, re-immersed himself in the world of web development for a third client, and got some face time with a group of mountain Gorillas in the Virunga mountains in eastern Rwanda.
Early on, Gabe’s interest in video games led to a curiosity about how those games worked. He found an opportunity to study this in high school, and continued this study at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 2008 with a BA in Computer Science.
Gabe Mahoney
Engineering

Lauren Javaly
Engineering
Lauren is a software engineer on the backend development team. Before joining RapidSOS, she worked at a small mobile application startup called Ussie. Though she originally joined Ussie as a data analyst, Lauren quickly discovered a passion for developing software. She built the company’s website, frontend and backend, then moved on to working on the app itself, where she learned her way around using AngularJS to build iOS and Android apps from a single codebase. She also designed and implemented Ussie’s data reporting system which uses MongoDB and Python to synthesize and analyze data from a variety of sources.Lauren graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in Philosophy and Biology. She grew up in Manhattan but defected to Brooklyn upon moving back to NYC after graduation. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys cooking, reading fiction and seeing live music.
Lauren Javaly
Engineering

John Hinton
Engineering
John comes to RapidSOS from Bytemark, Inc., an innovative mobile platform for payments and ticketing. At Bytemark, John maintained a clean, well designed architecture for both mobile apps and an SDK available to third party developers. Additionally, John leveraged 3rd party libraries to create a native android experience that is both reliable and innovative.
Prior to Bytemark, John worked as a software developer for Suncoast Social, a digital marketing agency in Sarasota, FL. There, John assisted in designing and implementing REST APIs for mobile and web and developed bluetooth mobile technology for Alakai Defense Systems. John attended the State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota where he received an Associate of Science in Computer Programming. John enjoys visiting the beaches in Florida and barbecuing
John Hinton
Engineering

Brian Evans
Engineering
Brian is a Software Quality Assurance Professional with 16 years in testing methodologies and project management in fast paced environments. Throughout his career, he has spearheaded test strategies for new software projects that increased testing efficiency, analysis, and reporting capabilities, and provided software quality expertise throughout the project lifecycle.
Before coming to RapidSOS, Brian was an early employee at Acme Packet and then for Oracle after they acquired Acme Packet. He led the testing of the core features of various Acme products, including the testing of the IMS architecture products. With Oracle, he was manager and team lead for a SQA team, designing and developing a new testing infrastructure for both hardware and software testing.
Previously, he was a SQA engineer with Telica, and then for Alcatel Lucent after they acquired Telica, which provides broadband switching systems for wireline and wireless carriers and enables carriers to simplify network architecture and optimize the switching and transport of voice and data traffic over a unified broadband packet network.
Brian graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in computer engineering. He was a member of the University’s track team.
Lucas Eager Leavitt
Engineering

Jeff Sternberg
Engineering
Jeff has experience developing networking and communications software with deep expertise in Voice over IP. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Jeff worked for Acme Packet. Acme Packet was the leading provider of carrier grade Session Border Controllers before it was acquired by Oracle in 2013 for $2.1 Billion. During his time at Acme Packet, Jeff worked on NAT traversal, encryption, and scalability, helping to build a system that supported 200,000 concurrent users and 10,000 concurrent encrypted voice calls.
Prior to his time at Acme Packet, Jeff worked for the firm Landmark Ventures. At Landmark, Jeff worked on creating in-house automation software to increase task productivity. In addition, he worked on creating data scraping scripts to gather information from sites like LinkedIn.
Jeff has BS in Computer Engineering from Boston University. During his time at Boston University, he worked on developing computer vision software using GPU processing.
Jeff is an avid ultimate frisbee player and has a passion for spicy food.
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Jeff Sternberg
Engineering

Zakia Khan
Engineering
Zakia is a patent attorney with experience in advising clients in various industries including medical device, wireless, food and beverage, drug release, polymer, battery and green technologies.
Zakia spent two years working on prosecution, client counseling and litigation matters at a large law firm in Chicago. She obtained a Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law where she served as the President of the Intellectual Property Law Association. She has completed a Bachelor’s and a Master’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign including some coursework at the National University of Singapore.
Prior to law school, Zakia worked as an engineer at a fuel cell startup in Illinois where she was a co-inventor on three patent applications.
Zakia Khan
Engineering

Josh Thomas
Engineering
Josh is a full-stack application engineer with much experience developing geospatial and information security systems. Before coming to RapidSOS, he worked at Zonar Systems building a system to enable trucking fleet managers to track, manage, and analyze freight truck behavior on American highways, allowing for optimization of driver routes and behavior. Josh implemented task queues to process massive amounts of data streaming from the trucks, and created the code to parse and handle that data from binary form onwards. As the company grew it became necessary to store and analyze hundreds of streaming data packets per second. Utilizing NoSQL technologies, the database system was re-built to handle the growing data in a scalable fashion which opened up new possibilities for the company.
After Zonar, Josh architected and built a system that scraped and parsed publicly available disaster and emergency-responder data to be used by interested clients. In the past Josh has worked in the entertainment booking industry for Gigsalad.com, developing online systems to connect event planners with entertainers.
Josh Thomas
Engineering

Vinson Koo
Engineering
Since graduating from NYU Tandon School of Engineering with a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering, Vinson transitioned into technology through teaching himself to code and General Assembly’s Back End Web Development course. Since 2014 Vinson has been a web developer at HindSite Metrics, providing digital consultancy services for startups, small businesses, and e-commerce stores.
In his spare time Vinson helps manage the communications for a local Chinese restaurant his family manages in Chinatown and likes to shoot pool, read manga, and keep up to date on the latest in tech, design, and business news.
Vinson Koo
Engineering

Perry Sy
Engineering
Jeff has experience developing networking and communications software with deep expertise in Voice over IP. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Jeff worked for Acme Packet. Acme Packet was the leading provider of carrier grade Session Border Controllers before it was acquired by Oracle in 2013 for $2.1 Billion. During his time at Acme Packet, Jeff worked on NAT traversal, encryption, and scalability, helping to build a system that supported 200,000 concurrent users and 10,000 concurrent encrypted voice calls.
Perry is a software engineer for RapidSOS focusing on the front-end development for highly scalable web applications. Prior to RapidSOS, Perry worked at several FinTech startups in Hong Kong such as WeLab, which raised the fourth largest fundraising and second largest Series B fundraising in FinTech globally. While he enjoys connecting the design/marketing requirements with back-end systems, he also got his hands dirty on Universal JS (MERN and MEAN) stacks while working on a freelance project.
Perry holds a BS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University. When he is not staring at computer screens, he enjoys playing basketball, scuba diving and surfing.
Perry Sy
Engineering

Zvika Ferentz
Engineering
Zvika is a software engineer and software architect with 18 years of experience. Born and raised in Israel, Zvika started his career during high school writing software for a local business. In 1997, after being released from the Israeli Defense Forces, Zvika worked as an eCommerce/web-developer for a major Israeli firm – Ness Technologies. In 2002, Zvika joined a small security start-up named Kavado where he developed Web Application Firewalls and related network-security components. At Kavado, he developed TCP/IP servers and initiated the networking/ infrastructure team. The start-up was acquired by Protegrity Corporation, a U.S. company, in 2008.
Zvika relocated to the U.S. as a Protegrity employee in 2008 and worked on Linux-based software appliances – at first as a one-man-team and later on as a team-leader and a senior software-architect for a multi-regional team. The framework developed by Zvika’s team is an optimized, hardened and highly-available Linux-based framework which is the platform for Protegrity security enterprise solutions. This framework is deployed in many banks, airlines, enterprises and retail companies all over the world.
In 2016, seeking new challenges, Zvika joined RapidSOS hoping to make the world a better and safer place. Zvika holds a BSc in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University, Israel and is an inventor of security-related tokenization patents.
Zvika Ferentz
Engineering

Isaac Loloey
Engineering
Isaac comes to RapidSOS bringing over 19 years of QA experience spanning various industries, including Advertising Networks, finance and marketing. Drawing experience and knowledge from various areas, Isaac has formed his own tailored approach to testing methodologies. Being familiar with all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies, Isaac also works as an acting Scrum Master and Agile Coach.
Isaac realized shortly after graduating college that his acute attention to detail and innovative ability for constructive destruction would make Quality Assurance an ideal career path.
Past work experience includes Google, DoubleClick, and MasterCard.
Isaac is a native New Yorker who grew up in nearby Forest Hills, Queens, where he continues to live today.
In his spare time he studies Jazz Guitar, trying to emulate his heroes Grant Green and Wes Montgomery. And to get out of the house, Isaac also enjoys sea kayaking, surfing at Rockaway Beach, and following his favorite basketball team, the San Antonio Spurs.
Isaac holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from the City University of New York.
Isaac Loloey
Engineering

John Pazarzis
Engineering
John is a software developer specializing in back end development of web applications with a keen interest in artificial intelligence, data mining, and real-time applications. John was introduced to programming back in the early eighties as a math student punching cards in a Cyber mainframe and since then has followed the evolution of the industry.
Before joining RapidSOS, John was a constructor for Google writing software for Google Maps and, more specifically, for the Local Guide’s back end. He has worked in a wide range of industries, including large financial institutions like Citigroup, Barclays, hedge funds (Caxton), smaller technology startups (Amplify, Sherpa) as well as technology giants like Google.
John was a very early adaptor of C++ and C#, while today he is focusing almost exclusively on open source platforms like Linux, Python, MongoDB, Git, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Jenkins, and Vagrant, just to name a few.
John Pazarzis
Engineering

JP Lawrence
Engineering
JP was born and raised in Washington, DC proper before spending seven years in the Bay Area, where he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Stanford in Materials Science & Engineering with a focus in energy technology. He spent three years conducting research on photoelectrochemical cells – technology that can convert solar energy directly into chemical fuel – for which he was published in Nature Materials.
Since leaving Stanford, JP has worn numerous hats. Following his passion for writing, JP has served as the founder and COO of a venture-backed publishing startup. As an Intellectual Property professional, he has worked for big law firms (Morgan Lewis) assisting registered patent practitioners in prosecuting patents for the likes of Apple and Google, as well as boutique firms (Run8 Patent Group) assisting others in protecting the inventions of solo inventors and small companies.
Marrying his passions for intellectual property, startups, and helping people, JP is thrilled to play a role in developing RapidSOS’s growing patent portfolio.
JP Lawrence
Engineering

Bohdan Hutkovskyy
Engineering
Bohdan is a DevOps engineer who comes to RapidSOS from L3 Technologies, one of the top ten defense contractors that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and products, aerospace, and navigation products. At L3, Bohdan was a DevOps specialist working on improving collaboration between development and operations staff throughout all stages of the development lifecycle and providing automation solutions. He worked closely with development teams and operations staff on creating automated CI pipelines for building and deploying software applications as well as maintaining core infrastructure.
Bohdan relocated to U.S. from Ukraine in 2008 after graduating from high school. He always had a passion about technology and here he attended Drexel University, where he received BS in Information Technology. While studying at Drexel, Bohdan also had two co-ops where he worked as security analyst and system administrator.
Outside of work Bohdan enjoys traveling, skiing and hiking.
Bohdan Hutkovskyy
Engineering

Ryan Dwyer
Engineering
Ryan Dwyer is a software engineer on the backend development team. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Ryan worked as a full stack engineer at SocialFlow building an enterprise software product that manages, optimizes, and reports on large publisher’s social media. At SocialFlow, he helped build an end to end reporting solution used by some of the world’s largest publishing companies. Ryan also contributed extensively to a distributed work queue system responsible for all user-generated asynchronous tasks.
Ryan became a software engineer through a career pivot. While working as a category manager at Fairway Market, Ryan taught himself to program in Python to help ingest and derive insights from store level transactional data. He soon realized he enjoyed the technical aspect of his job more than negotiating the price of organic eggs. Fullstack Academy, an immersive 3-month software boot camp, was a logical next step. Upon completion of the program, Ryan stayed at Fullstack Academy as a teaching assistant and software engineer before leaving to join SocialFlow.
Ryan has degrees in Finance and Economics from the College of William & Mary. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, brewing beer, and building things out of wood.
Ryan Dwyer
Engineering

Gabriel Young
Engineering
Gabe is a Software QA Engineer with 10 years of experience in InformationTechnology.
Prior to joining RapidSOS, Gabe was an Automation Engineer at IPsoft, a technology company, pioneering innovation in the development and delivery of autonomic/cognitive technologies. Gabe worked through client requests hunting for opportunities to replace manual, repetitive processes with automation. Some of Gabe’s most complex automations involved development in Python, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Powershell, and SQL, where he became the Jack of All Trades.
Before his employment at IPsoft, Gabe was an Application Developer at Sirius XM Radio where he was responsible for building, configuring, and maintaining custom applications for internal teams during several development phases. He was also responsible for submitting design, sourcecode/unit test cases for review and peer review deliverables as part of the SDLC.
In his leisure time, he reads up on programming languages, or works on personal projects. When Gabe is not staring at computer screens, he enjoys driving, playing basketball, paintball and roller skating with friends.
Gabe holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Pace University.
Gabriel Young
Engineering

Michelle Middleton
Engineering
Michelle feels deliriously lucky to have landed at RapidSOS! She immensely enjoys the product, the people, and the razor-sharp focused, supportive, caring, and fun atmosphere. She’s equally excited about IT, specifically networking. She has a full Cisco lab at home that she regularly adds to and tinkers with.
Having recently acquired her CCNA R&S certification, she continues to study for her next certification. Presently, she is soaking up all she can about QA and looks forward to what the future holds!
Michelle Middleton
Engineering

John Mancuso
Engineering
John joins RapidSOS after nearly 9 years in IT Operations for an AdTech company where he juggled a number of hats such as DBA, corporate architect & compliance officer, NOC administrator, & incident manager, AWS Cloud Architect/DevOps developer, etc. He looks forward to utilizing his experience to focus on operational readiness, working to ensure services are bullet-proof and secure, redundant, monitored, scalable, compliant, and documented.
On a personal level, he lives out in Long Island with his wife and 5-year old son who is most certainly destroying his house as you read this. On the weekends he loves to cook, especially BBQ.
John Mancuso
Engineering

Syed Akbar
Engineering
Syed is a veteran in computing performance and cloud computing. He has deep expertise in Performance Engineering Process, critical analysis, solving complex problems by simplifying tasks and makes things faster. Prior to join RapidSOS, Syed has worked for WebMD as a Performance Engineering Team Lead, where he involved with distributed and large-scale computer performance design, analysis, and tuning. That work also included with evaluating new technologies and opportunities and provides performance expertise to guide major changes and projects. He resolved critical production issues with different layers of enterprise applications. He has architected a load testing and monitoring frame work using open source tools which replaced enterprise tool load runner in WebMD.
Prior to his time with WebMD, Syed worked for PSEG – he was involved with projects where PSEG migrated their entire electric billing systems from National Grid. He has working experiences with The New York Times, JP Morgan Chase and CSC.
In his leisure time he likes to play with his twin sons, reading, fishing and traveling. He also collects Coins and Bank Notes from different parts of the world.
Syed Akbar
Engineering

Ofear Balas
Engineering
Ofear is a software developer on the back end team specializing in data, scale, and automation. His interests lie in analytics, functional programming, and programming paradigms.
Ofear started programming as a teen writing network and system stack programming. His interests in computers led him toward electrical engineering and security. He spends his free time organizing information security conferences.
Ofear Balas
Engineering

Ahmed Hassan
Engineering
Ahmed is a software engineer with 8 years of experiences in backend and system engineering. Prior to joining RapidSOS, he worked as a software engineer contractor at Google for the localguides team. He also worked at an investment bank and a major internet service provider where he automated large portion of their network services.
Ahmed has interest in cryptography and information security. He discovered that the Linux version of WinRAR uses a bad pseudorandom number generator for encryption. He is also in the hall of fame for discovering a major vulnerability in LINE application.
Ahmed Hassan
Engineering

Jonathan Siegel
Engineering
Jonathan Siegel joins RapidSOS with over 20 years of experience in Information Security Management, Engineering, Audit, and Governance.
He began his career as a UNIX System Administrator but was bitten by the “security bug” during a stint managing Merrill Lynch’s firewall engineering team during the 1990s. In 2000, he joined Exodus Communications – then one of the leading Web Hosting and Consulting firms supporting the era’s “Internet Boom” – in order to establish and lead the firm’s Professional Service Security practice in the New York Area.
Jonathan stayed with Exodus through two changes in ownership – the firm was purchased by Cable & Wireless, and then again by Savvis Communications – through 2006. During this interval, he designed and implemented Internet-facing security solutions for a customer base that included General Electric, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and many other customers. Jonathan eventually assumed leadership of Savvis’s Professional Services Security Practice on a global basis; he left the firm in 2006 to build a similar practice at Nortel Networks.
Following Nortel, Jonathan rejoined the Financial vertical as Director of Secure Connectivity at UBS; when the firm elected to outsource its network and associated security functions to consulting giant CSC, he signed on as Lead Information Risk Officer for the UBS account.
Jonathan Siegel
Engineering

Maurice Lepouttre
Engineering
Maurice is a Software QA Engineer with 7 years of experience in the tech industry.
Prior to joining RapidSOS, Maurice was the lead SDET at JW Player, one of the leading video platform solutions for enterprise publishers. He rebuilt the test framework for the customer-facing dashboard from the ground up using technologies such as NodeJS, Docker, headless Chrome, and AWS.
Before working at JW Player, Maurice was the automation engineer at AiCure, a startup working on improving patient compliance with medication usage. He built out the test suite for a Ruby on Rails application as well as coordinating test reporting for external audits.
Maurice has a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics from Hunter College.
Maurice Lepouttre
Engineering

Tony Zavala
Engineering
Tony is our Technical Project Manager here at RapidSOS with over eighteen years of digital media experience. Tony has a background that stems from a long history that consisted of Production Content Management, Frontend Development, and Project Management. As a self-taught web developer, Tony spent several years developing websites for a variety of live stream media events within the music and entertainment industry. Throughout his career, he has worked on dozens of Digital Integrated Marketing campaigns, which included management of third-party vendors and email marketing campaigns for several high-profile sponsored events.
Currently, Tony is a part-time student at Baruch College, where he will be graduating with his Bachelor’s degree in the Spring of 2019. Following his graduation, he will be entering the MBA program at the Zicklin Business School at Baruch College in the Fall of 2019. In his spare time, Tony loves being 12K plus feet on a mountain anywhere out west, where he can enjoy the untouched snow of backcountry snowboarding.
Tony Zavala
Engineering

Palermo Deschamps
Engineering
Before coming to join the engineering team at RapidSOS, Palermo spent years working at various startup companies in fashion, e-commerce, finance, media, and robotics working across multiple stacks and teams.
Palermo was born and raised in NYC, and after graduating a specialized high school in aerospace science, he enlisted in the Navy and served in 2 tours overseas. After leaving the Navy with an honorable discharge, Palermo moved to San Francisco and attended the Academy of Art University with a major in fine art. While living in San Francisco, he fell in love with the tech culture there and started working on his own startup– a LinkedIn for artists. Shortly after that, Palermo decided to become a full time engineer and bring his experience and knowledge back to New York, which led him to RapidSOS where he gets to be part of an amazing team to build products that help save people’s lives.
Palermo Deschamps
Engineering

Eddie Flores
Engineering
Eddie is a software engineer on a mission to build software that is purposeful, effective, and technically robust. He joins RapidSOS with extensive experience in the startup world; spearheading development on critical business products and contributing to major architectural improvements. He’s worn the hat of code janitor, frontend lead, Senior Software Engineer, and helper in assembling a world-class engineering team. His passion lies in building software that works and is crafted for extensibility.
Eddie holds a BS in Computer Science. In his spare time, he enjoys the company of friends, travel, and improving his photography technique.
Eddie Flores
Engineering

Angela Orthmeyer
Engineering
Angela comes from a diverse background, with experience conducting data analyses to improve business operations and to facilitate spatial planning processes. Prior to RapidSOS, she worked as a Data Scientist at CKM Analytix, and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a Social Scientist focused on geospatial analytics.
Angela’s interests span social entrepreneurship, sustainability and technology. She currently contributes as a board member of Open Green Map, and in the past served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama. She holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Richmond.
Angela Orthmeyer
Engineering

Gary Zhang
Engineering
Gary joined RapidSOS so he could learn and help a team with a great mission. He feels honored to join the team and looks forward to growing with the company. Before joining RapidSOS, he worked at an IT asset disposition company called TechMikeNY for three years where he wore a few hats. First starting as a Technician and then moving into a Customer Service role before becoming the primary E-commerce Specialist. In addition to being the primary contact for customers experiencing technical issues, he was responsible for listing products to Amazon, eBay, and Shopify.
Gary is a native New Yorker. He loves keeping up with tech news and spends his free time playing video games and tinkering with electronics.
Gary Zhang
Engineering

Conor Fucci
Engineering
Conor is an Implementation/Support Engineer on the Professional Services team. Before working at RapidSOS Conor was a Support Engineer at Bluecore an email marketing start-up based in NYC. He also had the opportunity to work for NBC Sports during the 2016 Summer Olympics where he was awarded an Emmy award for his team’s work. At RapidSOS he spends most of his time supporting the more technical side of public safety issues or working to bring new tools to the RapidSOS platform.
When not at work he currently lives in Brooklyn and spends his time either pretending that he can cook or wondering completely aimlessly around Prospect Park.
Conor Fucci
Engineering

Lorelei Lopez
Engineering
Lorelei is excited to be joining the Professional Services team at RapidSOS. Lorelei is an experienced Support Engineer and Project Manager. She started her career and spent 6 years in Financial Services. In 2016, having always been keen on technology and coding for fun, she decided to make the switch permanent by attending Dev Bootcamp in NYC. After graduation, she wanted to find a position that would involve her previous customer facing experience and new technical skills. Support Engineering fit the bill.
She enjoys helping customers by maximizing their experience and creating solutions using software. She assisted teachers and the educational community while working at Learnosity whose product is a powerful API-based assessment tool used for online testing and learning. At Collibra, she assisted in helping corporations to consume and trust their data with their Data Governance and catalog solutions.
A proud 2009 graduate of the Villanova University School of Business with a BS in Business Administration. Outside of keeping customers first at RapidSOS, Lorelei enjoys concerts, the Villanova Wildcats, the Yankees, and spicy food.
Lorelei Lopez
Engineering

Patrick Kinsella
Engineering
Patrick brings nearly 25 years of IT Operations, Incident Management, Release Management, NOC Administration and team building experience to RapidSOS. In his previous role at Take-Two Interactive, he built the Global IT Systems and the IT Operations teams that supported the corporate server infrastructure for over thirty offices across the globe, as well as incident management and incident response for Take-Two and all of its subsidiaries. Patrick transitioned Incident response from an adhoc on-call rotation, to a physical NOC with 24/7/365 support.
Prior to Take-Two Patrick spent seven years with EverydayHealth, Inc, joining the company as an early employee. He was instrumental in creating and refining IT processes and procedures, to include introducing a change management and review process as well as managing the NOC and all Datacenter Operations.
Patrick is a US Army Veteran with ten years of service, to include combat deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He spends his free time with his wife and son, and he enjoys finding new ways to get the most yield from his ever-expanding backyard garden.
Patrick Kinsella
Engineering

Riccardo Pellegrini
Engineering
As Head of Product, Ricky runs the Product Management team at RapidSOS. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Ricky served as CEO of Crossfield, a web and mobile app development company. Prior to joining Crossfield, he served as Chief Operating Officer of FanVision Entertainment. Before that, he started a mobile application-based sports technology company (Sideline Genius), worked at a venture capital firm focused on B2B SaaS investing (Cue Ball), and spent 2 years at an investment bank in Power, Energy & Infrastructure M&A (Lazard).
He graduated cum laude from Harvard College, concentrating in economics with a secondary field in government, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
He is an avid science fiction reader, sports fan, and pasta chef. In his spare time, he is an angel investor primarily focused on startups in the NYC area
Riccardo Pellegrini
Engineering

Jee Yoon Choi
Engineering
Jee Yoon Choi
Engineering

William Pellegrini
Engineering
William Pellegrini
Engineering

Krishna Kumar
Engineering
Krishna Kumar
Engineering

Nicole Leonard
Engineering
Nicole Leonard has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Entrepreneurship from Buena Vista University. She spent 12 years in telecommunications managing voice, video and data products. During that time she held multiple roles in Sales, Product Marketing, and Product Management for several companies including GTE, Verizon and Windstream Holdings. She then transitioned to CDS Global/Hearst where she managed the build and direction of a new time-based subscription management platform for digital content, eHub.
Nicole then relocated to Colorado for Intrado as a Senior Product Manager. During her time at Intrado, Nicole managed the development and commercialization of the TXT29-1-1® application as well as the development of other SaaS applications.
Nicole joined us from ZOLL Data where she was the Senior Product Manager and Pillar Leader for the Communications Pillar managing the companies CAD, FireRMS, and SaaS Dispatch applications. Most recently launching a new Android and iOS navigation and communication application, ZOLL Respond. Nicole brings 20+ years of business, finance, product development, and product management to RapidSOS.
Nicole Leonard
Engineering

William Robinson
Engineering
William Robinson
Engineering

Matthew Faircloth
Engineering
Matt is a Tier 3 Support Engineer on the Professional Services team. Before working at RapidSOS, Matt was a Support Engineer at Bluecore, an email marketing start-up based in NYC. Prior to working in software, Matt held various positions in the wine industry, most recently consulting for private wine collectors throughout the United States and helping to sell their wine at auctions. At RapidSOS he spends most of his time supporting the technical side of public safety issues or working to bring new tools to the RapidSOS platform.
Matt holds a Bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech University and a Master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Matt is originally from Virginia, but currently lives in Manhattan with his wife. He enjoys going on hikes with their dog, and trying new restaurants throughout the city.
Matthew Faircloth
Engineering

Evan Biegel
Engineering
Evan Biegel is currently a J.D. candidate at St. John’s University School of Law in Queens, NY where he intends to concentrate in Intellectual Property Law. Before attending St. John’s Law, Evan received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Mathematics from Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, NY. At Brooklyn College, Evan conducted research pertaining to magnetic hyperthermia cancer therapy.
As an undergraduate student, Evan was an intern in the Medical Physics Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY where he developed a quality assurance modeling software for General Electric Healthcare PET Scanners. Evan continues to follow scientific research pertaining to his specific areas of interest.
At RapidSOS, Evan is an intellectual property intern and excited to learn and contribute to the expanding patent portfolio RapidSOS maintains.
Evan Biegel
Engineering

Jordi Cabanas
Engineering
Jordi is a software engineer on the backend team. He joined RapidSOS after graduating from Princeton University with degrees in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship. Prior to working at RapidSOS, Jordi co-founded and launched two startups, and was a software developer at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
On the side, Jordi makes a hobby out of all things athletics and has enjoyed creating web applications that help facilitate athletic training.
Jordi Cabanas
ENGINEERING

Johnathan Cintron
Engineering
Johnathan Cintron
ENGINEERING

Andrew Boyle
Engineering
Andrew is a Support Engineer on the Professional Services team. Andrew has over 5 years of experience as a Support Engineer, and really enjoys working with customers to help solve their software related problems.
Andrew holds a bachelors’s degree from Towson University in Computer Information System with a minor in Business Administration. Andrew is originally from Philadelphia, but currently lives in Manhattan with his fiancé. He enjoys going to events around the city, trying new food, and taking his dog on walks through Central Park.
Andrew Boyle
Engineering

Ben Harvill
Engineering
Ben Harvill
Engineering

Matt Rodriguez
Engineering
As an Integration Project Manager, Matt sets up RapidSOS customers for success by ensuring a smooth on-boarding and helping them maximize the value of the product’s offerings. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Matt was a Product Manager for Integrations at VTS, a Commercial Real Estate tech start up bringing the paper and excel-based industry onto a modern operating system. His first job out of school was as a Data Integrations Analyst at Eze Software Group where he learned much of the technical skills he carries today.
Matt graduated from Elon University with a BSBA in International Business and concentrations in Finance and Spanish. While attending university, he worked in the school’s IT department and spent time in California for internships at Kaiser Permanente and Google. Outside of work he is usually hiking, coaching youth basketball, watching a new TV series, or searching for the next restaurant to try out.
Matt Rodriguez
Engineering

Alex Vanino
Engineering
Alex is a senior information security engineer and architect at RapidSOS with over 18 combined years of experience in corporate IT, site reliability, platform development and information security. Alex brings over 10 years of public safety, video SAAS and healthcare industry experience from his prior roles at Vidyo and AbleTo.
Before joining RapidSOS, Alex helped build, scale and secure Vidyo’s cloud offering, which allowed developers, government, corporations and hobbyists to easily bring Vidyo conferencing into their own applications. Prior to Vidyo, Alex was AbleTo’s principle network architect where he was responsible for designing and building AbleTo’s virtual behavioral healthcare cloud platform.
Alex grew up in a small town in New Jersey where he served on his town’s local volunteer fire department. Alex likes to spend his spare time volunteering as a technical adviser for the Progressive Coders Network; sharing and collaborating on innovative ideas which inspire a means to achieve racial, social, environmental and economic progress.
Alex Vanino
Engineering

Patrice Case
Engineering
Patrice loves everything map related, and is super excited to be working at RapidSOS. Prior to coming to RapidSOS, she worked for the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office as their GIS Analyst. She is also a per diem employee at the New Jersey Forest Fire Service assisting with maps and their Division B Incident Management Team.
On the side, Patrice is also a volunteer firefighter at Jackson Station 55 in Jackson, New Jersey, and hopes to use her knowledge from working and volunteering in the field to improve 911 operations. She is currently getting her masters in GIS from Penn State’s world campus, and holds a B.S. in Applied Computer Science with minors in Homeland Security and GIS from Monmouth University.
Patrice Case
Engineering

Khalil Claybon
Engineering
Khalil Claybon
Engineering

Yitz Jordan
Engineering
As an Integration Project Manager, Matt sets up RapidSOS customers for success by ensuring a smooth on-boarding and helping them maximize the value of the product’s offerings. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Matt was a Product Manager for Integrations at VTS, a Commercial Real Estate tech start up bringing the paper and excel-based industry onto a modern operating system. His first job out of school was as a Data Integrations Analyst at Eze Software Group where he learned much of the technical skills he carries today.
Matt graduated from Elon University with a BSBA in International Business and concentrations in Finance and Spanish. While attending university, he worked in the school’s IT department and spent time in California for internships at Kaiser Permanente and Google. Outside of work he is usually hiking, coaching youth basketball, watching a new TV series, or searching for the next restaurant to try out.
Yitz Jordan
Engineering

David Tima
Engineering
David Tima
Engineering

Brianna Guzman
Engineering
Brianna Guzman
Engineering

Keith Viveiros
Public Safety
Keith has over 35 years of experience working in Public Safety, including 10 years as a Police Officer and Criminal Investigator for the Stanford University Police Department. For the last 26 years Keith has worked as a Senior Supervising Dispatcher with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety in Silicon Valley. Over the past 10 years, Keith also was the Senior Technical Dispatcher for the City of Sunnyvale where he was primarily involved in the acquisition, implementation and administration of CPE, CAD and other systems, and was also a member of the EOC team.
Keith has been honored several times by the Santa Clara County Communications Managers with their Annual Outstanding Performance Award for Critical Events. Keith has also earned his ENP (Emergency Number Professional) certification from NENA. Recently retired from Sunnyvale PD, Keith is excited to start his journey with RapidSOS as the 9-1-1 Liaison for the State of California.
Keith Viveiros
Public Safety

Karin Marquez
Public Safety
Karin began her career in public safety communications in 1997 as a dispatcher at a one position PSAP. After working there for two years dispatching Police, Fire and EMS, she moved on to a medium sized PSAP next door. In 2004 she became a supervisor, but continued to help on the dispatch floor when needed. As a supervisor, Karin had the opportunity to participate in many user groups and industry advisory boards for several of the tier one vendors.
Karin has managed numerous projects within the PSAP, including CPE, CAD and logging recorder upgrades from funding to implementation and ongoing maintenance and vendor management. She has been a trainer, worked with the Jefferson County Incident Management Team as the coordinator for the Incident Dispatch team and part of the Colorado TERT team. Two certifications she is proud of are her CMCP (Center Manager Certification Program) certification from NENA and her ENP, also from NENA.
Karin is most excited about bringing her PSAP experiences to RapidSOS and working with PSAP’s to receive improved location accuracy. Wearing the headset keeps her mind focused on the citizens calling 9-1-1 for help and doing whatever she can to help move the industry forward.
Karin and her husband have two children who take up most of their time, however, when they do have time for dates you can generally find them on the Salsa dance floor.
Karin Marquez
Public Safety

Eric Ball
Public Safety
Eric has over a decade of experience in the telecommunications industry.
He previously worked at Comtech as a tier 2 Engineer for 13 years. He started out working on the FCC push for E911 compliance with VoIP. He also held roles including tier 1 technical support, tier 2 ATAC analyst, and tier 3 engineer.
He originally became interested in technology when he taught himself computers in the late 80s, early 90s in order to play early computer games including Doom. His hobbies are racing and virtual reality computer games.
Eric Ball
Public Safety

Hans Stokstad
Public Safety
Hans has more than 6 years’ experience supporting public safety professionals both in and outside of dispatch centers.
He previously worked at GeoComm first in the technical support department and then as an Implementation assistant, and finally Implementation Specialist where he not only installed and tested software, but also traveled to many PSAPs to do the on-site training.
Before his career in the public safety field, he spent more than 12 years as an architectural draftsperson, where he was able to hone his interpersonal communication skills and learned how to quickly adapt to different communication styles.
Hans has been interested in understanding how things work from a very early age. From helping designing structures and drawing plans for construction projects around his family’s home at only 9 years old, to designing and building his first PC at 15, he’s always wanted to understand how things work in the background.
Hans lives in Minnesota with his wife and young son. They enjoy traveling and exploring new places and look forward to introducing their son to as many different experiences as they can.
Hans Stokstad
Public Safety

Nate Vogel
Public Safety
Nate has been working with Public Safety Agencies for nearly 20 years. In 1999 shortly after graduating from The University of Texas at Dallas, Nate joined a New Manufacturer of Police Radar, Lidar, In-Car Video, Body Cameras, and Speed Trailers as their first Regional Sales Manager. Nate worked with a handful of the most cutting-edge Public Safety Technology Companies from 1999-2013. In 2013 Nate shifted his focus to working with Public Safety in the 911 realm offering CPE, Enterprise 911, and Notification and Messaging Solutions to the clients he served. Nate made the change because he loved working with Public Safety, but he wanted to offer solutions that truly helped save people’s lives.
Nate is extremely excited to bring his vast experience working as a trusted advisor to Public Safety Agencies to the RapidSOS Team. Working with PSAP’s to improve location accuracy and bring in rich data that they have never had access to before is a game changer.
Nate lives in SE Kansas with his wife Ragan and their 2 son’s ages 7 and 12, and their 16-year-old daughter. His family loves music, sports, traveling, and anything outdoors.
Nate Vogel
Public Safety

Shayna Weissman
Public Safety
Shayna brings experience in strategy, analytics, and project management to the RapidSOS team. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Shayna worked as a management consultant at Capco. While at Capco, she helped define and grow strategic initiatives at various Financial Institutions.
Shayna is thrilled to be working on the Public Safety team at RapidSOS, working alongside Public Safety experts to promote a life-saving solution.
Shayna graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a major in History and a minor in Political Science. During her free time, she enjoys baking, playing tennis, and exploring New York.
Shayna Weissman
Public Safety

Jeff Reeve
Public Safety
Jeff Reeve is a native of Southern California. He has worked in the Public Safety Market for Motorola, Raytheon, L3 Communications and Veritone. Jeff has been involved in major technical projects that include Voice and Data Systems, 911 Dispatch PSAP’s, In Car and Body Worn Video, Live Stream Video, License Plate Recognition and Facial Recognition.
Jeff is passionate towards working successfully in the Public Safety Market place and always enjoy being a team player. He enjoys outside sports, boating, snow skiing, water skiing, wake surfing and fishing. He is involved in the Local Little League and other Youth Sports Programs and have been a District Umpire for 15 years.
Jeff lives in Mission Viejo CA with his wife Teresa, has 3 dau∂ghters, one son and two grandsons. Fun Fact, If you ever have a free Saturday, feel free to watch his son Nolan play football at Colorado School of Mines Engineering College in the Fall.
Jeff Reeve
Public Safety

Jennifer Poole
Public Safety
Jennifer has been in the Public Safety industry for over 15 years. She has worked for the Seminole County Fire Rescue 911 Communications Center in Central Florida for 14 years as a telecommunicator, dispatcher, CTO (Certified Training Officer), and Shift Supervisor for the last 9 years. Following her career in Public Safety and passion for Emergency Communications, she worked for APCO International as a Software Sales Coordinator. Before and during her time with APCO, Jennifer’s passion for educating Public Safety Telecommunicators provided her the opportunity to speak at many state level and National Conferences. During her career, she received several awards and publications including Employee of the Month, Emergency Communications Employee of the year, and Articles in National Academy of Emergency Dispatch IAED Journal and IBM INDUSTRIOUS Magazines. Jennifer holds many certifications including EMD Certified in both IAED and APCO.
Jennifer is beyond excited to be a part of the RapidSOS team providing location accuracy and data to Emergency Communications professional. Knowing the struggle they face everyday to provide emergency help and responders information to protect and save citizens, she believes wholeheartedly in the mission and technology that RapidSOS is doing day in and out.
Jennifer has a beautiful, smart and funny 11-year-old daughter who loves cheerleading and her family.
Jennifer Poole
Public Safety

Kara Cleaver
Public Safety
Kara Cleaver
Public Safety

Bill Le Poidevin
Public Safety
Over my last eleven (11) years, I have worked in the Public Safety ecosystem with several organizations such as; Frontier Communications for over five (5) years as a Public Safety Area Manager, Motorola Solutions collectively for the last two (2) years, and now with RapidSOS. It has been my pleasure to develop and serve a substantial network of 911 Professionals within the emergency management industry. Working within the Public Safety community has truly been most satisfying as there is no better group of people to be involved with day to day based on their dedication to serving civilians in their communities.
I have been ranked in the top 5% (out of 650 peers) in regards to B2B sales performance and have been over 260% to quota as a Sales Manager. Attaining goals is important and necessary, however, most importantly is the goal of putting the customer first always. Serving my customers inspires my motivation, commitment, and dedication in giving them the best customer experience and has been the foundation of any of my business successes.
Currently, I reside in North Plains Oregon with Paula Le Poidevin my spouse, who has been a Call Taker, Dispatcher, and Supervisor for 28 years at WCCCA. We have three children; Julianna 22, Garrett 19, and Lauryn 18. Julianna is participating in missionary work with Campus Crusade for Christ in Southeast Asia, Garrett is in his second year at Whatcom Community College, and Lauryn is a Senior at Snohomish High School. I have a BA in Business (Emphasis in Finance) from WSU and proud to share Julianna is also a WSU Alum. Lauryn will be attending WSU next Fall, so go Cougs!
Activities which I am passionate about are as follows: Biking, Rock Climbing, Fishing, Bow-Hunting, Mountaineering, and Boxing
Lastly, our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is paramount. We attend Evergreen Community Church in North Plains, Oregon.
Bill Le Poidevin
Public Safety

Troy Cordle
Public Safety
Troy has over 17 years in Public Safety, in addition to 6 years serving his country in the U.S. Army. After military Troy was voted into the local fire department on September 11, 2001 (a surreal introduction to say the least). After achieving firefighter and EMT certifications, he took a position as 911 Dispatcher in 2003 for the city of Lincoln, NE. In 2013 he took a 911 dispatcher position for the city of Grand Island, NE. Troy left the headset in 2016 to serve as the Nebraska State 911 Field Coordinator to help the state move toward NG911 and develop standards for telecommunicator training across the state.
Troy currently is president of Nebraska Emergency Services Communications Association (NESCA) that provides training for dispatcher across the state, NENA, and APCO. Troy earned his ENP Certification in 2017 and APCO Agency Instructor in 2018. Troy is Humbled to be honored several times, Trainer of the year in 2008, Jud Reed Memorial Lifetime Achievement for Training, and Laura Becker Memorial Award for going above and beyond for betterment of 911 in Nebraska.
Troy has presented many times at APCO National and State Conferences, and more local conferences and training classes than he can count. Training and sharing his knowledge, passion, and excitement of the 911 profession with dispatchers, the 911 community and the public is what drives him.
When trying to wind down and relax Troy spends time with his best friend and wife Janet and our family, (he is a new grandfather), and friends. You may also find him cheering for his favorite football teams (NU Huskers and KC Chiefs) or jumping on his 1700cc Kawasaki and exploring America on 2 wheels.
Troy is very excited to begin this journey with RapidSOS as Customer Success Manager and ready to get boots on the ground with his team to train, educate, and share everything RapidSOS provides to improve the lives of every citizen through public safety.
Troy Cordle
Public Safety

Ashlyn Moran
Public Safety
Ashlyn Moran
Pubilc Safety

Bill Petrea
Public Safety
Bill began his career as a firefighter/EMT for a county in West Virginia. A year after starting that position, Bill began working as a part-time dispatcher for a neighboring county. Shortly after starting this position, Bill realized that emergency communications was the career he was meant to be a part of. Bill continued his dispatching career in Biloxi, MS where he spent three years before moving into a shift supervisor role in Harrisburg, PA. In 2004, Bill stepped into a management role for the City of Goose Creek in South Carolina. Bill served as the communications supervisor with Goose Creek until 2013.
During Bill’s time in South Carolina, he had the opportunity to get involved with the South Carolina Chapter of APCO. He would eventually become president and served in that role for two years. After leaving South Carolina, Bill accepted a position in Flagler County, FL as their communications manager before becoming a full-time staff member with APCO International.
In his spare time, Bill sings with a southern gospel quartet that is based out of Kentucky, is the CEO of a competitive drum and bugle corps and tries to slow down the clock on his recently graduated daughter who is now a Freshman at Marshall University.
Bill Petrea
Public Safety

Tiana Pidgeon
Public Safety
Tiana brings several years of experience working with startups and in corporate innovation to RapidSOS. Tiana joins from Verizon Communications as member of the Strategic Planning Group that defines the growth strategy for Verizon’s Media & Emerging Technology business unit. She helped develop the commercial strategy for Verizon’s subscription and digital media products, and the strategic frameworks for innovative content and product investment opportunities.
Prior to this, she was a Product Manager at Verizon’s Open Innovation Lab where she developed next-generation products and concepts powered by 5G, with a focus on interactive media and IoT. She was also a Summer Analyst with the Verizon Ventures (fka Nautilus by AOL) team in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tiana is the former Chairwoman of the TAMID Group, an international entrepreneurship organization that connects university students to the startup ecosystem in Israel. She is currently a Board Observer of MMCC, the largest non-profit provider of quality education, employment, and health and recreation programs in the North Bronx.
Tiana graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a BA in Economics and as an Athena Leadership Scholar. She likes reading, volunteering, exploring urban cities, and listening to film scores.
Tiana Pidgeon
Public Safety

Amy Marion
Public Safety
Amy has spent over two decades working in Public Safety. She started in the PSAP world in 1998 in Central Illinois, working as a call-taker and telecommunicator in a consolidated ECC. She has served as a CTO, shift supervisor, overseen Q/A implementation, and also worked in a civilian position at her local police department after leaving the PSAP in 2010. In 2012, Amy accepted the role of 9-1-1 Coordinator for her county. In this role, Amy was exposed to a whole new world of public safety technology. She was able to be involved in two P-25 radio system projects, PSAP consolidation, Text to 9-1-1 implementation, CPE project management, and numerous other projects and experience during that time.
In addition to her work on the local level, Amy is active in her state APCO and NENA chapters. She served several years on the Illinois APCO Executive Board, she serves on the executive board of the Illinois Public Safety Telecommunications Association (IPSTA) Conference, has been active in the legislative process and is a member of the joint IL APCO/INENA legislative committee. She was ready to take the next step in her public safety career and knew she wanted to be involved in the world of emerging technology. Going back into the PSAP as a Customer Success Manager is the best of both worlds.
Amy has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois. She is married to her police chief husband who been in law enforcement for 25 years working at the same department. They have two adult boys who both serve their country in the United Stated Armed Forces. Their favorite role is being Papa and Mimi to an adorable 4-year-old grandson. They are active in their local church, the community, and enjoy vacationing anywhere with sun and sand. In her downtime, Amy enjoys having a conversation, over a cup of coffee, with a friend.
Amy Marion
Public Safety

MaryAnn Klick
Public Safety
MaryAnn is a senior at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she’s studying Digital Marketing and minoring in Public Relations. Her marketing experience began at Talkspace where she was the Commercial and Network Marketing Intern. During this internship she supported all B2B marketing efforts. Since then she’s had the opportunity to intern at two other companies, Epicured and TouchCare. At these internships she was able to wear many hats and gain experience with various marketing functions.
She was born in New Jersey but spent most of her life living in South Carolina. In her free time MaryAnn enjoys taking her 2 dogs to the park, hiking, trying different cuisines and reading. She’s also passionate about traveling and immersing herself in different cultures.
MaryAnn Klick
Public Safety

Justin Ayers
Public Safety
Justin Ayers
Public Safety

Yeshey Tshogyal
Public Safety
Yeshey has always enjoyed interacting with others and understanding herself as well as the people around her. As an international student, she had to adjust quickly into the culture. The best way she learned to do that is through communication and that has enabled her to create new relationships. Encouraged by this passion she decided to pursue a BA in Psychology and Communications.
Originally, Yeshey is from Bhutan and moved to New York for college. Yeshey is thrilled to be part of a company where the mission of the company aligns with her moral values of being a good human being and hopes to contribute to this noble cause.
Outside of work, you will either find her hiking, checking out the farmers market or going on another spontaneous adventure.
Yeshey Tshogyal
Public Safety

Jessica Reed
Partnerships
Jessica is an experienced investment professional with skills spanning the private equity and debt markets. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Jessica was a Principal at Solera Capital where she assessed potential investments and managed several of the fund’s portfolio companies. Jessica advised on company strategy and led strategic partnership discussions, managed financing processes and led legal negotiations on behalf of portfolio companies.
Prior to Solera, Jessica spent 7 years at J.P. Morgan Investment Bank where she sourced, marketed, structured, and executed U.S. private placement transactions across a range of global industries, including real estate, infrastructure, industrials, and consumer retail. Originally from Australia, Jessica initially worked at the Sydney headquarters of J.P. Morgan before moving to the New York office. During her time at J.P. Morgan, Jessica also served as Chairperson of the J.P. Morgan Analyst and Associate Philanthropy Committee.
Jessica received a Bachelor of Commerce Honors in Finance from the Australian National University, where she also received the University Medal in Finance. She later received her MBA from Harvard Business School. While at HBS, Jessica provided business strategy and finance consulting services to several early stage companies in the health and wellness space. She also worked with a West Coast consumer focused venture capital fund, as well as The Honest Company in their strategy and finance team.
Jessica recently started volunteering at the Resolution Project — a nonprofit focused on fostering youth leadership and development through collaborative social entrepreneurship. In her free time, Jessica enjoys running, cycling and sharing her love of dark chocolate Tim Tams, arguably the best snack on the planet.
Jessica Reed
Partnerships

Viyas Sundaram
Partnerships
Viyas Sundaram
Partnerships

Mateo Creamer
Partnerships
Mateo returns to RapidSOS after working in Jefferies’ Technology Investment Banking group. While at Jefferies, he actively worked across global M&A and capital raising transactions in the Internet, IoT, and Unified Communications sectors for various clients.
Prior to joining Jefferies full time, Mateo interned at RapidSOS, meaningfully building the company’s early business partnerships and participating in its Series A financing. He also brings experience in international business and government, previously serving at an Ecuador-based REIT engaged in a $600 million development project in Quito, as well as working at the Mexican embassy in Moscow, Russia.
Mateo’s first stint at RapidSOS has motivated him to explore and pursue a career in technology, as he hopes to continue supporting and collaborating with mission-driven companies that seek to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Mateo graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Financial Economics. He is also an alum of SEO Career (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity). During his free time, he enjoys snowboarding and going to concerts, and avidly reads, follows and plays all things soccer.
Mateo Creamer
Partnerships

Faizan Javed
Partnerships
Faizan brings experience in strategy, product management, and investment banking to the Business Development team at RapidSOS.
Prior to joining RapidSOS, Faizan worked in Barclays’ Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group. In addition to executing various M&A and capital markets transactions, Faizan helped the group build out its coverage efforts in the emerging Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies sectors, and worked on the flagship IPO for a critical infrastructure provider named Silvergate.
Previously, Faizan served as an Analyst at Zaffre Investments, where he sourced early-stage investment opportunities across the HealthTech space. He served as a product manager for a portfolio company named Gweepi Medical during the critical rollout of their SmartAide platform.
Faizan graduated with a B.S. in Finance & Data Analytics from Boston College, where he was a member of the Synergy Hip-Hop Dance Company. He enjoys playing basketball and watching TEDTalks, and operates a small cryptocurrency mining operation.
Faizan Javed
partnerships

Cristian Guzman
Partnerships
Cristian is a passionate and innovative leader with experience in brand management & strategic planning, supporting global companies in the development and implementation of go-to-market plans, consumer research, and brand strategy. Originally from Cali, Colombia, (World Capital of Salsa), he is obsessed with multiculturalism. He worked for the leader of the pharmaceutical industry in Colombia where he was supporting brand management efforts and deployment of new product launches. After a successful career in his country, he decided to dedicate a year of service through AmeriCorps as a VISTA volunteer at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering at Columbia University, where through different initiatives he encouraged minorities to pursue a career in STEM. After a year in Non-profit, Cristian joined a company of digital consumer intelligence working with global companies in consumer research and digital strategies in Social Media.
In his free time, Cristian enjoys reading philosophy, learning about politics and economics, streaming series and movies, and most importantly, exploring culinary adventures from food trucks to Michelin-stars restaurants. As a certified advanced scuba diver, he loves traveling with his wife. He is an environmentalist, animal-advocate, and dad of 2 beautiful dogs.
Cristian Guzman
Partnerships

Daniel Malamed
Partnerships
Daniel Malamed was born in Uruguay. He is passionate about new technologies and always looking to help people in their personal growth. He is very proud of the challenges that lie ahead and very excited about the future.
Daniel is based in Mexico City, and he is the first team member of RapidSOS in Latin America. After working for the past 15 years developing several projects in Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Israel, Spain, Andorra, and Kazakhstan, Daniel comes to RapidSOS as the LATAM Implementation Project Manager.
Daniel’s native language is Spanish, but he speak English, Russian and Hebrew. In his free time, he likes to cook, play sports, and travel.
Daniel Malamed
Partnerships

Michael Mirochnik
Partnerships
Prior to joining Jefferies full time, Mateo interned at RapidSOS, meaningfully building the company’s early business partnerships and participating in its Series A financing. He also brings experience in international business and government, previously serving at an Ecuador-based REIT engaged in a $600 million development project in Quito, as well as working at the Mexican embassy in Moscow, Russia.
Mateo’s first stint at RapidSOS has motivated him to explore and pursue a career in technology, as he hopes to continue supporting and collaborating with mission-driven companies that seek to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Mateo graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Financial Economics. He is also an alum of SEO Career (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity). During his free time, he enjoys snowboarding and going to concerts, and avidly reads, follows and plays all things soccer.
Michael Mirochnik
Partnerships

Daniel Prado
Partnerships
Daniel comes to us with extensive experience in the telecom industry working for big corporations like Telefonica and Vonage, as well as for tech startups such as Intersec and Nexius.
Originally from Venezuela and with a sales and engineering background, Daniel has opened and led international markets, crafted software solutions on big data and networking technologies, and developed multi-million dollar tech partnerships.
Based in NYC and considering himself a natural foodie, in his spare time Daniel loves to explore the different cultures and cuisines the ‘Big Apple’ has to offer. When he is not reading about entrepreneurship, he can be found hiking the wilderness, sipping dark coffee, and traveling the world with a small backpack and a big smile.
Daniel Prado
Partnerships

Meir Berkman
Partnerships
Passionate about public service, Meir joins RapidSOS from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he worked in the formulation and implementation of plans for clinical, administrative, and facility projects across the hospital’s regional enterprise. Prior to his work at NewYork-Presbyterian, Meir served as the Executive Director of Binghamton Universities Emergency Medical Services program – an agency which provides advanced life support to the school’s campus, and the surrounding community.
With interests spanning political activism, emergency management, as well as international disaster relief & recovery, Meir brings experience from a variety of volunteer and career emergency service groups. His involvement has also touched several non-profit and political advocacy organizations including Chabad, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Having personally experienced the challenges First Responders face each and every day, Meir is excited about utilizing innovative, cutting edge technology to support the mission-critical work of every-day heroes.
Meir Berkman
Partnerships

Alex Hamlin
Partnerships
Alex joins the RapidSOS team with a combination of experience from law enforcement and technology business development. Alex currently lives in the City of Philadelphia. He is originally from Cherry Hill, New Jersey but moved from coast to coast across the U.S. as a child, eventually ending up in Peachtree City, Georgia before living in several different countries. Alex began his career in Law Enforcement at the age of 18 in Metro Atlanta. Alex served in numerous capacities during his tenure as a law enforcement officer including Patrol Officer, Sr. Police Officer, Detective, and Crime Scene Investigator. During Alex’s time in investigations he worked cases ranging from property crimes to homicides.
As a CSI/Forensic Scientist Alex was very involved with the International Association for Identification, spending time as a committee member in several work groups. Alex is specially trained in forensic photography, fingerprint comparisons, and crime scene processing among other forensic science areas. Alex also worked in cybercrimes as a member of the FBI Atlanta’s MATCH Task Force targeting internet predators and human trafficking as well as the GBI’s (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force). Alex spent much of his time working with agencies on innovating and improving their technology.
Most recently before joining RapidSOS, Alex spent the past several years in telecommunications serving as Vice President of Market Strategy for an Internet and Cloud Service Provider headquartered in the Southeast U.S. He enjoys helping expand companies into new markets. Alex has had the opportunity of working with many fortune 500 companies.
Alex enjoys traveling any opportunity he gets. He’s lived in 5 countries besides the United States (Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, Czech Republic, and Hungary) and has traveled to over 26 countries spanning 5 continents. Alex is also an avid photographer, enjoying landscape and cityscape photography.
Alex is very excited to bring his public safety experience to the RapidSOS team and to work with PSAPs to improve location accuracy. As a first responder, Alex has experienced firsthand the tragic results of being unable to locate a 911 caller. He is setting out on a mission to bring this technology to PSAPs nationwide.
Alex Hamlin
Partnerships

Tanishq Bhalla
Partnerships
Tanishq Bhalla
Partnerships

Rebecca Schwartz
Partnerships
Rebecca Schwartz
Partnerships

Justin Kim
Partnerships
Justin Kim
Partnerships

Rebecca Scharfstein
Operations
Rebecca is passionate about building and growing organizations. Prior to joining RapidSOS, Rebecca was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group where she focused on people strategy for technology organizations. Previously, Rebecca was an analyst at Analysis Group, a Boston-based economic consulting firm, and was the Co Founder and Executive Director of Pasand, a non-profit focused on educating adolescents on personal health and wellness in India.
Rebecca graduated cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
In her free time, Rebecca enjoys cooking and hosting friends for dinner, spinning, and reading fiction & non-fiction. Rebecca also serves on the board of The Rashi School.
Rebecca Scharfstein
Operations

Nga To
Operations
Prior to joining RapidSOS, Nga spent her time in advertising technology and furniture honing her skills as an accountant. Her passion for accounting began in high school after taking an elective in accounting.
Nga was born in Vietnam but came to the U.S. at a young age. Growing up in the states, Nga developed a strong sense of independency, a love of art through fashion and good food. She appreciates a good burger as much as she loves a home-cooked bowl of pho!
Nga To
Operations

Carissa Phoel
Operations
Carissa bring several years of experience recruiting non-technical and technical professionals . Prior to joining RapidSOS, Carissa worked at a growing Fintech startup, Kasisto, recruiting employees with a goal of doubling employee headcount. Carissa is passionate about connecting people to opportunities while creating a seamless experience in between!
Outside of work Carissa enjoys broadway shows, concerts, trying out new restaurants and breaking it down in jazz, contemporary or hip hop dance classes.
Carissa graduated from Hofstra University’s Lawrence Herbert School of Communications with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations with a minor in Dance Education.
Carissa Phoel
Operations

Kathy Zheng
OPERATIONS
Kathy’s career goals have always centered around giving back to the community and creating a tangible impact in the lives of others. Before joining RapidSOS’ team, Kathy was working as a special education teacher for the NYCDOE. Her longing to be part of something even more meaningful eventually took her from the classroom to RapidSOS, where she is excited to support a diverse and passionate staff as the new office manager. The happiness and well-being of her staff are her priority.
Outside of work, Kathy enjoys art and fashion most of all. She is often drawing during any free moment of the day.
Kathy Zheng
OPERATIONS

Bryan Corn
Operations
Prior to joining RapidSOS, Bryan interned at Architizer on the product operations and business development teams helping architects connect with manufacturers and search for building products. Previously, he worked as a GIS Research Assistant and created digital maps of US cities in the 1930s and 1940s. He enjoys gaining valuable insight directly from customers to drive the success of products in order to optimize and improve the overall user experience. He is passionate about working at the intersections of technology, design, and public policy.
Bryan is a proponent of creating better cities for everyone and advocates for the increased use of public transit and cycling. You can find him biking throughout Brooklyn or reading about walkability, architecture, and urban planning.
Originally from Okinawa, Bryan graduated from Brown University with a double concentration in Urban Studies and Economics.
Bryan Corn
Operations

Eugene Ma
Operations
Eugene Ma
Operations

Ivan Ng
Operations
Ivan Ng
Operations

Michelle Cahn
Community
Michelle brings a passion for marketing, particularly in the digital space. Prior to joining RapidSOS, she worked in the marketing department of CipherHealth, a health-tech startup that aims to improve patient experience at hospitals. Previous to CipherHealth, Michelle worked in the Public Affairs department of NBCUniversal’s USA Network. There, she assisted the President and Vice President of Public Affairs in executing the Characters Unite program – a program that aims to end hate and discrimination in communities across the nation.
Michelle has also been involved in various non-profit work at The Jewish Federations of North America and NYU’s Bronfman Center. Through her work at the Bronfman Center, Michelle was awarded the NYU President’s Service Award, awarded to students who have made significant contributions to the university community in the areas of learning, leadership, and quality of student life, and the Bronfman Center Excellence in Programming Award, given for Michelle’s work in planning weekly, welcoming, and communal Shabbat meals that prioritize relationship-building, inclusivity, and pluralism.
Michelle has a BS in Business, with concentrations in marketing and finance, from The NYU Stern School of Business.
Michelle Cahn
Community

Jose Font Bullrich
Community
Jose brings passion about using digital media and art to tell stories. Originally from Seville, Spain, he studied the equivalent of a B.A. and master’s degree in Audiovisual Communications at the University of Seville, gaining skills in photography, filmmaking, marketing and journalism. During his studies, Jose received a merit-based grant to study abroad and specialize in the visual arts, at the Universidad de las Artes in Buenos Aires. After graduating, Jose was awarded a scholarship by the Andalusian Government to attend New York Film Academy to further grow in filmmaking, from script-writing to editing.
Jose has directed and worked on several different kinds of productions, including music videos, documentaries and films. Prior to working at RapidSOS, Jose was the Video Content Specialist for Spotahome, a fast-growing Spanish hospitality startup that recently won the 2016 European South Summit startup competition award. At Spotahome, Jose created videos throughout all major cities of Spain. When not making videos, he loves traveling, bike riding, photography, and making music.
Jose is a strong believer in technology as a means of transforming lives by helping people when they need it most. He is thrilled to be working on video content for RapidSOS and to be a part of this revolutionary shift in safety technology.
Jose Font Bullrich
Community

Miguel Trujillo
Community
Born and raised in New York City, Miguel started his artistic journey attending the High School of Art & Design and was a proud member of the Art Students League of New York. Miguel graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA degree in Illustration and received his Motion Design Certification license from Pratt Institute.
When Miguel isn’t on his laptop working knocking out one project after another, he focuses on his fitness journey and self inspiration at art museums and trying out new food with friends and family.
Miguel Trujillo
Community

Melissa Alvarez
Community
Melissa graduated from NYU Stern with a Bachelor of Science in Business, with a double concentration in marketing and sustainable business. Melissa is passionate about doing mission-driven work that betters the lives of communities in need. Previously, she was a marketing and social media intern at the American Autism Association, where she worked primarily with low-income families of individuals with autism. On campus, Melissa was the Marketing Director of the Association of Latino Professionals for America and PR Co-Chair for Supporting Excellence and Advocating Diversity (SEAD).
Outside of the office, Melissa enjoys spending time with her friends, taking walks around Manhattan, and reciting lines from The Office by heart.
Melissa hopes to inspire and share the RapidSOS story with others during her time at the company.
Melissa Alvarez
Community

Grace Yan
Community
Grace began her journey in marketing during an internship at Cartier, where she conducted a market segmentation and client analysis, which helped optimize the retail practices and increase sales of global Cartier travel retail boutiques.
Prior to joining RapidSOS, Grace also interned alongside the marketing teams of tech company Tencent, architecture firm Perkins Eastman, and financial services company S&P Global. After gaining experience in multiple industries, Grace realized that doing work that had a positive and tangible impact on the greater community was what motivated her, and this ultimately drew her to RapidSOS and the public safety industry.
Born in Toronto and raised in both China and the U.S., Grace enjoys being exposed to different cultures, cuisines, and interacting with peers from diverse backgrounds. Outside of the office, Grace is most likely caring for her 20 (and counting) succulents, binging unsolved mysteries on YouTube, or researching her next travel destination.
Grace graduated from New York University with a major in Media and Communications and a minor in Business Studies.
Grace Yan
Community

Stephen Elliott
Community
Stephen joins the marketing team as a writer looking to make a difference in the world around him. He brings with him 5 years of experience in copywriting for tech startups, fashion brands, and more, having most recently served as the content marketing manager of a NYC-based startup. He’s previously moonlit as a freelance journalist, ghostwriter, and a roofer on the weekends.He attended the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch, where he studied Political Science and Economics with a concentration in International Relations. He’s a firm believer in the values of public service and is always striving to give back to his community, whether he’s volunteering on the weekends or swiping it forward on the subway. Stephen is eager to help spread the life saving mission of RapidSOS to the world at large. When he’s not writing blogs or editing emails, you can find Stephen writing poetry, building computers, trying new recipes, or relaxing with a good book and his fat cat, Stella.
Stephen Elliott
Community

Tracy Eldridge
Community
For the past 20 years Tracy has been working in Public Safety. She began her career back in 1997 as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and then became the Chief Dispatcher in Rochester, MA, her hometown, in 2003. Tracy also serves the Rochester community as a firefighter/paramedic on the fire department. Additionally, she is a member of the Massachusetts Department of Fire Service Special Operations team providing support services to fire departments across the Commonwealth during large scale incidents and pre-planned events. Since 2006 she has been educating telecommunicators, EMTs and Firefighters all over the country. In 2013 Tracy joined The Public Safety Group and she enjoys traveling to teach telecommunicators things that can assist them in their duties, as well as how to take better care of themselves. Tracy has also recently joined The Denise Amber Lee Foundation and is working on their third party quality assurance initiative.
In December of 2016, Tracy left her position as the Chief Dispatcher in Rochester and became the 9-1-1 Operations Lead with RapidSOS because she knew it was time to serve the 9-1-1 community in a different capacity.
Tracy’s husband Jeff and her two daughters support everything she does. Her oldest daughter just became a registered nurse and her youngest daughter is determined to be a Fire Chief some day. Tracy’s life revolves around making all aspects of public safety, especially 9-1-1, better. Her motto is “Life is too short to not know how to save one.”
Tracy Eldridge
Community

Tom Wheeler
Advisor
Tom Wheeler is a businessman, author, and was Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017.
For over four decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services. At the FCC he led the efforts that resulted in the adoption of Net Neutrality, privacy protections for consumers, and increased cybersecurity, among other policies. His chairmanship has been described as, “The most productive Commission in the history of the agency.” During the Obama-Biden Transition of 2008/09 Mr. Wheeler led activities overseeing the agencies of government dealing with science, technology, space and the arts.
As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering innovative cable, wireless and video communications services. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame, a fact President Obama joked made him “the Bo Jackson of telecom.”
Prior to being appointed Chairman of the FCC by President Obama, Wheeler was Managing Director at Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage Internet Protocol (IP)-based companies. He is CEO of the Shiloh Group, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services. He co-founded SmartBrief, the Internet’s largest curated information service for vertical markets.
From 1976 to 1984 Wheeler was associated with the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) where he was President and CEO from 1979 to 1984. Following NCTA Wheeler was CEO of several high-tech companies, including the first company to offer high-speed delivery to home computers and the first digital video satellite service. From 1992 to 2004 Wheeler served as President and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).
Mr. Wheeler wrote Take Command: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War (Doubleday, 2000), and Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006). His commentaries on current events have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and numerous other leading publications.
Mr. Wheeler served on President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board prior to being named to the FCC. Presidents Clinton and Bush each appointed him a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is the former Chairman and President of the National Archives Foundation, and a former board member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
He is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University and the recipient of its Alumni Medal. He resides in Washington, D.C.
Tom Wheeler
Advisor

Dennis Patrick
Advisor
Dennis R. Patrick served as the Commissioner and then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) between 1983 and 1989, under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. During his tenure, Mr. Patrick oversaw a significant period of change in the telecom industry. Mr. Patrick also served as Associate Director of Presidential Personnel at the White House under President Reagan.
Following his role at the FCC, Mr. Patrick served as CEO of Time Warner Telecommunications, a division of Time Warner Entertainment. He then founded and served as President & CEO of Milliwave LP, a local exchange telephone company later acquired by Winstar. Following Milliwave, Mr. Patrick served as the first President of AOL Wireless.
Mr. Patrick served as CEO & President of National Geographic Ventures, a subsidiary of The National Geographic Society, Inc. As CEO, Mr. Patrick oversaw National Geographic’s rapidly growing television, feature film production, and cable channel businesses, as well as the maps and interactive divisions.
Currently, he is President & CEO of Patrick Communications Inc. and Doeg Hill Ventures LLC. Mr. Patrick is Director of Network Access Solutions and a Member of the Business Advisory Panel at HealthSport, Inc. He is a Board Member of the National Geographic Channel in the U.S. and National Geographic Channels International. Mr. Patrick also served as trustee of Occidental College.
Mr. Patrick holds a BA Magna Cum Laude from Occidental College and a JD from UCLA.
Dennis Patrick
Advisor

Bill Swanson
Advisor
William H. Swanson is a retired chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Raytheon Company. Swanson served as chairman and CEO of Raytheon from January 2004 to March 2014, at which time he stepped down from the role of CEO. He retired from the company in September 2014, finishing a 42-plus year career with the company.
During Swanson’s tenure as CEO, Raytheon’s sales grew 26 percent, its stock price and dividend each increased three-fold and company debt was virtually eliminated. He also strengthened Raytheon’s culture with a focus on core company values, ethics, diversity and the customer, while transforming the company’s community engagement by championing corporate responsibility, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education and armed services support.
Swanson joined Raytheon in 1972 and held a wide range of leadership positions, including manufacturing manager of the company’s largest operation, senior vice president and general manager of the Missile Systems Division, general manager of Raytheon Electronic Systems, president of Electronic Systems, chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Systems Company, and president of Raytheon.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Mr. Swanson is a member of the Department of Defense’s Defense Business Board; member of the NextEra Energy, Inc. board of directors and chair of its audit committee; chairman of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership; and vice chairperson of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation board of directors. He is active in the field of education as chairman of the California Polytechnic State University Foundation board of directors, and as a member of the Cal Poly President’s Cabinet and the University of Massachusetts President’s Advisory Council. Swanson served as honorary chair of MATHCOUNTS® from 2009 to 2014.
Swanson is chairman emeritus of the Aerospace Industries Association and is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He serves as a member of the Air Force Association, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), and the Navy League. He is also a member of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation board of advisors and the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Selected as Outstanding Industrial Engineering Graduate in 1972, Swanson was also recognized as the Honored Alumnus from California Polytechnic State University School of Engineering in 1991. He received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the American Association of Community Colleges in 2013. Additionally, he was awarded the Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and Aviation Week and Space Technology’s Laurel Award for his “significant contributions” to the aeronautics and propulsion field. Swanson was also named the “California Manufacturer of the Year” by the California Manufacturing and Technology Association, and is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (United Kingdom).
Swanson has received the Navy League Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award, the NDIA James Forrestal Industry Leadership Award, the John W. Dixon Award from AUSA, a Diversity Best Practices CEO Diversity Leadership Award, the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Captains of Industry Award, the Six Sigma Premier Leader Award from the International Society of Six Sigma Professionals, a Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, and the Kennedy Greenway Vision Award.
A native of California, Swanson graduated magna cum laude from California Polytechnic State University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. His graduate work was performed in business administration at Golden Gate University. He has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Pepperdine University and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University.
Bill Swanson
Advisor

David Nagel
Advisor
David Nagel is a General Partner of Forte Ventures in Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at University of California, Berkeley.
Before his current positions, Nagel was president and chief executive officer of PalmSource, Inc., a leading provider of operating system software platforms for smart mobile devices. Prior to joining PalmSource in 2001, Nagel was President of AT&T Labs from 1996 to 2001 and also served as the Chief Technology Officer of AT&T. Nagel also was the Chief Technology Officer of Concert, Inc., a joint venture of AT&T and British Telecom (BT).
Before joining AT&T, Nagel worked at Apple Computer from 1988 to 1996, where he was senior vice president responsible for the Advanced Technology Group (the Apple “Labs” of the era) and then the worldwide research and development group, responsible for all Macintosh hardware and software products. Under Nagel’s direction at Apple a number of industry leading software and hardware technologies were developed that still support Apple’s innovative products (QuickTime, Firewire, and Speech recognition to list but three). While at Apple, Nagel also was responsible for heading up an important industry effort at the FCC to ensure that significant unlicensed RF spectrum would be set aside to support emerging wireless packet data systems. This pioneering work termed Data PCS led eventually to the designation of spectrum that today supports WiFi wireless networks and systems.
Prior to Apple, Nagel had a long career at NASA’s Ames Research Center where he was head of human factors research as Chief of the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division. Nagel worked at NASA from 1973 to 1988 following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship stint at the NASA Ames Research Center.
He is the Co-Author and Editor (with the late Earl Wiener) of Human Factors in Aviation, published by Academic Press, 1988. This book was in print for more than 25 years and was a standard monograph in a number of formal academic programs in aviation. Nagel has served on a number of national and international advisory committees, among them NATO’s Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development and the first President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), on which he served five years for President William Clinton. He also served for a number of years on the UCLA Board of Visitors in the Sciences.
For the past 20 years, Nagel has served on the boards of directors of a number of private and publically traded companies. He most recently was a member of the board of directors of Align Technologies and Vonage Holdings, Inc. from which he is now retired.
Nagel and his wife also own a commercial vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains (Ascona Vineyards) that provides estate quality fruit to wineries in the SCM AVA and as far away as the Napa Valley.
David Nagel
Advisor

Terry Kramer
Advisor
Terry has a 25 year career in telecommunications. For 18 of the 25 years, Terry worked for Vodafone Group Plc/AirTouch Communications in a variety of roles domestically and internationally including Group Strategy and Business Improvement Director, Regional President, Vodafone Americas which included oversight of Vodafone’s 45% interest in Verizon Wireless and Vodafone’s venture capital activities, Group Human Resources Director & Chief of Staff, President AirTouch Paging and Vice President/GM AirTouch Cellular-Southwest Market. He has also spent several years leading and advising small, growing technology companies in roles including CEO, QComm International and as a Board member of Fiber Tower, 724 Solutions, and Sonim Technologies. Terry’s focus in his 25 year telecommunications industry has been the global expansion of the mobile industry as well as the more recent transition of the industry from a voice to data based one with mobile as the “platform of the future.”
In June 2012, Terry received an appointment by President Obama to serve as Ambassador, Head of U.S. Delegation for the World Conference on International Telecommunications which was held in December 2012 in Dubai. In this role, Terry led a 100+ person delegation of U.S. government, industry, and civil society representatives negotiating a treaty on international telecommunications policy. This delegation formulated and communicated the U.S. policy regarding the criticality of a free and open internet, the criticality of inclusive, multi stakeholder governance, the need to proactively address cybersecurity threats and the need for liberalized, open markets which encourage accelerated broadband access in markets worldwide.
Terry is currently a Distinguished Visitor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management teaching two courses on the evolution and innovation in the mobile communications industry and is also a Faculty Advisor in the Global Access Program and Strategic Management Research Program advising students working on client assignments involved in new market entry, product development and business strategy. From 2011-13, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Business School.
Terry sits on the Boards of Envivio Corp. (NASDAQ: ENVI),TeleSign and TangoCard and also sits on the Boards of the Harvard Business School California Research Center, Larkin Street Youth Services and theWorld Affairs Council of Northern CA.
Terry holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from UCLA and MBA from Harvard University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Terry Kramer
Advisor

TJ Kennedy
Public Safety Advisor
TJ Kennedy has had a 14 year career in wireless technology and general management and is currently the President of the First Responder Network Authority known as FirstNet. Mr. Kennedy led FirstNet from a start up inside the United States government to become a $40 Billion Public Private Partnership (PPP) that is deploying a mission critical 4G LTE network in all 50 US states, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia. This PPP is the largest ever in the United States and is now providing priority Public Safety communications to Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Services. Prior to joining FirstNet TJ was the President of Raytheon JPS Communications and led the Public Safety business at Raytheon.
Mr. Kennedy has created the new communications platform that will drive Public Safety technology for many years to come. Countries around the world are learning from the successful FirstNet model and are are seeking to emulate its success. Technologies companies listen to Mr. Kennedy on how they can benefit from the Internet of Life Saving Things (IoLST) and how to get public safety to embrace technology to improve the ways they respond, interact, and serve the public in their greatest time of need.
As a reliable and dedicated general manager Mr. Kennedy has defined and achieved organizational excellence and created complex business strategy that has achieved incredible results while working in a political environment with disparate stakeholders. Mr. Kennedy received his MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
TJ Kennedy
Public Safety Advisor

Tracy Eldridge
Advisor
Ralph de la Vega is the founder and chairman of the De La Vega Group. Mr. de la Vega is the former Vice Chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of Business Solutions & International. In that capacity, he had overall responsibility for the company’s integrated Business Solutions group which, at the time served more than 3.5 million business customers in nearly 200 countries and territories, including nearly all of the world’s Fortune 1000 companies. He also had overall responsibility for AT&T’s wireless business operations in Mexico and DIRECTV in Latin America.
Previously, he was President and CEO of AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions, where he had overall responsibility for the company’s wireless and business services operations. Before that, he was President and CEO of AT&T Mobility. Under his leadership, AT&T Mobility became one of the world’s leading smartphone and mobile Internet providers and expanded into new growth areas such as connected cars, and home security and automation.
During his career he has held numerous executive positions, including COO of Cingular Wireless and President of BellSouth Latin America. As the COO of Cingular Wireless, Mr. de la Vega was responsible for the integration of AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, following the largest all-cash merger in U.S. history at the time. As President of BellSouth Latin America, he was responsible for wireless operations in 11 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay.
Ralph de la Vega
Advisor

Blair Levin
Advisor
Blair Levin
Advisor

Rear Admiral (ret.) David Simpson
Advisor
Admiral David Simpson has influenced National Defense and Homeland Security policy and provided cutting edge Information, Communications Technology and Cybersecurity solutions for over thirty years. Currently leading Pelorus Consulting Services, he previously served as Chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau from 2013 to 2017. As Bureau Chief, he oversaw public safety, homeland security, emergency management, cybersecurity, and disaster preparedness activities for over 30,000 commercial companies in the telecommunications sector. He worked with public and private partners and through the rule-making process to ensure that our nation’s networks are accessible, reliable, resilient, and secure, ready to meet the public safety needs of Americans during emergencies.
Admiral Simpson served as the vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) from 2011 to 2013. In that capacity, he helped lead an organization responsible for planning, developing and providing interoperable global communications for the Defense community. He also served as a senior delegate to the 2012 ITU World Radio Telecommunications Conference and to the World Conference on International Telecom (WCIT).
From 2009 through 2010, as Director for Communications and Information Services for U.S. Forces Iraq in Baghdad, he synchronized strategic and operational-level communications for U.S. Forces and assisted the Government of Iraq in building capacity for the information and communications technology sector. Simpson’s extensive career includes assignments with responsibility for networks, IT, and crisis communications for afloat and other deployed forces in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.
Simpson is a native of Burbank, California and a 1982 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He earned a master’s degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School. Recipient of the Navy’s Copernicus Award, Federal Computing Weekly’s FED 100 Award and the Next Generation 911 Institute’s 2017 Government Leader Award.
Rear Admiral (ret.) David Simpson
Advisor

Jonathan Peachey
Advisor
Jonathan has been involved in the development, financing and/or growth of more than a dozen consumer businesses, primarily in the telecommunications, technology and transportation sectors.
For 15 years Jonathan worked closely with Sir Richard Branson, one of the world’s most inspiring and prolific entrepreneurs. He held several senior positions at Virgin Group, ultimately being appointed CEO of Virgin Group North America, where he oversaw the development of the Virgin brand and portfolio in the region.
Jonathan was an early executive at commercial spaceflight venture Virgin Galactic, a co-founder of The Spaceship Company, which designs and manufactures advanced composite structures for Virgin Galactic and others, and was heavily involved in the financing, launch and growth of low-fare airline Virgin America (NASDAQ:VA, acquired by Alaska Airlines). He served on the boards of all three companies as well as the board of Virgin Atlantic and others.
Jonathan left Virgin in 2013 to become CEO of Filip Technologies, creator of ‘FiLIP’ – an award-winning wearable phone and locator for kids, enabling parents and kids to stay connected and kids to get help in an emergency. FiLIP was the first consumer wearable with fully independent cellular voice-calling capability to achieve FCC and PTCRB certifications, and was launched with major wireless carriers AT&T and Telefonica. After the business was sold in 2016, Jonathan formed TriBeCa Advisory Partners to advise clients on strategy, business development, business model optimization and financing.
Jonathan is a mentor at leading business accelerator Techstars and is a co-owner of the San Francisco Deltas professional soccer team. Originally from the UK, he is a graduate of the University of Warwick and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London. He lives in New York City with his wife and young daughter.
Jonathan Peachey
Advisor

Adrian Fenty
Advisor
Adrian Fenty is the former mayor of Washington, D.C. Fenty is a special advisor at Andreessen Horowitz, providing government and strategic business development expertise. At Andreessen Horowitz contributes solutions to some of the world’s most innovative technology companies.
Before advising for Andreessen Horowitz, Adrian Fenty served as Special Counsel for Klores Perry Mitchell, P.C. At Klores Perry Mitchell, P.C., Fenty improved the firm’s ability to prosecute cases by utilizing his experience in strategic planning, business judgment, and education reforms.
Previous to joining Klores Perry Mitchell, P.C., Adrian Fenty was a special advisor for the education technology company EverFi. Fenty provided outreach and strategic business development to EverFi, offering financial, digital, and civic education programs to school districts across the nation.
Adrian Fenty was the Mayor of the District of Columbia between 2007 and 2011, where he championed unprecedented initiatives to tackle challenges facing the Nation’s Capital. As mayor, Fenty gained recognition as a national leader in urban education reform. Adrian Fenty raised students test scores, increased graduation rates, and achieved the first increase in enrollment in 39 years. Among his notorious accomplishments, Adrian Fenty maintained a rapid pace of development and achieved a AAA bond rating for the District of Columbia despite the worst economic recession since the 1930s. Fenty also reduced homicides rates by 23%, a reduction over two times greater than the nationwide reduction and streamlined government operations to improve services for residents. Adrian Fenty is also known for the expansion of affordable housing in the nation’s capital, creating over 11,000 units of affordable housing and launching the Housing First program, which is now a national model for providing permanent housing for the homeless.
Adrian Fenty obtained a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law and a B.A. in English and Economics from Oberlin College.
Adrian Fenty
Advisor

Andrew Klaber
Advisor
Andrew Klaber is a Partner at Paulson & Company, an investment management firm.
Since 2002, Andrew has served as the founder, chairman, and chairman emeritus of Even Ground (www.evenground.org), an international non-profit organization that annually provides more than 2,000 children who have been affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty with academic scholarships, basic healthcare, and nutrition in South Africa and Uganda. Even Ground has received philanthropic support from institutions like the Goldman Sachs, Google, Pfizer, and Levi’s foundations and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today, among other publications.
Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Andrew graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa president from Yale College, where he was a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, and First-Team USA Today Academic All-American, and received the David Everett Chantler Award for “best exemplifying the qualities of courage, strength of character, and high moral purpose” and Hadley Prize (valedictorian) at graduation. He earned Masters of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and holds a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction and as the Dean’s Award winner.
Klaber received the President’s Environmental Youth Award at the White House for his “efforts and commitment to the environment” and the Yale-Jefferson Public Service Award for his “innovative and sustained contributions to society,” served with the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, and presented Even Ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Andrew rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions), ran in the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamptons, London, New York (2009, 2013, 2016), Paris, Philadelphia, Valencia, and Washington D.C. marathons, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pedaled 4,200-miles (New Haven, CT to San Francisco, CA) to raise awareness and financial support for Habitat for Humanity.
Andrew serves or has served on the boards of AEI Enterprise Club (Founder), Association of Marshall Scholars (President), Bowery Mission Young Philanthropists, Brookings Society (Founder), Center for Jewish History Legacy Council, Echoing Green Social Investment Council (Co-Chair), Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces Young Leadership, Harvard Law School Overseers’ Committee, International Rescue Committee GenR (President), Jewish Museum Young Patrons, Juilliard Club, Learning Matters, Magdalen Society, Morgan Library Young Fellows, Natan, New York Needs You Young Leadership Board, New York Public Library Young Lions, Public Theater Young Partners, Russell Trust Association (Treasurer & Capital Campaign Chair), Truman Scholars Association, United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Young Wall Street (Co-Chair), and Yale Alumni Fund.
Klaber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Program, Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller Fellowship, Partnership for New York City David Rockefeller Fellows Program, Wexner Heritage Program, Economic Club of New York, and New York State Bar. He is a co-author of the book, Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (2012), and he is a Fellow at Trumbull College, Yale University.
Andrew Klaber
Advisor

Jose Mejia
Advisor
Jose Mejia was born into a working class family in rural Venezuela. Learning was an area where Jose excelled and he earned a scholarship to attend a private high school for wealthy students, where he privately tutored many of his schoolmates. While his high school experience provided Jose with the cornerstone of his education, it was the lessons that his mother taught him at an early age that have provided him with the true foundation of his life.
Eager to continue his education, Jose moved to the United States alone at age 16 with only 100 dollars. While working 5 different jobs he attended the University of Michigan and earned a bachelor’s of science degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering. Eventually Jose also earned an MBA in Finance and Operations Research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as well as an honorary doctorate from the W.P. Carey Graduate School of Business at the Arizona State University.
Jose is working with several Software as a Service companies, Big Data and Digital advising companies, sports and family owned enterprises, etc. Jose is on the Board of Grandata, OnRule, RapidSOS. Jose enjoys leading the Strategy, Talent and Enterprise Digitalization spaces. As an example, at Grandata he is the lead Business Development/Strategy and growth driver. Grandata is a data monetization human insight and mobile advertising company with over 30 patents written in the space of human dynamics and prediction through understanding location, mobility, social and financial information, they have grown 500% in the past 2 years and are EBITDA+ and Cash Flow positive. Jose is also a Lead Operational and Executive coach, he joins businesses at the Board level and typically leads Strategy, execution and Business Development as well as Talent and Compensation Management.
Jose is a technology savvy leader and extremely astute at reading the true under-currents of a situation. He is an active Operational Coach and an avid facilitator to several families, CEO’s and COO’s of companies ranging from 50 Million in revenue to over 4 Billion. Jose has been involved in the launch of more than 10 start-ups world-wide. He has been engaged in over 48 Mergers & Acquisitions valued between 20 MM to over 30 Billion dollars. He has written and worked on the transformation of the IT world and how to execute the digitalization of the enterprise, using his knowledge of transforming functional verticals like manufacturing, procurement and the Hardware/server side of enterprises.
He was Senior Vice President, Business Capability Enablement Group for Juniper Networks, a $4 Billion dollar global network infrastructure, software and services until October 2011. He was Chairman and CEO of Medis Technologies. Jose was President of Lucent Technologies’ Worldwide Operations and Customer Support/Installation organization and Leader of Simplification for Lucent. He had worldwide responsibilities, across 70+ countries and a high of over 80 thousand people. He also led a significant portion of Bell Labs researchers and was the primary sales leader for the Latin speaking world. He was a key driver and founder of companies like Bay Networks (the first companies to create routers for the internet), Ariba, Alliente, e2open, etc. Mejia spent seven years at Ford Motor Company where he played a pivotal role in implementing Ford 2000, and was a Global Product Manager at IBM out of college. Introduced over 180 new products in his career, from new automotive models to new glass and plastic containers to personal computers and network systems. From fiber optics to power supplies to fuel cells, memory chips and complex semiconductor products.
Jose is the recipient of the “Ellis Island” Medal of Honor. The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation named Jose “Engineer of the Year”. They were both given by the United States Congress to distinguished immigrants and scientists.
Jose founded an abandoned children’s foundation called Unamos.org in Venezuela in 2001, which helped over 30 thousand abandoned children from the streets and provided them with education, many are college graduates today. He served for 8 years as the operating Board member of Pella Windows and Doors and Liberty Property Trust. He is active in B-Peace Foundation helping small and Medium size business grow and create jobs in underdeveloped countries and advises many family owned enterprises.
Jose Mejia
Advisor

Bob Freinberg
Public Safety Advisor
Bob Freinberg is a recognized leader, visionary, and strategist known for building high-energy, high-performing teams that ‘hit the numbers’. His ability to develop unique employee qualities through personal coaching, ensuring their success, sets him apart from his peers. An example of this leadership is his success in concluding three sales of employer (Plant Holdings, Inc.) to one private equity and two strategic buyers, growing company revenue from $20M to over $100M during these phases.
Most recently, Mr. Freinberg served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Airbus DS Communications, Inc. from 2011 to April of 2017. Under his leadership, the company received the 2016 Frost & Sullivan Next Generation 9-1-1 Company of the Year Award recognizing superior performance in three key areas: demand generation, brand development, and competitive positioning.
Prior to his role as CEO, Mr. Freinberg held key leadership positions, each time creating platforms for growth and exceeding revenue and EBIT targets. At then-PlantCML, he served as Vice President of Sales, orchestrating a successful turnaround, driving sales and profit growth, and energizing the business. As the Vice President and General Manager of the Public Safety Business Unit, he was instrumental in producing 5X growth in only 7 years.
Early in his career, Mr. Freinberg worked for GTE (now Verizon) in roles of increasing responsibility. He held many staff positions such as the Director of Business Market Strategy, Market Research, Competitive Analysis, and Pricing. Later, Mr. Freinberg served as Vice President and General Manager of the Payphone & Wireless Division where he generated record earnings performance in HI, WA, CA, and OR for $250M a business—winning the 1993 Division of the Year Award among 3 other regions by over-performing on all criteria. As the Vice President and General Manager of Business Sales & Service, he led the turnaround of a last-place (#9) telecom division to the #1 ranking $260M division within 3 years, managing a $25M expense budget and 250 employees.
Always the innovator, Mr. Freinberg later became Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Networks Telephony Corporation where he sold the industry’s first global PC-to-PC internet telephone service (in the pre-Skype era) over a private network serving 42 countries.
Building on his international experience, Mr. Freinberg has provided VoIP consulting/advisory services to startups serving European, Asian, Caribbean, and North American markets.
Mr. Freinberg holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Baltimore, where he graduated summa cum laude and earned the Wall Street Journal Award as top business graduate. He also holds an MBA in Marketing, Distribution, and Logistics (cum laude) from Michigan State University.
Bob Freinberg
Public Safety Advisor

Steve Souder
Public Safety Advisor
Steve Souder is a nationally and internationally recognized and respected, authority and leader in the 9-1-1 public safety communications profession and industry.
During his extensive forty-eight year 9-1-1 career, he has served in four jurisdictions of the National Capital Region (NCR); i.e. Washington, DC, Arlington County, VA, Montgomery County, MD and Fairfax County, VA…..the latter three, spanning 31 years, as the 9-1-1 center director. During his tenure in Virginia he worked very closely with the Virginia Information Technology Agency, Integrated Services Program, 9-1-1 Services Board and when in Maryland with the Maryland Emergency Number (9-1-1) Systems Board…..on a wide variety of issues. Recently, Maryland Governor Hogan appointed Steve to the Maryland Emergency Number (9-1-1) Systems Board.
Steve is a frequent guest speaker, presenter, spokesperson, writer and consultant on 9-1-1 matters, and on numerous occasions has provided testimony before Congress and state legislative bodies.
In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) selected Steve to serve as chair of the Task Force on Optimal PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) [aka…..9-1-1 Center] Architecture. The report, just issued (fcc.gov/tfopa), provides the nation’s 9-1-1 community, Local and State government appointed and elected officials…..a way forward for the implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1).
Steve is Life Member of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO), the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). Additionally, he has served as the chair of the Metropolitan Washington (DC) Council of Governments (MWCOG) 9-1-1 Director’s Committee. Steve is also active in the Congressional NG9-1-1 Institute, of the Congressional NG9-1-1 Caucus.
In addition to his distinguished 9-1-1 career, Steve is a highly decorated former Senior Chief Firefighter (retired) of the United States Coast Guard Reserve.
During Steve’s career he, with his 9-1-1 communications center personnel at that time, were involved in many historic events including; the massive fires that swept Washington, DC following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the shooting of President Ronald Reagan, crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the Potomac River, 9-11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, Washington Beltway Sniper event in 2002 and the massive derecho storm and associated wide-spread 9-1-1 outage of 2012…..plus many more.
Additional information about Steve Souder is available via Google and LinkedIn.
Steve Souder
Public Safety Advisor

Christy Williams
Public Safety Advisor
Christy Williams is the 9-1-1 Program Manager for the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), administrative agency for 9-1-1 in fourteen counties. NCTCOG serves 44 Public-Safety Answering Points in an area surrounding Dallas/Ft. Worth. Christy has been in the 9-1-1 industry for over twenty years and previously held the positions of Operation/Communications Specialist and Public Education/Training Coordinator.
Christy currently also serves as the President of NENA, the National Emergency Number Association. She has previously held positions on the Texas NENA Chapter Board as North Coordinator, Secretary/Treasurer and President and has served as President of the 9-1-1 Public Educators of Texas. She chaired the national NENA Public Education Committee for 7 years. Christy was honored with the Laverne Hogan Award in 2011 and currently serves on the national NENA Educational Advisory Board.
Christy Williams
Public Safety Advisor

Thera Bradshaw
Public Safety Advisor
Thera Bradshaw is an expert in public policy, administration, strategic business and technology planning, implementation and operation of 3-1-1 and 9-1-1 public safety communications systems. She is an internationally recognized leader in the digital cities movement and is well known as the champion for public access through electronic government. Ms. Bradshaw is the Chief Executive Officer of TKC Consulting Group, LLC, with a practice specializing in development of strategic business plans, implementation of technology solutions, and building effective public relations/ communications strategies focused on meeting clients business needs to better serve the public.
Ms. Bradshaw is currently on the e9-1-1 Institute Board of Directors. She is the former Chief Information Officer of the City of Los Angeles, where she oversaw all IT and telecommunications activities and five public safety LMR radio systems. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Bradshaw served as its Manager in charge of Strategic Planning and Regulatory Activities. She is also the previous International President of the Association of Public Safety Officials and National President of the National Emergency Number Association. Ms. Bradshaw has been named one of the top municipal CIO’s by Government Technology Magazine.
Ms. Bradshaw’s professional leadership extends to State, National, and International roles serving in appointed and elected position on a variety of boards and committees. She has authored numerous publications, is an in demand public speaker, and has testified before the United States Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. Ms. Bradshaw championed new college programs that were successfully adopted by the Boards of Higher Education in Oregon and California.
Ms. Bradshaw has received numerous honors. She has been named 2010/2011 Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women. She was recently honored by Government Technology as the top technology innovator in America. Thera is recognized as one of the top Executive Women of leadership in Public Safety. Former Washington State Governor Gary Locke recognized Thera for her International leadership improving the quality of life in America.
Thera Bradshaw
Public Safety Advisor

Patrick Halley
Public Safety Advisor
Patrick Halley currently serves as the Executive Director of the NG9-1-1 Institute, a non-profit organization that works with the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus to promote deployment of advanced and effective 9-1-1 and Next Generation 9-1-1 services throughout the nation. Previously, Patrick served at the Federal Communications Commission, most recently as Associate Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau. He also served as a legal advisor to Chairman Wheeler on multiple topics as well as the Deputy Director of the FCC’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force.
Before joining the FCC, Mr. Halley spent over 5 years as the Director of Government Affairs for NENA – The 9-1-1 Association where he was NENA’s main architect of policy and strategy and served as the association’s liaison with Congress, the FCC and other government agencies and organizations on key issues affecting 9-1-1 and emergency communications. He served as the national 9-1-1 representative on the DHS SAFECOM Emergency Response Council and represented NENA on the FCC’s Communications, Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC). Prior to that, Mr. Halley served as the Deployment Director for COMCARE, a non-profit emergency response alliance. Patrick Halley is an active presenter and speaker at national public safety and communications industry conferences.
Patrick Halley
Public Safety Advisor

Wolfgang Kampichler
Public Safety Advisor
As Principal at Frequentis, Wolfgang Kampichler is actively contributing to innovation and technical expertise for future Public Safety communication or technologies in Europe and abroad. In this role he is a recognised expert on NG9-1-1/NG112 and speaker at industry and customer events addressing topics related to VoIP and emergency services. Recently, he participated with Frequentis in the first ever NG112 emergency communications interoperability Plugtests in Europe. The event, organised by ETSI and EENA was designed to trial independently and jointly all components of the 112 communication chain based on NG112 networks.
He is an engineer by profession. Wolfgang started his career as a research assistant at the Department of Computer Science (Vienna University of Technology) and was awarded with the degree of Doctor in technical sciences in 2002. Since then he has acquired international expertise in emergency communications when chairing the planning committee for the NENA Industry Collaboration Event #5 (ICE 5) and co-chairing NENA ICE 6 and represents Frequentis with his profound knowledge in order to support standardisation working groups in public safety and air traffic management. He holds the position as Chair of the EENA Technical Committee and focuses on technical topics ranging from the discussion of standards and deployment of IP-based emergency services to information sharing for safety-critical issues.
Wolfgang Kampichler
Public Safety Advisor

Mark Fletcher
Public Safety Advisor
For over three decades, Fletch has contributed to the telecommunications industry from all perspectives. He has spent time as a Police Dispatcher, field technician, and a Systems Engineer building large global private voice networks. He has helped navigate the transition from TDM to VoIP and now to SIP and WebRTC, and holds several US Patents focused on NG9-1-1 additional data, and call handling functionality.
Widely known for his customer advocacy, and work on Public Safety Standards, Fletch was honored by the NG9-1-1 Institute where he was awarded the Industry/Technology Professional Private Sector Award by Congress and the NG9-1-1 Institute.
As Avaya’s Chief Architect for Worldwide Public Safety Solutions, Fletch manages the roadmap and strategy for Avaya solutions and ensures they meet the emerging requirements for Next Generation emergency communications in both the Enterprise and Government sectors here and abroad. He is a popular keynote speaker at many industry events, and produces several weekly Podcasts and CONNECTED Blogs covering emerging technologies and trending industry news.
In addition to his internal role, Fletcher represents Avaya as an active member in the major Public Safety organizations NENA, EENA, APCO Intl. and British APCO. He is a key author of the NENA MLTS/PBX model legislation, and an active contributor on the NENA NG9-1-1 transition standards. He was appointed to the APCO Standards Development Committee in 2014, maintains a Vice-Chair role on the EENA NG112 Technical Committee, and holds a position on the NENA Institute Board, defining standards for their Emergency Number Professional certification program. Fletcher regularly advises the FCC through participation in various committees and Task Force groups such as the EAAC, the DAC and the newly formed Task Force for Optimized PSAP Architectures.
One of Fletcher’s most recent accomplishments is the introduction of Kari’s Law, protecting MLTS users after the tragic death of Kari Hunt in a Marshall, Texas hotel in 2013, where her 9-year old daughter was unable to dial 9-1-1 while her mother was being brutally murdered just a few feet away by her estranged husband. In addition to attention at the Federal level in the FCC, new legislation in Suffolk County, NY, Illinois, Maryland and Texas were the direct result of those efforts.
Mark Fletcher
Public Safety Advisor

Scott L. Brillman MS,CEM, NREMT-P
Public Safety Advisor
Captain Scott L. Brillman is a public safety leader with expertise in emergency management and organizational change, serving in the Baltimore City Fire Department since 2003. Captain Brillman currently directs Baltimore’s 911 communication center. Under his tenure, the center won the International 911 Center “Team of the Year Award” from the International Association of Public Safety Communications Officials for its excellence in professionalism and performance in 2016. Captain Brillman proudly leads a workforce who handle more than 1.5 million emergency calls per year; the busiest in Maryland. He is currently tasked with transforming the organization into a “next generation ready” communications center, and with planning and implementing future innovations for the City’s 911 public safety system.
In March 2014, Captain Brillman was appointed and commissioned by the Governor and Maryland State Senate to the Maryland Emergency Number Systems Board, which coordinates policy and funds enhancements for 911 systems across the state.
For more than a decade, Captain Brillman has helped Baltimore maintain the highest level of readiness, protecting Baltimore’s citizens, workers, and visitors from the impacts of emergencies through his service with the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, where he was appointed from the field in 2006. Since that time, Captain Brillman managed many of Baltimore’s large-scale emergencies, including multiple hurricanes, record-breaking snow storms, earthquakes, and the catastrophic 2012 derecho, as well as multiple-alarm fires, mass evacuations and active shooter incidents. He has also led major event planning teams, coordinating preparation and response for some of Baltimore’s largest and historic special events, including Sailabration in 2012, which brought more than 1.5 million visitors to downtown Baltimore.
Prior to his appointment to 9-1-1, Captain Brillman also served as a paramedic and mentor with the Baltimore City Fire Department. He has maintained his paramedic certification and served as a Medical Specialist on Maryland’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (MD-TF2), twice deploying to assist New Orleans, for Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane Gustav. Just last year, Captain Brillman was again deployed with a multi-agency Incident Management Team (IMT) to assist in the response to hurricane Irma in the devastated Florida Keys.
Captain Brillman serves on multiple advisory committees as well as a director on the Boards of multiple non-profit organizations in Baltimore City, which he calls home. He received a B.S. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an M.S. in Management from the Johns Hopkins University, and is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM).
Scott L. Brillman MS,CEM, NREMT-P
Public Safety Advisor

Donald W. De Lucca
Public Safety Advisor
Chief De Lucca is a partner at V2 Global, where he heads up domestic risk consulting and international crisis management for the firm. He is a thirty-three-year law enforcement professional.
In August of 2014, he was appointed Chief of the City of Doral Florida Police Department. Doral is recognized as one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the Chief of the Golden Beach Police Department, a waterfront residential community in Northeast Miami-Dade County. Prior to joining Golden Beach, he served over twenty-six years with the Miami Beach Police Department.There he rose steadily through the ranks, becoming Chief of Police in 2001.
With the continued growth in the popularity of Miami Beach (South Beach) as the destination of choice for out of town and local visitors alike, Chief De Lucca was tasked with developing innovative plans for a steady stream of major events while balancing the needs of the residential population. To achieve this pivotal balance, Chief De Lucca focused on developing the department’s greatest resource – its people. He continued with this philosophy in Doral. By elevating the emphasis placed on top quality training throughout each employee’s career, the leaders of tomorrow’s law enforcement industry are developed today.
Chief De Lucca has a bachelor’s degree from Barry University and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Staff and Command where he was class president. He is a life member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police “IACP.” In 2013, he was elected 4th Vice President of the IACP which represents 32,000 law enforcement executives in over 160 countries. In 2016, he was sworn in as the 104th of the President of the IACP. He now serves as the Immediate Past President of the association.
Donald W. De Lucca
Public Safety Advisor

Francesca Dominici, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor
Dr. Francesca Dominici is a Professor of Biostatistics, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and Associate Dean of Information Technology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Dominici’s research focuses on the development of statistical methods for the analysis of large and complex data. She leads several interdisciplinary groups with the goal of addressing important questions in health policy, comparative effectiveness research, environmental health science, and climate change.
In her role as Senior Associate Dean for Research, Dr. Dominici oversees the School’s Office of Research Strategy and Development (ORSD) and leads ORSD’s flagship faculty grant-writing short course. In addition to her own extensive research program, Dr. Dominici has provided scientific leadership in the submission of numerous proposals designed to advance the University’s scientific innovation.
In her role as Associate Dean of Information Technology, Dr. Dominici has positioned the Chan School at the forefront of the Big Data revolution. Dr. Dominici worked closely with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to allow Chan School faculty, researchers, staff, and students to access the FAS Research Computing environment (Odyssey). Odyssey is Harvard’s largest supercomputer, spanning 9,641 square feet dedicated to compute. Access to Odyssey has transformed the research computing landscape at the Chan School, allowing faculty to pursue Big Data driven research that is pushing the frontiers of science.
Dr. Dominici was recently recognized in Reuter’s 2015 list of the most highly cited researchers, ranking in the top 1% of scientists cited in her field.
Dr. Dominici is the current chair of the Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty at the Chan School, illustrating her career-long commitment to promoting diversity in academia.
Francesca Dominici, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor

Joyce A. Bender
Medical & Academic Advisor
Joyce A. Bender is the founder and CEO of Bender Consulting Services, Inc., a firm that recruits and hires people with disabilities in the public and private sectors, who are trained in the information technology, engineering, finance/accounting, human resources, and general business areas. Bender partners with corporations and federal agencies in order to assist them with achieving their diversity and workforce inclusion initiatives across the U. S. and Canada.
In 1985, Joyce had a life-threatening accident due to epilepsy that caused a cerebral hemorrhage that required subsequent brain surgery. Against all odds, Joyce recovered from this accident that left her with a 60 percent hearing loss in one ear and a realization that she had epilepsy. As a result of her personal experience, she developed a passion for helping people with disabilities and established Bender Consulting Services, Inc. in September 1995.
Joyce is the immediate past-chair of the board of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and the former chair of the national Epilepsy Foundation board of directors. Joyce is a member of the 2013 Geneva College Advancement Board. She is a board member of the AAPD, the national Epilepsy Foundation, the Epilepsy Foundation of Western/Central Pennsylvania, Variety the Children’s Charity of Pittsburgh, and Volunteers of America of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Joyce is on the Board of Advisors for the Homeless Children’s Education Fund, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Carlow University, and a member of the National Advisory Group of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Awards received by Joyce Bender include the following:
- 2015 Volunteers of America Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2013 AAPD Justice for All Corporate Award
- 2013 Geneva Distinguished Service Award
- 2011 Epilepsy Foundation Hero of Epilepsy Award
- 2008 YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh Tribute to Women Award in the Entrepreneur Category
- 2008 Pittsburgh Business Times Diamond Award
- 2007 Achieva Sattler Humanitarian Award
- 2006 Easter Seals Distinguished Service Award
- 2005 UCP of Pittsburgh’s Gertrude Labowitz Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2003 Bush Administration’s New Freedom Initiative Award
- 1999 President’s Award, received from President Clinton at the White House, for her efforts in furthering the employment and empowerment of people with disabilities
Joyce has been featured in various periodicals including “Reader’s Digest”, “New York Times”, “Investor’s Business Daily”, “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette”, and “Chicago Tribune”. Ms. Bender holds a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Geneva College, and hosts the weekly radio show, “Disability Matters with Joyce Bender” on www.voiceamerica.com.
Joyce A. Bender
Medical & Academic Advisor

Mariusz Ziejewski, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor
Dr. Ziejewski is a Professor in the College of Engineering, and Director of the Impact Biomechanics Laboratory and of the Automotive Systems Laboratory, North Dakota State University (NDSU). He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine. His professional activities include research in mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) sponsored by agencies such as the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force and Army; and a member of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Collaboration Group on Human Brain Modeling and of the Biomechanical Brain Injury Evaluation research group at the MeritCare Trauma Center.
Dr. Ziejewski has chaired scientific peer review committees for the DoD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/Traumatic Brain Injury (PTSD/TBI) Research Program and has also been a reviewer for different DoD grant programs. He is the founding Chair of the North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) Blast Injury Institute (BII), Editor-in-Chief for NABIS Conferences and Proceedings, and the NABIS Chairperson.
He has presented at numerous national/ international governmental/non-governmental meetings, and has published three book chapters on brain and neck injury, and over eighty technical refereed articles.
Mariusz Ziejewski, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor

Scott Stern, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor
Scott Stern is currently the David Sarnoff Professor of Management and Chair of the Technological Innovation Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Stern examines how innovation and entrepreneurship differ from more traditional economic activities, and the consequences of these differences for strategy and policy. His research in the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship focuses on entrepreneurial strategy, innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems, and innovation policy and management. Recent studies include the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, the role of institutions in shaping the accumulation of scientific and technical knowledge, and the drivers and consequences of entrepreneurial strategy.
Stern has worked extensively with practitioners in bridging the gap between academic research and the practice of innovation and entrepreneurship. This includes advising start-ups and other growth firms in the area of entrepreneurial strategy, as well as working with governments and other stakeholders on policy issues related to competitiveness and regional performance. In recent years, Stern has developed a popular new MIT Sloan elective, Entrepreneurial Strategy, co-founded the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, advised the development of the Social Progress Index, and served as the lead MIT investigator on the US Cluster Mapping Project.
Stern began his career at MIT, where he taught from 1995 to 2001. Before returning to MIT in 2009, he held positions as a professor at the Kellogg School of Management and as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Stern is the director and co-founder of the Innovation Policy Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). At NBER, Stern focused his research on the impact of information technology on emergency healthcare outcomes and costs. In 2005, he was awarded the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship.
Stern holds a BA in economics from New York University and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
Scott Stern, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor

Scott Goldberg, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor
Dr. Goldberg is the EMS Director in the Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and an Instructor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as the Associate Medical Director at the Professional Ambulance (Pro EMS) and Pro EMS Center for MEDICS.
Dr. Goldberg brings significant experience in the practice, teaching, and leadership of emergency medicine. He has been active with Texas Task Force 2 Urban Search and Rescue in addition to being an operations level CONTOMS (Counter Narcotics & Terrorism Operational Medical Support) EMT-T. Prior to joining BWH, Dr. Goldberg held several leadership positions in EMS, including the Assistant Medical Director of Dallas Fire Rescue and several small suburban fire-based EMS systems.
Dr. Goldberg has published several medical papers on emergency care and response. His research interests include the improvement of EMS response and care, community paramedicine, and mobile integrated health.
Scott Goldberg, PhD
Medical & Academic Advisor

Preet Anand
Product Advisor
Preet Anand was the founder and CEO of Patronus – recently acquired by RapidSOS. Patronus was featured during The White House’s Smarter Cities initiative, helped save multiple lives, and was requested by students at over 700 campuses across the country. He recently created reportjohn.org in partnership with the City of Oakland as a first-of its kind way for community members to report sex trafficking.
Previously, he was the youngest Lead Product Manager in Zynga’s history. In college, he co-led Team California’s entry in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon home building competition – ultimately winning 3rd place internationally.
Preet Anand
Product Advisor

Henry Katz
Advisor
Henry is an accomplished software architect and development leader, bringing nearly 30 years of software, telecommunications, and VoIP experience to RapidSOS.
Before joining RapidSOS as the VP of Engineering, Henry founded Korrent Corporation – a disruptive Connected Health business. Henry recruited, assembled, and led his engineering team to create a connected health platform to help organizations and patients with disease management.
Prior to founding Korrent Corporation, Henry was a Software Architect and Senior Software Manager for Oracle. There, he was responsible for strategy, architecture, and development of mobile applications and secure communication services and products.
Henry joined Oracle after they were acquired by Acme Packet (for $2.1B) where Henry was an early employee who led several of Acme Packet’s key products in the VoIP space. Additionally, Henry was involved in architecture, design, and implementation of secure tunneling technologies and products, including highly scalable Servers and Client SDKs on Android, iOS, Windows, and more. Acme Packet was acquired by Oracle after a successful IPO.
Prior to Acme Packet, Henry was an early employee and VoIP pioneer at Starent Networks (a venture backed startup acquired by Cisco for $2.9B ). At Starent Networks, Henry developed the Fast Path system software for the distributed mobile data management platform that allows high speed mobile internet.
Prior to Starent Networks, Henry joined Lucent Technologies as a technical lead and manager after Lucent acquired Ignitus Communications (for $240M). Before the acquisition, Henry was a Sr. Software Engineer at Ignitus Communications where he developed a number of components of highly available system software.
Prior to Ignitus Communications, Henry was a Sr. Engineer at Synernetics and then at 3Com after 3Com acquired Synernetics. There, Henry worked on Network Microprocessor/ASIC development – the largest and most advanced Network Processing Chipset at the time. The CoreBuilder 3500 (switch/router) has brought in more than $300M of direct revenue.
Prior to 3Com, Henry was a Senior Engineer at C-Port Corporation (a venture backed startup acquired by Motorola) where he worked on the industry leading programmable Network Processor, Compiler and SDK.
Prior to C-Port, Henry worked as an Engineer at Data General where he developed operating software for the highly scalable NUMA computer architecture products.
Henry has a MSc and BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and a BSc in Mathematics from Gomel Technical University where he authored scientific papers in the area of Large System Stability. Henry has many patents pending for VOIP, Lawful Intercept, Security, FIPS, DISA, and Call Recording technologies in the U.S. and internationally.
Henry Katz
Advisor
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