Rick has 26 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has a successful record of developing start up companies that have emerging, industry-changing technologies.

Rick began his career at Datapoint Corporation's Integrated Electronic Office Systems Group. He joined Northern Telecom (Nortel Networks) in 1983 and spent eight years in engineering, product management and sales and marketing management positions. At Northern Telecom he served as director of cellular sales and later was named director, strategic marketing in the newly formed Wireless Systems Division. Rick was instrumental in forging relationships with Qualcomm and PacTel Cellular, moving Nortel to premier wireless vendor status.

Most recently, Rick served as vice president, product management and marketing for jNetX, Inc., and as vice president and general manager of Protek Limited's Americas Group.

Rick earned a Master of Science degree from the Electrical Engineering school at Southern Methodist University (SMU). His undergraduate degree is from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Gary is the former CEO and founder of IEX Corporation where he directed the development of software for telecommunications products and systems for more than 30 years. Gary has served telecommunications companies as Designer, Architect, Chief Technical Officer, President, and CEO. He earned a Bachelor's and a Master's of Science degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and holds seven patents.

Tom has spent more than 35 years in the telecommunications industry, the past 25 of which have been focused in the area of software development. Tom has a proven track record in the industry of developing successful companies and products and seeing them through from concept to commercial realization to investor exit.

Tom started his first company in 1978, DMR, a billing software and consulting firm. In 1982, Ericsson became an investor and joint venture partner in DMR with Tom remaining as the CEO of the new company, DMR Ericsson Programmatic. Ericsson eventually acquired 100 percent of the company, which became Ericsson's first successful investment in the U.S. market.

In the 1990s, Tom began consulting on various telecom projects, including Millicom, a NASDAQ listed mobile telecom company in the former Soviet Union. During the same period of time he started a small telecommunications company in Texas. Tom moved to Moscow full-time to help a developing billing software company, Flagship TeleSystems. As the COO, Tom guided the company to a viable commercial product that is today used by more than 40 wireless telecom providers in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia.