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.

Dietmar has 40 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, working in a variety of sales and sales management positions including direct and indirect sales responsibilities.

Dietmar began his career at Hewlett Packard, where he was in Computer Sales for the Germany Series HP3000. During his twelve years at HP he achieved numerous sales commendations. After HP, Dietmar became a Sales Engineer CAE at Tektronix, where he sold CAE and Design Verification software.

Most recently, Dietmar worked at TeleSys Software, Inc. as an Account Manager for the Nokia Siemens Network account in Munich. At TeleSys, Dietmar helped build the relationship with Nokia Siemens for Signaling Gateways (Sigtran) / Media Gateway in the Platform Business Line.

Prior to TeleSys, Dietmar was at Ulticom, Inc., as a Global Account Manager for the Siemens account. He conducted worldwide account business for signaling software for Intelligent Networks (IN) like Prepaid Mobile (Advantage), HLR, GMLC, SMLC, RNC, and Softswitch HiQ8000.

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.

Roger has more than 20 years experience in the telecom and IT industries with an emphasis on selling wireless services and technology into new accounts.

Roger, a graduate of St. John Technical Institute in St. John, New Brunswick, spent more than a decade in operations, engineering and management roles with the New Brunswick Telephone Company before joining Northern Telecom Canada in 1979. He transferred to Richardson Texas in 1987 as vice president of cellular sales and marketing for Northern Telecom and was instrumental in nurturing that business from start up to a multimillion- dollar-a-year opportunity.

In his most recent position as general manager for the Americas at jNetX, Inc., Roger was responsible for all sales and strategic alliances of next-generation IMS service layer platform for North America and South America. He assisted in Carrier RFI and RF responses with IBM, Sun and Stratus Computing. He authored the complete sales and technical courses on convergent networks and the evolution to IMS.

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.

Staffan brings over 33 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has held several senior management positions for companies based in the U.S., Spain, the Middle East, Latin America and Sweden.

Staffan began his career at Ericsson, where he worked for almost 25 years, most recently serving as Vice President for Ericsson's CyberLab in Silicon Valley. Currently, Staffan is the Founder of LeapHead Communications, a telecommunications consulting company.

Staffan earned an Executive MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He also earned a Management & Finance degree from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

Thomas comes to Cirries with twenty years of experience in engineering, technical support, business development and sales management in Telecom, IT, Avionics, Military and Industrial applications.

After spending almost a decade at Ericsson both in Sweden and the US in various positions, Thomas spent a couple of years at Joslyn Electronics (a Danaher Company) where he was involved with account management for surge protection devices.

For almost eight years at Ulticom, a premier signaling solutions company, he was involved in global account management and business development with major OEMs.

Danny has over ten years of marketing experience in the telecommunications industry.

Danny began his career at ipNetfusion where he developed marketing collateral and was responsible for all of the technical documentation, which he developed and tested for domestic and international market segments in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Danny left ipNetfusion to serve as a Marketing Analyst for The Telespan Group, where he developed marketing and sales presentations as well as business development services for major telecommunications companies.

Most recently, Danny served as a Product Marketing Manager for jNetX, Inc., where he helped establish numerous marketing plans and initiatives in North America, Europe and Asia.