Rick Aguirre is a telecommunications industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience advancing emerging technologies from concept to market-leading solutions across carrier, enterprise, and cloud ecosystems. His career spans the evolution of communications—from legacy voice networks to 5G, cloud, and AI-driven network intelligence.
Rick began his career at Nortel Networks, where he played a key role in building the company's wireless division through strategic partnerships, large-scale deployments, and early mobility innovation. He later held senior leadership positions at SCS Mobilecom (acquired by InterDigital), jNetX, and Protek Limited, helping each organization commercialize advanced networking and communications technologies.
Rick has led the Cirries' transformation into a pioneer of network observability and AI-powered network intelligence. Under his leadership, Cirries developed DART AI, a next-generation platform that converts packet-level data into real-time, contextual insights for benchmarking, reachability, and observability across hybrid-cloud, AWS, edge, and mobile environments. DART AI's integration with Amazon Bedrock enables advanced reasoning, automated root-cause analysis, and intelligent remediation workflows—moving network operations from reactive troubleshooting to predictive and autonomous outcomes.
Rick is recognized for his ability to bridge deep technical innovation with go-to-market execution, guiding startups through product definition, partner ecosystems, AWS Marketplace strategies, and enterprise and carrier adoption. His work continues to shape how operators and enterprises manage high-velocity data, assure service quality, and scale resilient networks across 5G, IoT, and cloud-native architectures.
