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Management
Jasper Wireless is led by veterans from both the wireless and Internet software industries:
- Danny Shader, CEO
- Jahangir Mohammed, Founder and Chairman
- Daniel Collins, CTO Wireless
- Amit Gupta, CTO Services
- Cindy Patterson, Executive Vice President - Sales and Marketing
- Jack McGwire, Vice President - Operations and IT
- Ric Murray, Vice President - Business Development
- Scott Barkley, Vice President - Products
Danny Shader, Chief Executive Officer
Danny has been working at the intersection of mobility and the Internet for twenty years.
He joined Jasper Wireless from Motorola, where he served as a corporate vice president following Motorola’s acquisition of Good Technology, which he led as CEO and president since 2000. Good created the standards-based corporate wireless messaging market. Prior to Good Technology, Danny co-founded and served as CEO of Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer, Internet-based, payment services provider, which amazon.com acquired and where he served as a vice president. Danny has also held executive positions at Netscape Communications and Collabra Software, and began his technology career at Go Corporation, a pioneer in mobile computing.
Danny earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Jahangir Mohammed, Founder and Chairman
Jahangir founded Jasper Wireless in 2004 and serves as the company’s chairman.
Prior to founding Jasper Wireless, Jahangir served as the CEO of Kineto Wireless, a company he founded. Kineto pioneered the convergence of WiFi and Cellular technologies. Kineto’s technology has become a world standard which has been deployed by GSM carriers in numerous countries. He continues to serve on the Board of Kineto.
Previously, Jahangir worked on a variety of engineering management and product development roles at Philips, AT&T Bell laboratories and Nortel.
Daniel Collins, Chief Technology Officer - Wireless
Daniel is a 20 year veteran of the wireless communications industry. Daniel began his career at Ericsson, where he worked in product development and product management roles and helped develop some of the world’s earliest GSM networks. He played a key role in the adaptation of GSM standards for use in North America and a major contributor to the launch of some of the earliest GSM networks in NA.
Daniel also served as an independent consultant for many years on 2.5G, 3G and IP technologies to tier one service providers around the world. In particular, Daniel was retained for eighteen months by AT&T Wireless as Chief Network Architect for the design and deployment of AT&T Wireless’s nationwide GSM/GPRS network. Daniel also worked with Alcatel North America as Vice President of Fixed Mobile Convergence and was responsible for Alcatel North America’s convergence strategies and solutions.
Daniel is the author of Carrier Grade Voice over IP, and co-author of 3G Wireless Networks, both published by McGraw-Hill.
Amit Gupta, Chief Technology Officer - Services
Amit Gupta has been working with computer networks for the last 16 years. Most recently Amit co-founded Andale – the leading provider of services for sellers on eBay and other marketplaces – and served as its CTO/CSO for more than five years. At Andale, he was responsible for designing the high-availability architecture of the Andale services from inception. He also designed innovative solutions to scale up Andale to serve over 500 million transactions/day and over 200 Mbps.
Amit obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley, where his research focused on providing performance guarantees for packet-switching networks. He also spent over three years at Sun Labs, where his work included distributed systems for fault-tolerant web services and virtual overlay networks. He has over 25 patents issued in distributed systems, and network security.
Cindy Patterson, Executive Vice President - Sales and Marketing
Cindy has 20 years of experience in the wireless industry. Most recently, she built and led the Enterprise Data direct and indirect sales channels at Verizon Wireless, responsible for deploying business applications at Fortune 1000, Global 500 and Federal Government customers in the United States. Previously, Cindy was President of the Central Texas market for Verizon Wireless where she launched the Verizon Wireless brand and the 3G data network and led all sales channels including retail, indirect and business-to-business.
Cindy’s mobile network operator experience started with GTE-TSI (now Syniverse) where she led market entry into EMEA and Latin America. She also served as the Marketing Director for GTE Wireless in San Diego. Cindy started her wireless career with Motorola where she built and deployed a wide range of hardware, software and services to customers throughout North America, EMEA, Latin America and APAC.
Cindy earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Michigan State University and an MBA from DePaul University - Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
Jack McGwire, Vice President - Operations and IT
Jack has been specializing in Information Technology and Operations for mission critical applications for twenty years. Most recently, Jack was V.P. of Operations and I.T. for Open Harbor, an ASP solution that automated international trade for DHL, Flextronics, Tyco, and other such firms. Before Open Harbor, Jack was Director of Technical Services for eBay and led the redevelopment of eBay's operations and technology to establish scalability and reliability. Prior to eBay, Jack held IT executive positions in semiconductor companies such as AMD and VLSI Technology with a special emphasis on highly reliable factory automation.
Jack holds a BSE degree from Princeton University.
Ric Murray, Vice President - Business Development
Ric has 22 years in the wireless industry at the carrier level. Ric comes to Jasper Wireless from Cingular Wireless and SBC, Inc., now AT&T. In his former position, Ric served as Vice President – National Wholesale for Cingular Wireless where he led development and operations of Cingular’s wholesale MVNO business. Prior to this role, Ric was head of Emerging Channels responsible for the development and support of new distribution channels including wholesale MVNO, national prepaid, telematics and indirect e-commerce.
Before joining Cingular at its inception, Ric spent seven years in SBC’s international group where he last served as Director for International Business Development. During this time he was Head of Sales & Marketing for the second license start-up in Switzerland and a member of the start-up team at SFR in France assigned to the sales and distribution group.
Ric holds a BSBA – Accountancy from the University Of Central Florida School Of Accounting and holds a CPA certification from the state of Florida.
Scott Barkley, Vice President - Products
Scott has been working in the enterprise software application industry for the last 8 years. Most recently, Scott held the position of Director of Products at Siebel Systems responsible for two emerging product categories in the Life Science vertical: Customer Data Integration (CDI) and Incentive Compensation Management (ICM). Over his tenure at Siebel, he held various marketing positions across multiple product categories and spent one year in Sales, closing early adopter deals with such clients as Astra Zeneca, Cisco, Nike, Kraft and Boeing. Prior to Siebel, Scott served as the Director of Business Development for a wireless test management software vendor; delivering partnership deals including Tekelec, Inet, and Spirent.
Scott has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business where he was a Wade Fetzer Scholar; and a B.A. from Princeton University.