| The New Breed Wireless Team | ||||
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Brian Carlton Byrd - Founder, President & CEO |
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Stefano Sales - Vice President of Design
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Dave Lee - Vice President of Digital Marketing and Social Media.
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Sean Welch - Director of Business Development |
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| Advisors | ||||
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Nevin Grinnell - Chief Marketing Officer Nevin is a graduate of the University of North Carolina's Business School and Morehouse College. He is currently the Director of Innovation for Carbonated Soft Drinks for Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages. In this capacity Mr. Grinnell is in charge of innovation totaling $300M in annual sales. Previously Mr. Grinnell served as Director of Marketing for the Dr Pepper Brand and 7 UP brands respectively, managing over $2B in retail sales. In these capacities, Mr. Grinnell was in charge of managing all consumer brand/activity for Dr Pepper and 7 UP including development of long term strategic plans, national promotions, and new advertising campaigns for 2004/2005. Prior to Cadbury Schweppes, Mr. Grinnell served as a product manager at Pepsico's Frito Lay unit for several snack food brands including Totstitos Tortilla Chips, and Lay's Potato Chips. He was also responsible for Frito Lay's summer Olympics promotion in 1996. |
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Staale Engen - Technology Leader Mr. Engen is the CTO of Xeed, our technology team headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Our product is delivered utilizing systems developed by Xeed and the Umbraco Content Management system. The system Xeed has developed is a flexible, scaleable and maintainable system which enables us to offer leading edge products, utilize and accommodate all of the various wireless technologies and to grow with our customers. Xeed has 12 employees - 5 dedicated to CEIG as needed - and over the last 4 years they have secured contracts with customers such as Barclays Bank, Tandberg and GlaxoSmithKline in Europe. Competing in the market with heavyweight competitors such as DNB (The Norwegian Bank), and other large firms, they secured in 2000 the contract to develop a net-based payment system used today by all the major Norwegian TV channels and newspapers. They continue to win significant business in Norway and England. |
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| Geordie Macaveney, Technology Advisor-System Architecture is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently President of Selective Technology Consultants which is involved in various projects including: providing technology services to Admeld, a successful web publisher yield optimization company. Mr. Mcaveny Provided strategy consulting and Technology Management for a video advertising venture and has been doing software development for 20+ years. | ||||
| Directors | ||||
| Brian Carlton Byrd(see above) | ||||
| James J. Burke, Jr., Partner, Stonington Partner and J.Burke Capital, two private equity firms with investments in various industries. Jim is on the board of Ann Taylor, Lincoln Education Services, and was on the board of Brown University and various other institutions. Prior to Stonington Partners he was the head of the LBO group at Merrill Lynch. Jim is a graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Business School. He is an investor in New Breed Wireless. | ||||
| Frank Marsala, CFA Frank is a Technology Research analyst at Gartner Research. Previously, he was a wireless equity analyst at First Albany Corporation. He is an investor in New Breed Wireless. Prior to that he was a wireless equity analyst at Robertson-Stephens., ING Barings and Gerard Klauer Mattison (GKM) Prior to that he spent 12 years as Director of Business Planning and Reporting for Bell Atlantic's (now Verizon Communications) global wireless portfolio. |
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