Advisory Board

Erin M. Defossé: Erin Defossé is the Director of ATI Wireless, the wireless business acceleration program of the Austin Technology Incubator at The University of Texas at Austin. He is responsible for identifying promising early stage companies, admitting them into the ATI, and providing them with the necessary strategic guidance to help them achieve their growth objectives. Erin works closely with companies across a variety of areas in information technology and has a special focus on those that deliver products and/or services using wireless technology. Erin previously spent seven years as the co-founder and chief technology officer of Isochron Data Corporation, a provider of wireless data communication and enterprise software solutions for the management of remote devices and equipment. Prior to Isochron, Erin co-founded and was President of Navtrax, a developer of wireless tracking systems, and spent over five years as a spacecraft mission designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Erin is currently a co-founder of Babble Soft, LLC, a web and mobile software solution provider, and serves on the boards of Affinegy, RF Micron, Wimax.com, eZee, and the Austin Technology Council. He also is the Chairman of the Austin Wireless Alliance, the wireless industry association of Central Texas. Erin holds an MBA and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Vincent Vu: Vincent Vu was most recently was EVP, Technology Development & Operations, Clearwire. Before Clearwire, he served as the Vice President of Technology Development at AMP'D Mobile (a MVNO). Prior to Amp'd Mobile, Vincent co-founded a consulting services company, Alpha Software Consulting, Inc., which specializes in providing billing and customer care services. He reinvented the company from service-oriented to a software product company, Sentori, Inc., which specializes in billing and customer care software solutions. The company's products are used by various wireless operators, including Sprint PCS, to support wireless resellers. Vincent successfully raised $9 million venture capital for Sentori, Inc., and served as Chairman of the board, and President and CEO of Sentori. Sentori was later acquired by MIND CTI Ltd. of Israel (Nasdaq: MNDO). Vincent holds a master's degree in computer and electrical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University.

Tung Bui: Tung Bui was most recently an Executive Director at T-Mobile (a MNO). Prior to T-Mobile, Tung was the Executive Director of PCS Development & Technical Operations for VoiceStream Wireless. In 1995, Tung joined Western Wireless as Director of Engineering and Operations to develop and promote second generation cellular technology (Western Wireless spun off VoiceStream Wireless, and sold itself to Alltel later. VoiceStream was later sold to Deutsche Telekom and rebranded as T-Mobile). Tung received his Juris Doctorate from Lewis and Clark Law School in 1994 and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University (OSU) in 1988. After earning his BSEE, Tung joined US West Communications and held a number of high-capacity design positions in the fiber-optic build-out for Oregon and southwest Washington. In 1994, after Tung received his Juris Doctorate Law degree, he joined the US West corporate team in Denver as the Director of Technology Planning. In 1994, in conjunction with representatives of Intel, Tektronix, and members of the OSU Electrical Engineering faculty, he helped establish OSU's Modern Communications Center. Tung received the Distinguished Recent Alumni Award from the College of Engineering in 1995.

Eric Simone: Eric Simone has over twenty years of experience in the computer industry. He founded Compete, Inc. in 1994 along with two other IBM colleagues. Compete focused on providing consulting services for IBM’s WebSphere brand of software products. While Eric served as President and CTO, Compete grew to over $12MM in revenues, and was sold to Perficient, Inc. (PRFT NASDAQ) for $60MM in May 2000. The acquisition of Compete introduced the IBM relationship to Perficient, a core component of their business today. Mr. Simone served as a Director of Perficient before founding ClearBlade in 2007. Mr. Simone graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1988. Eric is also an active venture capital and angel investor.

Karen Brailean: Ms. Brailean's professional history spans 20 years, focused on wireless communications and video. Her last position was the President & CEO of Perseus Wireless, Inc., a video security application service provider. Previously, she served as COO of Perseus Wireless, Inc., VP Marketing of mobile video products for Alcatel, and as VP Marketing for PacketVideo, a pioneer in video software for cell phones. Ms. Brailean also held engineering and marketing positions with Motorola, Hughes Aircraft and Eastman Kodak. She holds eight patents on mobile communications. She received her BSEE from Purdue University; her MSEE from University of Southern California; and her MBA from the University of Chicago.

 

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