Management Team

Daniel Ash – Director and President, CEO, COO

Dan brings 20 years wireless industry experience including extensive leadership and management in new product development, manufacturing & test engineering, off-shore manufacturing, and global operations.

During the course of his career, Dan has successfully transferred more than 100 electronic products from engineering stage to high volume commercial manufacturing off shore. Previously, he served for eight years as senior executive at Powerwave Technologies, an $800 million RF booster & antenna manufacturer, including Senior Director of Contract Mfg. & Operations, Senior Director of New Product Introduction, Director of Supplier Quality and Director of Supply Chain Commodity Management.

During his tenure, Dan was instrumental in the company’s growth from $200 million to more than $800 million in revenue. He patented a revolutionary PCB/pallet lamination process providing Powerwave a major competitive advantage and used in more than one million boosters. Prior, Dan served for eight years with Hewlett Packard in several engineering management positions. There, he was responsible for transferring RF mobile phone booster modules to high volume production in Malaysia, ramping production to more than one million boosters per month.

Earlier, Dan began his career in defense electronics with companies including Teledyne, Avantek and Narda (now L-3), and is a widely recognized expert in millimeter wave electronics.

Kevin F. Pickard – Chief Financial Officer

Kevin brings more than 20 years experience as a certified public accountant providing publicly traded companies with auditing and financial management expertise ranging from accounting and SEC reporting to mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.

Kevin has served since 1998 as a principal officer and owner of Pickard & Green CPAs (formerly Pickard & Company, CPAs), an accounting firm he founded that specializes in providing SEC accounting and other financial management consulting services for small to medium sized companies. These services include preparing public company SEC filings, due diligence on potential acquisitions, financial projection and business plan preparation, company restructuring as well as positioning companies for initial public offerings.

Previously, Kevin was a Partner with Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein, where he co managed the firm’s securities practice group.

Earlier, he spent over nine years with Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he focused on auditing companies in the high tech and manufacturing industries.

Kevin holds both a Bachelors of Science and a Masters degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.

John Shaw – Corporate Communications Director

John Shaw brings more than 20 years experience as a corporate communications professional directing investor, public and media relations for companies ranging from venture-stage to publicly traded mid cap companies.

He has owned a corporate communications consultancy since 2001 working with a number of private and publicly held technology companies. In the ten years prior, John held VP – CorpComm officer roles at publicly traded companies such as Loudeye Technologies (Nasdaq), as well as privately owned venture capital firms (and their portfolio companies) including Digital Media Campus.

Previously, he consulted to a variety of emerging-growth companies, serving for five years with two of the world’s most respected financial public relations firms, the Financial Relations Board (now part of IPG) and Sitrick and Company.

Prior to becoming a management consultant, John was a stockbroker with E.F. Hutton, an award-winning journalist at a Gannett newspaper, on-air reporter/anchor for a CBS Television News affiliate, and reporter for The San Diego Business Journal.

Earlier, he served as a Captain and Communications Officer in the United States Marine Corps, and received his M.A. in Management from Webster University, St. Louis.

Norman W. Collins, Sr.– Director

Norman brings over 30 years experience as an attorney, and corporate executive, to include corporate governance. Presently he is President of Collins & Associates, a Delaware corporation providing consulting services to corporations as well as legal services in the form of mediation and arbitration of corporate disputes.

Prior positions include director and CEO of several developmental or emerging growth companies.

Norman is admitted to the Tennessee Bar and serves as an Arbitrator for the National Arbitration Forum. He is also a Certified Mediator in Georgia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. He holds a B. S. in Business Administration from Trine University and a J.D. from Michigan State University, College of Law.

Barry M. George - Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Barry M. George has spent the last 28 years helping to define the personal computing and IT industries including executive leadership in start up and Global 200 companies. Barry has built successful sales and marketing organizations as a Valued Added Reseller, vendor of network solutions and provider of Professional Services. Most recently, he provided leadership to the mobile division of Toshiba supporting Fortune 500 accounts and their resellers from 2004 through 2008. These strategic accounts included Microsoft, Oracle, Toyota, Proctor and Gamble, Cerner Healthcare and Edward Jones to name just a few.

Barry has provided executive leadership at SMC Networks as General Manager of the Americas and at D-Link systems as Executive Vice President. At D-Link, he was responsible for creating the D-Link brand, sales, marketing and distribution growing from $7 million into a $480 company and a successful IPO in 1994. In addition to his experience running hardware technology companies, Barry joined Siemens in 1999 as General Manager of its California IT Services group. Barry rebuilt the team of 300 into a profitable provider of Y2K projects, data farm consolation and other professional services resulting in $106 million in service contracts.

Barry received his Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco. He is involved in various community projects including job retraining and counseling. Barry lives in Foothill Ranch, California, has been married to Evy for 27 years and has three grown daughters and two dogs. Read more about Barry to http://www.linkedin.com/in/barrymgeorge or follow him on Facebook:BarryGeorge, Twitter:@barrymgeorge.

Don Wright - Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Wright has more than 30 years successful experience as a founder, CEO and strategic consultant to start-up and emerging-growth companies in the technology industry. Prior, Mr. Wright founded Everett, WA-based Pacific Aerospace & Electronics, (PA&E) in 1991 and served as CEO until 2006 for this provider of patented and propriety manufactured components to the aerospace / defense, telecommunications and medical industries. There, he built the company from $3 million in sales to over $110 million in five years through organic growth and strategic acquisition. PA&E was heavily involved in microwave technology for the radar, satellite and telecommunications markets, and was subsequently sold to a large France-based manufacturer.

Earlier, Mr. Wright founded Component Concepts, Inc. (CCI) in 1976 and served as CEO until 1990. He grew this Everett, WA-based provider of parts, equipment and testing service to the semi conductor industry, whose key clients included Boeing and the U.S. Government, from start up to three divisions in Seattle and Los Angeles. The company was subsequently sold to a group of private investors.