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Management Team

Kevin A. Wood - President and CEO

Kevin  A. Wood has more than 15 years of executive management experience in technology companies. Before joining Airwide Solutions, Kevin was the founder and president of Wood & Company, LLC an advisory and investment firm focused on emerging, high-tech companies.

Prior to founding Wood & Company, Kevin was the President, Americas for Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology (CMVT). Kevin spent 12 years with Comverse, and predecessor company Boston Technology, in a variety of senior sales, marketing and general management roles.  During his tenure, he played a critical role in growing the company's revenue to over $1.2 billion. Kevin is a graduate with distinction from George Washington University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow. Additionally, he has completed extensive executive education at Georgetown University and Harvard Business School.

Wood serves on the board of advisors of several emerging growth companies in the communications industry including Soma Networks, and sits on the Advisory Board of the New England Hi-Tech Charity Foundation

Kevin Wood - CEO Airwide Solutions

 

John M. Weaver - Chief Operating Officer

John Weaver has extensive experience in business operations, strategic planning, business measurements and integration of merging organizations.

Before joining Airwide Solutions, John was President and COO of Accensus, a business start up focused on integrated voice and data network services.

Prior to leading Accensus, Weaver held a number of executive positions in business operations at Comverse Technology. He was the lead executive in the US for the execution of the very successful merger between Boston Technology and Comverse in 1998. While at Boston Technology, he led the Operations, Customer Support, Training, IT, Quality and New Products organizations and was intrumental in growing the company from less than $90M in sales to over $300M. John started his career in operation roles at General Electric and Digital Equipment Corporation.

He has led two successful ISO 9001 certifications and two large-scale successful MRP/ERP implementations.
John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Notre Dame and has master credits in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
John is a graduate of the General Electric Manufacturing Management Program.

John M. Weaver - COO Airwide Solutions

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Jay Seaton - Chief Marketing Officer

Jay Seaton has extensive experience in all aspects of global marketing, including corporate and product marketing, as well as channel development, product management and business development. His experience spans software, services, networking, telecom and application development segments.

Prior to joining Airwide Solutions, Jay served as CMO for GlassHouse Technologies, a leader in storage services. Previously Jay served as Vice President of Global Marketing for NaviSite, and was part of the team that grew NaviSite from startup to become the 15th most successful IPO of 1999, with revenues in excess of $100M. Jay's prior experience also includes senior marketing and sales roles with Sockeye Networks, Banyan Systems, DAVID Systems and AT&T. Jay is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Internet Professionals.

Jay Seaton - CMO Airwide Solutions

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Jim Jordan - Chief Financial Officer

Jim Jordan has extensive financial experience in software, professional services, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and helping companies launch and develop financial systems and controls. Jordan has worked extensively with high-growth companies to maximize their venture capital investments, and this experience is expected to play a crucial role in Airwide's growth strategy.

Prior to joining Airwide, Jordan served as CFO for several companies, including GlassHouse Technologies, BIT9, Verrillon, Ntru and ArsDigita Corporation. Previously he held a variety of financial management positions at Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Jordan holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Boston College.

Jim Jordan - CFO Airwide Solutions

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Terry McCabe - Chief Technology Officer

Prior to Airwide, Terry McCabe held senior positions at Sema Group, including Vice President of Engineering and CTO.  In these roles McCabe oversaw Software Architecture, Research & Development, and Product Management in Europe and North America. These roles focused on messaging, prepaid, and value-added service applications, primarily based on wireless mobile network technologies. Terry led the company's participation in a number of standards organizations including the WAP Forum, the SMS Forum and TIA.

Previously, Terry spent eight years with Digital Equipment working in Realtime Solutions, Telecommunications, and Software usability. During his tenure, he worked on a number of Open Systems interoperability initiatives established by the European Workshop on Open Systems (EWOS).

Terry graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Terry McCabe - VP Product Development Airiwde Solutions

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Carolyn Turner - Vice President - Human Resources

Prior to joining Airwide, Carolyn Turner held a range of positions at Sema Group. After obtaining a technical grounding in IT development, she held several management and consultancy positions before specializing in staff management. She has held a variety of positions spanning the many different elements of personnel and staff management, including the position of recruitment and resources manager for Sema Group's Initial Messaging unit. Carolyn holds a Bachelor of Science.

Carolyn Turner - VP Human Resources Airwide Solutions

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Andrew Wyse - Vice President of Global Sales

Prior to joining Airwide, Wyse served at Unisys as head of the Telco practice for EMEA before heading a European start-up as CEO. Previously, Wyse served in various senior sales and product management roles at Ericsson, worked with major mobile network operators and ultimately became managing director of an Ericsson U.K. business unit. Wyse graduated with an honors degree in electrical engineering and has completed a global executive management program that included courses at Columbia University.

Andrew Wise - VP Global Sales Airwide Solutions