Formed in 2004 and based in Swindon, UK, Ubiquisys develops convergence solutions that enable mobile operators to speed up and fully benefit from fixed mobile substitution.
Chris Gilbert, CEO Chris has a formidable track record in the communications industry. As CEO at IPWireless, he transformed the company from a niche, wireless broadband player into a mainstream cellular provider. The company was a Red Herring Top 100 Private Company, an Always On Top Innovator and was awarded Network Magazine Wireless Product of the Year.
Previously Chris had held senior roles with Motorola where he managed the company's cellular infrastructure business in some 60 EMEA countries.
Will Franks, Founder & CTO Will co-founded Ubiquisys in 2004 inspired by his frustrations of poor mobile coverage and high mobile costs at home. Prior to this, he developed the hugely successful wireless innovation centres for Lucent Technologies – inventing and developing innovative solutions based on cellular, WiFi and IMS technologies. He also led Lucent’s EMEA business development for fixed wireless.
Previously Will was with Racal Electronics' radio division where he held a number of key positions including head of their Saudi Arabian operation. More recently Will pioneered the creation of the Femto Forum to bring direction and a voice to this fledgling industry.
Steve Dunn, CFO Steve joined Ubiquisys from Openwave Systems Inc (NASDAQ: OPWV) where he was Vice President, International Finance. In this role Steve was responsible for supporting the business in over 20 legal entities outside the Americas, among his responsibilities successfully managing the Financial Integration of multiple international acquisitions. Prior to Openwave, Steve was EMEA Finance Director at 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) before which he held progressively senior roles at Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL) in both the USA and the UK. With over 30 years experiencein High Tech, Steve brings broad international financial and commercial experience to Ubiquisys.
Len Schuch, Founder & VP Business Development Len brings a wealth of operational, financial and international business development expertise from the mobile industry. Prior to co-founding Ubiquisys, he has worked for and consulted to top tier operators including Orange, Vodafone, BT and MTN in Europe, Asia Pacific and MEA.
Len has honed his entrepreneurial skills via three major start-ups, two of which were mobile operations. His most recent experience includes directing the launch of the 3G start-up in Luxembourg for Orange and before that, managing the Vodafone Ventures VC fund for the Vodafone Group.
Pete Keevill, Founder & VP Engineering Pete is an experienced technical leader with a proven track record in the delivery of complex development programmes in the wireless and semiconductor sectors. Pete was 11 years at Lucent Technologies where, as Technical Director, he had global responsibility for Lucent’s UMTS base station ASIC development activity, co-ordinating a multi-disciplinary engineering team of around 100 people in five countries.
Prior to the UMTS position, Pete was a project leader for a CDMA fixed wireless product. More recently, he has been successfully running his own consultancy and has also developed a successful conference business focused on the base station market. Before Lucent, Pete led a digital TV silicon design team for Pioneer, and has worked in a variety of roles in the EDA software industry. Pete holds a MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath.
John Evans, MBE,VP Operations John is a pivotal figure in consumer electronics manufacturing, with over 30 years’ top-level experience, and is leading the company’s drive to mass production.
Before joining Ubiquisys, John was VP Global Operations for Thomson’s Set Top Box Business Unit, where he led the company’s global manufacturing strategy.
Previously, John was Managing Director of Grundig UK, responsible for the design, manufacture and distribution of digital set top boxes. Under his leadership, Grundig became the number one supplier of digital set top boxes to Sky, and the developed and manufactured the first FreeView box in the UK.
In 2004 he received an MBE for services to the electronics industry.
Richard Staveley, VP Sales Richard has 13 years management experience in sales and marketing roles in the military & telecommunications industry. Before Ubiquisys, he worked for IPWireless as VP sales & business development and Motorola as business development director, Global Accounts.
Richard earned his MBA from the University of Bath Business School and his BA from King’s College London. After King’s College, Richard attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst where he completed officer training.
Keith Day, VP Marketing Keith has 20 years’ marketing leadership experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, spanning software, hardware, managed services and outsourcing.
Before joining Ubiquisys, Keith was Director of Product Marketing for UK telecoms software pioneer Cramer Systems, where he was responsible for business positioning and communications worldwide. In 2006 Cramer was acquired by Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) in one of biggest ever deals involving a European software business.
Previously, Keith was EMEA Marketing Director at Unisys (NYSE: UIS) and European Regional Marketing Director at BMC Software (NYSE: BMC).
Non-executive directors Patrick Gallagher – Chairman Patrick Gallagher is currently Vice Chairman of Golden Telecom Inc, a leading provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in Russia and the CIS. He is Chairman and Member of the Board at Macro4 plc, and is also on the Board of Harmonic Inc. Previous positions include Executive Vice Chairman and CEO at FLAG Telecom Group and President of BT Europe.
Scott Kauffman Scott was President and Chief Operating Officer of BlueLithium, a leading data driven performance marketing company, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007. He also served as President and CEO of several Silicon Valley start-up companies, including Zinio Inc., one of the biggest global online publishing and distribution services company, with divisions focusing on digital magazine and book publishing, and AdKnowledge, one of the internet industry’s first third-party ad servers. Kauffman currently sits on the boards of MDC Partners (NASDAQ:MDCA), Coremetrics Inc. and Zango Inc.
Graham O'Keeffe – Atlas Venture Graham O'Keeffe joined Atlas Venture in 1998 where he focuses on investments in the semiconductor and wireless sectors. Previous positions include Product Marketing Director Psion Computers and engineering & operational roles at Nokia.
Martin McNair – Advent Venture Partners Martin joined Advent Venture Partners in 1999 after 12 years at technology venture capital fund manager MTI. He has almost 20 years board level experience in telecoms, semiconductor, wireless technology, networking and software development companies.
Kaj-Erik Relander – Accel Partners Kaj-Erik joined Accel Partners in June 2001. Previous positions include President and CEO of Sonera Corporation, the progressive Finnish telecommunications company and Director of Business Development at SITRA, a Finnish technology investment company.
