Tom Gill
Chairman and Co-Founder

Tom served as a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of FORE Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of high-speed networking equipment. He also served as FORE’s Chief Operating Officer, prior to which he served as the Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, beginning in 1993. He also serves on the board of several privately held technology firms. Currently, Tom is the President of SALTT Development Company, LLC, a real estate development and construction company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Tom received a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Walt Halasowski
CEO and Co-Founder

Chintu Parikh
Board Member and Co-Founder

Chintu has more than nine years of experience and worked with a number of high-tech startups to help them develop their market entry strategy, product offerings and business plan. The recipient of numerous awards and national recognition for his entrepreneurial work, Chintu received graduate education in business and technology at Carnegie Mellon University, a global pioneer in wireless LANs.  At CMU, Chintu got first-hand experience of WLAN by studing wireless technogies, technology management, product marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Chintu was Manager of eBusiness Technology for Shiloh Industries, a leading automotive supplier based in Cleveland. He started the eBusiness department at Shiloh in early 2000 and successfully spearheaded the company’s Web strategy and Internet infrastructure development.

Chintu holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, along with Masters and Bachelor degrees in engineering.

James Glessner
Board Member and Co-Founder

Jim Glessner’s professional experience includes the founding of four companies over the past thirty years. Along with being co-founder of Helium Networks, Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of TrackAbout, a company that has commercialized a next-generation tracking system for low-value physical assets.

Prior to TrackAbout, Jim was a private consultant to industry doing technology architecture as COSBO Industrial Design. This consultancy was an outgrowth of the 15 years Jim worked as a technology specialist for an industrial gas distributor, Butler Gas Products Company. Jim's first company, Thought Products, Inc. specialized in the design and manufacture of hand weaving looms, benches and specialty furniture.

Jim holds a Bachelors degree in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University.