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Kineto Management Team Kineto is engineered for success in the new mobile/Wi-Fi convergence market. The management team was selected for their unique expertise and success in delivering carrier-class systems to wireless and wire-line carriers. The management team possesses a unique combination of wireless service and equipment experience from AT&T Wireless, Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, and Philips.
Board of Directors
Rick Gilbert
Martin Hernandez
Mark Powell
Ken Kolderup
John Perry
Rajeev Gupta
Gary Sarson
Peter Schmid
PATRICK TAO
With nearly 20 years of experience in the wireless network industry, Mr. Tao worked with Nortel Networks for 12 years. Prior to this, he worked as the vice president of marketing at Vertel and as the vice president of product marketing at Symmetry Communications. Mr. Tao holds a BASc in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia.
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As President and CEO, Rick Gilbert is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and overseeing its rapid growth as the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA technology, the 3GPP standard for fixed-mobile convergence. Mr. Gilbert brings to Kineto a distinguished track record in leading high-growth public and private technology companies. He also sits on the board of directors of Danger Inc. Prior to joining Kineto, Mr. Gilbert was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Copper Mountain Networks, a leading provider of broadband access products to ILECs, CLECs, IOCs, IXCs, PTTs, and other facilities-based network providers worldwide. Under Mr. Gilbert's leadership, Copper Mountain achieved nearly $500 million in aggregate sales and was one of the most successful initial public offerings of 1999. Prior to Copper Mountain, Mr. Gilbert was the President of ADC Kentrox, one of the fastest growing and most profitable divisions of ADC Telecommunications. Additionally, Mr. Gilbert has held numerous senior management positions with companies that include Make Systems, Vitalink Communications Corporation, and IBM Corporation. Mr. Gilbert's educational background includes a MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Martin Hernandez is Kineto's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hernandez was previously president and COO of Rainmaker Systems, Inc., where he led the efforts that built a customer base of Fortune 100 companies including IBM, HP and Dell. Prior to that, he served as Rainmaker's CFO and took the company public on NASDAQ . He has held global senior finance and operations roles with Silicon Graphics, at the time a $3 billion manufacturer of high-performance computing, visualization and storage solutions. Prior to Silicon Graphics, Mr. Hernandez held senior financial and operational management positions within Meris Laboratories. He received his CPA while in the San Jose office of Price Waterhouse (now PWC). Mr. Hernandez holds a B.S. in Marketing as well as an MBA degree from San Jose State University.
Mark Powell has served as vice president of Kineto Wireless' client software business unit since co-founding the company in 2001. Mr. Powell is responsible for the company's global business and alliance strategy with handset and technology partners. Mr. Powell is a wireless industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in business development, marketing, manufacturing and engineering roles. Prior to joining Kineto Wireless, Mr. Powell worked for both Motorola and Nokia Mobile Phones; he was responsible for cellular handset portfolio planning. Mr. Powell holds an EE degree from the Highbury College of Technology in England.
As vice president of marketing and product management for Kineto Wireless, Ken Kolderup is responsible for product management, product marketing, market development and corporate communications. Mr. Kolderup brings more than 20 years of marketing and product management experience in the telecommunications industry to Kineto Wireless. Prior to joining Kineto, Mr. Kolderup led marketing for Jetstream Communications, the leading supplier of voice over broadband equipment to incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers. He also led product management and marketing for Edify Corporation, a leader in the interactive voice response market and Centigram Communications, a leader in the voice messaging market. Mr. Kolderup began his career in product management at ROLM Corporation. Mr. Kolderup holds a BSEE degree and an MSIE degree from Stanford University.
John Perry brings more than 25 years of engineering leadership experience to his current role as vice president of operations for Kineto Wireless. Mr. Perry is responsible for technology planning and assessment where he has played a major role in the evolution and development of Kineto's technology platform. Most recently, he served as chief technical officer and vice president of engineering for Netro Corporation, where he helped lead the company through its fast growth and successful IPO. Prior to Netro Corporation, Mr. Perry served as vice president of research & development at Ericsson-Raynet, the vice president of research and development at Bell Northern Research (BNR) as well as the managing director of BNR Europe. He holds a BSc with Honors from the University of Hertfordshire, U.K.
Rajeev Gupta is Vice President of Engineering at Kineto Wireless, where he is responsible for the development of core network products and played a major role in driving the initial standardization of UMA technology within the 3GPP. Prior to joining Kineto, Mr. Gupta was Vice President of Software at Pico Communications, where he led the development of system software for enterprise-grade Bluetooth and 802.11 Access Points. 
Gary Sarson is responsible for Kineto's go- to-market strategy by developing the business and channel partners essential to commercialize Kineto's industry leading technologies. Mr. Sarson spent more than 15 years with Nortel Networks where he helped establish their global GSM Wireless business. Eventually he led all GSM Marketing and Product Management for Nortel, launching successful new product lines and leading customer activity for some of Nortel's largest wireless contracts. Mr. Sarson also served as the Vice President Portfolio Management across Nortel's entire product line, driving strategy for investment of over $3b of annual R&D investment. Prior to joining Kineto, Mr. Sarson was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at ProQuent Systems, a technology leader in wireless data services content management, which was acquired by Bytemobile. Mr. Sarson brings a global perspective to Kineto having lived and worked in the UK, Canada, France and the USA.
Peter Schmid is responsible for the development, implementation and success of Kineto's European sales strategy. Most recently, Mr. Schmid was founder and CEO of eyeP Media, and a leading vendor of voice and video over IP client software, where he was responsible for the company's success with major European and North American service providers such as British Telecom. Previous, Mr. Schmid held the role of vice president of sales and marketing for Inalp Network, a provider of IP QoS routers and VoIP gateways, where he was also an investor. Mr. Schmid was also the managing director for EMEA for Pairgain Technologies, a US based DSL company with yearly turnover of $300m. Mr. Schmid has a master's degree in electrical engineering from the prestigious ETH Zurich institute.
As Kineto’s vice president of technology, Patrick Tao manages the company's technology relationships with mobile operators and network equipment provider partners. Mr. Tao is also responsible for driving the continued evolution of UMA technology through the 3GPP standards body.