Ivan Chow
Chief Technical Officer and Sr. Vice President of Software Solutions

Ivan Chow, Chief Technology Officer and Sr. Vice President of Software Solutions has been developing and implementing cutting edge software systems since 1990. Mr. Chow joined the company in 2004 and has created serveral innovations for the company including the smart phone modules and RTLS devices for oil field applications.

Prior to AirGATE, Mr. Chow co-founded a company called IP Communications, and developed Voice IP gateway over the Internet. As the company's chief technical officer, he designed, developed and filed two patents on two technical processes.  Mr. Chow was also responsible for the business venture and technical process integration. In 1998, IP Communications was sold to Ramp Networks, in which they developed several more VoIP related products, including Voice over ISDN and Voice over DSL. Ramp Networks had a successful IPO in 1999 and was acquired by Nokia in 2000.

Prior to IP Communications, Mr. Chow served as Technical Specialist for Sprint and developed a middleware system called Distributed Computing Architecture (DCA). This middleware system, DCA, is still being used today within Sprint’s IT back-office, connecting Sprint’s PCS and Sprint’s Long Distance Division’s ordering systems. DCA shields the enterprise from different standards and systems. It allows distributed transactions to go across heterogeneous systems -- MVS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Windows-based systems.

Mr. Chow's other prior positions included working in the world-class organization called the Super Conducting Super Collider. In 1993, he developed a Yahoo!-like search engine within the organization only few months after he was introduced to the WWW protocol in a seminar at Fermi Labs by its creator, Tim Berners-Lee. Together with several physicists, Mr.Chow developed a real-time data collection system, processing data of petabyte range. Mr. Chow received his BS and MS in Physics at the University of North Texas .