Michael Sheriff Chairman,
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Michael
Sheriff, president and chief executive officer of the X-Change Corporation, has over thirty-seven years of
experience in the computer, electronics and
telecommunications industry. In 2001 he incorporated
AirGATE Technologies as a wireless company. In 1999 Mr.
Sheriff founded Net Access Exchange, Inc., dba YPAY with
a valuation of $100 million. YPAY was an Internet media
network that provided advertisers with a unique and
compelling value proposition to reach consumers via the
Internet through use of broadband-like rich media over
dial-up connections.
Prior
to Net Access Exchange Mr. Sheriff founded CyberQuest, a
full-service Internet development company that focus
edits efforts on Internet commerce in the
business-to-business marketplaces.The company's Internet
e-commerce flagship, bid4it,developed a new
revolutionary "bid-and-ask" matching
technology. The site was launched in 1997 as
one of the first commodity trading Internet
applications. Mr. Sheriff sold CyberQuest in October
1998 to a NASD OTC:BB listed company. He then served as
CEO of the public company, CBQ, Inc., as well as being
Chairman of the company's Board of Directors.
Mr.
Sheriff founded and developed Good Stuff Cheap (GSC),the
first to pioneer market Internet-based retail sites. The
company was the first to use intelligent shopping agents
and was featured in Wired Magazine in December 1994.
Internet Marketing Association awarded GSC the top
retail site award for December 1995. GSC was also
featured on the Discovery Channel in December 1996.
Mr.
Sheriff was also the former founder, President and CEO
of Action Fax International, Inc. Action Fax is one of
the largest public fax networks in the world with
locations in airports globally.
Prior
to ActionFax, Mr. Sheriff was the founder and President
of First National Computer Corporation, which pioneered
the rental of personal computers. Under his direction,
First National Computer became one of the largest PC
rental firms in the
United
States.
Mr.
Sheriff's other prior positions included senior sales,
marketing and management positions with National
Semiconductor, Northern Telecom, SYCOR, Inc. and SINGER.
Mike Sheriff, President and CEO of
AirGATE Technologies, was the featured speaker for “Picking the Right Solution for
Product Authentication” at the conference.