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.
Kathleen Hanafan, Chief Operating Officer, joined
AirGATE in 2007 where she is responsible for managing
the day-to-day activities of the corporation. Ms Hanafan
has 20 years of executive experience driving revenues
for both major corporations and highly successful
niche-focused companies. Ms. Hanafan was founder,
president and CEO of Onit Communications, a Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) IP Centrex Company. Ms Hanafan
grew the company into one of the largest B2B VoIP
enterprises nationally through a combination of organic
growth and key mergers and acquisitions. Before founding
Onit, she was Senior Vice President of worldwide sales
and marketing for VCampus Corporation, where she
significantly increased market share in the corporate,
government and commercial segments.
Mr. DeCourcy has over 30 years financial
management experience in high tech and other
business sectors.
Since 2002, he has served as president of Dallas-based Carriage Financial,
where he spearheaded financings for manufacturing,
distribution and real estate enterprises as well as assembling portfolio financings for numerous clients.
From 1995 through 2001, Mr. DeCourcy was co-founder,
president and CFO of Anacom Communications, Inc., one of the first
Internet-based processors of credit card transactions for merchants.
Prior to this, he served as executive vice president and CFO at Senior Living Properties,
where he designed a publicly traded real estate investment trust for the senior housing industry.
Earlier, he was executive vice president and CFO at Triland International Inc.,
where he structured, negotiated and drafted over 100 joint venture transactions with private and institutional investors.
He started his career as a tax manager with Arthur Andersen & Company,
where he serviced clients in the manufacturing,
real estate investment and banking industries.
Mr. DeCourcy holds degrees in accounting,
finance and economics from Carleton University in Ottawa,
Canada, and is an MBA candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Ivan Chow Chief Technical Officer and
SVP 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.
Terry Roberts, Chief Information Officer, joined the
company in 2006 as VP of Operations and managed
engineering, research & development, specialized
projects, strategic alliances and distributions.
Mr. Roberts has more than 25 years
experience in engineering, developing and distributing
complex technology solutions to fortune 1000 companies
and government subsidiaries.
Jack Younse Vice President of Quality, Function and Design Division
Dr. Jack M. Younse, the Vice President of Quality, Function and Design Division is responsible
for establishing new innovative technologies through the early stages of design and development.
This effort is largely driven by Quality Function Deployment
(QFD) where a customer’s requirements, also called "care-abouts,"
are used to drive a product development with emphasis on "doing the right thing right the first time."
This front-end deployment results in a set of design requirements or specifications, agreeable to both the customer and AirGATE Technologies,
which are then used as design targets by the engineering teams. Additionally, Dr. Younse is heavily involved in a number
of on-going project design and development efforts on other development projects.
Tim Mueller, Senior Design Engineer joined AirGATE in
2006 and is responsible for design, programming and
integration of RF and wireless applications for the
commercial and government sectors. Mr. Mueller has
experience designing and integrating mobile communications
systems and microprocessors.
Mike Sheriff, President and CEO of
AirGATE Technologies, was the featured speaker for “Picking the Right Solution for
Product Authentication” at the conference.
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