Board of Directors

Pat Kennedy (Chairman and CEO)

Pat Kennedy Founder and Chairman/CEO of Boulder-based Cellport Systems. Since Cellport's inception 19 years ago, the company has focused on developing universal wireless connectivity technologies to vehicle systems, resulting in three patent portfolios that are core to the global telematics market. Kennedy has eleven patents and led the securing of ten licensees of Cellport's patent portfolios. In October 2009, IdeaJacked, Pat Kennedy's first book, was published.

Pat has a B.A. in economics from the University of Buffalo.

Andy Quartner joined Cellport in 1997 and is the company's General Counsel. Andy's tenure in the wireless industry spans 25 years with a variety of contributory roles in both finance and legal. Previously he served as Senior Vice President, Law for AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. and its predecessor company McCaw Cellular Communications.

Andy received a J.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Yale University.

James P. Caile

Jim Caile is a retired Corporate Vice President for Motorola. Jim joined Motorola's Corporate Acquisition Office in 1975; rising to the position of Vice President and Director of Marketing for Personal Communications Sector over the next 20 years. In 1995, Jim was elected Corporate Vice President - Personal Communications by the Motorola Board. Jim currently serves as Chairman of the Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless Communications Division.

Jim received his bachelor's degree in marketing from Loyola University and his MBA from University of Chicago.

Bob Johnson

Bob was the recent President of Sprint's CDMA business unit. Prior to joining Sprint, Bob was founder and chief operating officer at Sotto Wireless, an all-in-one business communications service, established in 2005, which combined the capabilities of mobile phones and office phone systems into one platform. From 1999 to 2004, Bob served AT&T Wireless as executive vice president for national operations and as an officer of the company. Bob came to AT&T Wireless in 1994 when the company acquired McCaw Cellular Communications.

Bob has a B.S. degree in marketing and a M.S. in business administration from Indiana University.

Jim Schuster

Jim was Executive Vice President of Raytheon from 2001 and previously served as its Vice President. At Raytheon, Jim served as President of Hawker Beechcraft. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Hawker Beechcraft Acquisition Corp., until his retirement in 2009. Member of the Board of Governors; Aerospace Industries Association.

Jim earned a B.A. at Lock Haven and a MBA from Lake Erie College.

Don Hume

In 1986 Don co-founded and was President of Inovonics Corporation. Inovonics developed, manufactured and sold wireless signal and control products for security, health care and specialty consumer markets. Inovonics was sold to Roper Industries in 2004.

Don has a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado.

Ralph Poplawsky

Ralph is Vice President of the Product Center at Swisslog Healthcare Solutions. Swisslog is the world leader in hospital automation systems based on pneumatic tube transport. Prior to joining Swisslog in 2011, Ralph has served in CTO and Vice President roles at Cellport Systems since 1997. At Cellport Ralph led the development of the Cellport 3000 in-vehicle wireless connectivity product, worked extensively in patent analytics and was the lead inventor on several of Cellport's core patents.

Ralph has a B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University and a M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Colorado.