About CENTRI Technology

Management Team

Vaughan Emery

Chief Executive Officer & President

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Mr. Emery is the founder and CEO. He works closely with technology partners to deliver the company’s mobile solutions to its customers. Throughout his career, Mr. Emery has developed key business relationships with mobile operators, phone manufacturers and technology partners within the US, Asia and Europe. Previously, he founded a mobile security technology company, which developed an advanced malware security solution for mobile phones and embedded devices. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in commercial product development, technology services and business development.

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Mike Mackey

Vice President, Engineering

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Mr. Mackey has extensive experience leading highly productive software engineering teams in the mobile and web services space. Previously he was Director of Engineering & Architecture for Nuance Communications in their Mobile Care division (formerly SNAPin) building and deploying mobile self-service applications. Prior to Nuance, Mr. Mackey managed development and quality assurance efforts at Amdocs (formerly Qpass) and Cobalt.

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Joe Ferry

Vice President, Worldwide Sales

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Joe is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales, responsible for leading CENTRI’s commercial initiatives, including sales leadership and business development. As an experienced executive in the telecommunications industry, Joe focuses on the development of strategic technology-based solutions with CENTRI’s largest customers and partners. Before joining CENTRI, Joe was at Amdocs where he focused on growing the managed services business in the mobile and broadband network operators segment for leading carriers in North America. Prior to joining Amdocs, Joe was the vice president of global sales for mPortal where he built relationships with mobile operators, cable operators, handset manufacturers and VARs. He has held a number of executive leadership positions at industry leaders like Ericsson where he led the satellite & wireless business unit and Vodafone UK where he was responsible for mobile operations for SW England.

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Dr. Paris is the main inventor of the patented technology used in the company's data acceleration solution. He is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Paris brings more than 10 years of insight and knowledge from both the software and hardware industries. He has worked as an electronics engineer and software developer for a variety of projects ranging from insect detection software for the Pocket PC to antivirus software for DOS and Windows.

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Luis Paris

Chief Scientist

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Ms. Russell brings 14+ years of experience in the mobile industry encompassing program management, solution delivery and professional services to wireless carriers and OEMs globally. Previously, she was Director of Carrier Solutions for Cequint delivering Mobile ID solutions to Network Operators in the US.  Prior to Cequint, she was Director of Professional Services at Nuance Communications in their Mobile Care division managing commercial deployment of their mobile applications worldwide.

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Carolyn Russell

Vice President, Product Management & Services

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Mr. Winslow is a consulting CFO to a range of companies in the Seattle area. He was previously the CFO for SeaMobile, a global VSAT satellite communications company. Prior to SeaMobile he spent ten years in various roles with Western Wireless Corporation, which was acquired by Alltel in 2005. Mr. Winslow started his career at Arthur Andersen.

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Steve Winslow

Chief Financial Officer

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