Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems     by Manlio Allegra       Home         Topics: Main | VoWiFi | UWB | Mesh | 802.11n | Silicon | Bluetooth |    ZeroG Builds its Team for Low-Power Wireless ZeroG Wireless, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced that Goran Andersson, Tim Colleran, Mike Morrione and Mark Shen have joined the company's executive team filling key VP roles for sales, marketing and operations. The company is focused on "Long Tail" market segments that were previously unserved by Wi-Fi. Such Wi-Fi applications could include Smart Energy, consumer electronics, home and building controls, portable medical devices, sensor networks, etc. Goran Andersson has been appointed vice president of sales, North America and Europe. He joins ZeroG from Integrated Device Technology (IDT) where he most recently served as vice president sales for the Americas. He started his career as a Field Sales Engineer in Sweden for Ericsson and Nokia. Tim Colleran joins ZeroG Wireless as vice president of marketing from Altera Corporation, where he most recently served as the vice president of the Consumer, Automotive and Broadcast business units. He also served as the vice president of product marketing and the vice president of European business operations, where he led the effort to develop a "Greenfield" business operations center supporting EMEA and parts of Asia. Mike Morrione joins ZeroG Wireless as vice president of operations. He previously was vice president of operations at Tzero Technologies where he developed an operations team that delivered production UWB chip sets while installing the company's board level design at several ODM's for high volume production. Mark Shen is ZeroG Wireless' vice president of Asia-Pacific sales. He previously worked with ACER, AT&T, Rockwell, Lucent, Agere and RFMD. ZeroG Wireless is headed by John D. Cummins, who previously spent six years at Agere Systems/Lucent Microelectronics, where he was most recently Vice President responsible for the Greater China region. The company's technical team is headed by Dr. Thomas H. Lee, who is concurrently a tenured professor at Stanford University, and Dr. Andrew N. Karanicolas, who previously was the Design Director at True Circuits, where he was responsible for the design and development of PLL and DLL IP for precision clock generation and memory interface applications in CMOS technologies. http://www.zerogwireless.com/ 15-Dec-08 In October 2008, ZeroG closed $17 million in Series B funding for its development of low-power Wi-Fi chips. The funding round was led by Battery Ventures with both Morgenthaler Ventures and Greylock Partners returning as investors in this second round funding. Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton