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Executive Team

Our management staff has in excess of 80 combined years of Cellular/PCS manufacturing and testing experience and are recognized and respected by domestic and foreign wireless carriers.

Mr. James J Fraley
Mr. Fraley has over 20 years of telecommunications management and engineering experience. He played a key roll in the commercialization of both CDMA and GPS into consumer wireless devices. Mr. Fraley founded Iconn Wireless Inc. to develop CDMA wireless engines for handheld applications. In 2001, Wavecom S.A (Nasdaq: WVCM), the global number one wireless modules supplier acquired Iconn Wireless Inc. Mr. Fraley was Vice President of Business Development at NeoPoint Inc. responsible for strategic business development for next generation smart phones. He was the Manager of Technology Transfer at SnapTrack Inc. for transfer of GPS embedded software solution to chipset manufactures. In addition, Mr. Fraley held the position of Director Product Realization at Samsung, where he played a significant roll in establishing their entry into the US market place resulting in Samsung becoming the primary vendor to Sprint PCS. He was also responsible for Sony's re-launch of RX100 and CMD-500 wireless devices as Product Manager and Product Test and Verification Manager. Mr. Fraley also worked at Oki Telecom and supported the original technical CDMA trials in Los Angeles (Van Nuys) with AirTouch, Motorola, and Qualcomm.

Mr. Dave Stone
Dave has served in various radio frequency design and manufacturing engineering capacities for the last 20 years. Dave has concentrated on commercial cellular and PCS CDMA terminal equipment for the past eight years.

Dave currently holds the position of lab manager. Dave's responsibilities include quality manager, test application engineering and is a member of CDG WG4.2 test team. Prior to News IQ Inc. Dave served as the Denso Field and Interoperability Test Group Section Manager and directly supervised a group of six test engineers and completed multiple CDMA handset test projects. Responsibilities included CDG Stage 2,3 testing, pre-production design verification testing, product launch support and postproduction carrier technical support for all Denso CDMA mobile handsets and telematics.

Back in 1996, Dave served as Lead Field Service Engineer for Sony Electronics Inc. in the Wireless Field Engineering department, where he played a key role with Sony launching CDMA products on time for 1996 and 1997.





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