Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 23, 2004

ROBERT GEMMELL – CIRRONET INC

ROBERT GEMMELL has led Cirronet as CEO and chairman of the board since 1995. After joining Cirronet in 1992 as vice president of marketing and sales, he led the company to profitable growth and into successful OEM partner channels and international markets. Mr. Gemmell's career has included consulting assignments for the Georgia Institute of Technology and over 100 startup companies, plus marketing management positions at General Electric and Intel. During the 1970s, Mr. Gemmell developed spread spectrum technology for the National Security Agency. Mr. Gemmell holds a bachelors degree and a masters degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and completed Duke University's MBA program in 1985. He is a member of Georgia Tech's Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. Mr. Gemmell holds two patents for telecommunications-related CMOS analog integrated circuits he designed in the early 1980s. Profile
TWST: Bob, can we start off with an historical overview of Cirronet?

Mr. Gemmell: Cirronet has well over a decade of success in developing

innovative wireless data networking and