Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 23, 2004
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
Mr. Gemmell: Cirronet has well over a decade of success in developing
innovative wireless data networking and
