2008 Green-WiFi Officers

Green WiFi is an all volunteer organization

President & CEO

Bruce Baikie - Bruce is a member of Sun Microsystem's telecom industry team, responsible for developing the company's global telecom strategies and strategic alliances, with an emphasis on wireless services and platform infrastructure. His areas of expertise include wireless architectures, mobile service delivery environments and next-generation wireless and broadband services. Mr. Baikie has published numerous white papers and articles on M2M, mobile music, data center operations, and Wi-Fi operations. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and studies in International Business from the University of Wisconsin.

VP Engineering & CTO

Parag Mody - Parag Mody has been an electrical engineer for over 20 years, with work ranging from designing massively parallel processor systems, medical imagers, to optimizing the design of a landmine detector for humanitarian demining. He currently is the Director of Engineering at Green Plug, another green technology startup. Parag also teaches yoga and martial arts in the Bay Area.

Advocates

Marc Pomerleau - Marc worked at Sun Microsystems for six years driving marketing, business development and sales acceleration strategy and campaigns for the Asia Pacific region, the global solutions group and most recently Sun's market-leading Identity Management software portfolio. For Green WiFi, Marc brings a wealth of experience in technology marketing, alliance building and international negotiation to drive Green WiFi partnerships, development and communications.

Rob Trice - Rob is a General Partner at Nokia Growth Partners where he brings a variety of domestic and international operational and business planning experience. He joined BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners) in late 2000. Previously, he worked at DIRECTV in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Rob also worked as a policy analyst at a Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He holds a Master of Arts from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. Rob is based in Menlo Park, California


Shannon McElyea - Shannon has more than 20 years experience in Internet/Arpanet, high technology and networking systems, focusing the last ten years on creating strategic technology alliances for joint sales, marketing and engineering. She started her career in the late 70s with a nine-year tenure at Xerox PARC and Xerox OSD. Ms. McElyea has been a guest and featured speaker at Silicon Valley “SmartTalk”, Sun Java Worlds throughout the US and Japan, Sun Financial Summits in Asia, ISPCon, VPNCon, Computer Associates World, IBM ‘Publishing in 2010’, IBM E-Commerce, New World Networks: Service Provider Summit, and Internet/VPN road shows and seminars worldwide.



Michael Magura - His expertise spans storage, IT architecture design, networking for leading Asia Pacific telecommunication companies. Michael has a B.A. Economics from University of Rhode Island, a Masters Degree in International Economics from Miami University, and completed the Chinese Language and Culture Studies program at Chinese Cultural University in Taipei. He has been living with his family in Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, and China for the past 12 years and enjoys Chinese history, Thai culture, Taiwanese spirit, traveling, and basketball. Michael is currently living in Singapore.


Carol Singh- Carol is principal of CJS Consulting, a marketing consultancy. She has 15 years experience in technology and business marketing leadership. She was most recently responsible for business development activities at Pronto Networks (OSS for Wi-Fi), working to provide solutions to deploy large-scale wireless networks to serve cities and municipalities. While at Sun Microsystems, she helped found and launch the Telecom Industry group that grew to provide a third of Sun’s revenues. Carol graduated from the University of Minnesota with honors in East Asian Studies. She volunteers for various arts organizations as well as the SPCA. At home, she enjoys gardening, wine and her two cats.