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Rishi Ghare
CEO
Rishi Ghare bring over 15 years of rich and diverse industry experience in which he has worked in multiple disciplines ranging from product development, engineering, client engagements, strategy and business development. Rishi founded Wifi-soft Solutions in 2004 with a vision to provide the best wireless experience to the customers. He was instrumental in developing the first version of the product and since then led the business development initiatives, customer acquisition and setting up strategic partnership for the company.
Prior to founding Wifi-soft, Rishi led the product engineering group at Wifi-Texas, Inc in Austin, Texas. He played a critical role in helping the company raise $6 million and its merger with Airimba Wireless, a nationwide wireless operator for the MDU market. Rishi has also worked in wide range of engineering and consulting roles at Avaya Communications, Computer Associates and IBM.
Rishi has a Master in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin and Bachelor of Computer Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune. Rishi has been associated with various entrepreneurship groups like TiE, Bootstrap-Austin and Open Coffee Club.
Sloan Foster
VP Business Development
Sloan Foster, as Vice President of Business Development brings over twelve years of experience conceptualizing, marketing and selling emerging technologies into growing markets. Sloan has a proven track record of building sales organizations and companies that exceed goals.
Prior to joining WiFi-Soft, Sloan worked as VP of business development and marketing for HBMG, Inc. She was co-founder and CMO of Armida technologies. She was awarded 2 patents, one in hardware and one in software.
Sloan has a Bachelor of Communications and Psychology from William Jewell College in Missouri.
Murray Freeman
President
Murray Freeman brings 35 years of industry experience in which he has worked in chip design, computer design and applications engineering for industry pioneers like Mostek and Cypress Semiconductor based in Brussels. Returning to the USA, as a venture partner for Sevin Rosen funds and serial entrepreneur founded WiFi-Texas in 2001 to monetize new technologies. Murray's focus is on highly reliable WiFi installations - operating widely distributed networks with high user counts and very few tech support calls. Clients have included Airimba Wireless, Emerson Process Management, Matrix Networks and Swisscom Hospitality with 35,000 access points. For Swisscom - he was able to reduce the customer tech support calls by 65% while increasing daily connections by 20% at the same time.
Murray has a BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.