WifiSoftOpen Networking Experts

Company

Leadership & Team

Wifi-Soft is run by a team that has been building network software for 20+ years, organized around the functions below.

Leadership

Rishi Ghare
Rishi Ghare
Chief Executive Officer

Rishi brings over 20+ years of rich and diverse industry experience across product development, engineering, client engagements, strategy, and business development. He founded Wifi-Soft Solutions in 2005 with a vision to provide the best wireless experience to customers, and was instrumental in developing the first version of the product before leading business development, customer acquisition, and strategic partnerships for the company.

Prior to founding Wifi-Soft, Rishi led the product engineering group at Wifi-Texas, Inc. in Austin, Texas, where he played a critical role in helping the company raise $6 million and merge with Airimba Wireless, a nationwide wireless operator for the MDU market. He has also worked with IBM, Computer Associates, and Avaya before joining the WiFi industry.

Rishi holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech. in Computer Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune.

Murray Freeman
Murray Freeman
Advisor

Murray brings 40 years of industry experience across chip design, computer design, and applications engineering for industry pioneers like Mostek and Cypress Semiconductor in Brussels. Returning to the USA as a venture partner for Sevin Rosen Funds and serial entrepreneur, he 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 reduced customer tech support calls by 65% while increasing daily connections by 20%.

Murray has a BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Team Functions

Product & Engineering

Owns the OpenX Gateway and OpenX Cloud platform, from hotspot and RADIUS through analytics and IoT.

Hardware & Deployment

Designs and qualifies the Access Points, routers, and switches line, and supports self-hosted and on-prem rollouts.

Customer Success & Support

Runs onboarding, migrations between deployment modes, and day-to-day support across every region Wifi-Soft operates in.

Sales & Partnerships

Works with direct customers, MSPs, and resellers across the Austin, Texas office.