Mark Quinlivan
Chief Executive Officer

Mark Quinlivan has over 23 years of domestic and international management experience, both in start-up environments and multi-billion dollar companies. Quinlivan's telecommunications experience has been marked with a number of key achievements across a variety of market sectors and telecommunication technologies.

Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer of edocs (acquired in 2005 by Siebel Systems), where the promotion of Self Service brought major US wireless operators and many Western European operators to standardize on its technology. Before edocs, Mark held senior positions at Lucent Technologies and as SVP Worldwide Consulting and Integration, he grew revenues substantially and profits by 3 times.

Prior to Lucent, Mark held senior management positions at Ascend Communications and Stratus Computer. At Stratus Computer, Quinlivan's organisation pioneered some of the first successful IN (Intelligent Network) projects in Europe and the US. This included building one of the landmark predecessors to Softswitch.

Mark Quinlivan has an undergraduate degree in Management and a Masters degree in Computer Science from WPI, and completed the PMD program at the Harvard University School of Business.

Kelly S. Sharpe
Chief Financial Officer

Kelly has an extensive background with over twenty years of diverse finance, accounting, and operational experience in companies ranging in size from venture-funded startups to large public companies. 

Most recently, Kelly served as Chief Financial Officer for CafePress.com, an online marketplace with over 2 million members.  As Vice President of Worldwide Finance and Operations for DoveBid Inc., a global leader of online and on site capital asset disposition and valuation services, Kelly successfully built a finance organization that managed over 5 Billion dollars of auction proceeds for over half of the Global 4000. Kelly has also held various financial & senior management positions at AltaVista, Netscape, Symantec and KPMG.

Kelly received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Law from Clarkson University in New York.

George Hoffman
Chief Technology Officer

George Hoffman has twelve years of broad experience in technology leadership, ranging from directing teams in the design and development of innovative fit-to-purpose software architectures, to intellectual property portfolio management, to technical strategy and business development.

Most recently, as senior engineering director at PalmSource Inc., George led teams in the U.S. and France in the development of the software and user interface for Palm OS Cobalt, many key innovations of which have been incorporated into Google's Android platform. Prior to this, George was Engineering Director at Be Inc., makers of the BeBox and the groundbreaking BeOS and BeIA operating systems. From these roles, George brings a deep understanding of both mobile embedded software and high-performance parallel and distributed system design. George has also provided software and mobile user interface consulting to leading international companies in the mobile space.

George studied computer science at Cornell and Stanford Universities.

Brad Bakke
Vice President Devices

Brad has 19 years of technical and leadership experience in embedded SW and mobile communication.

Before joining Carrier IQ, Brad was Product Line manager at Motorola in the Mobile Devices organization responsible for shipping dual mode GSM/Wi-Fi mobile phone supporting VOIP in the fixed mobile convergence space and led the team in defining, designing, implementing, and launching customer specific mobile devices. Prior to joining Motorola Brad served as Engineering Manager at PacketVideo working directly with customers as well as leading engineering teams developing embedded software solutions for streaming mobile video. Brad started his career at Motorola advancing steadily into a system architect role responsible for radio software architecture and system solutions for mobile satellite devices and services.

Brad received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Northern Illinois University and holds 8 technology patents.

Bruce Lacey
Vice President of Engineering

Bruce brings years of industry-leading management and technical expertise within mobile telecoms to Carrier IQ.

As Vice President of Product Solutions for Open Harbor, he developed and deployed a Customs Clearance system in 60 countries for DHL, the company's key customer. At Convey Software he served as Vice President of Product Development where he successfully transformed an internal large-scale globalization technology solution to an enterprise software product. As Vice President of Engineering at AllAdvantage.com, he was a member of the founding Executive Leadership team and was responsible for technical direction and oversight.

Bruce received a bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Yung Nguyen
Vice President of Professional and Technical Services

Yung is a seasoned IT and Wireless Telecoms executive with over 26 years of experience in developing, selling and managing the deployment of enterprise hardware/application, software/middleware and communications network solutions.

Before joining Carrier IQ, Yung was Vice President of Professional Services at edocs/Siebel, where he led an organization that specialized in the delivery of solutions to edocs/Siebel customers and included planning, design, development, and deployment of Customer Self-Service and e-Billing applications. Prior to joining edocs, Yung served as Vice President of Professional Services/Complex Solutions for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Lucent Technologies. He has also held various Professional Services & Technical Services senior management and technical positions at Ascend Communications, Stratus Computer, Computer Associates, and Cullinet Software.

Yung received a bachelor's degree in Management Advisory Services and Accounting from Southern New Hampshire University.

Jeff Althaus
Vice President of Sales

Jeff has a long track record of building and leading successful enterprise sales teams and driving them to record results in both mobile telecoms and wider market segments.

Most recently, he helped lead the Self Service team at Siebel Systems to a record year before the company sale to Oracle. Prior to Siebel, Jeff helped edocs accelerate revenue from $15M to $50M revenue in three years. Before edocs, Jeff led the top team at Pivotal Corporation, helping to drive revenue from $10M to $110M in three years. Prior to Pivotal, Jeff was a top contributor at Bankers Systems, helping grow the company from $30M to $100M in revenue.

Jeff has an undergraduate degree in Business Management from the University of Wisconsin.