Close WindowSan Jose, Calif. PRNewswire | Sept 2, 2003 —Aeris.net, a leading provider of wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications services has named Bill Gurza as Vice President of Business Development. Aeris continues to leverage top industry talent to strengthen its position as a leader in the wireless telemetry market.
"Bill has made significant contributions to the success of Aeris and we are happy to be appointing him to a Vice President position," said Dick Gossen, CEO of Aeris.net. "Bill has been successful in driving new customers and products to market, and building healthy relationships with Aeris's service provider customers. He has proven essential to our successful network deployment and development of the market in Mexico."
In his new role, Gurza will be responsible for all business development activities for Aeris.net in Mexico and for fixed applications throughout North America. Before this promotion, Gurza was the Director of Fixed Applications. He managed the stationary-type MicroBurst applications, including Aeris's largest account, the Ademco Group (a unit of Honeywell). Gurza has also been Director of Mexico Business Development. He led early market development efforts in Mexico, including signing up Mexico-based providers of both fixed and mobile applications, and has been on point for commercial relations with Telcel, our carrier partner in Mexico. Prior to joining Aeris.net, Gurza held a variety of key management positions in both sales and operations at two of the top 3 publicly-held alarm companies, Wells Fargo® Alarm Services, Inc. and ADT® Security Services, Inc. Most recently, he was instrumental in restructuring the organization at First Alarm®, one of the industry's top 25 privately-held alarm companies based in Santa Cruz County.
Aeris.net, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., provides web-to-wireless connectivity and control for a broad array of fixed and mobile telemetry applications using its proprietary MicroBurst® technology. MicroBurst employs the control channel infrastructure of cellular networks as a robust transmission medium to achieve low cost and ubiquitous data coverage. Aeris.net deploys MicroBurst technology across cellular service areas in the United States, Mexico, Canada and much of South America. Initial applications include vehicle tracking and alarm reporting, security and equipment monitoring, and utility meter reading. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.aeris.net or call 1-888-GO-AERIS within the United States.
Skybility is a leading provider of embedded wireless data transceivers / modems for machine to machine communications since 1995. Skybility manufactures modules that support the following platforms; Control Channel (CCT), AMPS, GSM and TDMA-AMPS. The company will launch a CDMA-AMPS module in Q3, 2003. These modules are used in a wide variety of applications including asset tracking, automatic vehicle location, wireless back-up for security systems, and remote equipment monitoring. Skybility is located in Carlsbad, CA. part of southern California's dynamic Telecomm Valley. For more information visit www.skybility.biz
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