ORBCOMM: Wo Daten die Entscheidungen bestimmen

Marc Eisenberg joined ORBCOMM in 2002 and serves as Executive Chairman of ORBCOMM’s Board of Directors. He has held a number of executive leadership positions at ORBCOMM, including Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure, ORBCOMM has grown exponentially, increasing annual revenue by 1,100% and subscribers by 515%. He has launched 62 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites on 11 rockets, acquired 14 companies, taken ORBCOMM public on the Nasdaq in 2006, and transitioned it back to a privately held company valued at $1.1 billion in a 2021 acquisition by GI Partners, all while solidifying ORBCOMM as a pioneer, technology disrupter and leader in the global industrial IoT market. Before joining ORBCOMM, Mr. Eisenberg was Senior Vice President of Cablevision Electronics Investments, where he was responsible, among other duties, for selling Cablevision services including video and Internet subscriptions through its retail channel. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations at the consumer electronics company, The Wiz, he was responsible for more than 2,000 employees and $1 billion in annual sales.

Sameer Agrawal joined ORBCOMM in 2024 as Chief Executive Officer to lead the company in its next pivotal phase of growth as a leading global provider of supply chain IoT technology. Mr. Agrawal has nearly 30 years of experience driving profitable growth through product portfolio and supply chain transformations as well as innovative software and service solutions in the industrial IoT, SaaS and big data markets across multiple verticals and geographies. His expertise spans strategy development, change acceleration, operational turnaround, process optimization and execution of complex go-to-market strategies driven by his entrepreneurial and innovative leadership style. He joined ORBCOMM from Honeywell, where he spent 12 years in various roles of increasing leadership responsibility, and most recently served as Vice President & General Manager of an over $1 billion multi-brand, multi-channel, multi-site IoT business in the building automation vertical within Honeywell. He held various management positions at GE and SAP prior to joining Honeywell. Mr. Agrawal received a M.B.A. from INSEAD Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Mumbai University. He holds a Six Sigma Black Belt certificate as well as three patents.

Christian Mezger joined ORBCOMM in 2024 as Chief Financial Officer. He supports the CEO in achieving financial objectives and key value creation initiatives, along with managing the company’s finance, global supply chain and information technology teams. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Anuvu since 2019, where he was responsible for finance, people services, legal, supply chain and information technology. Before that, he held several other leadership roles, including President and Chief Executive Officer at CMTSU Liquidation (formerly known as Ciber), Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ciber and Vice President of Technology Services at Hewlett Packard Company. He holds an MBA-equivalent degree in international business management with a specialization in international finance and international marketing from the University of Vienna. Named a Top 50 CFO by ONCONFERENCES and a Titan 100 award winner in 2023, Christian sits on the advisory board at UC Riverside for the Transformative Leadership Executive Program, and previously sat on the advisory board at the University of Denver’s School of Accountancy.

Fran Bogle kam 2021 als Chief Revenue Officer zu ORBCOMM, wo er die globale Vertriebs- und Marketingorganisation leitet, einschließlich der Vertriebskanäle für Unternehmen und mittelständische Unternehmen. Er konzentriert sich auf die Optimierung der Go-to-Market-Strategie des Unternehmens und die Beschleunigung des Wachstums in vertikalen Märkten mit hohem Potenzial. Bevor er zu ORBCOMM kam, war Bogle 16 Jahre lang bei Dell Technologies tätig, wo er eine Reihe von Führungspositionen im Vertrieb innehatte und zuletzt als Senior Vice President und General Manager des Geschäftsbereichs US Acquisitions den Wachstumsmotor von Dell leitete. Herr Bogle war verantwortlich für die Überwachung aller Aspekte des Unternehmens, einschließlich Vertrieb, Marketing, Recht und Finanzen, und für die Förderung des Lösungsvertriebs über alle vertikalen Kanäle, sowohl für Unternehmen als auch für den Handel, mit einem Team von 500 Mitarbeitern, das einen Umsatz von fast 2 Milliarden US-Dollar erzielte. Vor seiner Zeit bei Dell hatte er Vertriebs- und Führungspositionen bei PTC und der Allegis Group (Tek Systems) inne. Herr Bogle hat einen Abschluss in Marketing von der Villanova University.

Dean Milcos returned to ORBCOMM in 2023 as Interim Chief Financial Officer and currently serves as the company's Chief Accounting Officer. He is responsible for ORBCOMM's accounting function, including cost management, risk management, tax, regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Mr. Milcos has more than 30 years of experience in financial management, business leadership and corporate strategy. In his previous experience at ORBCOMM from 2013 through 2021, he played a pivotal role in the company’s financial operations and accelerated growth, serving in several executive leadership roles such as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining ORBCOMM, Mr. Milcos held various accounting roles at Medco Health Solutions, serving as Vice President, Controllers Group, and was a Senior Manager at KPMG. Mr. Milcos received an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting from Lehigh University.

Andrew McCloskey joined ORBCOMM in 2023 and leads the company’s Technology and Innovation group, including software, platform and firmware development, Tier 3 customer support as well as third-party integrations and partnerships. He also oversees ORBCOMM’s long-term technology strategy, product evolution and future innovation. Mr. McCloskey has a wealth of experience leading large technology and operations teams focused on generating customer value, driving execution as a discipline and delivering market-leading industrial software based on a SaaS model. Prior to ORBCOMM, Mr. McCloskey was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development for Schneider Electric-owned AVEVA, where he was responsible for the technology and product development for their industrial automation and engineering portfolio. He started his career at NASA, applying his aerospace engineering and computer science background on guidance systems for the US Space Program, and has held technology leadership positions at several successful start-up companies as well as Toshiba America. Mr. McCloskey holds several technical patents, and under his leadership his product development teams have created more than 100 new patents. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and attended University of Southern California for graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering.

Dave Roscoe joined ORBCOMM in 2015 through the company’s acquisition of SkyWave Mobile Communications and leads the Satellite Communications and Products group. Dr. Roscoe is responsible for ORBCOMM’s OG2, IDP and OGx satellite networks, as well as the design, development and volume manufacturing of ORBCOMM’s comprehensive IoT device portfolio. He has over 25 years of experience in engineering roles in the high-tech telecommunications sector and research environments, including executive and technical management roles. Prior to ORBCOMM, he held technical and executive positions at SkyWave Mobile Communications during the development of the GlobalWave and IDP satellite networks. He also worked for the Communications Research Center as a senior RF antenna design engineer, developing antennas from low frequency RF ID tags to Ka-band phased array communication antennas. Dr. Roscoe earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering along with a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with specializations in antennas and electromagnetics, all from the University of Manitoba. He holds 10 patents, has been a contributor in 56 publications and was a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa.

Monica DeNeale joined ORBCOMM in 2023 and serves as the company’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. She leads ORBCOMM’s Legal team, which is responsible for global ethics and compliance, regulatory affairs, corporate governance, contract negotiation, intellectual property and commercial transactions. Ms. DeNeale provides strategic legal counsel to the executive leadership team to help drive ORBCOMM to a higher level of growth and leadership in the global industrial IoT industry. Prior to ORBCOMM, Ms. DeNeale was the General Counsel of Granicus, a Vista Equity and Harvest Partners company, Vice President and General Counsel, Americas at Hitachi Vantara and the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Hitachi Vantara Federal Corporation. With more than 20 years of legal experience, Ms. DeNeale has participated in and led legal organizations responsible for commercial and public sector software-as-a-service offerings, on premise software licensing and hardware products and solutions, as well as corporate governance, litigation, privacy and ethics and compliance. She received a B.A. degree from Virginia Wesleyan University and a J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Julie Spizuoco kam 2014 zu ORBCOMM und ist verantwortlich für die End-to-End-Bereitstellung von ORBCOMMs IoT-Produkten und -Dienstleistungen, von der Installation über die Bereitstellung bis hin zum Kundensupport. Sie leitet ein Team von 150 Mitarbeitern in sechs Ländern, die 365x24x7 Service in sechs Sprachen bieten. Im März 2022 erhielt sie vom National Private Trucking Council den Elite-Titel eines Certified Transportation Professional. Frau Spizuoco verfügt über mehr als 25 Jahre Erfahrung in der Kommunikationsbranche und leitet große globale Teams bei der Entwicklung effektiver Geschäftsmodelle und Prozessverbesserungen, die die digitale Transformation vorantreiben und ein erstklassiges Kundenerlebnis in Go-to-Market-Unternehmen schaffen. Bevor sie zu ORBCOMM kam, war Frau Spizuoco Director of Network and Client Operations bei LightSquared und hatte verschiedene Führungspositionen bei ClickFox, TeleTech und National CineMedia inne, wo sie globale End-to-End-Operationen leitete.  Außerdem leitete sie die National Sales Support Group bei Sprint Nextel, wo sie für fast 700 Mitarbeiter verantwortlich war, die sich auf die Entwicklung und Unterstützung neuer Kunden und Vertriebsteams konzentrierten. Frau Spizuoco ist Executive Sponsor der ORBCOMM Women Connect Mitarbeiter-Ressourcengruppe und fungiert außerdem als Vizepräsidentin des landesweiten Mentor-Protégé-Programms von Women in Technology. Julie hat einen Bachelor of Science in Wirtschaftsinformatik von der University of Phoenix und hat Executive Leadership Programs an der University of Maryland und der Georgetown University absolviert.

Brenna Swann joined ORBCOMM in 2018 and leads the company’s human resources management for 800 employees spanning 25 countries around the world. Ms. Swann is responsible for all aspects of the employee experience, including employee relations, talent acquisition, performance management, career development, employee engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, compensation and benefits, employee training as well as corporate services. She is committed to fostering a positive, dynamic and diverse corporate culture that empowers employees to come together as ONE ORBCOMM to drive innovation, deliver world-class IoT products and delight our customers. Ms. Swann has more than 15 years of experience in human resources management and has served as a trusted business partner and strategic advisor for global technology companies, including General Dynamics and Viavi Solutions, as well as Loblaw Companies Ltd., Canada’s largest food retailer. Ms. Swann received a Diploma in Business Administration from Algonquin College and a Bachelor of Human Resources from Athabasca University. She is also a member of the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) and has been a featured human resources expert in a number of industry publications.