Jeff Smith, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Jeff is no stranger to emerging technologies. As a scientist for Motorola, The Robotics Institute, and the SuperCollider he has worked on wireless sensor and control systems developed for the FBI, CIA, DOD, DOE, NASA, and USPS - from autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles to particle accelerators.In 1993, Jeff co-founded and served as President and CEO of OnRamp Technologies, a leading Internet Service Provider. OnRamp became the first investment of Verio. During Jeff's tenure at Verio as Regional President and Board member, the company grew to one of the largest web-hosting companies in the world and a principal international ISP.Considered a pioneer in the emerging M2M communications market, in 2002, Jeff founded SensorLogic, now one of the industry's leading Telemetry Service Providers (TSP) SensorLogic was acquired by Gemalto. In 2007, Jeff was co-founder of Ublip an M2M Telemetry Services provider. Ublip provided Web 2.0 applications for remote asset management. Ublip was acquired by Numerex in 2009. Jeff served on the Board and as Chief Strategy and Technical Officer of Numerex.Jeff serves on the board and advisory boards of a few high growth technology companies.Jeff has a B.S. in Engineering from Trinity University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a Distinguished Alumni at UTA, and serves on the President's Development Board. He is a member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, EO, and YPO. In 2006 Jeff was awarded the Ewing B. Kaufmann Community Award for his social entrepreneurship work in Honduras. Jeff is an avid inventor and holds 21 patents in technology and has published several journal papers. Jeff enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife, son and his dog Harley.Specialties: strategy, teambuilding, visionary, leadership, public speaking , pragmatic visionary.