Management Team
Mike Cronin, CEO and Geschäftsführer
Mike Cronin has 25 years of experience in software, hardware, telecoms and test. He co-founded Node-H to build upon many years of experience at Optimay where he was Vice President for Product Development. Optimay was a developer of 2G and 3G protocol stack software for mobile phones. Mike helped to grow the engineering team from only 10 people to over 70 when Optimay was acquired by Lucent Microelectronics in 1998. Mike represented Optimay in the technical due diligence during the acquisition. Lucent later spun out its microelectronics division as Agere Systems, which went on to supply GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS chipsets to the leading handset makers, and achieving up to 10% of world market share. Over 500 million handsets have been built with Optimay protocol software inside. Prior to Optimay Mike started his career at Hewlett-Packard working on telecommunications test hardware and software.
Wolfgang Scheit, CTO and Founder
Wolfgang Scheit has 23 years of experience in software, hardware and telecoms, 20 years of them in the mobile handset business. He was the initiator of the Debis/Comneon mobile communication software in 1993. He joined Optimay in 1997 and went on to lead the Optimay/Agere GPRS, EDGE and UMTS development programs, as well as supporting the system archirecture for Agere chipset designers. When the Optimay team was acquired by Infineon in 2007, Wolfgang helped to deploy the Comneon 3G protocol software in key customer engagements and then headed up the Comneon protocol stack development team.
Ian Hailey, Principal Engineer and Founder
Ian Hailey has over 14 years of mobile telecoms experience having worked on projects for many of the key handset and core network vendors, including Sony and Samsung. Before founding Node-H Ian was one of the key engineers in the early years of femtocell software, starting in 2005. He was the 2nd member of the Ubiquisys development team and responsible for the development of the very first femtocell shown at 3GSM in 2006. Following this he played a key role in the innovation and development of the deployed 3rd generation femtocell for sale today, and helped to secure Ubiquisys's reputation as a leader in Femtocell technology.