Joe Thome serves as Chief Executive Officer leading AirHop’s strategic initiatives, business operations, marketing and business development activities. He brings extensive leadership experience in building innovative technology companies. Joe has championed AirHop’s product strategy, industry partnerships and business initiative for more than a decade. Prior to AirHop, he held senior leadership roles in business development and marketing for a digital RF transceiver ICs startup and for Texas Instruments across a variety of cellular UE modem solutions including CDMA2000, WiMAX, TD-SCDMA and UMTS. Joe was a co-founder of Dot Wireless, a CDMA2000 modem IC company, serving as CFO from inception through its acquisition by TI. He has also held various marketing and engineering roles for NextWave Telecom and Motorola. He holds a BSEE from the University of Iowa, a MSEE from National Technological University, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.