About FreeWave
Taking Innovation To The Edge.
Founded in 1993 by Steve Wulchin and Jonathan Swayer, FreeWave has been dedicated to delivering customers their mission-critical data since our very inception. Over the years, we’ve evolved our products, and our company, with the edge computing capabilities needed to match and capitalize on the constantly changing landscape of IIoT.
Evolving Edge IoT With Data-Driven Decisions.
FreeWave started over three decades ago designing rugged, purpose-built communications systems and grew to become a leader in IIoT transport and RF IoT solutions. Since then, we’ve been leading our customers to real-time data, analysis, and other applications that make it easier for them to be successful.
Leadership & Board
There are three words we use to describe leadership: vision, direction, and support. These things can only be put into action when a team works together, and at FreeWave, our leaders are just one part of that team. Everyone pulls in one direction, with one goal: making our customers' lives easier, better, and more fulfilling.
Leadership Team
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Steve Wulchin
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder of FreeWave Technologies, Mr. Wulchin now serves the company as Chairman of the Board and CEO. An accomplished industry leader, his commitment to and passion for both the wireless industry and FreeWave’s evolution into an intelligent edge solutions provider played a pivotal role in attracting and recruiting high caliber talent for FreeWave’s appointed Board of Directors.
COO & SVP Global Sales and Marketing
Michael (Mike) Tate
COO & SVP Global Sales and Marketing
Michael Tate is COO & SVP Global Sales and Marketing for FreeWave Technologies. With 30 years of successful C-level experience at major multinational technology organizations, Mr. Tate has a proven track record in building profitability and governance in both public and privately traded companies. In his current position at FreeWave, he will play a central role in building and executing the global sales vision and growing the company’s broad portfolio of radio, IIoT, and new Edge computing platforms for industrial enterprises. Following a career in military intelligence, Michael held progressive executive management roles with increasing levels of responsibility in sales, business development, strategy and execution, and procurement.
Before joining FreeWave, he headed M Tate Solutions, a management consulting firm that delivered integrated strategic solutions to C-level clients on strategic roadmaps, global supply chain, product sourcing, business development, and equity investments.
Chief Technical Officer
Richard Reisbick
Vice President Engineering
Vice President Marketing
Sue Moore
Vice President Marketing
Sue Moore is VP of Marketing for FreeWave Technologies. Her experience spans decades leading marketing organizations in Fortune 200 corporations to hands-on, in the trenches with privately funded start-up teams. Her focus is ensuring that the customer is always at the center of every discussion and that marketing creates the bridge between a prospect and a customer for life. Sue’s grown demand for a variety of businesses, in high-tech industries, from wireless communications to industrial automation with products spanning hardware, software, solutions to SaaS and PaaS offerings. Her hope is that the technology she helps market makes the world better. Knowing that every discovery has a profound impact on humanity and how we live each day.
Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Steve Wulchin
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder of FreeWave Technologies, Mr. Wulchin now serves the company as Chairman of the Board and CEO. An accomplished industry leader, his commitment to and passion for both the wireless industry and FreeWave’s evolution into an intelligent edge solutions provider played a pivotal role in attracting and recruiting high caliber talent for FreeWave’s appointed Board of Directors.
Board Member
Nazila Alasti
Board Member
A visionary technology executive, Ms. Alasti has built an accomplished career with startups to Fortune 100 publicly-traded companies. Analytical and creative, she is a serial entrepreneur that orchestrated three successful market exits and has raised over $50M in capital.
The Founder and CEO of Project FWD, she serves as a strategic advisor to the CEO and Board of SleepScore Labs and is on the board of Stanford Women on Boards. Most recently, as head of eBay’s Global Product Marketing organization, she led and delivered eBay’s first ever $300M global brand campaign and digital presence while driving the design and creation of Global Product Marketing, a new discipline for eBay, where she defined organizational scope, negotiated roles, responsibilities, and metrics for improving customer experiences.
Board Member
Robert Dimicco
Board Member
An accomplished business leader, Mr. Dimicco believes in leveraging the power of technology and data to create transformative value for people, business and society. He has led high-performing teams for a number of Fortune 500 companies including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, and Lowe’s Home Improvement.
Over his storied career in the technology sector, he has delivered over $1.5 billion in new revenue through product introductions and sponsored/co-sponsored 16 investments and strategic acquisitions totaling over $725 million in cloud, securities and data technology. His passion for creating amazing products and services while scaling businesses will support FreeWave’s ambitions for continued double digit growth for the foreseeable future.
Board Member
Greg McCray
Board Member
Mr. McCray currently serves as the CEO of FDH Infrastructure Services and is member of the Board of Directors for Adtran. Throughout his technology career and as a CEO, he has led various technology companies—PipingHot Networks, Antenova and Aero Communications—through successful market exists, acquisitions and growth transformations.
Mr. McCray has cultivated deep expertise leading large public corporations including IBM, Lucent Technologies, Google Fiber and as a Board Member at CenturyLink. For many years, he has run his own successful consulting firm focused on supporting newer technology companies, often functioning as an interim CEO when needed. His extensive expertise in growing revenue while focusing on profitably will help FreeWave focus on the bottom line while continuing to rapidly grow revenue.
Board Member
Allen Proithis
Board Member
Mr. Proithis is the CEO of Capstone Partners, a strategic advisory firm for clients in the mobile, IoT, software and technology industries. Capstone provides strategic advisory, ecosystem development and market insights to help clients accelerate time to market and revenue growth.
Prior to Capstone, Mr. Proithis served as the President of Sigfox, North America, where he created a high-performance team of 100 people that built an Internet of Things business with top enterprise companies and verticals while providing wireless coverage for over 70M people in the US. Before his tenure at Sigfox, he created a $155M IoT joint venture (Convida Wireless) with Sony, InterDigital and Stephens Capital and served as Chairman. In 2014, Allen raised $15M to launch an Internet of Things spinout focused on accelerating value produced by the data generated by IoT.