Management

Bill McHale, Chief Executive Officer

Already a non-executive director at Actix since May 2007, Bill McHale has successfully led management teams of software companies in the United States and Europe for more than 15 years before joining Argo Global Capital, a venture capital company that specializes in telecoms, wireless, and internet technologies, as a partner in January 2006.

While at Argo Bill served on the board of directors of SurfKitchen Inc., uReach Technologies Inc., PhyFlex Inc., and Sylantro Inc., as well as playing an advisory role in many other Argo investments. From 2002 he was the CEO of Cerebrus Solutions, a telecoms software company based in the UK, until selling the company in 2005. From 1997 until 2002, Bill was the Chairman and CEO of DSET Corp., a telecommunications software company that provided network management solutions globally to network operators and equipment providers. He led the company through a successful IPO on NASDAQ in 1998 and during his five years at DSET the company was recognized several times as one the fastest growing and most profitable software companies in its segment.

Prior to DSET, Bill spent seven years running early stage companies in the software sector. During the first half of his career he worked in sales and marketing positions at IBM, Wang Laboratories and Digital Equipment Corporation and was a Lieutenant in the United States Navy.
 

Richard Kateley, Chief Technology Officer

With over 15 years of wireless telecom and application development experience Kateley is responsible for our products and technology. Kateley was a co-founder, EVP and CTO of Watchmark Corporation (Now IBM Corp.) where he invented the Service Quality Management (SQM) segment for the wireless industry. Kateley has also been a senior network executive at T-Mobile, Alcatel and Action Engine as well as a finalist in the E&Y young Entrepreneur on the year awards.
 

Richard Thompson, Chief Financial Officer

Richard is responsible for all areas of finance, legal and administration within the Actix business. Richard, a chartered accountant, was the Group FD for an AIM listed, global software company, finance director of Project Telecommunications Ltd, and held a number of senior roles with the Courtaulds Textile Plc including 4 years overseas in USA and China.
 

Sanjay Nagdev, Chief Sales Officer

Responsible for overseeing Actix’ customer engagements globally, Sanjay has over 15 years wireless industry experience. Formerly Vice President of North American Sales at Scoreboard Wireless and Optimi, Nagdev also spent time within network engineering and operations at LCC and CAI Wireless. Nagdev has a BSEE from CCNY and an MSEE from Johns Hopkins University.