Press Release
Stewart Verdery Joins PacketHop Advisory Board
Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Strengthens Company's Public Safety Expertise
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - May 8, 2006 - PacketHop, Inc., the leader in next-generation mobile mesh communications software and real-time multimedia applications, today announced that C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, has joined the company's advisory board. PacketHop's advisory board consists of professionals with a broad range of expertise across various markets.
"Stewart's extensive insight regarding homeland security, law enforcement technology and telecommunications and public policy issues will help drive PacketHop's success in providing first responders with the industry's most effective mission-critical communications system," said Michael Howse, president and chief executive officer of PacketHop. "I'm very excited to welcome Stewart to our advisory board."
PacketHop's Aware™ Communications Suite features server-less multimedia applications - including real-time multicast video, GPS-enabled resource location tracking, white boarding and multimedia instant messaging. Loaded onto Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, like laptops, tablet PCs and smartphones, the software-based applications are proactively distributed device-to-device throughout the network via PacketHop's infrastructure-optional mobile mesh networking technology. PacketHop is the only company providing a peer-to-peer mobile mesh communications system with server-less multimedia applications purpose-built to operate in an infrastructure-optional environment.
"I recognize the immense value in providing the public safety market and government agencies with standards-based, survivable communications systems that operate with or without infrastructure," said Stewart Verdery. "PacketHop is the only company that can provide these requirements, enabling wireless broadband communications anytime, anywhere."
Verdery served as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation Security Policy, following his confirmation by the U.S. Senate in 2003. He led efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop and implement policies regarding transportation and cargo security, immigration and travel policy, and other law enforcement priorities, among others. From 1998 to 2002, Verdery served as General Counsel to Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK), the Assistant Senate Majority Leader. He played a major role on various policy issues, including crime, law enforcement and telecommunications. Verdery also handled lead staff duties for the creation and management of the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force, the Republican leadership's outreach arm to the technology community. Verdery graduated cum laude with Honors in History from Williams College in 1989 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1993. He is currently a principal at a Washington, D.C. government consulting firm and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
About PacketHop
PacketHop, Inc. develops software that creates instantaneous and self-configuring mobile mesh communications for public safety agencies, commercial enterprises and consumer markets. PacketHop's Aware Communications Suite is software that uniquely enables standards-based devices like laptops, tablet PCs and smartphones to create portable networks that can securely operate with or without access points. By making infrastructure completely optional, PacketHop delivers coverage wherever and whenever instant communications are needed - with unequaled resiliency, reliability and robustness. PacketHop's suite of distributed and server-less applications enable rapid and cost-effective wireless communications and include real-time multicast video, resource tracking, multimedia instant messaging and white boarding. Founded in 2003 and based in Silicon Valley, Calif., PacketHop is funded by venture firms U.S. Venture Partners, Mayfield, ComVentures and GF Equity Partners, as well as SRI International. For more information, please visit www.packethop.com.
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