Advisors

Linden Fellerman
Advisor
Linden (Lin) Fellerman, has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience in transaction processing, risk management, and collections. He is nationally recognized as one of the leading check services risk management experts. As president of Telecredit Service Corp and then Equifax Check Services, he helped develop many of the proprietary algorithms used nationwide today.

Perry LaForge
Advisor
Perry LaForge is the Founder, Executive Director and Chairman of the CDMA Development Group (CDG). The CDG is a trade association comprised of over 140 of the world's leading wireless operators and manufacturers. At the CDG, Perry is responsible for overseeing the expansion of CDMA technology throughout the world and for leading the evolution of the technology through the CDG's subcommittees. Currently, there are over 500 individuals working on CDG sub teams.

Perry has led the development and worldwide commercialization of CDMA since the first proof of concept trials in 1988. He was instrumental in the introduction of CDMA as a second digital standard around the world and in it evolution to next generation digital technology.

Perry has participated in many industry committees. He has been a speaker, provided keynote addresses, and moderated panels at conferences in over twenty countries and has worked with government officials throughout the world to develop telecommunications policies. He has also lectured in numerous educational forums. He is a frequent guest columnist for a number of publications and has appeared on broadcast interviews about the wireless industry, including CNN, CNBC, Chinese Television Network, Bloomberg Business News and Dow Jones. He is frequently quoted in a number of publications, including Forbes, Fortune, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, RCR and BusinessWeek.

Werner Sievers
Advisor
Mr. Werner Sievers brings significant cellular wireless product executive level management experience to Transaction Wireless. Most recently, as the General Manager of Broadcom's Broadband Cellular Products Group. Prior to that he was the President, CEO and Chairman of Zyray Wireless Inc. a venture funded, cellular focused fabless semiconductor company, acquired by Broadcom Corp. Mr. Sievers is also the past President and CEO of Centera Ltd a muli-national technology development, manufacturing and integration conglomerate. Prior to that he was the founder President and CEO of the multi-national publicly listed Dimension Data Group of Companies.

Vern Yates
Advisor
Vern Yates has been an active angel investor, consultant, advisor and mentor to start up companies since 1996. He was the founder of the San Diego Band of Angels, a 160 person angel investment group in San Diego that has made over $85 million in investments in Southern California start up businesses. This group combined in 2000 with the Tech Coast Angels to form a group covering Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. Yates is the past Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Tech Coast Angels.

Yates has extensive experience with both internal and venture funded start up companies having most recently served as president and CEO of Primary Access Corporation, a San Diego-based venture-backed telecommunications access systems company that was acquired by 3Com.

Yates graduated from George Washington University with degree in electrical engineering.