OUR COMPANY

MEET THE FOUNDERS

Our Founders

Ken Wiesner

Chief Executive Officer

Bill Northrup

COO/Hardware Design

David Schmidt

Chief Technology Officer

Sean Graham

Chief Marketing Officer

Reggie Ponsford

Chief Sales Officer

Reggie Ponsford

Reggie is responsible for developing and managing Sarekon’s largest and most complex customers in the Automotive Solutions Group. He is credited with continually leading the industry in deploying innovative products into the largest Direct Finance organizations domestically and internationally.

Reggie was recently the SVP of Spireon that come to be through the acquisition in 2011 of Enfortrace in which he was an owner. Before that, he was the VP of Aircept-Calamp, which developed and manufactured wireless asset management products and services into the Location-Based Services markets.

Ponsford has over 21 years of sales and management experience with the LBS markets, which he leverages to ensure that Sarekon is the definitive industry leader. His goal is to keep his customers constantly connected to their mobile assets, allowing them to leverage Sarekon robust business intelligence and mitigate their overall risk.

Bill Nortrup

Bill brings over 20 years of wireless communications experience to Sarekon and has helped the previous endeavors achieve industry dominant products while maintaining the highest level of manufacturing quality, efficiency and insuring costs efficiencies unmatched by competitors. Bill was the CTO for Aircept and Enfotrace, prior to joining Aircept, he was at Qualcomm Personal Electronics, where he was a Manufacturing Engineering Manager. Before Qualcomm, Bill held key senior positions with Coded Communications, Harris RF Communications, and Ranger Communications.

Bill served in the United States Marine Corps for 11 years and was the communications chief for both national and international military installations. He has a BA in Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston and resides on both the east and west coasts.

David Schmidt

Before joining Sarekon, David co-founded GPS solutions provider Enfotrace, and before that was one of the earliest employees at Aircept. His simple, flexible, and efficient designs at both companies helped fuel their success with bringing remote, on-demand, location-based services into mainstream use.

Prior to working with Locations Based Services, David worked with PC-centric devices and programs for the homegrown entity called Everrave. Here, he designed, developed, procured, produced, assembled, and sold USB multi-function devices such as infrared remote controls for the computer, infrared motion direction sensors, and in-house AC power switches and light dimmers. David has an A.B. in Molecular and Cell Biology with a genetics emphasis, and an A.M. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Today he resides in Orange County, California.

Sean Graham

With a 20+ year career in Location Based Systems, Sean (CMO) began his career in Teletrac, successfully opening and establishing new strategic markets for fleet-based GPS applications. In the late 90’s Sean took on the role as a regional manager for Aircept, where he played an integral part in pioneering low cost telematic solutions into the vehicle finance sector. Following his career with Aircept, Sean co-founded Enfotrace, which experienced tremendous growth from its inception, and was ultimately acquired and merged with its largest competitor to form the organization Spireon. Sean is also one of the co-founders for Sarekon and resides in the Chicago area.

Ken Wiesner

Ken brings over 25 years of establishing/running technology companies with most all endeavors having market leading success. As CEO of both Aircept and Enfotrace, Ken has good vision to lead “IoT Telematics” start-ups to become the industries leading performer.

Before joining Aircept, Ken was a pivotal member in the growth of Teletrac Inc. (a fleet tracking company) during the late 90’s and served as Chief Operations Officer before its successful merger with TrafficMaster. Prior to his tenure in Telematics, he was Regional Vice President in the early 90’s for Premiere Page, a leading paging service provider. Ken grounded his business experience at United Parcel Service while holding numerous positions over a period of seven years in operation and finance. Ken has a BA with emphasis in Finance from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and a MBA from the University of Rockhurst in Kansas City. He resides in Westminster Colorado with his wife and four children.