Leadership
Dave Cozzens
Chief Executive OfficerDave joins Telogis from Novell Corporation where he was most recently Vice President of Operations for Novell Americas, a $500 million business encompassing the US, Canada, and Latin America. Prior to this role, he held a number of senior executive positions at Novell including Area Vice President and General Manager for the Midwest and Federal businesses as well as the Vice-President of North America Consulting. Dave was also Vice President of Consulting at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) prior to that company's acquisition by Novell. Previously, Dave had launched and led CTP's Strategy Management Consulting practices in both the US and Europe.
Dave earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and an MBA in International Business from the Vienna School of Economics (Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien)/University of South Carolina and attended the Masters Engineering degree program at Pennsylvania State University.
Tim Taylor
Chief Operating OfficerTim has extensive experience in senior leadership positions with start-up and fast-growth companies on an international scale. As founder and CEO of Tycom Corporation (now Kyocera Tycom Corp.), CEO of Tycom Dental Inc. (now SybronEndo Corporation, a division of Sybron Dental Specialties), and CEO of Tulon Inc., Tim has a track record of successful product development and company leadership in a variety of markets. Most recently, Tim has been a Director of Liquidmetal Saga Italy, a technology start-up company in the Veneto region of Italy aimed at the European luxury goods market.
Tim earned a B.A. in Russian Language and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
Ralph Mason
Chief Technology OfficerRalph is the Chief Technology Officer and a Founder of Telogis. Ralph has deep expertise in professional software development, comprehensive systems analysis and design experience. His broad experience also includes dataset real-time databases, networking. large-scale system deployment and data integrity validation. Key project experience includes the development and implementation of a data warehouse for the London International Financial Futures Exchange. Ralph also held the position of senior project engineer with SPEDA in embedded systems development.
Ralph is a Graduate of Business Computing, from Christchurch Technical College, 1993.
A. Newth Morris IV
President, GeoBase GroupNewth is the President of the GeoBase Group and a Founder of Telogis. He has experience in embedded systems design, customer engineering and support and enterprise sales. Newth's past experience includes working for NRECA, a non-governmental organization, doing socio-economic studies of rural indigenous communities in Guatemala. His early training as technical liaison and customer support began with Electronic Design Associates (EDA, Costa Mesa) in product development (sister company to SPEDA). Additionally, his work experience includes systems design and project management.
He is currently on the board of Dixie Printing & Packaging in Glen Burnie, MD and has served on the boards of various community organizations.
Newth earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, 1996.
Jason Koch
President, OnTrack DivisionJason is the President of the OnTrack Division and a Founder of Telogis. He acquired his experience in production management, quality assurance, control and high reliability manufacturing systems in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Telogis, he worked at Texas Instruments and Motorola. His experience includes process controls, statistical analysis, and quality control. During his tenure at Motorola, he designed and implemented a computerized process control network to predict necessary maintenance before equipment failure.
Jason earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, 1996.
Derek Jett
Vice President of SalesDerek joined Telogis with a wealth of experience in the wireless and mobility industries. He most recently held an Enterprise Management position within AT&T with a focus on enterprise and global accounts. Over the past seventeen years, Derek has held a variety of executive and management positions within the wireless industry at companies such as Powertel and Leap Wireless. In addition, Derek brings senior level marketing experience from serving as Vice President of Morris Advertising.
Ted Serentelos
Vice President of Strategy and OperationsTed joined Telogis from Novell Corporation where he was most recently Director of the Identity and Security Management Business Unit. Prior to this role, Ted held a number of consulting roles as a principal with Novell Consulting, the strategy practice at Cambridge Technology Partners and as a manager with Cambridge Management Consulting. Previously, Ted gained extensive experience in various Supply Chain, Logistics and Trading roles with Amoco Corporation and British Petroleum.
Ted earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA with honors from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago in strategic and financial management.
