Zubie, a mobile and Internet services company focused on maximizing connected car capabilities for consumers and businesses, has announced key additions to its management team. The addition of three proven mobile, Internet and consumer tech leaders strengthens the company’s overall operational and executive capabilities, and optimally positions the company to make significant inroads in the rapidly-growing connected car marketplace.
Zubie is a groundbreaking new platformZubie has assembled a management team uniquely positioned to deliver on the promise of the connected car, offering decades of combined expertise in launching and scaling mass-market products spanning internet, wireless, consumer and big data technology.
Veteran mobility and consumer products leader Tim Kelly has been named chief executive officer of Zubie. Kelly has more than 25 years of executive management and marketing experience in technology, mobile and wireless serving consumers and small businesses. Kelly is the former president and chief executive for Network Solutions, the go-to Internet enablement provider that serves small businesses and consumers. He led the company through a period of growth and expanding profitability and in October 2011, drove the successful sale of the company to Web.com.
Prior to Network Solutions, Kelly enjoyed a successful career at Sprint Nextel, as president of the company’s consumer division and as chief marketing officer.
Proven sales leader Mark Angelino has been named senior vice president, channel operations. With a decades-long career selling to and serving the enterprise market for companies like Hewlett Packard, Salesforce.com and Sprint, Angelino brings to Zubie a wealth of experience in establishing major strategic partnerships, effectively enabling customer technology solution adoption and launching successful sales channels. Angelino served in key leadership roles at Sprint Nextel including president of sales and distribution, where he managed more than 20,000 points of distribution for the company, and president of Sprint Business. Prior to the Sprint Nextel merger Angelino held several key positions at Nextel.
Seasoned product executive Navin S. Ganeshan has joined Zubie as vice president, product management. The former chief product strategist at Network Solutions, Ganeshan was responsible for developing and marketing the offerings that helped fuel that company's success in the consumer/small business arena.
Ganeshan was most recently chief product and marketing officer at Centrifuge Systems, a venture-backed big-data analytics company focused on financial fraud and risk, and cyber-security applications. He has more than 20 years experience of successfully taking innovative, scalable products to market, and is a former Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Best of Innovations award honoree.
Kelly, Angelino and Ganeshan join an existing leadership team of experienced and skilled executives.
Chief Technology Officer, Ari Silkey has more than 15 years of product development experience in the consumer electronics industry and has, over the course of his career, led the successful development and launch of more than 100 products. Silkey has held senior leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies including Best Buy and Leica Geosystems.
Holly Rapken, Chief Financial Officer, is a seasoned finance executive with 25 years of experience across multiple industries. She spent four years as the CFO for Zave Networks, Inc., an entity that created and operated an incentive platform linking online and mobile coupon placement with in-store redemption, and helped engineer the sale of that company to Google in 2011.
Kelly, Angelino and Ganeshan are based at the company’s offices in Charleston, SC. For more information about Zubie, please visit www.zubie.co.
About Zubie
Zubie is a mobile and Internet services company focused on maximizing connected-car capabilities for consumers and businesses The company, formerly known as GreenLight Connectivity Solutions, was formed in 2012, and is headquartered in Charleston, SC, with offices in the Minneapolis area.
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