About Tom Mitchell
Tom Mitchell is a seasoned business leader and senior executive with over 20 years of progressive experience to the CEO level in the Networking/Communications industry. His contributor roles have been revenue-centric and customer-facing, and include Sales, Marketing, Business Development. As a business leader, Tom has diverse operating skills at the startup level, strong team building skills, global OEM and Channel experience, and broad exposure to high-tech business strategies.
Most recently, Tom was Vice President of Sales and Business Development for NCast, a startup developer of high-end Multimedia Capture and Streaming Appliances where he helped streamline operations and quintuple the revenues. Prior to NCast, Tom was CEO of RadioLAN, a pioneer of 5 GHz wireless networking technology and market leader in broadband wireless. Tom joined RadioLAN in 1997 as Director of Channel Sales and also held the role of Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Business Development. Prior to RadioLAN, he served the pre- and post-IPO Proxim Corporation as Director of OEM sales, and earlier, as Director of Channel Sales.
In the late 80′s, Tom held sales and marketing positions at Identica, Alloy Computer Products, and Gates Distributing/FA Components. Tom graduated with a BA in Biology/Genetics and a minor in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in upstate New York.