Company Profile

METRICO WIRELESS
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Metrico Wireless was founded in early 2003 and has since become a leading national provider of wireless handset field-testing services. Our management and staff are among the leading experts in wireless field measurement and data analysis for both GSM and CDMA.

Principals

Dimitrios Topaltzas, President

Mr. Topaltzas founded Metrico Wireless in January 2003 with the goal of introducing innovative user-experience performance metrics into the wireless handset performance approval process. Prior to founding Metrico Wireless, Mr. Topaltzas led the formation of Telephia’s Network Performance business unit (1999) and directed the business unit to establish what is today the nation’s premier syndicated wireless network performance benchmarking business. Prior to Telephia, Mr. Topaltzas was Vice President of Sales at Allgon Enterprises based in Dallas, TX. Mr. Topaltzas was responsible for the management of Allgon’s wireless base station equipment clients including Lucent, Nortel and Motorola. Mr. Topaltzas holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland.

Des Owens, General Manager

Des joined Metrico Wireless in 2006 and is responsible for the development and growth of the customer facing business, including Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Before joining Metrico Wireless, he held a number of key executive roles at Actix Inc., where he started the U.S. operations as a subsidiary of Actix Ltd. During his seven years with Actix, he played an instrumental role in making the company the global leader in performance engineering software for the wireless industry, where he helped grow the company's annual revenue to over $45 million. Des has held management positions at Comsearch in the United States and T-Mobile, Cellnet and British Telecom Research Labs in the United Kingdom. Owens earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Sheffield in England with academic scholarships from British Telecom and the Whitworth Society of engineers.

Mr. Jeffrey Horner, Vice President

Mr. Horner joined Metrico Wireless in June 2003. Mr. Horner has spearheaded the development of the majority of Metrico Wireless’ measurement and reporting infrastructure and has managed the development of Metrico Wireless Muse™; the industry’s leading handset-agnostics voice quality measurement tool. Prior to joining Metrico Wireless, Mr. Horner was Senior Manager of Telephia, Inc. where he managed operations for Telephia’s Network Performance Business Unit. Prior to Telephia, Mr. Horner was an RF Engineer for Bell Atlantic Mobile in Maryland. Prior to Bell Atlantic, Mr. Horner was an RF Engineer for Comsearch, Inc., a provider of wireless communications consulting services based in Reston, VA.

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