Dispersive Leadership

Robert W. Twitchell, Jr - CEO has an extensive background in the wireless industry. He holds 56 granted patents with over 40 additional non-provisional patents pending in wireless, GPS, networking and location technology. He is a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for the Department of Defense on Cellular Technology and Cyber Warfare.

Bob is the Founder and CEO of Dispersive Networks, Inc., a company pursuing secure networking and a dispersive computing platform. Starting in 2001, Bob was founder, CTO and consultant of TeraHop Networks, a Delaware company that pursued container tracking and first responder technology.

Prior to that, Bob was Chairman and CTO of Intransit Networks, Inc., a Washington startup that pursued inventory tracking and control technology. Prior to Intransit Networks, Bob was at Nokia, where he served as Value Added Services Manager, CDMA Markets, and was responsible for strategy and implementation of location based services.

As Product Program Manager of Value Added Services with Nokia, Bob negotiated contracts with suppliers and subcontractors, put together the team to develop the GPS accessory (3 partnerships and 4 subcontractors), developed a WAP software platform and setup the program for the Nokia 3285. He was responsible for Marketing, After sales, Quality, Manufacturing and R&D in all of his assignments as Product Program Manager. He led the development of the Nokia 9000 "Communicator" for the US market whose record setting 11-month development to market has not been repeated.

Bob was responsible for building the Texas Wireless Data team for Nokia where he hired the first sixty people in disciplines including Hardware, Software, Mechanical, Test, Marketing and Quality. Previous time was spent with Motorola Paging Infrastructure where he was responsible for the development of paging software that was deployed in Singapore, Tokyo, China, United Kingdom and Italy, and Harris Corporation (Electronic Warfare) where he worked on classified projects and designed the audio conferencing chip for the International Space Station. Bob has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with a Master's Thesis involving DSP, Neural Networks and Voice Recognition.