iControl Management

The iControl management team consists of seasoned professionals who have founded, led, or worked for consumer electronics firms, telecommunication and software companies, and online services over the past 25 years.

Robert (Bob) Hagerty - Chief Executive Officer

Prior to iControl, Bob was the Chief Executive Officer for Polycom where he delivered 50 sequential quarters of non-gap profit and 49 sequential quarters of positive operating cash flow. Bob grew the business from a speakerphone company to a market-maker in the communications industry with a broad range of collaboration tools, including telepresence, VoIP, video, and voice solutions. He increased revenue from $37 million to $1.1 billion through organic growth and 11key acquisitions—including Voyant Technologies, ViaVideo, Accord Networks, PictureTel, MeetU, ASPI, and Circa –Communications— to build the largest collaborative communications company in the industry.

Early in his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, Bob managed many of the best selling product lines, including mini-computers and workstations. From there, he joined Signal Corporation as a key executive in its broadcast equipment division. He played a significant role in the turnaround of the company, the expansion of tape recorders to broadcast solutions, and in driving the industry transition from analog to digital. After that, Bob joined Conner Peripherals as an early executive and helped grow the computer disk drive business from $180 million in 1987 to $2.2 billion in annual revenue in 1991. After only three years of sales, Conner was highlighted as one of the fastest growing companies to ever be named to the Fortune 500. Bob later joined Logitech, Inc., as a top executive, where he helped to transform the company as the computer market became mainstream, by expanding Logitech’s product lines from mice and scanners to webcams, computer cameras, computer gaming devices and multi-media upgrade products.

Bob holds a bachelor of science degree in operations research and industrial engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and a masters degree in management from St. Mary's College of California. In addition to his Polycom board membership, Bob served on the board of directors for Palm, Inc. and Modulus, Inc. He currently serves on the boards of Smart Technologies, Inc. and Plantronics, Inc.

Paul Dawes - Executive Officer

Paul has spent 20 years in Silicon Valley creating, managing, and selling high-tech products and services. He has led sales teams in the broadband, enterprise and entertainment markets, and driven product management for both embedded systems and enterprise. Most recently, Paul was a partner at Lockwood Capital, a technology investment team where he held the role of SVP, Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Liberate Technologies and helped drive the sale of Liberate to Comcast and Cox. Paul also led the sales team that closed deals with the largest US cable operators, enabling Liberate's 1999 IPO.

Prior to Liberate, Paul was VP, Sales & Marketing for VerdiSoft, a mobile software provider that has become the foundation of Yahoo's Connected Life division (2005 acquisition). Earlier, Paul held product and business development roles at Gain Technologies, Tom Siebel's multimedia software company (1997 Sybase purchase). Paul started his career in software engineering, product marketing and sales at Integrated Systems, Inc., an embedded systems company (1990 IPO).

Paul holds a BSME degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MSME from Stanford University.

James (Jim) Johnson - Executive Officer

Jim co-founded uControl which merged with iControl in 2010. Most recently, he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Service Provider Business Unit of TippingPoint, which was acquired by 3Com in February 2005.

Prior to TippingPoint, Jim was Vice President of Sales at BroadJump, which was acquired by Motive Communications in February 2003. Prior to BroadJump, he served as National Sales Manager for Cisco Systems' ADSL portfolio. Before Cisco's acquisition of NetSpeed, he served as the Director of North American Telco Sales for NetSpeed. Prior to NetSpeed, Jim held both domestic and international assignments with Alcatel Telecom in sales, product planning, product management and research and development.

Jim also serves on the Board of Directors for Boundless Network and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University.

Marc Baum - Vice President, Operations

Tom Chmielewski - Vice President, Strategic Sales

Wade Cohn - Vice President, Engineering (Austin Office)

David Costilow – Vice President, Services

Corey Gates – Vice President, Engineering (Redwood City Office)

Bill Grotzinger – Chief Financial Officer

Jim Kitchen – Vice President, Product Strategy

Letha McLaren – Vice President, Product Management

Greg Roberts – Vice President, Marketing