Leadership

Rip Gerber is the founder of “Location-as-a-Service” (LaaS) and built Locaid into world’s largest LaaS platform that now locates over 350 million wireless devices for the world’s biggest banks, mobile agencies, brands and application developers. Rip is a noted mobile industry visionary, entrepreneur, public company executive and international best-selling author.

Prior to Locaid, Rip served in senior executive roles at various public and private companies. At Nokia, he served as General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer of Intellisync, where he’s recognized for transforming the company’s brand and products and orchestrating the $510M acquisition by Nokia. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President at Carlson, a $38 billion company and one of the largest family-held corporations in the United States. Rip was also on the founding executive team of Commtouch, where, as Chief Marketing Officer, he was a lead executive in taking the company public in 1999. Earlier in his career, Rip founded @once, an email marketing company that was later acquired by InfoUSA. He also served in engineering and management roles at Deloitte Consulting, American Express and Firestone Tire & Rubber.

Rip holds several patents in location technologies, sits on the WIC Leadership Council of the CTIA and has spoken at many industry events, including the DMA, CTIA and CES. His thrillers have been published by Random House and Forge. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Rip is an avid classic rock musician and has amassed the world’s largest collection of map postcards.

As Chief Operating Officer, Tom Stahl is responsible for internal operations at Locaid, including technology, engineering, operations, finance, and human resources.

Prior to Locaid, Tom served as the Chief Operating Officer at Nielsen Mobile/Telephia where he was part of the management team that brought Telephia to profitability and sold it to The Nielsen Company for $440 million in 2007. During his time at Nielsen Mobile, Tom ran the company’s operations, software development, wireless technology, IT infrastructure and analytics groups, in addition to managing a team of over 300 employees in the United States, India and Guatemala. Previous telecom experience includes three years as a management consultant helping US telecom firms enter the China market, and two years with BellSouth China.

Tom holds an MBA and a Master's in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.

David Allen currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Locaid, where he is responsible for the technology vision and direction of Locaid’s aggregation gateway and platform.

Prior to joining Locaid, David’s expertise in product development, carrier networks and channel development for the US, SE Asia and CALA markets led him to senior management positions at SnapTrack and Qualcomm. David’s leadership helped SnapTrack grow from a startup to a market-dominating position in wireless location technology. Earlier in his career, David opened Samsung Telecom America's sales and marketing office in the United States, where as Director of Wireless Systems, he expanded Samsung's wireless infrastructure products into the North American market. As Project Director, David also helped lead Motorola's Japan Division CDMA initiatives.

David earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business, where he also held an Adjunct Faculty position within their MBA program.

As CMO, Carolyn is responsible for Locaid’s marketing and communications strategy including channel and developer partnerships and community relations.

Carolyn is a marketing veteran with fifteen years of experience in business-to-business marketing, consumer education, and public relations.  She brings a unique background in privacy, security, and SaaS to Locaid.  She ran marketing for the leading privacy certification company, TRUSTe, for seven years through a period of rapid growth and brand development.  During her tenure, TRUSTe launched a mobile privacy advisory council, joined by the MMA, HP and Verizon Wireless to introduce the first mobile privacy consumer attitude research and mobile developer privacy guidelines.  Prior to Locaid she provided interim marketing leadership for start-ups like Urban Mapping in the geospatial data space and online TV guide, Yidio. 

She has a MBA in entrepreneurship from Babson College and a BA from George Washington University.  Carolyn lives in Sausalito and is an avid cyclist and golfer. 

As Senior Vice President of Sales at Locaid, Jeff Allyn is responsible for product management and sales functions, including onboarding of new applications and enterprise, direct and channel sales. Jeff is a strategic innovator with a career history of devising, launching and selling products that add immediate and long-term value and revenue pipelines to enhance business visibility.

Prior to joining Locaid, he worked for Verizon Wireless, where, during his fifteen-year tenure with the company, he was responsible for establishing new distribution channels that created incremental revenue streams for LBS, Voice and Data services. Jeff also led strategy development, sales training, communications and collateral development for Verizon’s white-labeled navigator product, VZ Navigator, the wireless industry’s most successful LBS application. In addition, he managed a multi-billion dollar subscriber base of bundled wireless and landline services.

As Vice President of Product Development, Naomi Morita leads Locaid’s product development efforts.

Naomi brings over fifteen years of experience in building technology-enhanced solutions for leading enterprise customers, including Western Union, UPS, USDA and Comcast. Her deep expertise and experience in location technology began with evangelizing worldwide User Plane A-GPS solutions at SnapTrack/Qualcomm and extended through product management of Chaperone, Autodesk's white-labeled application for Verizon.

Most recently, Naomi provided leadership to iLoop Mobile's Service Delivery team to maintain and grow a client base of 80+ accounts including Yahoo!, Sony, Coca-Cola, CREDO Mobile, ePrize, Deutsche Bank, Paramount and Hasbro.