Leadership Team

Joseph P. Stefan, Chairman, President & CEO

Prior to assuming the helm at AgileMesh, Joe Stefan served as president and chief operating officer of DVDCre8, Inc.(later Diversified Multimedia), which developed and globally marketed a broad line of digital media software products. Prior to launching DVDCre8 with his partner, Mr. Stefan served as president and chief operating officer of RealPage, Inc. His leadership helped transform RealPage from a loose amalgam of seven recently acquired companies to a highly focused industry leader of commercial real estate management and accounting software. Before joining RealPage, Mr. Stefan served as President of Property Services Group, Inc. and senior vice president of NHP, Inc., a publicly traded commercial real estate development and management company in Washington, D.C. During his 11-year tenure at the helm of NHP/PSG, he founded and led Buyers Access® to become the largest (over $200 million in client transactions annually) purchasing service organization in the property management industry. In his early public service career, Mr. Stefan was a financial economist in the chairman’s office of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. There he served as an adviser to the Commission on cost of capital and rate base issues relating to establishing interstate tariffs for electric and gas public utilities. He holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Bill Dickerson, Founder, Vice President, Product Management

Bill Dickerson has over 30 years of systems development experience in defense systems, telecommunications equipment, RF data networking, digital video, and real-time multiprocessor systems. Prior to co-founding AgileMesh, he co-founded and served as President and CEO of Agile Systems, Inc., a company that designed, manufactured, marketed, and supported data communications equipment to the commercial and government sectors. He was responsible for day-to-day operations management as well as sales and business management. Mr. Dickerson negotiated and managed distributor agreements, GSA contracts, government equipment contracts, buyout of co-founder, settlement of patent and copyright lawsuits, technology sale to a competitor, and shareholder buyout. In addition, Mr. Dickerson has served as Vice President of Operations, Vice President of Engineering, and Director of Hardware Design in early stage companies including CellStack Systems, Continual Computer Corp., and Xalted Networks. Mr. Dickerson holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Louisiana Tech University, an M.S. in biomedical engineering from Southern Methodist University, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University.

Dennis K. Smith, Founder, Vice President of Engineering Operations

Mr. Smith oversees all production procurement, product design and manufacturing at AgileMesh. He has 30 years of hardware and software development experience, which includes the development and integration of wireless mesh networks, defense electronics, digital video and telecommunications systems. Prior to co-founding AgileMesh, Mr. Smith served as Vice President of Systems Development at NexGen City, a provider of citywide wireless mesh networks. He has held several other technology leadership positions, including serving as the Director of System Development at Digital Switch Communications (DSC), Vice President of Operations and later Vice President of Engineering at Flexible Computer Corporation (where he and his team developed a massively parallel processor system for NASA and several national labs), Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Engineering at Celerity Systems, and Vice President of Engineering Operations at Xalted Networks. Mr. Smith also co-authored the ISO 9000 processes for a software development team in Bangalore, India, and holds B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. in electrical engineering degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mark Satinsky, Founder

Mark Satinsky has a 25 year career in a broad range of consulting, technology, and entrepreneurial endeavors. His primary area of expertise is the startup process - evolving ideas into viable businesses. Mark has successfully formed businesses, acquired startup and venture capital, evolved business plans and models, and put operating teams in place. He has started and led entrepreneurial consulting practices at both Touche Ross and Ernst & Young and has founded or co-founded four successful businesses (two sold, one currently operating - AgileMesh, one dormant). Prior to AgileMesh, he co-founded Valchemy, Inc. – a venture funded enterprise software company acquired by IBM in August 2006. Mark holds a B.A. from the State University of New York and an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University.