The SkyBitz management team brings together leaders with a wealth of expertise from various industries, including transportation, logistics, satellite, professional services, technology, data communications, manufacturing, and customer service. These individuals form a strong foundation that provides vision and support to a growing team of talented, dedicated professionals working to deliver standard-setting tracking and information management solutions.

Dr. Homaira Akbari CEO

Dr. Akbari has more than 17 years of strategic, sales & marketing, product development and operational experience across many critical high-technology industries including software applications, IT services, security systems for homeland defense, telematics and location-based services, and telecom. Dr. Akbari has held senior management positions in TruePosition - a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, Microsoft, Thales, Cambridge Strategic Management Group (CSMG), and worked as a scientist at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. She draws on her international experience including nine years in Paris, London, Beijing and Cape-Town.

Dr. Akbari holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals and a frequent speaker in industry conferences and tradeshows. She serves as a judge at MIT $100K Business Plan Competition, is a member of the Advisory Council of the Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy and The Loudon County CEO Cabinet, and is a contributor to several non-profit organizations. Washington Business Journal named Dr. Akbari among its "Women Who Mean Business" in 2008.

Bob Blair CFO

Bob Blair has over 20 years financial operations management experience in the software and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining SkyBitz, Bob was Chief Financial Officer and VP of Operations for Anystream, Inc., a media content software firm and Chief Financial Officer for Current Analysis, a telecommunications, IT and consumer electronics market intelligence firm. Bob also served as vice president of finance for Scoreboard, a wireless network software manufacturer, and Visual Networks, a publicly traded telecommunications firm. Additionally his career includes financial management positions with US Order, Raxco, Arthur Andersen and Planning Research Corporation.

Bob received a bachelor's of arts degree in accounting from James Madison University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Craig Malone Senior Vice President, Product Development

Craig has over 20 years of product development experience in technology startups and global companies within the defense and commercial electronics industries. Prior to SkyBitz, Craig served as the Vice President, Product Development and Chief Technology Officer at GeoLogic. He has also served in executive roles at Triverity, an early stage startup, where he was the Vice President, Product Development, and CTO. While at Triverity, he was responsible for developing real-time telematics products for mobile applications. Craig also held executive positions at Philips Consumer Electronics where he was the Vice President, Business Development in support of a strategic initiative to develop consumer solutions, as well as Vice President, Engineering, for Philips Broadband Networks where he led all global research and development activities with an international team of professionals. Craig worked at Raytheon Company in a variety of leadership roles developing RF and opto-electronic technologies.

Craig holds a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Massachusetts and a M.S. in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Craig Montgomery SVP Marketing & Business Development

Craig Montgomery is an accomplished marketing and business development executive with over 14 years experience in influential high technology sectors such as wireless telecommunications, information services, computers and location based services. Previous to SkyBitz, Mr. Montgomery played a pivotal role at Nextel Communications as Director of Marketing for the Transportation, Distribution, Retail and Manufacturing verticals. During his tenure at Nextel, he oversaw all industry based GPS marketing efforts, including the launch of a nationwide integrated campaign that drove the acquisition of new enterprise level customers. After the campaign's success, Mr. Montgomery was put in charge of all direct marketing activities for the newly formed Sprint Nextel.

Mr. Montgomery also served as the Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing for Seneca One Finance. In this role, he was responsible for managing all aspects of the company's sales, marketing, IT and research operations. Mr. Montgomery has also held critical marketing, strategy and eCommerce positions at Dell Computer Corporation and CoStar Group. Mr. Montgomery holds an MBA with honorary distinction from Vanderbilt University, and a bachelor's degree in Marketing from San Diego State University.