Founded by Two Visionaries, United by One Vision

With an extensive background in technology and digital media, Patrice has focused his business career on building and growing emerging businesses.  Most recently he served as Chief Development Officer and EVP for Zoombak, a Liberty Media-backed start-up that pioneered mass-market personal GPS locator services in the US.   Patrice oversaw all commercial activity for Zoombak, and helped to establish nationwide retail, international, and enterprise distribution channels and strategic partnerships for Zoombak.   Zoombak was successfully sold to Securus in 2011.
 
Prior to Zoombak, Patrice held a variety of business leadership positions, both domestic and international, including his role on the management team at Mobile 365 as head of global business development.  Mobile 365 became a leading global text messaging platform and is now owned by SAP.   Patrice also enjoyed a productive tenure as the executive in charge of all of The News Corporation digital businesses in Australia (where Patrice founded and expanded category-leading digital media businesses, including CareerOne,  a top-ranked on-line employment business).  Patrice began his business career with Lucent Technologies in the CDMA network business development group where he contributed to numerous international network contract wins.   Patrice has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a MA in International Affairs from Tufts University.   He also has over a decade of US government experience with the US Departments of State and Defense, including international service at the US Embassy in Beijing, China 

Stuart is a twenty-year veteran of the high-tech industry, with diverse legal and business experience. Stuart served in-house for ten years as Sun Microsystems General Counsel for Worldwide Sales, managing a legal organization responsible for all aspects of ongoing and prospective commercial operations. He also has served as General Counsel for late stage start-ups as they transition from development to full commercial operations. 

In addition to providing legal expertise, Stuart has a wide range of functional and senior management experience in areas including business development, product development and marketing, channel engineering, vendor leasing, strategic negotiation, and strategy and investment. Stuart holds a JD from Stanford Law.

Jim left his last start up, Goodman Networks, Inc., in 2006, after serving the role of President of Operations for five years, where he helped to grow business and enter new markets with revenues over $125 million. It was here where Jim interfaced with key customers and clients such as: SBC/AT&T, Cisco, Alcatel, Sprint and Cingular.

No stranger to leadership roles, Jim served eight years in the United States Army as an officer in communications and air defense. During this time, Jim lead soldiers in numerous deployments and was responsible for the inventory and shipment of over $40 million in assets.

An experienced operations and finance management executive, Jim served five years at DSC/Alcatel USA leading a large team that built, designed and serviced communications networks for all major carriers. Jim was responsible for P&L of operation generating approximately $120M in annual revenue from installations and service activity.

Jim holds B.S. degrees from the University of Southern Indiana in Economics and Political Science.

Chris Buehler is the  Co-Founder of EmFinders. With more than 20 years of international experience in the telecommunications industry, Chris plays a key role in the development of EmFinders’ reliable location technology that assists in the recovery of individuals who are missing or in distress.

Chris began his career as an engineer in the military communications arena before transitioning into the wireless telecommunications industry with Andrew Corporation. He later spent several years at Nortel in a variety of technical, marketing and business development roles in the U.S., Asia, and European markets.

Chris has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M and a Masters degree in International Business Management from Thunderbird. In addition to his professional endeavors, Chris has served as an appointed Commissioner on the Dallas City Plan Commission and Chairman of the City of Dallas Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee and is a member of the St. Monica Parish Advisory Council.