Mads Lillelund

President & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Lillelund brings extensive senior global management experience and ingenuity to Bluesocket. During his leadership, his vision for a software only model for wireless local area networks (WLANs) was developed thereby transforming the company from a hardware centric model to a software model. His foresight around virtualization led to the development of Bluesocket’s virtual WLAN (vWLAN®), the industry's first cloud based WLAN solution residing on a hypervisor platform. The first hypervisor platform supported was VMware with vWLAN certified as “VMware-Ready”.

Mr. Lillelund established Bluesocket’s product development initiative around the creation of the next generation WLAN solution and set key sustainability metrics inherent to the solution. The metrics included; 1) eliminating hardware components to reduce 80% or more of energy consumption, 2) an over 50% reduction in carbon footprint, and 3) reduced “end of life” electronic waste by completely removing all controller based hardware. Accomplishing these metrics will ensure support of customers’ corporate sustainability strategies.

Mr. Lillelund has over 20 years of experience in the high-tech sector. He has held key leadership roles at AT&T, Lucent Technologies (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Enterasys Networks (acquired by Siemens Enterprise Group) and CGCS Computing Solutions, a US-based manufacturer of electronic packaging and embedded computing (acquired by SIE of Austria).

In 2006, Mr. Lillelund joined Bluesocket as President and CEO. Prior to Bluesocket, he served as President and CEO of the following CGCS businesses; CGCS, an electronic packaging and embedding computing company, Aurora Technologies, and Channel Access where he restructured the operations to achieve profitability. After joining Bluesocket, he continued to serve on the Board of CGCS and as an advisor to the company until its sale. Previously, Mr. Lillelund served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services at Enterasys Networks, where he was responsible for generating over $400M in annual revenue primarily through distributors and resellers. He has also held several key positions at Lucent Technologies and AT&T in Belgium, Ireland and the United States. In the early years, Mr, Lillelund successfully opened the Russian and Eastern European markets while later becoming the Managing Director and Regional Vice President of Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) for Lucent Technologies' Global Commercial Markets. As Managing Director he established the headquarters in Dublin, Ireland where he was responsible for Sales, Marketing and Operations in 22 countries generating revenues in excess of $320M.

Mr. Lillelund holds several board positions as well as advisory positions to high-tech start-up companies. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Baylor University, a Master of Business Administration Degree from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at INSEAD.

Mr. Lillelund enjoys soccer, tennis and is an avid sailor having participated in several blue ocean races. His latest passion is BodyCombat™, a fitness program inspired by a wide array of martial art disciplines. While traveling throughout the world for key industry events, customer visits and partner meetings, he may attend a class in a city on his travel itinerary.

Patrick Foy

Vice President of Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering, Patrick is responsible for all engineering and development activities at Bluesocket. He brings over 12 years of embedded software development experience as well as technical leadership experience to Bluesocket. Patrick was instrumental in introducing wireless access points into the Bluesocket product offering and continues to facilitate the enhancement and expansion the AP product line. Prior to Bluesocket, Patrick held key development roles at 3eTI in Rockville, Maryland and Seneca Networks in Gaithersburg, Maryland. While at 3eTI, he architected their enterprise AP and also worked closely with military customers to introduce the wireless technology into their secure networks. Prior to that, he worked at GE Transportation Systems in Erie, PA designing control systems for their most advanced locomotive system. While at GE, he completed the corporation's renowned Technical Leadership Program and then became the leader of GE's Advanced Course technology program in Erie.

Patrick earned a BSEE from Gannon University in Erie, PA and MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia with a concentration in Communication Systems. He also received a Management of Technology certificate from Georgia Tech.

Chris Koeneman

Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing

As Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Chris is responsible for all market-facing functions including global sales, marketing, customer service, and business development. Chris joined Bluesocket from Datacom Systems where he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Chris brings over twenty years of experience with leading technology and networking companies. For the past ten years, Chris has held global leadership positions with a number of innovative technology companies including Avici Systems, Colubris Networks, and Redline Communications. Chris began his career with AT&T before joining Cisco Systems where he served as Director of Sales in EMEA.

Chris holds a Masters of Business degree from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University.