Leadership
Visionaries. Entrepreneurs. Innovators. Problem solvers. Meet the team that's leading Inseego into new wireless frontiers.
Philip Brace
Executive Chairman
Philip Brace
Executive Chairman
Philip Brace was appointed to the Inseego Board of Directors in 2023. Mr. Brace has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, server, IoT and storage industries and has served in multiple roles across various disciplines, including software, hardware, engineering, marketing, and sales. His most recent role was as President and CEO of Sierra Wireless Inc. from July 2021 to January 2023, where he led the company through operational improvements that increased profits by more than 100 percent and grew revenue by more than 40 percent, culminating in a successful acquisition by Semtech. Prior to Sierra Wireless, Mr. Brace served as Executive Vice President of Veritas Technologies from 2019 to 2021 and President of Cloud Systems and Electronic Solutions at Seagate Technology from 2015 to 2017. Mr. Brace began his career at Intel Corporation and LSI Corporation, holding various engineering and management roles.
Mr. Brace holdsa Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and aMaster of Science in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. Mr. Brace is also a member of the Board of Directors at Lantronix and Blackberry.
Steven Gatoff
Chief Financial Officer
Steven Gatoff
Chief Financial Officer
Steven Gatoff was appointed chief financial officer for Inseego in September 2023. With a focus on increasing stockholder value for technology and telecom companies and a passion for driving change and scaling business models, systems, and global operations in support of growth, Mr. Gatoff has a track record of success in building-out finance teams and strategic growth platforms.
Mr. Gatoff has more than 25 years of financial expertise and leadership experience. Prior to joining Inseego, Mr. Gatoff, served as chief financial officer of Edge Case Research, Inc. During his career, Mr. Gatoff has served as CFO at the following companies: Edge Case Research, Inc.; HALO Precision Diagnostics; Absolute Software Corporation; 8x8, Inc.; PagerDuty, Inc.; Rapid7, Inc.; and iPass, Inc. Prior to these positions, Mr. Gatoff held senior finance roles at United Online, Inc., Sterling Commerce, Inc. and VeriSign Inc. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gatoff worked as an investment banker at several Wall Street firms including Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns & Co., and Credit Suisse First Boston. He began his career as an auditor with Deloitte & Touche.
Mr. Gatoff is a Certified Public Accountant and holds both a B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Vermont and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University.
Steve Harmon
Chief Revenue Officer
Steve Harmon
Chief Revenue Officer
Steve Harmon joined Inseego as Chief Revenue Officer in October 2023, and oversees the company's global revenue growth, marketing and business development strategy. Mr. Harmon has a proven track record of developing sales teams, orchestrating targeted go-to-market initiatives, and fostering collaboration with channel partners to drive revenue growth. His experience in leading sales organizations, particularly those focused on enterprise selling, is an invaluable asset to Inseego.
Harmon has over 18 years of experience leading global teams responsible for sales, marketing and revenue operations. Most recently, Harmon was the SVP of Global Sales at Sierra Wireless, after spending six years at BlackBerry as the Managing Director of US Enterprise Sales. Prior to BlackBerry, Harmon was the Global Vice President of Database & Technology Sales at SAP. He began his career at Sybase where he spent 9 years in various sales roles.
Harmon holds a BS with honors in Public Relations from the University of Florida.
Kurt Scheuerman
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
Kurt Scheuerman
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
Kurt Scheuerman is appointed SVP and General Counsel, leading Inseego’s global legal organization for corporate governance and SEC reporting. He serves as key legal advisor on all major business transactions including contracts, IP, and licensing. Scheuerman will play a key role in protecting the Company’s intellectual property (IP) assets, maintaining its robust collection of 5G IP, and guarding against infringement/theft. Scheuerman joined Inseego after a successful career at Lantronix, Inc. (a publicly traded IoT networking company), where he served as VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and advised on a broad range of legal matters including employment law, contracts, securities regulation, risk management and insurance, litigation, corporate communications and compliance. Prior to Lantronix, Scheuerman served as VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at DDi Corp., (a publicly traded manufacturing company), where he negotiated and managed the sale of the business to ViaSystems, in addition to advising the board of directors and senior management on transactions, labor and employment affairs, securities regulation, risk management and insurance, litigation, and compliance. Before joining DDi, Kurt was a corporate lawyer in private practice for 10 years. Scheuerman graduated with honors from the University of Oregon School of Law. He is also a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts.
Ritesh Mukherjee
SVP and GM Enterprise Networking
Ritesh Mukherjee
SVP and GM Enterprise Networking
Ritesh Mukherjee is an accomplished leader with a focus on global communications and technology. Ritesh leads enterprise networking as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Inseego. He is responsible for transforming networks and services with 5G, SDN/NFV, SASE, SD-WAN, cloud, and IoT technologies.
Before joining Inseego, he was Vice President at Reliance Jio managing a global portfolio of market-leading innovative enterprise solutions. He previously served as Vice President, Product Management at 128 Technology (acquired by Juniper Networks), a leading SD-WAN company. Before that, he held a key product management role at Cisco.
Ritesh has engineered some of the largest deployments of enterprise networks for leading businesses globally. Ritesh holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal.
Vishal Donthireddy
SVP Engineering, Inseego Fellow
Vishal Donthireddy
SVP Engineering, Inseego Fellow
Vishal Donthireddy is Inseego's SVP of Engineering. In this role, Vishal is responsible for driving strategy across 5G WWAN Connectivity, 5G Cloud Networking, and 5G Intelligent Edge that enable and empower IT and OT teams as every industry undergoes digital transformation.
Vishal began his career at Inseego in 2005 as a software engineer. He has worked on different generations of the company's product portfolio, from 2G to 5G. He led a complete redesign of the company's software architecture and oversees the design of all of Inseego's 5G products, which have won hundreds of industry awards and accolades.
Prior to Inseego, Vishal worked as an engineer designing robust secure software for various engineering services companies. He holds a B.E. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Shivaji University, as well as Leadership Programs from UCSD (EPSE, LAMP). He also holds one patent and three pending patents.