Airgo Hires Sales Team for MIMO Wireless Chipsets

Airgo Networks, a start-up developing MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) chipset technology, announced that Bob DeMartino and Bob Twomey have joined the company as the vice president of worldwide sales and the vice president of North America sales, respectively.



Prior to joining Airgo, DeMartino was with Sun Microsystems for more than 15 years. In his most recent position, at Sun, he served as vice president of Asia Pacific sales.



Twomey previously served at Agere Systems, where he was recognized as the top worldwide sales manager and his group was the leading revenue generator for the company's WLAN chipsets. He was directly responsible for Agere's WLAN chipset engagements with major wireless OEMs and for managing the North American ODM partners. In his new position at Airgo, he will report directly to DeMartino.



Airgo Networks also named John Quigley as vice president of hardware engineering. Quigley, previously with Motorola, managed the planning, design execution, validation and production launch for 2G, 3G and WPAN radio chipsets and point solutions. http://www.airgonetworks.comAirgo Networks is based in Palo Alto, California.