Founders

Eric Swider

Co-Founder
Chief Executive Officer - Eric Swider brings more than twenty years of experience in leadership, corporate oversight and governance and operational excellence. 

Mike Felker

Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer - A founding partner and veteran of technology development; Mike has been a database engineer for over 30 years, he has programmed in virtually every language, ran production studios and is a composer as well as an avid gaming coder.

Clay Perreault

Co-Founder
A proven leader with over 25-years global experience in high-tech and telecommunications, telematics and Internet of Things. He has directed many projects involving remote satellite SCADA, and IoT over the past decade.  Clay holds over a dozen patents in cloud service scalability, encryption and digital voice services delivery.

Technical Team

Jade Perreault

Hardware
Enterprise IoT Application Specialist in electronic device design and manufacturing.  As a certified journeyman electrician and construction manager in mines, oil and gas sectors he also leads infrastructure deployments.

Greg Jaskiewicz

Security and Encryption
Grzegorz is an experienced computer software architect, engineer, and entrepreneur.  Gregg specializes in software solutions architecture with focus on implementation efficiency, services scalability, and security vulnerability analysis.  He has worked directly with large multinational companies designing and implementing bank level security features in mobile software applications.

Daniel Pacheco Diaz

Firmware
An experienced microprocessor firmware architect and electronics design engineer.  Skilled in numerous computing platform languages such as C++, Java and python; and a myriad of wired and wireless technologies such as CAN, SPI, I2C, LoRa, Bluetooth, BLE, GPRS and LoRaWAN.

Chris Herbert

Infrastructure
Chris has led the development, deployment and management of wired and wireless telecommunications infrastructure for over 20 years.  Construction experience in concrete and welding are complemented by his intimate knowledge of computing and routing platforms such as Cisco Systems.

Gustavo Hernández Heras 

Hardware Prototyping
Six years of experience in the development of electronic projects, from concept to implementation, prototyping, validation tests, redesign and optimization. Design of electronics schematic and PCB boards from 2 to 4 layers. Embedded software development for PIC and Atmel microcontrollers and knowledge in ARM Cortex microcontrollers. CAD/CAM/EDA software skills, CNC manufacture and 3D printing.

Ernesto Alfonso Pérez

Automation
An Automation engineer that loves robotics, programming, physical computing, IoT and embedded systems.  Extensive experience programming of microcontrollers, PIC, Arduino and others.  Also Develops a Desktop Application for testing hardware interfaces and control panels.

Juan Carlos Hernández

Hardware
Adept at designing and building analog and digital circuits, as well as embedded software for microcontrollers. Ability to adapt on different microcontroller brands and environments.  Electronic product design oriented to IoT with ESP32-WROOM-32 espressif, Raspberry Pi and ARM microcontrollers, ST microelectronics, Silicon Labs, PCB design.  Programming via Micropython and C, embedded Linux, C and Python

Senior Advisors

Jeff Carmichael

Senior Advisor
Jeff Carmichael is a serial entrepreneur and resident of San Juan, PR. He is a co-founder and President of HT High Trend International, LLC (HTI) based in San Juan. HTI through its Brazilian affiliate is the owner of the concession for approximately 600,000 streetlight poles in Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro. In addition to managing the street lighting network, the company also leases space on its poles for cameras, WiFi hotspots, 5G providers, and other IOT sensors as part of a growing smart city. The company is currently expanding into other South American countries.

Carmichael previously practiced as a certified public accountant with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions and strategic planning for privately held businesses, including major Coca-Cola bottlers across the United States prior to and including their consolidation into Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE).

Alex Monje

Senior Advisor
Alexander Monje serves as an advisor to RUBIDEX™. Alex is the Founder of Biscayne Ventures, an investment firm, and serves as Chief Legal Officer of Benessere Investment Group, a consulting and advisory firm with a focus on special purpose acquisition companies. Alex regularly advises startups and established companies, focusing on legal, business development, and operations strategies. Previously, Alex represented domestic and international investors and entrepreneurs, small to midsize private companies, and public companies in commercial and securities disputes and as a corporate advisor.

Prior to commencing his legal practice, Alex spent time in institutional equity sales at Gabelli & Company and investment management at Morgan Stanley. Alex graduated with Honors from the University of Miami School of Law and earned his B.S. from the University of Miami.

Tim Pazda

Senior Advisor - Business Development
Experienced Vice President Of Business Development with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. Strong security sales professional skilled in Enterprise SaaS, Sales, Strategic Partnerships, Professional Services, and Data Center.

Chris Stachewicz

Senior Advisor - Compliance
18 years experience in various IT positions, including: management, military cyberspace policies, cyberspace operations planning. 

Dale Hotten

Senior Advisor - Business Development
Leading ESG & Sustainability innovation with 20+ years of landing & expanding business-decision-making technology solutions for the circular economy. Focus to scale POC business cases through "early-adopter" phase for fast, high ROI to capitalize untapped revenue streams. Leader of enterprise OT automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)/Industry 4.0/SaaS in Utilities, Energy/Renewables, Climate tech, Transportation.