Alex Panelli, President and CEO

Alex brings to Orbit™ a wealth of sales, marketing and operational experience from the mobile device and software industries. In his role as CEO, Alex focuses on corporate vision and strategy, external communications and customer relationships. Prior to Orbit, Alex was CEO of Trilibis Mobile, where he led the company to become a leader in mobile social networking and mobile search with clients such as Citysearch, Match.com, Local.com and FriendFinder and operators including Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Prior to Trilibis, Panelli worked for 15 years in management and consulting roles at several high tech companies including Palm, Converge, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola.

Alex holds an MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Rish Mehta, CTO

Rish is responsible for Orbit's product strategy, engineering and operations. Prior to working on Orbit, he co-founded mobile location technology company Blipstream, which was acquired by Trilibis Mobile in 2009. Before Blipstream, Rish spent 10 years creating wireless and consumer technologies at Intel. He worked on new start-up businesses for Intel Capital’s New Business Initiatives Division including an RFID business, which was acquired by Impinj in 2008.

Rish has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He also has 3 patents pending.