Mr. DeFeo is a serial President/CEO with more than 30 years of leadership experience in strategic planning, marketing and sales, customer care, six-sigma, manufacturing, and product/business development. Mr. DeFeo's experience touches nearly every facet of telecommunications and medical device industries including start-ups, managing hyper-growth, restructurings, global partnerships, turnarounds, mergers, and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in complex capital financings, having raised more than $1.7 billion in private/venture/public markets. Under his leadership, USWest NewVector's cellular business grew from start-up to profitability, with over one million subscribers, $1+ billion in revenues, and covering over 60 domestic markets with 3000+ employees.

He has managed negotiations and formed alliances with some of the most recognized global corporate partners, including MCI, Sony, Hyundai, Harris, Fluor Daniels, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Ericsson, and Lucent. Mr. DeFeo has been recognized for his keen management style and leadership skills on multiple occasions, including three USWest Chairman Awards.

John Stachowiak
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Stachowiak is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years experience in finance and management. He has participated in the development of five companies, three of which he took public, raising more than $500 million that resulted in market valuations exceeding $4 billion. His experience covers a broad array of sophisticated financing transactions including IPOs, secondary offerings, global partnerships, debt, valuations, and NASDAQ and SEC issues.

As a successful executive manager, Mr. Stachowiak has been responsible for instituting organizational processes and controls in a hyper-growth environment. He has led senior management teams in determining business strategy, operating tactics, key business metrics, and assigning ownership throughout high tech organizations. He is well versed in turnaround strategy, having reengineered a mature international business segment in only two years, to increase revenues by $100 million and net income by over $20 million. Most recently, he has started up a Telecom service provider in Central Europe..reaching cash flow breakeven within eighteen months.

A. Riley Eller
Vice President of Technology and Security

As a professional software developer, Mr. Eller began his career in embedded operating system development. His passion for networking and security ignited when he conceived and founded that company's TCP/IP product line. After a brief stint performing enterprise security audits, he returned to software development as the principal architect for ClickToSecure. Since 2004, he has managed CoCo's development of secure offline mobile networking and radio interoperability. In his spare time he invented self-decoding human-readable stack exploits, produced fully automated web intrusion, and contributed to a patented pattern language for describing network attack processes.

Mr. Eller's credits include the keynote address for the first Shmoo Con; speaking at DEFCON, BlackHat, and TTI/Vanguard; writing for DevX Security Zone and various Syngress titles; panels for Meet the Enemy and USENIX; appearances on CNN, ABC, CBC, and TechTV; and as the subject of a Business 2.0 article. As the public face of the Ghetto Hackers, his most famous creation is the Caezar's Challenge party held each year during DEFCON.  

Jeff Meyer
Vice President of Customer Satisfaction and Product Management

For five years Jeff Meyer has worked closely with all of CoCo's major customers and has led the Customer Satisfaction team in pre-sales engineering and proposal development, product management, post-sale system installation, training, and customer support. Prior to working at CoCo, Mr. Meyer filled a variety of marketing, technology, and business roles at Microsoft, Netscape, Macromedia, Campus Pipeline (now Sunguard Higher Education), and paid his dot com dues at Hardware.com. Prior to his business career, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Meyer earned a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering from MIT.  

Rebecca Grant
General Counsel

Ms. Grant is responsible for all legal and corporate governance affairs at CoCo. Prior to joining CoCo she was a corporate attorney at the law firms Lane Powell and Dorsey & Whitney, and advised companies in the areas of finance, mergers and acquisitions, international, tax, emerging technology, and general commercial matters. She has also served as a consultant for several Seattle-based biotechnology companies. Ms. Grant received a B.A. in Business from the University of Washington, a Juris Doctor from Georgia State University, and a Masters in Law from Georgetown University.  

Carey V. Tubbs
Vice President of Government Business Development

Mr. Tubbs has over 25 years global technical sales, marketing and management experience. Skilled in addressing the complex IT requirements of federal agencies, systems integrators and diplomats, his soft-skilled style has earned him numerous commendations. Specific clients have included the: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration and the British Government (Home Office),

Mr. Tubbs utilized his expertise in e-commerce and experiences in Latin America to develop a web portal specifically tailored towards Latin Americans. Strategically targeting the Dominican Republic due to the thriving economy and modern infrastructure MaravillaDom – Dominican Marvel became a model of early e-commerce in-country. Recent corporate highlights have included organizing the government public safety wireless group at Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs and material IT program sales to the Department of Justice and FAA.

Mr. Tubbs is thrilled to be at a technologically superior entrepreneurial company like CoCo Communications Corp. as it affords him with the true opportunity to leverage his background and clients in Washington D.C. and grow the firm into a market leader.