Manlio Allegra

President and CEO, Co-Founder

Manlio Allegra is the co-founder, president, CEO and chairman of the board for Polaris Wireless. He has authored several articles and is a frequently invited speaker and panelist at institutional investor conferences in Silicon Valley and around the world. In addition to investor conferences, he has also spoken at conferences such as Frost & Sullivan's Go Mobile, IWCE and People Tracking & Location in North America.

He has more than 20 years of experience in international business development and general management with Fortune 500 and start-up companies. He has worked for companies including Fiat Motor Co, Eli Lilly, Warner Communications and Sega Enterprises. During his career, he founded three successful multi-million dollar software publishing ventures including TecMagik, a $23 million publisher of video games and computer entertainment software; International Development Group, a strategic marketing and software publishing services consultancy for U.S., European and Asian companies; and a joint venture with Sega for the North American market.

Mr. Allegra earned a Master of Business Adminstration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Milan Polytechnic Institute.