Meet the Team
entigenlogic® Leadership Team
President & CEO
Tom Shirley
Tom Shirley is the president and CEO of entigenlogic®, with a solid track record of consistently delivering innovative customer solutions and business results. He has senior-level experience at established companies such as IBM, Motorola, and others across IT, telecommunications, and software technologies.
Direct experience, including a six-year European expatriate assignment, encompasses multinational product development, global product deployment, and customer support. Most recently, Tom was the SVP who led product development for the start-up company Cleversafe, which was purchased by IBM for $1.3 billion. A strong innovator, he holds 70+ patents.
He completed PhD coursework at SMU in Dallas, Texas and holds a Master of Science degree as well as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Chief Design Officer
Tom MacTavish
Tom MacTavish has 30 years’ experience in Artificial Intelligence acquired through leading Motorola Labs’ Center for Human Interaction Research and NCR Corporation’s Human Interface Technology Center. In addition to his work at entigenlogic®, Tom is an adjunct professor at IIT Institute of Design.
Tom has participated in the full range of product conceptualization and development phases resulting in products using many methods and technologies. He served as the Director
of Engineering for the team formally recognized by IEEE with a Milestone Award in October 2019 for their contribution to creating Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11). Tom currently holds 3 patents. He holds master’s degrees in Library and Information Science from University of Michigan and in English from University of Iowa, with a bachelor’s degree in English from Central Michigan University.
Tom has maintained strong ties to university research and has served as corporate liaison and advisor to The Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford.
CFO
Gordon Gruszka
Gordon is an accomplished financial and operational strategist, thought leader and tactician with senior-level experience at established companies such as Motorola, Motorola Mobility pre and post Google, Deutsche Post DHL Group and Advisory Board experience for cloud-based SaaS solution provider. He has direct experience in leading Organizational Turnarounds, Go-To-Market Growth Strategies, Sale and Recapitalizations, Business Operations, Audit, Corporate Accounting & Planning, Treasury, M&A, Divestitures, Carve-Outs, Start-Ups, and New Ventures Investments.
As a former CFO, President & CEO of a consumer products manufacturing company owned by DHL he led the business turnaround, sale to PE and recapitalization. Prior to that, he conceptualized and led the Motorola Global Supply Chain integration, implemented Financial Centers of Excellence in Asia, established manufacturing operations in India and Brazil, played a pivotal role in the spin-off of Motorola Mobility into two publicly traded companies, led due diligence for the $12.5 billion Google acquisition of Mobility, successfully defended antitrust arguments with the U.S. Department of Justice and led post-merger integration of Motorola Mobility to Google.
Gordon holds a Master’s in Accountancy from Heller College of Business Roosevelt University and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Northern Illinois University.
VP of Sales and Business Development
Bill Edgar
Bill Edgar is a Go-to-Market specialist developing and delivering integrated, global, revenue growth strategies for clients.
Over his career, Bill has advised companies and governments around the world, providing market development and business strategy. His professional experience includes stints with Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, IHSMarkit (now part of S&P Global) and Janes, a leading data and information company specializing in military, aerospace and transportation. As a consultant, Bill has advised numerous small and large businesses across the IT, economics, aerospace, energy and transportation sectors.
Bill received a B.A. degree in International Studies from the University of South Florida and M.S. in International Affairs, with concentrations in GIS and System Dynamics modeling, from Georgia Tech.
Head of Product Development
Andy Chu
Andy has 30 years of experience managing, architecting, and building software systems. Andy leads software engineering teams in the development of new and cutting-edge technologies.
Previously, Andy was the Head of Nokia’s North American Packet Core R&D and Director of Engineering of Motorola’s 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Mobility Management Entity (MME) product line and Motorola’s Integrated Digital Enhanced Network Base Site Controller (BSC) product line. Andy currently holds 2 patents.
Andy has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
Director of Technology Sales Support
Neil O'Driscoll
Neil O’Driscoll is our Director of Technology Sales Support. He is a results-driven senior software engineering executive with extensive experience in large systems software development. His experience bridges the gaps between engineering and customer experience. Neil’s strategic engineering initiatives result in revenue growth, profitability, and increased customer satisfaction. He remains hands-on in
the design and architecture of customer solutions.
Prior to joining entigenlogic®, Neil was with Motorola for 20 years. As Director of Engineering, he led all engineering-related aspects of Motorola’s biggest infrastructure business including System Architecture, Development System Tests, Product Management, Project Management, and Tier 3 support.
Neil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics from University College Cork in Cork Ireland
Our Board of Directors
Board Chairman
Dennis Roberson
Dennis Roberson is the Founder and CEO of Roberson and Associates, a technology and management consulting firm serving government, commercial and academic customers. He is Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's Technology Advisory Council and a member of the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee. He is a Research Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Dennis was the founding board member of Cleversafe, a data storage company which IBM purchased for $1.3 billion. He was EVP and CTO of Motorola, Inc. and held Executive positions at IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, AT&T and NCR.
Dennis has Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Washington State University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Tom Shirley
Tom Shirley is the president and CEO of entigenlogic®, with a solid track record of consistently delivering innovative customer solutions and business results. He has senior-level experience at established companies such as IBM, Motorola, and others across IT, telecommunications, and software technologies.
Direct experience, including a six-year European expatriate assignment, encompasses multinational product development, global product deployment, and customer support. Most recently, Tom was the SVP who led product development for the start-up company Cleversafe, which was purchased by IBM for $1.3 billion. A strong innovator, he holds 56 patents.
He completed PhD coursework at SMU in Dallas, Texas and holds a Master of Science degree as well as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Samme Thompson
Samme Thompson is the President of Telit Associates, Inc., a strategy advisory practice focused on telecommunications, IT, and data science ventures. He currently serves on the boards of American Tower Corporation, the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Labs, and the University of Pittsburgh’s graduate and undergraduate business schools.
He previously worked at Motorola Corporation as senior vice president, responsible for corporate strategy, global business development and One Motorola Ventures; as senior advisor to a global data analytics consulting firm; and as an investment banker serving telecom, computer services and information technology clients. He also held senior positions at AT&T and McKinsey & Company.
Samme earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University in Texas and his MBA from the University of Pittsburg.
Amreesh Modi
Amreesh was EVP/Chief Technology Officer at Navteq Corporation, where he drove development of new world-wide mapping database and navigation services. These innovations enabled Navteq to expand beyond its traditional automotive business into new markets for mobile devices and location services, significantly increasing its revenues and profitability. Navteq, now called Here Technologies, was acquired by Nokia for $8.1 billion.
Before joining NAVTEQ, he served in a variety of leadership positions at Motorola. He played a pivotal role in the development of the CDMA and GSM cellular infrastructures and led the creation of the industry’s first Short Message Service (SMS) application. As a VP/GM of Motorola’s Global Software
Division, he pioneered the company’s global software strategy and development of software centers world-wide. Prior to Motorola, Amreesh was at AT&T Bell Labs in many engineering
and management roles and designed the software recovery system for the 5ESS Switch, the first digital switching system in the world.
Amreesh holds a MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the University of Chicago.