Board of Directors
David Morse
Dr. Morse has served as Co-President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since October 8, 2007. From late 2001 to 2005, Dr. Morse was involved in several start-up ventures providing consulting services (People Basics from August 2001 to April 2002 and ESP Networks from April 2002 to July 2004). In September 2005, he joined with Joseph Scalisi and Desiree Mejia to incorporate Location Based Technologies, Corp. (“Old LBT”) (formerly known as PocketFinder, Inc.), which we acquired in October 2007. Old LBT had been formed to develop the PocketFinder personal locators. Dr. Morse brings 20 years of executive-level experience to us. The majority of his career focused on the consumer market, leading him to serve as Vice President of Consumer Billing Services for Pacific Bell from 2000 to 2001. His passion for customer service led to his appointment as Chief Customer Officer for Pacific Bell from 1997 to 2000 where he worked directly with the Chairman and the Executive Committee to establish the alignment of corporate strategy and process management objectives. Prior to Pacific Bell, he served as Vice President of Sales and Service for SBC, now AT&T, the second largest telecommunications company in the United States, from 1991 to 1997. While at SBC, he led an organization of more than 4,000 employees in 23 locations, serving 7,000,000 households. Subsequent to leading the consumer organization, he served as Vice President of Product Marketing responsible for SBC’s core billing product.
Dr. Morse received a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Columbia Pacific University, a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Morse has given keynote addresses on education and business management to several organizations and lectured at University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, University of California at Los Angeles and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also served as Chair for the University of California’s Board focused on Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA).
Greggory Haugen
Mr. Haugen was elected as the lead director in October 2011. He has been an active financier since 1990, leading teams investing over $5 billion in various companies and portfolios of distressed consumer, real estate and residential assets in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Haugen was a founding Senior Partner of CarVal Investors, a Value Fund with more than $10 billion in assets under management when he left in 2008. Since that time, Mr. Haugen has invested in and provided consulting advice to several early stage companies, including the company.
Mr. Haugen previously served on the Board of Capital Partners Funding Group, Inc., a U.S. business and financial consulting company whose mission is to provide clients with long term capital funding solutions using very sophisticated financial programs that utilize various tax advantaged insurance products. Mr. Haugen received his Masters of Management from the J.L Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1990 with concentrations in Finance, Marketing, International Business and Organizational Behavior. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Haugen was a Senior Accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick in Minneapolis after obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Boston University in 1985.
Chuck Smith
Mr. Smith was elected as a director in October 2011. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of SBC West, now AT&T and formerly SBC Pacific Bell/SBC Nevada Bell, overseeing more than 50,000 employees who delivered telecom products and services to that company’s millions of business and consumer customers in California and Nevada. Mr. Smith joined Pacific Bell in 1967 after graduating from California State University at Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science with additional graduate course work and spent his more than 30 year telecom career predominantly in Operations and Executive Management positions.
In 1985 he completed a graduate program for executives at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Smith was named the fourth Alfred North Whitehead Distinguished Lecturer in Lifelong Learning at the University of Redlands. Additionally, Mr. Smith was Vice Chair of the Board for USC’s Center for Telecommunications Management. He remains actively involved as an advisor for numerous business, educational, and community support boards and agencies. Currently Mr. Smith is Vice Chairman of the Board of the University of San Francisco and has also received honorary doctorate degrees from Menlo College and Holy Names College.
Jeff Devlin
Mr. Devlin is an advertising industry veteran with over 25 years of production experience in the advertising, sales and entertainment industries.
Previously in his career, Mr. Devlin served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Doner Advertising, where he placed accounts with major companies and organizations including the National Football League (NFL), Atari, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, The Coca-Cola Company and Intel. Mr. Devlin also produced General Motors’ first-ever branded feature film, “The Last Ride,” featuring Dennis Hopper.
Devlin’s industry honors include 17 CLIO Awards; 16 Andy Awards for advertising excellence; 21 Telly Awards for outstanding commercials; four Effie Media Awards; and a prestigious Gold Camera from the U.S. International Film Festival. His award-winning piece for Visa, Olympics is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.
Mr. Devlin is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the United States Equestrian Team, Somerset Hills Handicapped Riders, and Mojo Organics. He is also on the Board of Advisors for Atari and Sirius XM Satellite Radio and is a member of the executive committee for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP).
Mr. Devlin received a Bachelor’s degree from Bethel University in Nashville, Tenn. and completed graduate work at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
Desiree Mejia
Mrs. Mejia has served as a member of the board since the inception of Location Based Technologies in 2005 and is a co-founder of the company. Mrs. Mejia is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer for SkyBell, Inc., a leading-edge provider and creator of video doorbells and other security technology.
As a co-founder of LBT, Mrs. Mejia developed the PocketFinder concept after realizing that a true need exists to “see” your children even when you can’t be with them. With co-founder Joseph Scalisi, Mrs. Mejia took the concept of using a GSM/GPRS tracking platform, combining it with a mapping service and creating a revolutionary tracking system to the next step of reality. Thus, the PocketFinder system was born.
Previously, Mrs. Mejia performed as an operations manager and gained experience working with venture capital firms to help raise funds for the technology sector. She also consulted with a wireless manufacturing company to assist with the launch of a new wireless device. Prior to this, Mrs. Mejia worked with Deloitte and Touche, LLP where she specialized in the technology and telecommunications field. Previously, Mrs. Mejia acted as the head researcher and assistant to the Chairman at MESA Research, whose clients included AT&T, Motorola, Nortel, 3Com and Phillips.
Mrs. Mejia has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from California State University, Dominguez Hills, California.