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 2008.

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

Christine Loredo, VP of Marketing

Christine oversees the marketing strategy and execution at Orbit. She joins Orbit with over ten years experience in the wireless industry where she has been instrumental in driving consumer adoption of mobile data services. Prior to joining Orbit, Christine was the VP of Marketing for Trilibis where she was responsible for the Orbit brand strategy and driving mobile adoption on several mobile consumer services such as Match.com, Citysearch and Evite. Prior to Trilibis, Christine was a Director of Marketing in Yahoo!’s mobile group where she was responsible for marketing Yahoo!’s mobile services to its #1 mobile web portal position. Christine was also responsible for marketing Yahoo! Mail helping it become the world’s top used mobile mail service according to comScore. Prior to Yahoo!, Christine spent over five years at AOL Mobile most recently as Senior Director of Marketing and launched AIM Mobile, the first mobile IM experience in the U.S.

Christine holds a dual MIM/MBA degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kevin Smith, VP of Sales & Business Development

As Orbit’s Vice President of Sales & Business Development, Kevin is responsible for sales and partnerships with a focus on mobile operators and device manufacturers and content providers. Kevin was at Trilibis Mobile previously, and was responsible for strategic account development and alliance management. Prior to joining Trilibis, Kevin was at Real Networks, a leading creator of digital media services and software. At Real, Kevin held multiple positions including Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Sales and focused his efforts on mobile operators and mobile applications. Previously, Kevin was Director of Sales for i3 Mobile, the company that pioneered personalized content services for mobile phone users in North America.

Kevin holds a MBA in Marketing from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic University, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Clarkson University.