Leadership

Our CoreValues

The CellGate leadership team is driven by a commitment to our customers, our partners, and the solutions we deliver. We believe great technology should solve real-world challenges, create lasting value, and be backed by exceptional service.

These principles guide every decision we make and define who we are as a company.

Innovation

Innovation at CellGate isn't about adding features — it's about solving problems in ways others haven't considered. We continuously challenge conventional approaches to property access and security, combining technologies in smarter ways to create greater flexibility and control. This philosophy has fueled innovations such as TrueCloud Connect™, Watchman®, OmniPoint®, and our unique ability to blend wired and wireless solutions throughout a property. By designing around real-world challenges instead of technological limitations, we help customers secure more access points, in more places, with fewer compromises.

Solve Meaningful Problems

We believe technology should adapt to the property — not the other way around. That's why we develop solutions that help customers secure people, property, and assets while simplifying the way access is managed every day.

By combining access control, visitor management, live video telephone entry (video intercom), access credentials, and both wired and wireless connectivity options within a unified cloud platform, we give customers the flexibility to deploy the right solution for each access point. The result is greater security, greater efficiency, and fewer compromises.

The Executive Team

Noel Gouldin

Founder & President

Noel Gouldin

Founder & President

After a decade leading product development at Weblink Wireless, Noel saw an opportunity that landline-centric access control was missing entirely.

Ken Shaw

Executive Vice President

Ken Shaw

Executive Vice President

Ken has led CellGate's sales efforts since 2014, bringing a track record of building and scaling companies across multiple industries.

Debi Williams

Vice President, Support Services

Debi Williams

Vice President, Support Services

Debi brings more than 35 years in multifamily housing, including a 22-year career at RealPage spanning Product Management, Client Success, and beyond.

Sam Amiri

Director of Operations

Sam Amiri

Director of Operations

Sam leads global operations and multi-country supply chain strategy, ensuring every CellGate product reaches the market with reliability and scale.

Andre DeFreitas

Director, Product Development

Andre DeFreitas

Director, Product Development

Andre has driven CellGate's product development since 2014 — widely regarded as the technical force behind the innovations the Company is known for.

Michael Venoit

Vice President of Sales, System Integration & Security

Michael Venoit

VP of Sales, System Integration & Security

Michael brings more than 20 years in the system integration and security channel, with a record of building high-performance distribution relationships.

Tom Welham

Vice President of Sales, Fence & Gate

Tom Welham

Vice President of Sales, Fence & Gate

Tom leads CellGate's Fence & Gate sales channel with a reputation for revitalizing teams and building the kind of customer relationships that last.

Nikhil Singh

Controller

Nikhil Singh

Controller

Nikhil leads CellGate's financial strategy and controllership, drawing on leadership experience at Amazon Web Services and KPMG.

The Board of Directors

The Company's Board of Directors are led by CellGate Founder and President, Noel Gouldin. The Board also includes an impressive array of skilled executives with unique backgrounds.

Bill Gouldin

Bill Gouldin is a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley, and has been a financial advisor for 38 years. He and his wife, Lori, are both native Houstonians and are parents to two children. Bill and Lori support a number of charities that focus on serving children and furthering their faith.

David Sargent

David Sargent is a Senior Advisor at Statesman Business Advisors, and is involved with M&A activities in the Southwest. He has more than 30 years of M&A origination, execution, management, and board experience with middle-market public and private companies.

David was previously a managing director with Duff and Phelps and also co-founded GCP (Growth Capital Partners), a merchant and investment banking firm.

Joe Cutillo

Joe Cutillo has over 30 years' experience leading complex, transformational change to deliver sustainable growth through strategic vision, innovation, and operational excellence.

During his current tenure at Sterling Infrastructure, Inc., Joe has served as Vice President of Strategy & Development and now leads as CEO. He directed a comprehensive business turnaround that pulled the company out of near bankruptcy, set a new long-term strategy to deliver sustainable and profitable growth, secured capital, replaced the Board and executive team, championed a data-centric business approach, optimized the product portfolio, expanded to adjacent markets through strategic acquisition, and delivered operational excellence through asset utilization, margin enhancement, and facility and overhead reduction.

Jeff Smith

Jeff is no stranger to emerging technologies. As a scientist for Motorola, The Robotics Institute, and the SuperCollider, he has worked on wireless sensor and control systems developed for the FBI, CIA, DOD, DOE, NASA, and USPS.

In 1993, Jeff co-founded internet service provider OnRamp Technologies, which became the first investment of Verio. During Jeff's tenure at Verio, the company grew to one of the largest web-hosting companies in the world and a principal international ISP.

Considered a pioneer in the emerging M2M communications market, Jeff founded SensorLogic in 2002, now one of the industry's leading Telemetry Service Providers. In 2007, Jeff co-founded Ublip, an M2M Telemetry Services company that provided Web 2.0 applications for remote asset management. Numerex acquired Ublip in 2009, and Jeff later served on its Board and as Chief Strategy and Technical Officer. Jeff currently serves as Founder & Managing Partner of QuantumIOT.