Leadership

Our Core Values

Our CellGate leadership team is passionate and dedicated to the clients we serve, and the products and solutions we provide to them.

This is what we stand for.

The Executive Team

Noel Gouldin

Founder & President

After a decade as VP of Marketing for Weblink Wireless where he led product development efforts, Noel began to research how cellular technology could be used to improve...

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Herb Roberts

Chief Financial Officer

Herb’s global 40-year career includes serving as the Chief Financial Officer of public, private, and development-stage companies across many sectors including healthcare, technology, media, broadcasting, telecommunications, e-commerce, consumer products and financial services industries. He has e...

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Ken Shaw

Executive Vice President

Ken has been leading CellGate's sales efforts since 2014. He is a charismatic strategic thinker who has had success across multiple industries in building and scaling companies.

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Dino Duronio

Vice President, Operations

Dino has over 35 yrs experience in operations, business development, program management, supply chain and manufacturing in DoD, telecommunications, oil and gas, utilities and contract manufacturing environments. This includes stints at Crown Texas, Dayton Rogers, Flextronics International, Mille...

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Debi Williams

Vice President, Support Services

Debi spent over 22 years with RealPage, Inc., a real estate property management software company in a variety of key roles. Her knowledge about the property management world is second to none, and makes her the ideal leader for our support teams.

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Andre DeFreitas

Director, Product Development

Andre has led CellGate's product development efforts and technical support teams since 2014. He has been President Noel Gouldin's "right hand" in developing the new technologies CellGate is known for.

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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.

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David was previously a managing director with Duff and Phelps and also co-founded was the co-founder, CEO, Growth Capital partners (GCP), 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., where…

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he has been the Vice President of Strategy & Development and now leads as CEO, Joe led a comprehensive business turnaround that pulled the company out of near bankruptcy, and set in place a new long term strategy to deliver sustainable, profitable growth. Joe helped secure capital, replaced the Board of Directors and the executive team, championed a new, data-centric business approach, optimized the product portfolio, expanded to adjacent markets via strategic acquisition, and delivered operational excellence through asset utilization, margin enhancement, and facility/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.

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In 1993, Jeff co-founded internet service provider OnRamp Technologies, which became the 1st 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. Ublip was acquired by Numerex 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.