GSATC Learning Lunch

About our Speaker:

Ralph Heredia is the Vice President of business development and co-founder of Zipit Wireless, Inc., in Greenville, S.C. He is directly responsible for all aspects of product development, innovation, research, marketing and customer/partner relationships. Heredia is also the inventor of Zipit’s first & second Wireless Messenger instant messaging devices for teens and pre-teens introduced respectively in late 2004 & and 2007.

Heredia has more than 28 years of experience in the consumer electronics, personal computer and multimedia industries. Prior to helping establish Zipit, he helped established the Consumer Media Systems division at Aeronix in 2002. In addition, he has also held management and product development positions with several mid-sized technology companies, including Escient/OpenGlobe and avACTIVE. Heredia was also the systems architecture manager for Cirrus Logic. Prior to that, he held several positions, including senior principal analyst for NCR Corporation and was a member of the technical staff at AT&T’s Bell Labs (now part of Lucent Corporation), where he worked for almost 14 years.

He has worked in a management, product development or marketing role on developing the technology used in many of today’s “staple” electronics products including MP3 players, DVD recorders and players and Internet radio receivers.

Heredia has had an extensive education in all aspects of electronics and computer sciences, has authored a chapter in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1999 and has been granted eight U.S. patents for various inventions related to the technology field. A dedicated husband, and father of two sons, Heredia enjoys music, hiking/camping with the Boy Scouts and socializing with friends.