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As founding CEO with the company since its start-up potential was conceived, Ashley Stephenson led Reva to great success with important customer wins and prestigious industry recognition. Reva's string of industry accolades is bringing RFID solutions into focus with network innovation, technology excellence and manufacturing merit. Prior to co-founding Reva Systems, Stephenson was CEO and then Chairman of Xedia Corporation, a developer of advanced Internet access equipment, up until its acquisition by Lucent in 1999. While at Xedia, Stephenson was awarded "CEO of the Year" by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council. Prior to Xedia, Stephenson was Vice President of Marketing at ISIS Distributed Systems, a provider of software and integration services for Reliable Group Messaging acquired by Stratus Computer. Stephenson began his career in Hi-Tech at IBM R&D in the U.K. During recent years Stephenson has taught Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor in the Babson College MBA program, and is on the advisory board of Middlesex Community College's RFID Training Program. He has also served on the Board of Directors of several venture-backed startups and industry consortia. Stephenson is a graduate of Imperial College, London (Physics) and an Associate of the Royal College of Science. He is the holder of several U.S. patents. | 