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A seasoned technology executive specializing in business performance optimization, he was appointed CEO of Raptor Networks Technology, Inc. in March of 2004 and has raised in excess of $36.5M in equity funding to date. Prior, as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Technical Officer of Personnel Group of America, Inc., responsible for Strategic and Corporate Development, he supported a comprehensive financial restructuring and bond exchange, avoiding bankruptcy and adding at least five years of additional viability to the firm. In 16 years at General Motors Hughes Electronics, he filled a variety of roles, from systems engineer to Corporate Director of Market Research to Vice President, Air Traffic Control Division. He led the team that rebundled Hughes' $6B defense business prior to its sale to Raytheon, worked to bring the air traffic control business from a $120 million loss position to profitability in 18 months, and repositioned 42 technology startups within Hughes to maximize shareholder value.
As Senior Vice President and General Manager of ViaSat Satellite Networks, the commercial arm of ViaSat, Inc., he steered this business from a heavy loss position to profitability in 11 months, and from $3.9 million in revenues to over $65 million two years later, including the successful completion of an acquisition that doubled the size of the company for 20% of its equity value.
Wittenschlaeger, an Electrical Engineering graduate of the US Naval Academy, completed post-graduate work in Nuclear Engineering, achieving certification as a professional nuclear engineer. A graduate of the UCLA Executive Program in Business and co-founder of the school's Executive Program in Marketing, he was the winner of the inaugural Malcolm R. Currie Corporate Innovation Award at Hughes Electronics. A veteran of the Gulf War, he is a life member of the VFW. He has authored and is patent pending on 17 patents in distributed fabric transport, computation, storage, and control architectures. | 