Improving the Mobile Web Experience

Mr. Cranstone has founded four technology companies since he vacated the captain’s seat at American Airlines in 1989. Prior to founding 5o9, he founded Secure64, winner of the 2007 Entrepreneurial Innovation Award from the Itanium Solutions Alliance, Remote Communications and The James Group, leading these organizations as CEO, chief evangelist, technical innovator, and Chief Solutions Architect, rooted in network and Internet communications technologies. He has a successful track record of delivering complex technology innovations on time and on budget. At Remote Communications he co-invented and managed the released mod_gzip with Mr. Kiley. Mod_gzip has since become the de facto standard for Internet content acceleration. The company was subsequently purchased by Hyperspace Communications. Mr. Cranstone has several technical papers and speaking engagements to his credit.
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Ms. Coker brings 27 years of marketing, sales, operations, and management experience to the 5o9 team. Prior to co-founding 5o9, Ms. Coker spent eight years helping early stage businesses develop and execute their go-to-market strategies in her roles as President of Aspenwood Consulting, and Vice President of Marketing and Consulting Services for Tactical Marketing Ventures. While at Access Graphics, Ms. Coker led a $250 million products division, regularly exceeding both GP and net income goals. Ms. Coker successfully brought to market and managed the market-leading Jumbo product line for Hewlett-Packard’s CMS division, and served in national account sales, operations, and marketing roles during her 10-year tenure with Merisel, where she launched hundreds of products and companies into the channel, including, Intuit, Toshiba, Lotus, Compaq and Microsoft.
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Mr. Kiley has been developing leading edge Data Communications Technology (DCT) for over 27 years. Prior to co-founding 5o9, he helped numerous people and organizations to efficiently deliver data and content over increasingly complex networks. During his time with IBM, and as an independent consultant, Mr. Kiley’s work has directly enabled companies such as Wal-Mart and UPS to achieve their worldwide logistical dominance. Mr. Kiley’s early development accomplishments helped lay the foundation for Internet communications, with his code still resident in many of IBM’s best selling solutions. On a broader scale, Mr. Kiley’s DCT development efforts in software such as ELSEWARE, mod_gzip, RIPL, and PFACOM have irreversibly changed the foundation of network communications and enabled faster and easier communications over the Internet.
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