Executive Team
Oscar Rodriguez, CEO
Kathleen Miller, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Sonny Bettis, CTO
Keith Bhatia, Senior Vice President Americas - General Manager Japan
Steve Whipps, Senior Vice President EMEA
Yong Shu, Senior Vice President, Asia
Stan Little, Senior Vice President - Marketing and Business Development
Stan Chilton, Senior Vice President Service, Operations and Quality
Jay Whitehurst, Senior Vice President Engineering
Oscar Rodriguez
CEO
Oscar Rodriguez is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry, including specific expertise in voice, video, data and related telecommunications technologies. As CEO of Movius, Oscar is leading the company in the charge to transform the way communications services are created and delivered, and to enable carrier and enterprise customers to drive new revenues and greater market share, as they move to embrace the new world of IP-based services.
His corporate experience includes positions at multi-national companies such as Motorola, DuPont, Nortel Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, where he gained experience in Enterprise and Carrier wireline and wireless applications and systems design. He also participated in the startup and scaling of three communications companies, and an initial public offering in which he brought leading-edge technologies and applications to the global marketplace.
Prior to his current role, Oscar held the position of Chief Marketing Officer for Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise Business Group, where he worked to re-define the company's strategic position as a global competitor in the Enterprise marketplace. Oscar was also President & CEO of Riverstone Networks, a public communications technology company delivering Carrier MPLS/VPLS/Ethernet solutions. At Riverstone, he restructured the company to focus on its core competencies, reconstituted the board of directors and, with his new management team, executed a turn around strategy to become the recognized technology leader in the Carrier Metro Ethernet marketplace. Riverstone was subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies in 2006.
At Nortel Networks, Oscar was responsible for two of the company's multi-national divisions. As President of Nortel's Intelligent Internet data products division, he directed the effort to deliver profitable, high performance IP-based products to both Carrier and Enterprise customers. As President of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions division, he led the effort to deliver innovative Customer Care applications, VoIP, and internet security solutions.
Prior to Nortel, as President and Chief Operating Officer of Arris Interactive, he helped established the company as the leading provider of Data and Telephony Access solutions for the Broadband CATV marketplace.
Oscar is a member of the board of EXAR Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAR), a semiconductor company in Silicon Valley. He also sits on the Dean's Board of Advisors for the College of Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has completed post-graduate studies in Strategic Marketing at The Harvard Business School, and the corporate director's education program at the Director's College at Stanford University's School of Law.
Kathleen Miller
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Kathleen (Kathy) Miller is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. With over 15 years of experience in the software industry, Kathy has extensive experience in financial management, software and hardware accounting, mergers and acquisitions, SEC regulatory operations and reporting, Sarbanes Oxley compliance and driving operational efficiency. She is a results-oriented executive with additional expertise in public accounting from her tenure with the audit firm of Coopers & Lybrand.
Kathy brings significant business operating experience from subsequent leadership positions in several public high-technology companies. Prior to joining Movius she served as the Senior Vice President for Global Accounting and Finance at Witness Systems (acquired by Verint, Inc. in May 2007). While at Witness Systems Kathy grew the finance department to scale with the business as it increased from $20M to over $200M in annual revenue. During her time at Witness Systems, she participated in their IPO, operational growth of the company, managed the global financial operations, and drove the analysis and integration of several key strategic acquisitions.
A graduate of Alfred University, Kathy holds a Bachelors of Science degree in accounting and is a New York State certified public accountant (CPA).
Sonny Bettis
CTO
Sonny Bettis is a communications visionary. Bettis provides strategic leadership in developing and implementing platforms, services and applications, guiding them through conception to beta testing to marketplace.
During his tenure, Bettis has been responsible for a multitude of projects including hardware, software and systems design. He served as the company's technical leader, bringing strategy, design and development for Versera voice messaging solutions since 1984. Bettis developed strategies that increase the companies competitive advantages through the application of innovative technologies and technological processes. He has lead system architecture analysis and planning, bringing technical innovations that facilitate meeting the company's business objectives. Bettis has authored or co-authored 4 patents and additional 15 patent applications. Bettis is a respected technology professional, and has presented at CT Expo, Services Networks Spring, and IEEE.
Keith Bhatia
Senior Vice President Americas - General Manager Japan
Keith brings more than 20 years of communications technology, sales and business development experience to the role of Senior Vice President - Americas and General Manger - Japan. In this role, Keith will manage the direct sales, channel sales and sales engineering for the Americas and will also be the General Manager for all Japan activities. Keith has been the lead executive at IP Unity responsible for Sales, Marketing and Business Development. He was responsible for building the company's extensive partner portfolio and the global market successes achieved through IP Unity's relationships with Siemens, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Motorola, Sonus, Sylantro and many others. He has also managed the company's expansion into the Japanese carrier market, and has had a very prominent role in shaping the company's strategies in IMS implementation, fixed-mobile convergence and video applications.
Keith came to the company from SS8/ADC, where he served as vice president for global sales, leading his team to generate more than $100 million in revenue. Prior to that, led Global Sales and Marketing for ADC, and led a range of wireless business and marketing functional groups at Nokia, Ericsson and Philips Telecom and Data Systems UK.
Keith holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from Nova Southeast University in Florida, and a MBA from Sheffield Hallum University in the United Kingdom. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a sought-after speaker, chairing technical sessions at many IEC and Pulver conferences on IMS and Fixed-Mobile Convergence in North America, EMEA and Asia. In addition, Keith is on the advisory boards of a number of companies.
Steve Whipps
Senior Vice President EMEA
Steve Whipps, as Senior Vice President EMEA, is based in London and is the General Manager responsible for all activities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Steve is a 30 year veteran of the telecommunications industry and brings a wealth of experience and deep knowledge of carrier services and applications from companies such as Cisco and AT&T. He was most recently President EMEA and Latin America of Riverstone Networks where he was responsible for sales and regional objectives for the carrier-based Metro Ethernet solutions market. Previously, Steve was Vice President of Sales EMEA for CIENA Corporation and was focused on driving best practices in sales excellence and growing the business. He holds a Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering from ( Birmingham UK ) is a member of the Institute of Directors.
Yong Shu
Senior Vice President, Asia
Yong leads the Asia Pacific sales region as Senior Vice President, Asia. He brings with him 20 years of networking experience and leadership roles.
Prior to joining Movius, Yong was the Vice President, Enterprise Business Group, APAC with Alcatel-Lucent where he lead a multi-country regional support center, strengthened alliances and channels within the region and expanded Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise business development, support and operations in Asia Pacific. Before Lucent acquired Riverstone in 2006, Yong was the Vice President and General Manager for Riverstone's APAC business.
Prior to Riverstone, Yong made tremendous strides at EMC China as the Vice President and General Manager of the company's Telco, Media and Entertainment Industries. He was responsible for the development and implementation of the unit's business, which included growing a service provider-focused sales team and developing new sales territories.
For nine years, prior to EMC, Yong played a major role at Stratacom/Cisco Systems China as one of the initial contributors to the company's success in that region. Through his leadership the Telco and Service Provider business segment accounted for roughly a third of Cisco's business in China.
Yong holds a bachelor's degree from Shanghai University of Science and Technology, a master's degree from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from Dowling College in New York.
Stan Little
Senior Vice President - Marketing and Business Development
Stan Little is responsible for all Marketing and Business Development activities including product marketing, marketing communications, product management and systems engineering as well as developing new partners and strategic alliances. He has been in the telecommunications industry for more than 21 years marketing software applications to tier one communications carriers and has held key positions in new product development and product management, strategic alliances, business development, and sales management. Little was most recently the Senior Vice President of Operations at Glenayre Messaging, and previously Vice President of Consumer Solutions at Sylantro Systems Corporation, a leading supplier of VoIP applications software. Additionally, he has worked for such notable firms as Hewlett Packard, Pacific Telesis, Octel Communications, and Lucent Technologies.
Little earned a BS in electrical engineering from Duke University, MS in electrical engineering from Purdue University and MBA in marketing and finance from the University of California, Berkeley
Stan Chilton
Senior Vice President Service, Operations and Quality
Stan Chilton is Senior Vice President of Service, Operations and Quality and brings more than 27 years of telecommunications experience to Movius. Stan has a long track record of optimizing operations, improving customer service and maximizing productivity in diverse global environments. In this new role Stan will focus on improving quality and operational performance while developing dynamic programs that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Stan is a veteran of Nortel where he performed a wide range of functions related to delivering client satisfaction and improving quality and operations. His most recent posting was as Vice President of Business Transformation where he lead the global transformation efforts of Nortel's services business. Previously he was Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Services and focused on re-engineering and driving customer focus and quality in Enterprise markets worldwide.
Stan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Science in the Management of Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jay Whitehurst
Senior Vice President Engineering
Jay Whitehurst is Senior Vice President of Engineering. As an industry veteran, Jay has gained extensive experience in R&D, Business Development, General Management, Customer Service and Operations. During his 15 years in Design and Development at Nortel and Black & Decker, Jay drove product evolution strategy utilizing next generation technologies and led the development of large-scale software programs to create new capabilities and restructure existing platforms regaining predictability of content, schedule and quality. While at Nortel, he twice received Chairman's Award, Nortel's highest honor. The first for creating and delivering the first zero defect software generic to NTT in Japan and the second for Nortel's DMS Evolution program where a large batch software release was structurally and functionally decoupled to allow 16 products to autonomously release on layered platforms.
He most recently served as president and general manager of the Switching Solutions Group for Tekelec. He brings technical leadership from small and large companies. He is a results oriented executive with a proven track record for establishing vision and developing the right strategies to drive change.
Jay holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education and Technology from Appalachian State University.







