“I am pleased to announce that we have launched our Advisory Board with Daniel Collins as its first member. Our intent is to have at least a 3 member Advisory Board that is comprised of highly accomplished and reputed professionals from the IoT world who can help strengthen the Bridgera brand in a variety of ways. They will help us review and refine our strategy, strengthen our client base, and demonstrate thought leadership, including advising on the creation of patentable assets and processes.” Kamalesh Nayudu, Bridgera CEO

About Daniel Collins: Daniel Collins brings 30+ years of experience in bringing technology solutions to the market. He has a track record of success in product strategy and management, engineering, and service operations, particularly in wireless, IoT and SaaS.

Daniel spent the first half of his career in a variety of engineering and product roles within the wireless communications industry in Europe and the US, with companies such as Ericsson, Alcatel. In 2005, Daniel co-founded Jasper and served 11 years as CTO. Jasper was funded by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Temasek Holdings. Daniel built and led a team to deploy and grow the world-leading cellular Internet of Things (IoT) SaaS offering – the Jasper Control Center. As a result of the success of the Control Center, Jasper was acquired by Cisco Systems in March 2016 for $1.4B.

Daniel served as the first CTO of the Cisco IoT business unit, created to extend Cisco’s leadership beyond networking and expand the company’s role in IoT. He was responsible for technology innovation and scaling the solution globally. From March 2016 to December 2019, the number of served IoT devices was increased from approximately 20M to 115M, across 120 countries.

Daniel is the author of “Carrier Grade Voice over IP” (3 editions) and co-author of “3G Wireless Networks”, both published by McGraw-Hill. He is also the author or co-author of 47 patents.

Stay tuned for more exciting news of other reputed professionals joining our Advisory Board in the months ahead.