Paul Posner (President/CEO)

Paul Posner is CEO and owner of Pocket. He is an industry veteran, with more than twenty years of telecom experience. Prior to Pocket Posner ran San Antonio’s Discount Cellular and Paging chain, ultimately building it into one of the country’s biggest Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems dealers. Posner launched Pocket in May of 2006 with his own money, after deciding he could build a better network and offer better customer service.

In less than a year after its launch, Pocket’s performance far exceeded expectations. In just over six months, the company had established more than 120 retail locations with 450 employees to serve customers, opened a new headquarters in San Antonio and expanded its market into South Texas. Posner is also creator and founder of Houdinisoft, a simple and inexpensive software tool that unlocks cell phones and then reconfigures them with system settings of another service provider. Posner’s belief is that customers should have access to low cost, high quality wireless phone service that comes without fluctuating rates, hidden fees, contracts, or frustrating service agreements. He currently resides in San Antonio with his family.

James Mickey (Chief Operating Officer – South Texas)

Jim Mickey has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Pocket, Mickey was the President of Movida Communications, a prepaid provider marketing to the Hispanic market. He began his career at Movida as the Sr. VP Sales and Marketing in 2006. While at Movida the company became the fastest growing MVNO in the industry. He and his team were instrumental in growing distribution at Wal-Mart by over 50% and launching Family Dollar nationally to 3500 stores.

Prior to Movida Mickey joined Sprint in 1996 as area vice president for the PCS division in Central and South Texas, an area that included San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley.

In 2000, he was promoted to region president for Sprint’s PCS division, directing sales and operations for a region responsible for over 60% of Sprint’s wireless sales operations.

In 2003, Jim was promoted to National Vice President of Retail for Sprint. In this role, he led both Headquarters and field sales/service operations representing 800+ retail stores, over 10,000 employees in a $7B business unit.

Prior to joining Sprint, Mickey spent 17 years with AT&T/SWBT in Texas, North and South Carolina. His duties included overseeing the development of their call centers, business equipment sales, long distance and data sales teams.

A San Antonio native, Mr. Mickey earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1978. Mickey has served as an officer and board member on the UTSA Alumni Association’s Board of Directors from 1998-2004. He also serves UTSA on the Athletics Advisory Board. Jim was named the Alumnus of the Year by UTSA for 2007. He is also on the Board of Directors for Texas Hearing and Service Dogs, which trains dogs to provide service to the hearing impaired and physically challenged.

Jim is married and has 3 children. He enjoys fishing, hunting, golf, and time with the family.

Kimberly Nave (Vice President – Administration & Operations)

Kimberly Nave has more than 23 years of experience in the wireless communications industry. Kim began in 1985 with PageAmerica, a paging company headquartered in Hackensack NJ. She was hired as the Office/Business Manager for the San Antonio office. American Mobilphone Phone Paging purchased the San Antonio office in 1987 at which time she became the Business Manager for the San Antonio branch. American Mobilphone increased their customer base by 1000% in two years. In 1991 when Paul Posner bought the Paging Company, he changed the named to PageTexas, Kim remained the Business Manager. Later Paul bought and/or opened cellular resale locations and answering services. At that time Kim was promoted to Vice President of Administration. PageTexas changed names to Discount Cellular then to Discount Cellular & Paging then to One Call Communications. During this time they sold pagers and cellular phones and resold cellular airtime for every Carrier.

Now with Pocket Communications, a locally owned regional flat rate Cellular provider, Kim is the Vice President of Administration and Operations in charge of Logistics, Billing, Collections, Inventory and Sales Audit, Human Resources and the development of policies and procedures.

Kim is married with 2 children and enjoys her family, shopping and going to the lake.

Tim Clark (Chief Information Officer)

Tim Clark is the Chief Information Officer of Pocket. Mr. Clark joined Pocket originally in January, 2006 and helped build the IT systems and IT team up and through service launch in the spring of 2006. Mr. Clark departed Pocket in August of 2006 to return to Atlanta to join CompuCredit as the Executive Director of IT Operations. Mr. Clark recently joined Pocket again in January of 2008. Mr. Clark has 23 years of IT experience and 11 years of experience in the wireless industry with corporations such as BellSouth Mobility DCS, BellSouth Mobility, Cingular Wireless, AirGate PCS, and Alamosa PCS. Mr. Clark has been in various Director-level leadership roles in the companies listed above and participated in many M&A activities associated with the rapidly changing industry dynamics. He has been responsible for global networks, applications, and staff. Prior to the wireless industry Mr. Clark held leadership positions at Ciba Vision, Alumax, and General Electric. Mr. Clark is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Computer Science, and has his MBA from Kennesaw State University.

Amirali Rajwany (EVP and Chief Technical Officer)

Amirali Rajwany is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Pocket. Mr. Rajwany has been with Pocket since January of 2006, after leading companies for over 24 years in the telecommunications and wireless industries. Mr. Rajwany is responsible for the network and handset organizations at Pocket. Prior to Pocket, Mr. Rajwany was a founding member of Leap Wireless. During his tenure with Leap Wireless, Mr. Rajwany was responsible for managing international joint ventures with roles that included Executive Director for Chilesat PCS, Executive Director of Telecom Ukraine, and Chief Operating Officer for Pegaso PCS. Prior to joining Leap Wireless, Mr. Rajwany was Director of Worldwide Joint Ventures for Qualcomm and operated companies world wide for Qualcomm. Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Rajwany was at AirTouch Communications as Managing Director for Network Operations and Senior Director of Network Management Systems and Predictive Modeling Development. Prior to Airtouch, Mr. Rajwany worked for Motorola in its cellular infrastructure division.