William LaPointe - President and CEO
As the company's president and CEO, Bill is responsible for Spinwave's strategic direction and general management. Bill brings more than 25 years of building automation experience and has a proven track record of growing a startup company to industry leadership. Bill was the President of Andover Controls Corporation, a leading supplier of DDC systems to the Building Automation market, from Sept. 1979 to its acquisition by Schneider Electric in 2004. Under his direction, Andover grew from 9 employees and under $1M in annual revenue to over 650 employees and revenues of $170M. Prior to Andover Controls, Bill held positions of financial and operations management with companies in the general industrial, computing, and defense industries. He holds and M.S. degree in Accounting from Bentley College and a B.A. degree in finance from Northeastern University.

Sean Sun - CTO; VP, Engineering
Sean brings insightful technology visions and years of research and development experience on board. He has extensive expertise in architecting, designing and implementing large scale systems on various platforms, and has led engineering teams of various sizes.
Prior to founding Spinwave Systems, Sean was a lead engineer at Millennial Net, focused on the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards and related technologies; a senior software engineer at Heroix Corporation; a principal software engineer at Lucent Technologies/Ascend Communications, worked on the ATM/Frame Relay core switching products.
Before starting his career in the high-tech industry, Sean was a researcher at MIT. He has an outstanding academic background with over 50 scientific/technical publications and holds 4 patents. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT and M.S. and B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University (Beijing).

Rainer Wischinski - VP, Marketing
Rainer is responsible for Product Line Management and Marketing. He brings to the table over 25 years of experience in defining, managing and marketing of industry-leading industrial and building control products. Prior to joining Spinwave, Rainer served as Vice President of Marketing for Andover Controls. Following the acquisition of Andover by TAC (a subsidiary of Schneider Electric), Rainer assumed the positions of Vice President Global Marketing and Product Line Management for TAC and served in that capacity until October of 2006. Prior to Andover/TAC, Rainer served as the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Intellution, Inc. (later acquired by GE) and has held several senior marketing and engineering positions at Schneider Electric (Modicon Division) and AEG Automation. He holds a Diplom Ingenieur degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Hannover, Germany.

Dave Craven – VP, Sales & Business Development
Dave is responsible for sales and business development. He brings to Spinwave over 30 years experience in the building automation and controls industry. Prior to joining Spinwave, Dave served as Director of Advanced Technology Applications for Goodman Manufacturing, a leading manufacturer of heating and air conditioning products. While at Goodman, Dave developed and introduced the first 802.15.4 RF network products for temperature and occupancy control. Dave’s extensive building automation experience includes a variety of sales, management and engineering positions with Bechtel, Merck Pharmaceutical, American Standard, and Time Energy. Dave has also served in business development and operations roles for building automation veteran, Andover Controls (acquired by TAC and now a subsidiary of Schneider Electric), as well as building automation systems integrators, EMCOR Facilities Services Group and Engineered Services. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa.