Realizing the need for engineering, design and project expertise in the growing field of wireless networks and applications, RF Connect was formed by it's executive partners. They brought a wide range of knowledge and experience to the table, thus putting them in the forefront of wireless technology. Read more about each of them here...

George F. Riley:
Chairman, RF Connect

George Riley is an accomplished entrepreneur with great success in the market. He is credited with founding Clover Technologies - a $100M, 450 employee firm that continually evolved over its 46-year history. Clover was eventually acquired by SBC - a Fortune 50 telecommunications company.

Clover was commonly referred to as a company that had grown from a one-man operation, to a company with over 450 employees and 8 offices in the United States. This growth was achieved with no outside capital investments, but by sound management practices, that included George's natural ability to attract the best staff and partners, and to inspire them to achieve superior customer satisfaction. George has also mentored and empowered key members of his executive leadership team to manage and operate the company on a day-to-day basis.

He has been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, along with many other community and civic recognitions.

Leonard A. Kruszewski:
President, RF Connect

Leonard Kruszewski is an experienced executive who has worked in the private entrepreneurial environment for most of his career. He joined Clover Technologies at a time when it had only seven employees and one location. As a result of his leadership, Clover grew to obtain consistent revenue of over one hundred million dollars per year, and to employ over four hundred and fifty employees at eight locations throughout the United States.

As President, Chief Operating Officer, Treasurer, and a shareholder of the firm, Leonard led the successful negotiations and sale of Clover Technologies to SBC, a Fortune 50 company. He then went on to become an SBC executive with a focus on business planning, mergers, and operations in the communication and networking industry.

In his career, Leonard has been responsible for business planning, funding, financing, sales, marketing, acquisitions, and operations. He also has strong skills in project management and negotiations. He has been responsible for many major business contracts and transactions.

Leonard has served on several boards in the community, including serving as chairman and trustee of a multi-employer pension fund. He was a founding board member of METC - a consortium of electronic and communications companies in Michigan, and a founding board member of Oakland County's Automation Alley. Leonard’s current Board of Directors appointments include Detroit Public Television and SCI-Novi. He is also actively involved in numerous other community based programs.

Michael Pigg McKay:
Chief Technology Officer, RF Connect

Michael McKay is the CTO and co-founder of RF Connect. He has extensive background in communication networks, and has budgeted, designed, implemented, directed, and managed complex building, campus, and enterprise networks for over twenty-five years. He is experienced with data, voice systems and video, and has worked with both wireless networks and wireless RF-based systems.

Michael was a Conferencing Product Manager for a large video integrator, the Vice President of Technology and Operations for a Detroit area videoconferencing firm, and the Vice President of Technical Services for Clover Technologies - a $100M, 450 employee firm that he helped develop during the 1990's. Clover was later sold to SBC.

Michael was also the consultant and a partner in Clover/Plexus - a venture that provided high-end training on data networks and video. He was the communications systems manager during the 1980's for the University of Michigan Replacement Hospitals Program where he designed and project managed the voice, data, nurse call, paging, television, and radio systems for a complete rebuild of a major academic medical center.

Michael was also a telecommunications manager for American Motors Corp. and a supervisor of systems programming for EDS. He helped establish the communications training programs at Washtenaw Community College and at Focus Hope. He holds and has held many certifications and industry association memberships.

Michael received his BS from Georgetown University, and is completing his MBA at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Jeffrey Hipchen:
Vice President, RF Connect

Jeff Hipchen has more than 20 years of experience as an executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he became a principal with RF Connect, a company focused on the design, deployment and support of high performance wireless networks and applications. Prior to RF Connect, he founded Digital Data Solutions, Inc., a Midwest Voice and Data Network solutions provider that grew to seven offices in five states with over $20 million in sales before being sold to CTS Companies in 2003. Jeff has also been an Advisor to several start-up companies, assisting them with the development of their business plans, funding and sales execution.

Throughout his career, Jeff has participated in several partner leadership councils including Ameritech, SBC, ATT and Cisco and was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business Magazine as a “40 under 40” business leader. He also acts as Treasurer on the executive board of the The Family Learning Institute.

Jeff has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Oakland University.

David Greenstein:
Senior Director, RF Connect - Advanced Technologies and Best Practices

David Greenstein has over 30 years of extensive technology and management experience. He was a Senior Consultant at Callisma, a subsidiary of SBC. He functioned as a Chief Technology Officer for Xenaga, a secure payment company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was the Director of the Program Office for Yahoo Enterprise Services; and Director of Advanced Technologies and Best Practices at Commerce One.

Over 20 years of David's career have been devoted to the technology aspects of the global automotive industry. Among other automotive roles, he was Engineering Manager and Enterprise Architect for the Factory Floor Strategic Information Systems at General Motors. In those GM roles, he directed a number of major technology developments, including efficiency improvements projects, supply chain management, and development of their agent-based distributed information systems. He began his GM career as a Project Leader; and was promoted to Project Manager for the Advanced Information Systems group, where he managed the development, implementation, and initial operations of information and control systems for many new GM factories.

David has received many leadership and technical excellence awards; and is an eloquent technical public speaker, who has presented at numerous worldwide conferences, panels and symposia.

He holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Dnepropetrovsk University in the former USSR; and has also completed post-graduate studies in Non-Linear Complex Dynamic Systems. He has been rigorously trained for leadership roles by the Gallup Organization, and the Kellogg University Leadership Program. In addition, David holds CISSP, ITIL, and ITMCP certifications.

David has served as both chairman and vice chairman of multiple IEEE and ANSI committees. He is on the board of the Manufacturing and Engineering Committee of the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. And he is a published author of several technical articles in both technical journals, and computer industry periodicals.