Robert (Bob) Schoenfield is responsible for Polaris' North American direct telecom business with wireless carriers, including general management, sales and account management. He is also responsible for developing and managing channel and OEM partnerships.

Bob was an active board member for numerous trade associations and committees spanning multiple industries such as automotive, security, wireless telecommunications and trade publications. Recently, he was associated with the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA), Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC), and CTIA WIC and Specialty publications to name a few. Bob is also a frequently invited speaker and panel moderator at conferences such as CTIA, M2M United and GPS World.

He has more than 20 years of experience with fast-paced, highly dynamic organizations. Previously, he was the senior vice president of sales, marketing and business development at Aeris Communications. Prior to this role, he led the expansion of Aeris into Latin America as president of Aeris South America. In the years preceding his creation of Aeris South America, he was vice president of international development for Tetra Tech, a North American telecommunication infrastructure provider. In this role, he led the strategic initiative of expanding Tetra Tech's business operations globally. He joined Tetra Tech after leading a successful acquisition of Whalen & Company, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, directing the deployment of next-generation wireless networks on behalf of wireless operators. He was also a key member of the senior management team at Nextel Communications during its start-up and early operational phases, where he helped launch the first iDEN network in the world, led a team that built the first PCS networks in the US in the mid-nineties and developed and led the first M2M company in South America.

Mr. Schoenfield holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from San Francisco State University, and a Certificate in Strategic Marketing of Information Technology from Stanford Graduate School of Business.