RF Industries Ltd, a designer and manufacturer of interconnect products has appointed Gerald T. Garland to its Board of Directors. Over his 18 years in the wireless telecommunications industry, Gerald has been an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience in product management, sales management, solutions development and finance. RF Industries now intends to leverage his skills and financial expertise to improve sales, profitability as well as expand product offerings in Distributed Antenna Systems, wireless and data center markets.
Gerald T. Garland was most recently Senior Vice President of Solutions Development and Product Management for TESSCO Technologies, a leading value-added distributor and solution provider for the wireless industry. He also served as Senior Vice President of the Commercial Division at TESSCO, where he was responsible for sales, business and product development at the company's core wireless communications business. Before it, he was previously Director of Business Development at American Express Tax and Business Services from 2002 to 2003, where he was involved in an expanded asset recovery capability for Fortune 1000 corporations. He has also serve as the Chief Financial Officer at Mentor Technologies, a developer of on-line, Cisco certification training products. Mr. Garland was Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at TESSCO Technologies from 1993 to 1999 during the Company's successful Initial Public Offering and oversaw TESSCO's annual sales expansion from $50 million to over $190 million.
Gerald T. Garland received his MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from Loyola University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Accounting from Towson University. Currently he is the Managing Director at Inscite Consulting, on the Board of Directors and Chief Adviser to the World Trade Center Institute and on the Executive Advisory Board of Patriot Capital. He is also on the Board of SOZO Children and, until recently, served on the Advisory Board of the External Relations Committee of the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
