Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development Primary Organization 
Zipit Wireless
Location Greenville, South Carolina, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Ralph Heredia is the Vice President of business development and co-founder of Zipit Wireless, Inc., in Greenville, S.C. He is directly responsible for the company’s strategy regarding innovation, research, marketing and customer/partner relationships. Heredia is also the inventor of Zipit’s first & second Wireless Messenger instant
messaging devices for teens and pre-teens introduced respectively in late 2004 & 2007.
Heredia has more than 28 years of experience in the consumer electronics, personal computer and multimedia industries. Prior to helping establish Zipit, he helped establish the Consumer Media Systems division at Aeronix in 2002. In addition, he has also held management and product development positions with several mid-sized technology companies, including Escient/OpenGlobe, avACTIVE (another company he co-founded) and Cirrus Logic. For almost 14 years, from 1981 to 1995, Heredia was a member of technical staff at several of AT&T’s companies including Bell Labs, Safari Systems and NCR.
Heredia majored in Computer Science at Brookdale Community College, authored a chapter in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1999 and has been granted twelve U.S. patents for various inventions related to the technology field.
