About Executives

Sixth Sense Media Executives

The Sixth Sense media senior management team has extensive experience in the telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries including executive positions with many leading companies in North America, Asia and Europe.

  • Thomas Thekkethala, CEO and President

    Mr. Thekkethala has over twenty years of experience in financing and leading enterprise software companies. He is a founding investor and board member at Sixth Sense Media where he oversees the company’s strategy and global operations. Prior to Sixth Sense Media, he co-founded, SRG and CCSS, where he developed the software product vision and market strategy and led the companies to their successfully acquisitions. During his career, he has led teams that have developed and deployed enterprise software for leading telecom carriers and service providers around the world. Mr. Thekkethala was also a founding board member at Ibrix (acquired by HP) and Fidelia (acquired by Network General / NetScout). Mr. Thekkethala holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Information Management from Washington University, St. Louis.

  • John Orlando, EVP Worldwide Marketing and Business Development

    Mr. Orlando is responsible for market and service strategy, corporate marketing, and partner development. Mr. Orlando currently serves as a Special Advisor for the global trade organization MEF (Mobile Entertainment Forum) and was previously Chair and Vice Chairman of MEF Americas. A recognized figure in the mobile communications industry, Mr. Orlando's career has spanned the breadth of the mobile industry -- from technology platforms to mobile entertainment services, mobile marketing and advertising. Mr. Orlando has worked with more than 30 mobile operators worldwide, capturing significant market share in the mobile media, entertainment, and content space. Prior to Sixth Sense Media, Mr. Orlando held the roles of President of 2ergo Americas, a mobile marketing solutions provider, CMO of LiveWire Mobile, a mobile personalization and music company, and CMO of NMS Communications, a mobile enabling technology supplier. Mr. Orlando was named to Mobile Entertainment Magazine‘s Top 50 Mobile Executives in 2008.

  • Lars Cavi, Vice President of Worldwide Sales

    Lars Cavi has over twenty years of experience in the telecom industry having lived and worked in Scandinavia, UK, Germany, Hong Kong and USA. Mr. Cavi served as Vice President and Managing Director for EMEA with Zeugma Systems, Procera Networks and Turin Networks and has previously held senior sales, business development, PLM and project management positions at Flexion, Advanced Fibre Communications (now Tellabs), New World Telephone - Hong Kong, Marconi (i.e. now Ericsson) and Siemens AG in Germany. Mr. Cavi has had extensive sales management experience overseeing diverse sales teams and driving large sales into large Tier 1, 2 and 3 accounts directly and through channel partners and large OEMs in EMEA. Mr. Cavi holds a Master’s degree in engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen.

  • Donald Stone, PhD, Chief Technology Officer

    Donald Stone is the chief architect of Sixth Sense Media and has led development since company inception. Mr. Stone has over 18 years of experience in the design and implementation of large-scale and mission-critical software systems. His background includes real time systems, e-commerce systems, transaction processing systems and networking systems. Prior to joining Sixth Sense Media, Mr. Stone spent five years at IBM, most recently as the lead architect of the IBM WebSphere Payment Manager. Mr. Stone holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina.

  • Dallas Wrege, PhD, Vice President of Engineering

    Dallas Wrege is a world-class system developer specializing in high-performance, large-scale, real-time software systems. Prior to joining Sixth Sense Media in 2000, Mr. Wrege spent several years at IBM where he was most recently the chief programmer and development lead for two releases of the WebSphere Payment Manager. His research area is multimedia networking, and his implementation expertise lies in e-commerce, transaction-processing and real-time systems. Mr. Wrege has a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
  • Keith Westpy, Director of Finance

Mr. Westpy is responsible for world-wide finance and operations at the company. Previously, Keith served as CFO or Controller at several companies over 20 years including Medtronic, Invatec, Harvard Industries and Macmillan. Keith received his MBA in Corporate Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University and his BS in Accounting from Montclair State University. His areas of expertise also include Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reporting.