Jim Forster, Chairman of Mawingu & AirJaldi Networks, has a passion for extending the Internet. He began his career at Cisco in 1988 when it was quite small and spent 20 years there, mostly in IOS Software Development and System Architecture, and becoming a Distinguished Engineer.
Jim Forster is the founder and chairman of NetworktheWorld.org, a foundation to support his work with for both for-profit and non-profit efforts to extend communications in Africa and India. To further support his efforts in this area he has done a series of Angel investments toward that same end, and he is now the Board of several companies, Range Networks / OpenBTS and Inveneo (San Francisco), Esoko Networks (Ghana), and AirJaldi (India).
