Rodger Desai

Co-Founder and CEO

Payfone

Rodger Desai is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Payfone, Inc. Previously, Rodger served as co-founder and CEO of Rave Wireless, Inc. Rave’s service is now deployed at over 300 universities.
Prior to Rave Wireless, Rodger was co-founder and CEO of the Vettro Corp., an innovator in mobile banking and brokerage, LBS apps, and J2ME.

Rodger started his career as an executive in Accenture’s telecom practice after engineering management positions at ExxonMobil and GE. He has also assisted in initiatives that leverage the use of mobile phones in emerging markets for social causes, such as disease surveillance in Iraq, and micro-financed village phone programs in Asia.

Rodger graduated from RPI and attended the Harvard Business School.