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Company Management
Adam Sewall
Roger Madison
Charles Cheng
Kim LaPlante

Advisors
Michael Beller
Jeremy Lansman
Steven Warwick

Board of Directors
Adam Sewall
Horst Poepperl
Dan Ferguson
Joseph Schocken

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adam Sewall, CEO

Mr. Sewall previously served as V.P. Marketing and Business Development at Trivnet, an Internet infrastructure provider, and was responsible for building and managing marketing joint ventures, investor relations and business development. Prior to joining Trivnet, Mr. Sewall had been the V.P. of Marketing and Sales at Mondial LTD, a consulting firm focusing on providing strategic and technology solutions for various business practices. He also has experience with Omnipoint Communications as Director of Strategic Planning as one of the founding directors and Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile Communications Company as a General Manager. Mr. Sewall has extensive background in developing sales strategies and multiple distribution to ISPs, telecommunications companies and Fortune 1000 businesses. He received his BS in Business Management from The State University of New York as well as completing numerous graduate programs at Columbia University, NYU and Rutgers.

 

Roger Madison, CFO

Mr. Madison served as CEO and Acting CFO of LinksTime.com, a leading ASP/e-commerce company in the golf industry. He led LinksTime's successful $3.5 million "concept proving" financing round while the company launched its Web site in four months, beating two more highly-capitalized competitors to the market by several months. Mr. Madison was also co-founder, co-CEO and acting CFO of Ride Snowboards and led Ride through its initial seed capitalization, a successful initial public offering in May 1994 and subsequent secondary offering in August 1995. He brings vast experience having run finance, operations, and corporate development for SonnenBraune, Inc., AEI Music Network, and SCA Wolff System. Previously, he was an Associate at the Seattle law firm of Bogle & Gates. Mr. Madison earned his J.D. and MBA degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, and received his BS in Business Administration (Accounting and Finance) from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Charles Cheng , Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Cheng brings over 18 years of management and engineering experience in the telecommunications and wireless industries most recently as Vice President of Engineering with Rapid5 Networks, where he was responsible for software and hardware architecture, design, development, planning, testing, and scheduling of product development. Prior to that, Mr. Cheng served as Vice President, Fixed Wireless Services Network Implementation with AT&T Wireless Services and was involved with AT&T's Project Angel. Mr. Cheng has held numerous positions within the telecommunications industry to include Qualcomm, Motorola, and NORTEL Networks. He received his BSEE and MSEE from the University of Toronto and Southern Methodist University, respectively, and his MBA from the University of Texas.

 

Kim LaPlante, Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Ms. LaPlante has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications and data communications industries most recently as Director of Marketing with Advanced Radio Telecom, a provider of broadband fixed wireless services. Ms. LaPlante also brings extensive background in sales management and marketing strategies having previously worked with WinStar Communications and MCIWorldCom. Her expertise in these areas has included e-commerce marketing strategy, sales and marketing management, and multimedia Web development within the wireless LMDS, frame relay, Web hosting, and local dial tone segments. In her career, she has managed to lead teams to production levels exceeding 200% of target levels consistently. She received both her BSBA in Management Information Systems and her MBA in Marketing from the University of Colorado.

 

Advisors

Michael Beller

Executive Vice President of Technology & Vice Chairman of Tradeworx. Mr. Beller joined Tradeworx, a business-to-business supplier of investment decision-support platforms to online, offline, prime, and futures brokerages, in April 1999 and serves as Executive Vice President of Technology and Vice Chairman. Mr. Beller is responsible for overseeing the technology organizations of Tradeworx, its subsidiaries, and affiliates. He has significant experience in software engineering, systems integration, technology management, networking and telecommunications. Before joining Tradeworx, he was the founder, President, and CEO of Beller Technology Associates, an Internet/ systems integration firm and was a co-founder, VP, and Board Member of PenVision Information Systems. Mr. Beller began his career at Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) as a Senior Engineer and received his MS, Electrical Engineering from Columbia in 1988.

Jeremy Lansman

Co-founder of Fireweed Communications-KYES, a UPN affiliate, Mr. Lansman has created wireless commercial and public broadcast stations over the last 25 years. KYES was built from the ground up and is now a major and highly profitable commercial television station in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Lansman is an expert in antennas and interference issues, and has provided guidance on wireless and FCC regulation issues since the inception of Spectrum Wireless.

Steven Warwick

Mr. Warwick's experience spans the areas of broadband ATM/TDM telecommunications access equipment design; broadband wireless telecommunication systems technology and business planning; and RF/microwave telecommunications equipment design. He has held numerous executive level positions throughout his career to include expertise at the CTO level as well as VP of Engineering, VP of Marketing, and Product Strategy. Mr. Warwick began his career at Hewlett-Packard and his expertise spans research, development, and strategic responsibilities with Harris Corporation, Wavtrace, WebCel Communications, and General Instrument/Next Level Communications. Mr. Warwick received his BSEE from the University of California in Berkeley specializing in analog system design and his MSEE from the California Institute of Technology specializing in statistical spectral analysis, digital signal processing, and optical and microwave theory and techniques.

Board of Directors

Adam Sewall, CEO

 

Horst Poepperl, Co-Founder

Mr. Poepperl served as CTO of Spectrum Wireless. He was previously General Manager of TAL Alaska Wireless where he led implementation of wireless ISP services, point-to-point wireless private lines and wireless LANs. Previously, he was Data Network Manager for the municipality of Anchorage responsible for over 100 LANs, and designed, configured and installed LANs, WANs and MANs. Earlier he developed the Network Services division for General Communications, Inc.

 

Dan Ferguson, Co-Founder

Mr. Ferguson served as Director of Research and Development for Spectrum Wireless. Previously, he has 10 years of experience in the computer industry, working for TAL Alaska Wireless, British Petroleum, Arco and GCI. He brings an extensive knowledge in hardware systems, programming and design experience, and has a wide range of experience in wireless networking, networking services, and developing links.

 

Joseph Schocken

Mr. Schocken is the founder and Chairman of Broadmark Capital Corporation. He is a director of Broadmark Asset Management Company, and the head of Broadmark Capital's Corporate Finance Group. Prior to forming Broadmark in 1987, Mr. Schocken was a partner in several private investment banking firms, including a small New York Stock Exchange member firm where he managed the Corporate Finance and Real Estate departments. Mr. Schocken is a director of Universal Access, Inc. and serves as an advisor and/or mentor to the CEOs of a number of Broadmark's portfolio companies. He is an active private investor, primarily in the technology field, and has played a pivotal role in the growth of a number of significant enterprises. Mr. Schocken is an honors graduate of the University of Washington and holds an MBA from Harvard University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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