Esme Vos is the founder of Muniwireless.com, the portal for news and information about citywide Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks around the world. Muniwireless.com is a small publishing company that also hosts conferences and seminars, and issues reports on the state of large-scale Wi-Fi and WiMAX deployments worldwide. Before starting Muniwireless, Esme served as the Chief Legal Officer of Spray Network in Europe and Director Legal Affairs of Baan Business Systems.… Read the rest
Dennis Sverdlov became Chief Executive Officer of Scartel LLC. (Yota) in May 2007. Prior to his position as CEO, Sverdlov was a shareholder and member of the Board of Directors at Korus Consulting, one of the leading IT-consulting companies in Saint Petersburg, where he spent four years managing the sales department. Sverdlov found his way to Korus Consulting after he started his first business, IT-Vision, which specialized in automation systems for enterprises on the basis of Microsoft Navision program solutions. IT Vision eventually merged with Korus Consulting. Sverdlov graduated with a specialist degree in accounting, analyses and auditing from Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics.… Read the rest
Robb Henshaw is the Global Director of Marketing & Communications at Proxim Wireless, a manufacturer of end-to-end broadband wireless systems, where he oversees the company’s global marketing and communications efforts. For the last 8 years he has been dedicated to helping develop the wireless industry and raise awareness for new technologies, with expertise ranging from enterprise WLANs, to carrier-grade wireless backhaul, to WiMAX and point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access (BWA) solutions.
Prior to joining Proxim Wireless, Robb held PR positions where he helped establish wireless industry leaders including Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Good Technology (acquired by Motorola), Network Chemistry (acquired by Aruba Networks), HP’s ProCurve networking division, and DiVitas Networks.… Read the rest
Peter Allen, President and CEO of DragonWave Inc. brings 21 years of industry experience in Broadband Telecommunications. Prior to joining DragonWave, Peter was founder, President and CEO of Innovance Networks. Prior to Innovance, Peter was the Vice-President of Business Development and General Manager of the Optoelectronics organization within Nortel Networks’ Optical Networks division, where he had responsibilities for both the system and component businesses.
Peter’s experience in business leadership includes heading up a 5000-employee global operation spanning R&D, manufacturing as well as Sales & Marketing. Peter has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and has been involved in numerous multi-billion dollar transactions, as well as establishing business partnerships in North America, Europe and Japan. Peter has also held managerial positions at Ford Motor Company and Rothmans International, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Africa.… Read the rest
Ira Palti has been President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2005. From January 2003 to August 2005, Mr. Palti was Chief Executive Officer of Seabridge Ltd. Prior to joining Seabridge, he was the Chief Operating Officer of VocalTec Communications Ltd., where he was responsible for sales, marketing, customer support and product development. Among the positions he held before joining VocalTec, was founder of Rosh Intelligent Systems, a company providing software maintenance and AI diagnostic solutions and one of the first startups in Israel. Mr. Palti received a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.… Read the rest
Yegor Ivanov was born in 1980 in Moscow. He graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics State University with a Specialist Degree of Engineer-Mathematician with specialization in Cybernetics in 2003. He complimented the education with a Professional Project Manager degree in 2005. While attending the University, in 2002, Yegor Ivanov started his career with International consulting company “Columbus IT”. After more than a 5 year career in international consulting Yegor Ivanov left the company in the position of International Customers Director.
In 2007 Yegor Ivanov founded two different companies in professional and consumer services, which he ran until he joined Yota in the position of Director International Development in October, 2008.… Read the rest
Tzvika Friedman was appointed Alvarion’s Chief Executive Officer in October 2005. Beginning in 2000 with Floware and continuing in Alvarion as President and Chief Operating Officer, he has been responsible for a myriad of facets in the company’s daily management, including R&D, operations, sales, marketing and customer service. He was the driving force behind strengthening these activities in a company undergoing transition of consolidation from two companies, and the subsequent acquisition and incorporation of the product lines from Innowave and Interwave. Prior to his tenure at Alvarion, Tzvika served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Next Generation Telephony and DCME division of ECI Telecom, and as Vice President of Marketing and Sales of ECI Telecom’s SDH division.
Tzvika holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University, and graduated with distinction with an M.S. from the Sloan Program of Management of the London Business School.… Read the rest
Barry West joins Clearwire as president of international. Prior to joining Clearwire, Mr. West was president of the Xohm Business Unit for Sprint Nextel. He previously served as Sprint Nextel’s chief technology officer and president of 4G mobile broadband, as well as executive vice president and chief technology officer for Nextel Communications Inc.
Mr. West joined Nextel in 1996 and was the chief architect in creating the iDEN wireless technology platform with partner Motorola. Prior to joining Nextel, Mr. West led many successful engineering and marketing initiatives during more than 35 years for British Telecom including overseeing the rollout of a GSM digital cellular network that covered more than 90 percent of the United Kingdom population in only nine months. Mr. West also served as director of value-added services and corporate marketing at Cellnet, the pioneer of cellular communications in the United Kingdom.… Read the rest
Michael J. Angelakis serves as Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Corporation, responsible for all corporate development, strategic planning, investor relations, internal reporting, external reporting, taxation, and other financial administrative matters at Comcast Corporation, as well as other oversight responsibilities.
Prior to joining Comcast in 2007, Mr. Angelakis served as Managing Director and as a member of the Management and Investment Committees of Providence Equity Partners, one of the leading private equity firms investing in communications and media companies around the world. Before joining Providence Equity Partners in 1999, Mr. Angelakis was President and Chief Executive Officer of State Cable TV Corporation and Aurora Telecommunications, LLC. He also served as Vice President at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in New York, where he oversaw one of the bank’s media and communications portfolios. Additionally, Mr. Angelakis spent several years in London developing Manufacturers Hanover’s acquisition finance and merchant banking activities throughout Western Europe. In 2009, Mr. Angelakis was named among America’s Best CFOs by Institutional Investor magazine for the second consecutive year.
Mr. Angelakis is a graduate of Babson College and the Owner/President Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He serves on the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.… Read the rest
John Dupree currently directs all Sprint strategic and national account activities across the United States, including the company’s largest corporate customers as well as its substantial business with the U. S. Government. His accounts generate $7B in annual revenues for the company. He has been at Sprint for over ten years; prior to his current role he served as Vice President, Systems Integrator Sales where he developed a new sales channel specifically devoted to the nation’s largest integrators and outsourcers. Previously Dupree has held officer level sales positions with Sprint in both Enterprise as well as the Wholesale/Carrier group. Dupree also served as Vice President of Marketing for Sprint Business.
Mr. Dupree’s career includes extensive telecommunications and technology experience. Prior to joining Sprint in 1998, he served as Vice President of Sales for Murata Business Systems, a leading international manufacturer of facsimile machines and other telephony equipment. He is a frequent speaker on telecommunications issues, marketing and customer relationship management (CRM).
Active in international affairs, Mr. Dupree is a former Executive Director of the Society of International Business Fellows, a professional association of senior executives focused on global business issues. He is a member of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce and currently chairs the Chamber’s Technology Business Council. He also is the Executive Sponsor for Sprint’s Corporate Social Responsibility Council in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Dupree is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Oxford University in England where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He also has a graduate degree in International Affairs from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is active in the Dallas community where he resides with his wife Regina. His son Alex recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, and his daughter Austin attends Furman University in South Carolina.… Read the rest
