Committees:
Compensation; Nominating

Key Skills and Experience:

• Senior Leadership: Has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of 2Bpartners, LLC, a partnership that provides strategic, financial, and operational advice to private equity firms and companies in the technology and telecom industries, since 2007. Founding partner of Astra Capital Management, a private equity firm focused on providing capital to technology and telecom companies.
• Value Creation and M&A: As Group President of Operations at ALLTEL Corporation, a then publicly held telecommunications services company, from 1998 to 2007, oversaw $60 billion worth of transactions and served as a critical driver in the decision to take the company private.
• Telecom Expertise: Brings over 30 years of expertise in communications and technology, including marketing, customer service, and financial market experience.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Kutztown University in Pennsylvania; Master’s in Economics, Bowling Green University in Ohio; completed the Columbia University Executive Program in Business Administration.

Career Highlights:

• 2Bpartners, LLC
  • President and Chief Executive Officer (2007 – Present)
• Astra Capital Management
  • Founding Partner (2014 – Present)
• ALLTEL Corporation
  • Group President of Operations (1998 – 2007)
• 360 Communications Co.
  • Executive Vice President of Operations (1996 – 1998)
• AT&T/Sprint
  • Various management roles in Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, Enterprise Sales, Network and Operations (1983 – 1995)

Public Company Board Experience:

• SBA Communications Corporation (2009 – Present)
• Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (2004 – Present)

Private Company Boards and Other Memberships:

• DartPoints (2020 – Present)
• Logix Fiber Company (2016 – Present)
• Syniverse Technologies (2011 – Present)
• NII Holdings, Inc. (2010 – Present)