Dale Carey :: COO of Shared Access

Dale Carey is the President and COO of Shared Access, an owner and operator of active and passive wireless infrastructure. Prior to founding Shared Access, he was the president of Wireless at American Tower/SpectraSite Inc., an NYSE listed wireless tower operator. Dale had full P&L responsibility for annual $350+ million revenue (90% of the company), $225 million of EBITDA, and 300 employee division. He held executive management accountability for sales and marketing, co-location, property management, finance, building solutions, legal, human resources, and technology and network optimization.

Dale previously served as the President of SpectraSite’s Building Division, where he pioneered the neutral host distributed antenna system model. He started his SpectraSite career as the SVP of Services and Operations responsible for the oversight of a 500 per year cell site build plan.

Prior to SpectraSite, he spent 11 years with AT&T Wireless/Vanguard Cellular Systems, serving the last four years as its Vice President and General Manger for the Mid Atlantic Region.

Dale holds a B.A. from Temple University and A.S. from York College.

Jim Garrity :: CMO of Wachovia Bank (Retired)

Jim Garrity has worked for three Fortune 50 companies in his career in sales and marketing positions. His career began with IBM in sales in the Tri-State (NY-CT-NJ) area. After 14 years in sales and sales leadership roles, he transitioned into Marketing & Communications. Jim held a number of marketing and communications positions, the last one being Director of Advertising, IBM US, the position he held when he left IBM in 1992, At that time, he went to work for Compaq in Houston where he held two positions, the last being Vice President of Communications. From 1997- 2007, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer at First Union in Charlotte, NC, which today goes to market under the Wachovia brand as a result of the First Union-Wachovia merger in 2001.

Accomplishments include development and launch of new advertising campaigns at IBM 1988-1992 which significantly increased awareness and consideration for the IBM masterbrand as well as the specialized business unit offerings spanning business and consumer markets.

At Compaq, Jim led the rebranding and repositioning effort to drive awareness that a) Compaq was much more than a premium-priced product company with only high end products and b) a company that was bringing highly innovative products to the consumer market (a new market for Compaq in the mid 90's).

At Wachovia, he led the efforts to transform a virtually unknown brand (Wachovia) into a national financial services powerhouse, virtually building a Fortune 50 brand, “from scratch." He also developed a highly regarded marketing ROI measurement system that ultimately led to moving the marketing investment decision making mode from intuitive and anecdotal to fact-based decision making.

Jim retired from Wachovia in July, 2007 after ten years there as CMO. Today, he is advising a small number of technology startups with business models that he finds to be exciting and personally engaging.

He also enjoyed a long and deep relationship with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and served as a member of the ANA board of directors from 1995-2007. In 1998, he served as Chairman of the Board of the ANA. From 1995- 2007, he served as founder and chairman of the ANA's New Technology Committee - a group focused on emerging developments in marketing and marketing communications techniques and technologies. From 1996-2007, Jim also served as a director of the board of the AdCouncil.

For the past several years, he has been teaching MBA classes at Wake Forest University's Babcock School of Business. In addition, Jim has taught undergraduate and MBA classes at Stamford, University of California, Berkeley, University of North Carolina, and Duke.

Sid Ganju :: President of Teleprises

Sid Ganju is the President of Teleprises, Inc., an M&A and Telecom consulting company. Prior to founding Teleprises, Sid was Executive Director of Corporate Development for BellSouth Corporation (now AT&T) in Atlanta, where he was responsible for initiating, structuring, negotiating and closing strategic joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. In this role, he executed over twenty large wireless transactions including the formation of Cingular Wireless Joint Venture between BellSouth and SBC (Enterprise Value - $50 B) in October 2000. Besides the Corporate Development and Planning area, Mr. Ganju has also held leadership positions in the areas of business development, strategy, finance, business planning, project management and marketing, both in and outside the United States. He has been involved with the wireless businesses, including paging, cellular, PCS, mobile data and broadband wireless, in the United States and internationally, for approximately 20 years.

Sid holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and master’s degree in Business Administration. He also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.) charter since 1993.

Svend-Olav Carlsen :: CFO of PortalPlayer (Retired)

Svend-Olav Carlsen has Served as VP Finance and CFO for PortalPlayer, Inc. from June 2004 through January of 2007. Prior to joining PortalPlayer, from October 2000 to June 2004, Mr. Carlsen served as vice president, finance and corporate controller and chief financial officer of Transmeta Corporation, a semiconductor company. From April 1996 to October 2000, Mr. Carlsen served in various roles in the finance organization, most recently as corporate assistant controller, director of tax and international finance of S3 Incorporated and Diamond Multimedia, Inc. which was acquired by S3 Incorporated in 1999. Mr. Carlsen is a CPA (state of Illinois) and holds an undergraduate degree and an M.B.A. (Diplom) from LMU, University of Munich, Germany.