Advisors
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.
Dale previously served as the President of SpectraSite's Building Division, where he pioneered the neutral host distributed antenna system model. 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
Former Chief Marketing Officer of Wachovia Bank
Jim Garrity has worked for three Fortune 50 companies in his career in sales and marketing positions. His began his career in sales at IBM and after 14 years in sales and sales leadership roles; he transitioned into Marketing & Communications. Jim held a number of marketing and communications positions at IBM, before he left in 1992 as Director of Advertising of IBM US. Jim then joined Compaq, where he remained until 1997 when he exited as Vice President of Communications. From 1997- 2007, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer at First Union, which merged with Wachovia in 2001.
Jim served on the board of the Association of National Advertisers from 1995-2007. While sitting on the board of the ANA 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. During this time Jim also served as a director of the board of the AdCouncil, from 1996-2007. In addition, Jim has taught undergraduate and MBA classes at Stamford, University of California at Berkeley, Wake Forest, University of North Carolina, and Duke.
Larry Heck, PhD
Partner Architect at Microsoft
Dr. Larry Heck is Partner Architect, Online Services Division R&D at Microsoft. In this role, he is responsible for the long-term vision of search, advertising, and portal technology, as well as driving the development of foundational infrastructure, platforms, processes and algorithms for rapid innovation in online services. Dr. Heck received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. He then worked at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and served as principal investigator for a number of federally funded (NSA, DARPA, ORD/CIA) research programs in acoustics and speech, including active noise & vibration control, acoustic machinery monitoring, and speaker recognition. After SRI, Dr. Heck was Vice President of R&D at Nuance Communications, where he led teams responsible for natural language processing, speech recognition, voice authentication, and text-to-speech synthesis. In 2005, he joined Yahoo!, where he was Vice President of Search & Advertising Sciences. In this role, he led the teams responsible for the scientific development, analysis, and deployment of Yahoo search, search monetization, and display advertising algorithms. Dr. Heck has published numerous scientific articles, holds key patents in speech, search, and advertising, and has served on numerous boards for the IEEE/ISCA.
Mark Slaven
Chief Financial Officer of Tolt Service Group
Mark is currently the CFO of Tolt Service Group; a private equity owned IT Services provider. Prior to joining Tolt he was the EVP and CFO of Cross Match Technologies, a leading developer of biometric products and solutions. In addition to all finance and accounting activities at CMT, he was responsible for sales, marketing, development, engineering and manufacturing. Mark served as the SVP and CFO of SpectraSite Communications, a publicly traded wireless cell tower operator. Additionally, Mark served as CFO at 3Com from 2002 to 2004. Earlier in his career he held a variety of senior financial management positions with IBM and Lexmark and has also served on the Boards of two publicly traded companies.
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), 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 the Cingular Wireless Joint Venture between BellSouth and SBC (Enterprise Value - $50 B) in October 2000. Mr. Ganju has also held leadership positions in the areas of business development, strategy, finance, business planning, project management and marketing. 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.
Former Advisors
Svend-Olav Carlsen
Former Chief Financial Officer of PortalPlayer
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.