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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

(also 1997-2005) Led management consulting and investment holding company formed to provide growth strategy and interim chief executive services for institutions facing game-changing challenges, emerging and transitional companies, and knowledge-based businesses. Served as board-level advisor to growth businesses, working closely with management teams, stakeholders, capital partners, and governmental/regulatory counterparts. Provided professional services, including strategic visioning and transaction due diligence for acquisitions and commercial real estate. Developed strategies to enhance time-to-market advantage, alignment with market opportunity, and stakeholder value.◆ Provided interim executive leadership for a Family Office with active investments in technology, media, real estate, and luxury products, and advised in various private acquisition and consolidation activities related to Family Office holdings.◆ Collaborated closely with Family Office accounting team on engagements such as the prospective acquisition of a Class A “green” commercial office building in central Florida.◆ Served on Governing Board of one of the largest churches in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.◆ Aligned global missions governance to create sustainable path forward for missions that, through growth, encounter shared governance challenges among multiple stakeholders.◆ Assisted in the planned divestment of an underperforming off-campus facility utilized for neighborhood mission outreach and an established day school program, while retaining both programs and positioning them for growth.◆ Boosted startups as an Advisory Board member for Burnout Game Ventures and mentor for entrepreneurial initiatives including StartupQuest.

Christiansted, Vi, Vi

Directed operations for major Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), publicly recognized as “Best in the USVI” in polling conducted by the Territory’s major newspaper. Devised and led strategic initiatives to prepare the company to scale in a dynamic, demanding market. Administered budgets and financial planning with full P&L responsibility. Oversaw diverse value-added services and products on multigigabit, resilient network including VoIP, “smart home,” and other integrated managed services for customers spanning residential, commercial, enterprise, academic and public sector markets. Led successful engagement and advocacy on FCC policymaking, including winning $84.5 million in federal funding through the FCC’s competitive Connect USVI tender. Broadband VI was acquired by Liberty Latin America in December 2021.◆ “Coached up” the leadership team with emphases on workflows, delegation, accountability supported by proper resourcing, metrics, and team building.◆ Doubled income during first year of tenure in a flat market, achieved a 7.7x increase in valuation at the time of sale.◆ Commissioned the company’s first independent audit of its financial statements.◆ Improved competitive positioning and alignment of service options to market needs by evolving from “back office” thinking to customer-facing thinking, including design and buildout of two new office and retail facilities.◆ Spearheaded force-multiplying acquisition and integration of in-market competitor, along with the integration of its network and customer base with a “zero loss” mandate.◆ Led implementation of major network augmentation and carrier-class “five-nines” (99.999%) disciplines, as well as operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) tools. ◆ Improved internal and outsourced solutions for customer service, marketing, and third-party applications integration.

Managed university-affiliated public corporation and autonomous instrumentality of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) government established to foster a sustainable knowledge-based business sector. Collaborated with Territorial and Federal government counterparts, including Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Interior and the Congress, to harmonize Territorial tax incentives to US Federal law. ◆ Facilitated services to RTPark tenants, delivery of Internet2 consortium services to the University of the Virgin Islands, and economies of scale for local ISPs.◆ Negotiated marketing, channel development, infrastructure, and commercial capital investment agreements, including backbone network that has grown by more than 30 times.◆ Achieved unqualified (clear) audit opinions in independent audits each year by ensuring regulatory compliance with legislative and federal oversight.◆ Led RTPark to achieve financial self-sufficiency in 2011 with 100% reliance on commercial revenue streams.◆ Grew tenant base from standing start to 28 companies.◆ Generated over $200M in USVI-based annual revenues in markets including SaaS, e-commerce, data centers/ISPs, cyber security, medical applications, pharmaceuticals, location-based asset management, business credentialing, technical consultancy, financial/market research, content aggregation, online marketing, proprietary algorithms. and other intellectual property.◆ Directed design, development, contracting, financing, construction, and on-budget/on-schedule opening of the “64 West Center” on St. Croix, the first U.S. Green Building Council/LEED Silver certified public sector building in the USVI.

Dallas, Tx, Us

An emerging provider of online transactional privacy & privacy assurance solutions targeting financial fraud and identity theft, with a very strong issued patent portfolio.

A next-generation facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) and reseller of incumbent carrier services serving customers in several southern states including Texas; one of the earliest providers of hosted (Centrex-replacement) converged voice and data services.

Plano (Dallas), Tx, Us

CNet, a leading developer of operational support systems (OSS), network management and radio frequency (RF) planning software and services for the wireless telecommunications industry, served a worldwide customer base including a majority of the U.S. Regional Bell Operating Companies.

Compucon pioneered the development of terrestrial and satellite earth station communications engineering services at the onset of telecommunications industry deregulation, and served the private and common carrier terrestrial microwave, mobile radio and cable television marketplace.