JD's background encompasses over 40 years of executive experience in both large and small corporate environments. During his 27 years with AT&T and BellSouth, he led domestic and international acquisition and due diligence teams, led financial management/operations and corporate finance activities and served as CFO of the wireless data division. More recently, Mr. Gardner served as a managing partner in a venture capital fund as their financial officer, and served as CEO or CFO of several public and private companies in the wireless data, web-based services, broadband switched Ethernet and security (video surveillance) industries.