Michael Connelly Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

◆ Built and led Crown’s Corporate Strategy team, providing long-range strategic advisory services supporting Crown’s 40k cellular towers, 90k fiber route mile network and 105k small cells. Informed key decisions made by both executive management and the board of directors including presentations on market trends, portfolio growth opportunities, new shared infrastructure and other M&A opportunities, mobile and enterprise customer competitive positioning and peer group performance. ◆ Oversaw the strategic review of Crown’s fiber and small cells businesses. ◆ Headed technology strategy and portfolio management teams that explored shared infrastructure opportunities related to mobile operators' 5G networks, enterprises' private 5G deployments, edge computing, drones and energy storage.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

◆ Mobile: Led Comcast’s product and technology teams as part of the joint venture with Verizon Wireless, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Developed unique retail and digital offerings targeting 35m households. ◆ Sports: Built a mobile digital services platform for sports leagues, teams and venues, with capabilities including high-density wireless connectivity, mobile content delivery, multi-screen marketing and real-time data analytics.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

◆ Internet/Wi-Fi: Invented and launched the XFINITY WiFi neighborhood hotspot network, which now includes 20m hotspots, enabling Comcast to shift its marketing emphasis from solely broadband speed to wireless connectivity to every device, anywhere. Managed the development of three generations of Comcast's wireless home gateways.◆ Telecom: Evolved XFINITY Voice’s value proposition from a traditional landline service for 500k households to mobile-oriented, unified communications, serving 11.5m households. Launched Voice2Go, which included mobile telephony, a single number routing service and text messaging. Led the product development required for Comcast's migration to a PacketCable 2.0 infrastructure. ◆ Video: Led the teams that built two IPTV set-top boxes running advanced TV applications including Skype on XFINITY. ◆ Connected Home: Oversaw XFINITY Home’s initial product development including a comprehensive suite of home security and smart home devices.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Oversaw communications-related strategic business development and competitive intelligence functions. Architected Comcast’s 3-year communications and wireless roadmaps, product plans, and budgets.

New York, Ny, Us

◆ Messaging: Selected the partners and managed the integration of advanced audio and video capabilities in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Google later acquired those companies and the software code became the core of the WebRTC real-time communications framework, now used by billions of users across thousands of apps.◆ Telecom: Identified the partners and negotiated all agreements required to integrate telephony with AIM, including an industry-first free local phone number and nomadic e911 capabilities.

Internet/Wi-Fi: founded a company to provide a spot-market for peer-to-peer wireless Internet connectivity & to serve as a payment clearinghouse for independently owned & operated Wi-Fi access points.

Carrollton, Tx, Us

◆ Responsible for all legal affairs in Latin America & the Caribbean. Additionally, responsible for the next-generation switching division’s legal affairs. Member of Tellabs’ regional operations task force & patent committees. ◆ Oversaw the 18th largest merger in the world in 1998. Pre-merger, served as counsel to Coherent Communications Systems. Chaired intellectual property committee. Also, supervised Investor Relations & Procurement departments.

Mba

Ba, Political Science

Jd, Law