Craig O. McCaw - Director since May 2000. Mr. McCaw is currently Chairman of both the Company and ICO North America. Since 1993, Mr. McCaw has been Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of Eagle River Investments, LLC, a private company formed to focus on strategic investments in the telecommunications industry, and its affiliated companies. Mr. McCaw founded Clearwire Corporation in October 2003 and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board and Co-CEO. Mr. McCaw was a director of Nextel Communications, Inc., from July 1995 until December 2003, and a director of XO Communications, Inc. (formerly known as NEXTLINK Communications, Inc.) ("XO"), from January 1997 until January 2002. From September 1994 to July 1997, he was also XO's Chief Executive Officer. From 1974 to September 1994, Mr. McCaw served as Chairman and CEO of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., which he built into the nation's leading provider of cellular services in more than 100 U.S. cities, until the company was sold to AT&T Corp. in August 1994. Mr. McCaw is also a Director of RadioFrame Networks, Inc and Tello Corporation.
J. Timothy Bryan - On November 1, 2005, Mr. Bryan became the Chief Executive Officer of both the Company and ICO North America. Mr. Bryan has served on our Board of Directors since October 2001. He also served on the Boards of Open TV, Inc., a Liberty Media Corporation affiliate, the Samaritan Institute and Clearwire Corporation. From September 2003 until November 2005, Mr. Bryan was a private investor in, and consultant to, the telecommunications industry and private equity firms interested in investing in telecommunications businesses. From May 2001 until September 2003, Mr. Bryan was the Chief Financial Officer of Eagle River, Inc. Mr. Bryan previously served as President of United Pan-Europe Communications NV and as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Office of the Chairman of UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. Prior to UnitedGlobalCom, Mr. Bryan served as Treasurer of Jones Intercable, Inc. Mr. Bryan has previously served on the Board of Directors of Nextel Communications and on the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board of UPC. Mr. Bryan is a graduate of Duke University.
Donna P. Alderman - Director since May 2000. Ms. Alderman has served on
the Board and numerous special committees of the Company since May 2000
and is also a Director of ICO North America. From April 1, 2006 to March
31, 2008, Ms. Alderman was our Executive Vice President, Corporate
Development and Strategy. Prior to that, Ms. Alderman was a founding and
senior partner of Matlin Patterson Global Opportunities Fund, a private
equity fund. Prior to that, she was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse
First Boston and co-managed the Distressed Debt and Special Situations
Group there. She has held numerous senior investment and trading
positions at leading investment banks, including Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.,
Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Bear Stearns. Ms. Alderman graduated from
Vassar College and the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, EDP,
at Northwestern University.
Samuel L. Ginn - Director since May 2006 and from October 2001 to April 2004. Mr. Ginn has over 43 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Ginn was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AirTouch Communications, Inc. from December 1993 until its merger with Vodafone Group Public Limited Company in June 1999. Upon the Vodafone-AirTouch merger, he became Chairman of Vodafone, a position he held until May 2000. Since leaving Vodafone, he has continued to be a private investor and advisor to several startup companies in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Ginn currently serves on the Board of Directors of Chevron Corporation, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust and TVG Capital Partners Limited and as an advisor. Mr. Ginn is a graduate of the School of Engineering of Auburn University.
Barry Rowan - Director since June 2006. Barry Rowan has approximately 24 years of financial and operational experience in building technology and communications companies. From August 2005 until June 2006, he was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Nextel Partners and its subsidiaries. Mr. Rowan joined Nextel Partners in August 2003 as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and from August 2003 to August 2004 he also served as the company's Treasurer. From January 2002 to August 2003, he was a principal at Rowan & Company, LLC, a consulting and private investment firm, and from 1999 to 2001, Mr. Rowan was the Chief Financial Officer at Velocom, Inc., an international communications company, during which time he served as Chief Executive Officer of Vesper, the company's Brazilian subsidiary, for six months. From 1992 until 1999, Mr. Rowan held a number of executive management positions at Fluke Corporation, including Chief Financial Officer, and Senior Vice President and Division General Manager. Mr. Rowan earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and his B.S., summa cum laude, in Business Administration and Chemical Biology from The College of Idaho.
R. Gerard Salemme - Director since May 2002. Mr. Salemme has over 27 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Since November 2003, he has been Executive Vice President-Strategy, Policy and External Affairs and a Director of Clearwire Corporation, a broadband wireless service provider deploying operations throughout the United States and in other countries throughout the world. He is also a Principal of Eagle River Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Eagle River Investments, LLC. From May 1997 to June 2003, Mr. Salemme was Senior Vice President, External Affairs of XO, and, before joining XO, he was AT&T Corporation's Vice President of Government Affairs, directing AT&T's federal regulatory public policy organization, and overseeing AT&T's participation in the FCC's narrowband and broadband PCS auctions. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Salemme was Senior Vice President, External Affairs for McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. He also held the position of Senior Telecommunications Policy Analyst for the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance. He also served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts. Mr. Salemme earned a B.A. in Political Science and Economics, and an M.A. in Economics, from Boston College.
H. Brian Thompson - Director since May 2007. Mr. Thompson has a long and distinguished career in telecommunications. He was an Executive Vice President at MCI from 1981-1990, and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LCI Communications, which was merged at a value of $5 billion with Qwest in 1998. After service as the Vice Chairman of Qwest, Mr. Thompson became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Tele Systems Group. Today, Mr. Thompson heads up his own private equity firm Universal Telecommunications, Inc., is Executive Chairman and interim CEO of GTT, a newly formed global network service provider, and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Comsat International, as well as on the Boards of Directors of Bell Canada International Inc., Axcelis Technologies, Inc., UnitedAuto Group, and Sonus Networks, Inc. Mr. Thompson also is on the Executive Committee of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission, a multinational organization launched in Brussels in 1995 to chart the role of the private sector in the developing global information and telecommunications infrastructure. He also serves as a member of the Irish Prime Minister's Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board. Thompson received his MBA from Harvard's Graduate School of Business, and holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
David Wasserman - Director since April 2002. Mr. Wasserman is a financial principal at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. which he joined in 1998. Prior to joining CD&R, he was employed at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Principal Investment Area. He has also been employed by Fidelity Capital and as a management consultant. Mr. Wasserman serves on the Board of Directors of Culligan Ltd., Covansys Corporation and The Hertz Corporation and formerly served as a director of Kinko’s Inc.
Benjamin G. Wolff - Director since September 2005. Mr. Wolff currently serves as a director and the Chief Executive Officer of Clearwire Corporation. In addition to his positions with Clearwire, Mr. Wolff serves as the President of Eagle River Investments, LLC, Eagle River Holdings, LLC and Eagle River, Inc. From January 1994 until April 2004, Mr. Wolff was a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he became a partner in 1998. Mr. Wolff’s practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and strategic alliance transactions. While with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, he co-chaired the firm’s Business Transactions Department, served on the firm’s Executive Committee, and had primary responsibility for representing clients such as Allied Signal, Eagle River, Intel, Starbucks Coffee Company and XO in various corporate and transactional matters. In 2003, Mr. Wolff was identified as one of the top 45 lawyers in the country under the age of 45 by the American Lawyer magazine.