Craig O. McCaw - Chairman, appointed June, 2011. Director since May 2000. Mr. McCaw served as a Director and Chairman of ICO North America from September 2005 thru December 16, 2008. 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. 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.
Richard P. Emerson - Director since October 2010. Mr. Emerson has spent his entire career in investment banking and corporate finance. From 2004 through 2008, he was Senior Partner of Evercore Partners, a leading independent investment banking advisory firm. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President with Microsoft Corporation, with responsibility for all acquisitions, investments and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Microsoft, he led west coast office of Lazard Frčres, where, from 1996 through 2000, he advised telecom and technology clients on significant mergers, acquisitions and related financial transactions. He has also held senior advising roles with The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley & Company. Mr. Emerson previously served on the board of directors of Clearwire Corporation from 2003 through 2008.
Richard P. Fox - Director since October 2010 and Chair of the Company’s Audit Committee. He serves on the boards of directors of Flow International Corporation, Univar Inc., and Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. For more than 28 years, Mr. Fox served in various roles with Ernst & Young, a major international accounting firm, including as managing partner of E&Y’s Seattle office. He has also previously served as Senior Vice President of PACCAR, Incorporated, as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Wall Data, Incorporated, and as President and Chief Operating Officer of CyberSafe Corporation.
Nicolas Kauser - Director since December 2008. Mr. Kauser has spent over 40 years in the communications industry, including President of Clearwire International LLC, and CTO of Clearwire, EVP and CTO for AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.), Sr. VP of Operations and VP of Engineering of Cantel, Inc., and 20 years in Venezuela where he first worked for the National Telephone Co. ("CANTV") and subsequently co-founded two companies in the communications industry. Mr. Kauser is a Director of Ivy Corp., RECON Dynamics and TriQuint Semiconductors, Inc. He earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1963 and successfully completed graduate courses in Logic Design and Random Signal and Noise in Telecommunications Systems. In 1998, Mr. Kauser received the prestigious Gold Prize awarded by The Carnegie Melon Institute and American Management Systems for excellence in the application of information technology.
R. Gerard Salemme - Appointed Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer in 2011. Director since June 2010. Mr. Salemme has over 27 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. From 2004 - 2010, he was Executive Vice President-Strategy, Policy and External Affairs 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.
Benjamin G. Wolff - Chief Executive Officer and President since December 2009. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Pendrell Corporation from 2005 to 2008. Mr. Wolff was a Co-Founder of Clearwire Corporation, where he served in a variety of capacities including as a member of the Board of Directors, as Executive Vice President, company President, Co-CEO, CEO and finally Co-Chairman, a position he held until March 2010. At Clearwire, Mr. Wolff completed transactions in excess of $10 billion in value, including significant strategic transactions with AT&T, Bell Canada, Comcast, Google, Intel, Motorola, Sprint Nextel and Time Warner Cable. A former partner at a national law firm, Mr. Wolff’s practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, corporate finance and strategic partnerships. While with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, he co-chaired the firm’s Business Transactions Department and served on the firm’s Executive Committee. 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.
Stuart M. Sloan - Director since October 2010. Mr. Sloan serves on the boards of directors of Anixter International, Inc. and J. Crew Group, Inc. He also serves on the board of the Ohio State University Medical Center. Since 1994, Mr. Sloan has been a principal of Sloan Capital Partners, a private investment company. From 1986 through 1999, Mr. Sloan was an owner and executive officer of Quality Food Centers, Inc., which was acquired by Fred Meyer in 1997. Prior to QFC, from 1967 until 1984, Mr. Sloan owned in part and operated Schuck’s Auto Supply, Inc., which was sold to Pay ‘n Save Corp in 1984.
H. Brian Thompson - Director since May 2007. Mr. Thompson is Executive Chairman of Global Telecom & Technology (GTT), a global telecommunications network integrator that provides its clients with a broad portfolio of wide-area network and wireless mobility services from its headquarters in Northern Virginia and offices in London and Dusseldorf. Mr. Thompson continues to head his own private equity investment and advisory firm, Universal Telecommunications, Inc. From December 2002 to June 2007, Mr. Thompson was Chairman of Comsat International (CI), one of the largest independent telecommunications operators serving all of Latin America. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global TeleSystems Group, Inc. from March 1999 through September of 2000. Mr. Thompson was Chairman and CEO of LCI International from 1991 until its merger with Qwest Communications International Inc. in June 1998. Thompson became Vice Chairman of the board for Qwest until his resignation in December 1998. Thompson previously served as Executive Vice President of MCI Communications Corporation from 1981 to 1990, and prior to MCI, was a management consultant with the Washington, DC offices of McKinsey & Company for nine years, where he specialized in the management of telecommunications. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Axcelis Technologies, Inc., Penske Automotive Group, and Sonus Networks, Inc. He serves as a member of the Irish Prime Minister's Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board, and from January-March 1999, he served as Non-Executive Chairman of Telecom Eireann, Ireland’s incumbent telephone company. Thompson received his MBA from Harvard’s Graduate School of Business, and holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
