David E. Weisman – President & CEO Mr. Weisman has been involved in the wireless industry for over 25 years as an attorney, investor, and an executive. He was most recently President and CEO of Mountain Union Telecom, LLC. Previously, he served as a partner for a Washington, D.C. based law firm where he was general counsel to the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA), the primary trade association for the wireless communications industry. He also serves as Vice President of the Radio Club of America. Previously, Mr. Weisman was a founding member of FFC Communications, a company that owned and operated specialized mobile radio networks in Texas and Florida. He was also a founding member and investor in the tower entities: Vista Telecom, Inc. and in Mid-Pacific Wireless and Telegraph Inc. which were strategic partners of Telecom Towers, LLC. Mr. Weisman received his law degree from George Washington University with honors, an LLM in taxation from George Washington University and a Bachelor's degree from Brown University.
Lance C. Cawley – Chief Financial Officer Mr. Cawley was most recently CFO of Mountain Union Telecom and has over 20 years of finance, operations, and accounting experience, including serving as CFO of five venture-backed companies and raising over $500 million in capital. Previously, he was also CFO of Qovia Inc, Ipredia International, WebPerfect Solutions and GO Communications. In addition, he was Vice President of Fidelity Investments' Venture Group where he served as President of MetroRED and was on the board of Pittencrief Communications. He was also Vice President of the Schelle Cellular Group and American Personal Communications. Mr. Cawley started his career in commercial lending to the media and telecommunications industry. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Washington & Lee University, an MBA in Finance from Loyola (MD), and is a licensed CPA.
Dale Walsh – Board of Managers / Advisors Mr. Walsh's experience spans 35 plus years in the industry as an SMR operator, tower owner, sales / service provider and system integrator. He was most recently COO of Mountain Union Telecom, LLC. He previously held the positions of COO & CEO of Communications Engineering Co. from 1972 to 1986. At that time, the company owned, operated, and managed communication sites in addition to its communications system & SMR business. In 1986, Mr. Walsh sold his majority interest and formed The Walsh Group. The purpose was to provide brokerage, management consulting services to the Land Mobile Communications Industry. While engaged with Communications Engineering, Mr. Walsh served on the Board of NABER, a trade association representing the interests of Land Mobile Radio at the FCC. He served two terms as Chairman prior to leaving the Board. NABER has since merged and the Association is now known as PCIA.
John Campbell – Board of Managers Mr. Campbell is a registered architect and a licensed surveyor. John started building towers in 1992 in the Virgin Islands. His company eventually expanded to Puerto Rico, where he started the Puerto Rico Tower Company. After building over 300 towers and a portfolio of over 20 collocation towers, Mr. Campbell sold his company and moved to Idaho. He and his wife started the Idaho Tower Company in 2001. Mr. Campbell handles site design, construction, and strategic planning. He is a graduate of Williams College.
James P. Hynes – Board of Managers Mr. Hynes is Chairman of the Board of Neutral Tandem, Inc., a Chicago-based provider of tandem interconnection services to competitive carriers, including wireless, cable telephony and VoIP companies. Mr. Hynes was on the Board of Managers of Mountain Union until its sale to Crown Castle International. Active in the industry for 30 years, Mr. Hynes directed the establishment of COLT Telecommunications in Europe in 1992. As Chairman of the Board, he led COLT’s initial public offering in 1996. Mr. Hynes established MetroRED Telecom Group Ltd. in South America and Mexico, as well as KVH Telecom in Tokyo. Concurrent with taking on these operating roles, he was Group Managing Director at Fidelity Capital for 10 years. Mr. Hynes previously held senior positions with Chase Manhattan, Continental Corporation, Bache & Co., and New York Telephone.
Anthony (Tony) Sabatino – Board of Managers
Mr. Sabatino’s professional experience consists of twenty-six years in engineering and management with expertise in
telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions, business development, construction, RF Engineering, system designs, and
project management. Currently, Mr. Sabatino is advising several wireless carriers on future technologies and advanced
wireless services. He is also on retainer until May of 2008 with Sprint-Nextel. Prior to the purchase of Alamosa PCS
by Sprint-Nextel Mr. Sabatino was the Alamosa PCS chief technology officer. Responsibilities; responsible for engineering,
operations, network design, RF systems, merger due diligence, new market builds, capital budget planning and execution,
Sprint PCS affiliate network operations council, Network Partnering programs, wireless and wire line future evolutions,
new technology decisions, contract and program management, strategic modeling of existing and future networks, new business
system deployment and overall technology decisions. Alamosa was listed as the SPCS affiliate of the year. Mr. Sabatino
was Alamosa PCS’s CTO since July of 2000. In February of 2006 Sprint-Nextel acquired Alamosa PCS. Up until the summer
of 2006 Mr. Sabatino was on the transition team that successfully integrated the Legacy Company into the Sprint-Nextel
Family.
Prior to joining Alamosa PCS, Mr. Sabatino was the National Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering Director and also served
in a dual role for new product development for Sprint PCS. He was instrumental in several wireless property assessments
and acquisitions. He joined SPCS in 1995 during the start up phase. He was an initial member of the SPCS corporate
launch team. Today he continues to serve as an expert witness for SPCS in public hearings related to the wireless network
from the landline system all the way to the mobile handset. He led the RF Engineering Development team from the startup
phase through to the operational phase including the continued development of all SPCS National RF Engineering Standards.
During his tenure at SPCS Mr. Sabatino submitted several patents on behalf of SPCS, served on the Sprint Chairman’s Award
Committee, led many task forces during the early deployment of CDMA, and oversaw the early deployment of interference
calculations for the PCS industry.
Mr. Sabatino also worked on the NEXRAD Tri-Agency project for Fluor Daniel in the special engineering, utilities and
telecommunications disciplines. His responsibilities included civil, electrical, and construction based design and
field inspections. During his tenure Mr. Sabatino received an award for Engineering Excellence from the NOAA Deputy
Director.
Additional career experience includes engineering consulting roles with AT&T, Sprint Local and Long Distance, MCI,
Cell One and United telephone. Projects worth noting are, Optical fiber network installations including the 1000-mile
Southern Transcontinental and Central Transcontinental networks in the Western United States, early construction and
deployment of cell sites, mechanical and electrical designing and implementation, field construction and standards
creation work.
Mr. Sabatino served as a Board Member and Past President for the PCIA Cost Sharing Clearinghouse. He serves or has
served as a Board Member for the University of Kansas Advisory Committee representing Electrical Engineering, Cystic
Fibrosis Heart of America, and Nortel’s Industry User Group. Mr. Sabatino holds a Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering and has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. Over the past year he
continues to serve on Industry advisory and round table forums supporting the wireless community. His most recent patent
was issued in May of 2004 on an Antenna for Air-to-Ground Communication #6,735,438. Several other patents are still
pending. In 2005 Mr. Sabatino was published as a contributing author for Aspatore books “IT Roadmaps for Success”.
Contributing chapter – Everyone is your customer.
