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Sandeep Beotra
Managing Director
Morgan Joseph
Mr. Beotra is a Managing Director in Morgan Joseph`s Technology, Media and Telecom investment banking group and was part of the initial team that founded Morgan Joseph in August 2001. He heads the firm`s effort in telecom and cleantech services and is also responsible for building the India practice. Prior to Morgan Joseph, Mr. Beotra was a member of the telecommunications investment banking group at ING Barings. He has worked on a number of advisory and financing assignments (both public and private) across a broad spectrum of telecom and technology companies. Previously, Mr. Beotra worked with Hughes Network Systems in the fixed wireless group as a communication engineer providing engineering support in various customer locations worldwide. He was named in Investment Dealers’ Digest’s “40 Under 40” list for 2010. Mr. Beotra holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
Dana Spiegel
Executive Director of NYCwireless
VP of Product and Engineering at AxialMarket
A seasoned entrepreneur in product development and design, Dana was previously Head of Product Development at OnForce, responsible for the development and design of the company’s innovative online field labor deployment and management platform. While at OnForce, he created a number of patent pending technologies and transformed the company’s online tools into a scalable, easy-to-use Software-as-a-Service platform. Under his leadership, OnForce was nominated as a finalist for a Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Codie Award. Prior to OnForce, Dana served in Lead Engineering and Operations roles at FareChase (now Yahoo! Travel), IBM, Scholastic, and Primedia and has served as consulting CTO for a number of early stage technology startup companies.
Dana Spiegel also serves as the Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors of NYCwireless, a New York City non-profit organization that advocates and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. The organization was formed in 2001, and is primarily focused in New York City and surrounding areas. It is most widely recognized for its work in deploying free Wi-Fi access in Wagner Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Jackson Square Park, Stuyvesant Cove Park (the first fully solar powered hotspot in New York), Tompkins Square Park, Bowling Green Park, City Hall Park, the South Street Seaport, the Winter Garden, the Atrium at 60 Wall Street, Stone Street, Wall Street Park, and the Vietnam Veterans Plaza, among others. NYCwireless also assists underserved communities in getting affordable Internet access. Working with Community Access, a non-profit housing organization, built and maintains wireless networks in 9 affordable housing residences in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Dana received his BS in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from MIT and his MS in Sociable Media from the MIT Media Laboratory.
Jagjit Toor
Director of Access Networks
Alcatel-Lucent
Mr. Toor is a Director of access networks at Alcatel-Lucent. In this capacity, he is responsible for USD 200M per annum business involving end-to-end telecom equipment standardization, delivery, operations and technical support for key service providers. He has more than 14 years of experience in various domains of telecom industry with both telecom solutions’ and service providers. Over the course of his career, he has been involved with introduction of key wireless technologies such as GSM, CDMA, EVDO, WCDMA, HSPA etc. He was the project planning lead for one of the world’s largest greenfield wireless deployments involving 5000+ cell sites and 80+ switches in a span of 18 months. He has been involved in numerous network launches in North America and Asia with some of the world’s leading service providers such as AT&T, Reliance, Bell Canada, Telus, Wind Mobile and Essar among others. He has worked in North-East US markets including New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts and understands major challenges in wireless network deployment and technology adoption. He has a keen interest in the area of key wireless trends and has spoken at various forums about the same.
Mr. Toor recently completed Program for Leadership Development (PLD) at Harvard Business School (HBS). He has also completed numerous other Executive Development Programs at HBS and University of Toronto. He holds an MBA and Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from India. He is a PMP-Certified Professional.
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Frank Boulben
Chief Marketing Officer
LightSquared
Frank Boulben is the Chief Marketing Officer of LightSquared. In this role, he oversees strategy, marketing, and partner development for the first-ever wholesale-only open broadband network that uses a combination of terrestrial and satellite technology.
Prior to joining LightSquared, Frank was Global Director of Commercial Strategy for Vodafone Group, where he was responsible for the company’s wholesale roaming business as well as its pricing, customer investment policies, and strategic management. He joined Vodafone in 2007 as New Business Development Director.
Previously Frank was the Executive Vice President of Brand and Consumer Marketing for the Orange Group, responsible for brand and consumer propositions, market research, product marketing, devices, and commercial planning. He joined Orange in January 2004 as Vice President for Corporate Strategy. Prior to that, Frank spent eight years working for Vivendi Universal in positions for the mobile operator SFR Group and the firm’s Internet division. Frank began his career as a consultant for Corporate Value Associates (CVA), working in Europe and the United States.
Frank also served on the Board of the GSMA during 2005-2006 and was Chairman of the Strategy Committee. He is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He majored in network economy and management.
Bart Stuck
Managing Director
Signal Lake Venture Capital
Bart focuses on investments involving fundamental innovation in green energy, telecom, IT, and software. Current investments include Inphase, CorEdge Networks, SeraStar, Hermios, and RemoTV. Past investments include Ciena, Covad, and JDS Uniphase.
Prior to founding Signal Lake, Bart consulted to leading investors and firms on major early stage investments and acquisitions. He completed over 450 engagements that resulted in over $60B of capital commitments. His clients included Telcordia (nee Bell Communications Research), SAIC, Global Crossing, Korea Telecom (see also KT2000 Strategic Plan), Frontier Communications, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Group, Charles River Ventures, General Atlantic, Telesoft, Matrix Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Warburg Pincus, Sevin Rosen Funds, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Bart's entire career is focused on technical innovation. Claude Shannon reviewed his MIT Bachelor's thesis, his MIT Master's thesis was done in Amar Bose's group, is MIT doctoral dissertation was in space satellite dynamics. He spent four years in the Mathematics Research Center of Bell Labs working on signal processing, starting with data analysis of signals on analog telephone lines. He then spent six years in the UNIX software application support area, working on 20+ systems in detail and an additional 80+ systems as short term advisor, covering object oriented programming and relational databases and interpreter/script driven application software development, as well as representing ATT on Project 802 Local Area Network Standards (802.2 Logical Link Control, 802.4 Token Passing Bus). He has written over thirty refereed technical papers, coauthored one book with Ed Arthurs (A Computer and Communication Network Performance Analysis Primer), and lectured at over 50 universities, research labs, and institutes around the globe. Bart continues to work to foster innovation and was on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, 2004-2006.
Bart holds a bachelor, masters, and doctorate of science in electrical engineering and computer science all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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