Total Compensation: $ 8.91 M
Benjamin G. Wolff has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a director since January 2007. Mr. Wolff previously served as Co-President and Chief Strategy Officer from October 2005 to January 2007, and as our Co-Chief Executive Officer from May 2006 to January 2007. Previously, Mr. Wolff served as our Executive Vice President from April 2004 to October 2005. In addition to his positions with the Company, Mr. Wolff is a principal of ERH, the President of ERH and ERI, and a director of ICO and ICO North America. Mr. Wolff also serves on the board of CTIA " the Wireless Association(r). From August 1994 until April 2004, Mr. Wolff was a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he became a partner in January 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 and served on the firm"s Executive Committee.
Total Compensation: $ 3.13 M
Mr. Satterlee has served as our President since January 2007, Chief Operating Officer since July 2004 and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Clearwire US LLC, since May 2006. Mr. Satterlee served as our Co-President from October 2005 to January 2007. Previously, Mr. Satterlee was Chief Operating Officer from July 2002 to July 2004, and Vice President-Sales and Marketing, from August 1998 to July 2004, of Nextel Partners Inc. Prior to joining Nextel Partners, Mr. Satterlee was the President-Pacific Northwest Area of Nextel. Prior to joining Nextel, Mr. Satterlee served from 1992 to 1996 as Vice President and General Manager of Central California District of AT&T Wireless Services, formerly McCaw Cellular. From 1990 to 1992, he was General Manager of McCaw Cellular"s Ventura/Santa Barbara market. From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Satterlee was Director of Planning for McCaw Cellular, where he led the company"s planning and budgeting processes.
Total Compensation: $ 1.90 M
Mr. Butler has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2005. Previously, Mr. Butler served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Valor Communications Group, Inc. from 2000 to 2005. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Butler served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Inc. Prior to 1998, he was a director at First Union Capital Markets (Wachovia) in the Media and Communications Group. Mr. Butler has been employed by a number of financial institutions, and began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.
Total Compensation: $ —
Dr. Saw has served as our Chief Technology Officer since July 2007. From October 2003 to July 2007 Dr. Saw served as our vice president of Engineering for Clearwire. Prior to joining Clearwire, from 2002 to 2003 Dr. Saw was senior vice president and general manager of Fixed Wireless Access at Netro Corp (now SR Telecom) where he initiated the rollout of Netro"s broadband wireless product in Europe. From 1997 to 2002 Dr. Saw served as chief engineer and vice president of Engineering at AT&T Wireless (now AT&T Inc.). At AT&T Wireless, Dr. Saw was instrumental in the development and rollout of the company"s digital broadband wireless service, one of the earliest OFDM-based wireless systems deployed and foreshadowed the subsequent development of the WiMAX 802.16 standards. Prior to joining AT&T Wireless, Dr. Saw spent 9 years in various leadership positions at Nortel where he was involved in the development of TDMA, GSM, CDMA and fixed wireless cellular infrastructure and microwave radio products.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. DeLucia has served as our Chief Accounting Officer since May 2007. Prior to coming to the Company, Mr. DeLucia served in a variety of positions with Adelphia Communications Corporation from August 2002 to March 2007 as part of that company"s restructuring team, including most recently Vice President and Controller and previously Vice President of Reporting and Vice President and Assistant Controller. Prior to working for Adelphia, Mr. DeLucia worked for Public Interactive, Inc. as its interim Chief Financial Officer.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Hodder has served as our Vice President and General Counsel since May 2006 and has been our Secretary since June 2006. Previously, Mr. Hodder served as our Corporate Counsel and Assistant Secretary from November 2004 to November 2005 and Vice President Legal, Finance and Corporate Development from November 2005 to May 2006. Prior to joining the Company, from April 2001 to November 2004, Mr. Hodder was a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he became a partner in January 2004. Before joining Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Mr. Hodder was a lawyer with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP and Lionel Sawyer and Collins Ltd.
Total Compensation: $ 4.10 M
Mr. Richardson has served as our Chief Strategy officer since January 2007. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Richardson led Intel"s broadband wireless business and most recently served as vice president of Intel"s Mobility Group and general manager of the company"s Service Provider Business Group. In these roles, Mr. Richardson was responsible for creating the IEEE 802.16 standard and delivering the Company"s silicon products for WiMAX Certified wireless equipment and access devices. From 1998 to 2002 Mr. Richardson served as general manager of Intel"s OEM communication systems business serving the networking and communications market. From 1988 to 1998 Mr. Richardson led software efforts within Intel"s Enterprise Server Group and held various staff roles in communications businesses.
Total Compensation: $ 608,064.00
Craig O. McCaw has served as our Chairman since he founded the Company in October 2003. Previously, Mr. McCaw served as our Chief Executive Officer from October 2003 until May 2006 and as our Co-Chief Executive Officer from May 2006 to January 2007. Since May 2000, Mr. McCaw has served as a director and Chairman of ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited, or ICO, and has served as a director of ICO North America, Inc. since December 2004. Mr. McCaw is also Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a member of Eagle River Investments, LLC, Eagle River Holdings, LLC ("ERH"), and Eagle River Inc. ("ERI") and its affiliates, which are private investment companies that focus on strategic investments in the communications industry. Mr. McCaw also currently serves as a director of RadioFrame Networks, Inc. and of Tello Corp. Mr. McCaw is a former director of Nextel Communications, Inc. and XO Communications, Inc., or XO, formerly known as NEXTLINK Communications, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ 3.21 M
R. Gerard Salemme has served as a director since November 2003 and Executive Vice President - Strategy, Policy, and External Affairs of the Company since April 2004 and currently is a principal of ERH, a Vice President of ERI, and a director of and consultant to ICO and ICO North America. Previously, Mr. Salemme served as our Vice President and Secretary from November 2003 to April 2004. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Salemme was Senior Vice President, External Affairs of XO from May 1997 to June 2003. Before joining XO, Mr. Salemme served as AT&T Corp."s Vice President of Government Affairs, directing AT&T"s federal regulatory public policy organization, including participation in the FCC"s narrowband and broadband PCS auctions. Prior to AT&T, Mr. Salemme served as Senior Vice President, External Affairs for McCaw Cellular. Previously, Mr. Salemme was the Senior Telecommunications Policy Analyst for the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance. Prior to joining the subcommittee, he was a Regional Manager at GTE Corporation/Sprint Corporation and supervised the company"s government relations in the New York/New England region. Mr. Salemme has also served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts and was a lecturer of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Salem.
Total Compensation: $ —
Michael J. Sabia has served as a director of the Company since March 2005 having been designated pursuant to our agreement with Bell Canada. Mr. Sabia is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of BCE Inc, and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada. Mr. Sabia has held senior executive positions with BCE Inc. and Bell Canada since July 2000. Mr. Sabia also serves as a director of BCE, Bell Canada; Bell Aliant Regional Communication Inc. and The Thomson Corporation.
Total Compensation: $ —
David Perlmutter has served as a director of the Company since August 2006, having been designated by Intel Capital in connection with the voting agreement between ERH and Intel Capital and is currently Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation. Mr. Perlmutter has served as the General Manager of Intel Corporation"s Mobility Group (previously Mobile Products Group) since January 2004, where he manages the design, development and marketing of Intel"s solutions for the mobile computing segment. From January 1996 to January 2006, he was Vice-President of Intel Corporation.
Total Compensation: $ —
Ms. Kirske was named our Vice President, Finance and Controller in September 2006. From September 2003 to September 2006, Ms. Kirske worked for Washington Mutual, Inc., first serving as Division Controller, Corporate Services Organization and then as Division Finance Officer, Planning & Performance Measurement, Corporate Services Organization. From June 2002 to September 2003, Ms. Kirske served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Finance and Administration at Med Data Inc., a billing, coding, and data management company. From October 1997 to September 2001, Ms. Kirske served as Vice President Finance and Administration, and, from September 2001 to May 2002, as Chief Financial Officer, of Bsquare Corporation, a software systems integrator for mobile devices. Prior to 1997, Ms. Kirske was the Director of Accounting for Mosaix, Inc., a telephony equipment and customer management solution provider and Spacelabs Medical, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of critical care medical equipment. Ms. Kirske began her career and attained the level of general practice manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Total Compensation: $ —
Ms. Bertany has served as our Vice President, People Development since September 2004. Previously, Ms. Bertany was Principal of HR Strategies International, a human resources consulting firm she established and operated from 2000 to 2004. Prior to building her consulting business, Ms. Bertany was the Director of Human Resources for drugstore.com from its public offering in 1999 to 2000. Ms. Bertany spent nearly five years at McCaw Cellular and AT&T Wireless from 1995 to 1999 in a variety of leadership roles in their People Development organization.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mrs. Cochran has served as our Vice President, Finance since November 2005 and Treasurer since June 2006. Previously, from May 2003 to August 2005, Mrs. Cochran served as the Chief Financial Officer of Evant Incorporated, a planning and logistics software developer. From May 2001 to May 2003, Mrs. Cochran served as the Controller of the Americas -Sales Operations for PeopleSoft, Inc. Prior to 2001, Mrs. Cochran was a founder and served as the Chief Financial Officer of SkillsVillage, a contractor supply chain management software provider, until its sale to PeopleSoft, Inc. In both chief financial officer positions, Mrs. Cochran managed corporate finance, accounting, human resources, legal and facilities. Mrs. Cochran began her career as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche LLP.
Total Compensation: $ —
Richard P. Emerson has been a director of the Company since 2004. He served as a Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners, L.P. from 2005 to 2008. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Emerson was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation, Mr. Emerson was a Managing Director at Lazard Freres & Co. LLC. Mr. Emerson was also previously affiliated with The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Mechaley has served as our Vice Chairman since January 2005. Mr. Mechaley served as our Chief Technology Officer since October 2003 through January 2005. Mr. Mechaley is also a principal of ERH. In addition, since 2002 Mr. Mechaley has been the founder, Chairman and a director of Radioframe Networks, Inc., a wireless equipment provider, and previously served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from February 2000 to February 2002. Mr. Mechaley has also served as a director of Worldwide Packets since 2005. Previously, Mr. Mechaley served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Wildfire Communications, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist of AT&T Wireless Services and Senior Vice President of McCaw Cellular Communications and General Manager of its Wireless Data Division.
Total Compensation: $ —
Michelangelo A. Volpi has served as a director of the company since February 2007 and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Joost, an Internet video company. Mr. Volpi previously served as Senior Vice President, Technology of Cisco Systems, Inc. from April 2001 to February 2007 and Senior Vice President/General Manager of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group from July 2005 until February 2007. From 1994 to February 2007, Mr. Volpi held various positions at Cisco, including Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Senior Vice President of Business Development/Global Alliances, Vice President of Business Development, Director of Business Development and Business Development Manager. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Volpi held various management positions at the Hewlett Packard Company"s Optoelectronics Division. Mr. Volpi also serves on the board of directors of Equinix, Inc. and Opsware, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
Peter L.S. Currie has served as a director of the Company since 2005 and is currently president of Currie Capital LLC. From 2002 to 2005 he was a managing member of General Atlantic LLC, a worldwide private equity investment company, where he continues to serve as special advisor. Before joining General Atlantic, Mr. Currie was a partner and co-founder of The Barksdale Group, an early-stage venture capital firm. Mr. Currie also served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1999, and held various positions, including executive vice president and chief financial officer, of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. from 1989 to 1995. Prior to joining McCaw Cellular he was a Principal at Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, where he joined in 1982. He is also a director of CNET Networks, Inc., Safeco Corporation, Sun Microsystems and he is a charter trustee of Phillips Academy.
Total Compensation: $ —
Stuart M. Sloan has served as a director of the Company since 2004 and since 1984 has been principal of Sloan Capital Companies. Mr. Sloan was also the Chairman of the Board from 1986 to 1998 and the Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 1996 of Quality Food Centers, Inc., a supermarket chain. Mr. Sloan is also a director for Anixter International, Inc., and J. Crew Group, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
Nicolas Kauser has served as a director since February 2004 and as our Chief Technology Officer from January 2005 to July 2007 and currently is a principal of ERH. Previously, Mr. Kauser was a director of XO. Mr. Kauser is also a director of Triquint Semiconductor, a position he has held since December 1999 and has been a director of RadioFrame Networks since 2002. Until September 1998, Mr. Kauser was an Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for AT&T Wireless, formerly McCaw Cellular, where he was responsible for all aspects of engineering and technology projects, network operations, long-range planning and evolution of the network, and supporting network technologies. Mr. Kauser was also responsible for AT&T Wireless" fixed wireless initiative, Project Angel. Before joining McCaw Cellular in 1990, Mr. Kauser was Vice President of Engineering and subsequently Senior Vice President Operations at Cantel, the Canadian nationwide cellular provider based in Toronto, Canada. He is also a director of TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.
