Michael F. O'Donnell CPA, 65, is a financial expert with close to 40 years of experience in the audit and consulting industries. He has dealt extensively with multinational corporate boards and senior management teams on key strategic issues, external auditors and consultants. Most recently Mr. O'Donnell served as a Founding Managing Director of Protiviti, Inc., a global business consulting and internal audit firm specializing in risk, advisory and transaction services. He was jointly responsible for the development and implementation of the company's overall strategic plan and, during his tenure, revenues grew from $17 million to over $600 million annually. Previously, Mr. O'Donnell spent 33 years at Arthur Andersen LLP, occupying numerous senior level positions in risk consulting, audit services and the energy industry program. Mr. O'Donnell received a B.S. in Accounting from Central Michigan University, where he was also recognized as an Honorary Doctor of Commerce.
Scott Hisey, 46, was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of UniTek USA, and served as the Chief Executive Officer of UniTek Global Services, Inc. from the company's inception in 2004 until January 2012. During his tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hisey led the company through two private equity transactions, multiple acquisitions, and expanded the company to include a workforce of over 5,500 people across four diverse industries. UniTek Global Services is recognized as the performance leader of the permanently outsourced technical services industry.
Prior to founding UniTek, Mr. Hisey spent over 15 years in positions of increasing responsibility in both the cable television and satellite communications industries. Starting as a field technician, he progressively worked his way into senior management positions with larger companies. His roles included Chief Operating Officer in a private equity turnaround and President of a multi-service construction company.
Mr. Hisey began his career in the United States Navy. He served as a Second Class Radioman aboard the USS Forrestal, and received an honorable discharge as a Disabled Veteran.
In addition to serving on UniTek's Board of Directors, Mr. Hisey is also on the Board of the Satellite Broadcasting Communications Association (SBCA).
Mark S. Dailey, 53, has served on the board of directors of BCI Communications, Inc. since February 2006. Mr. Dailey is President of Interim Management International specializing in international growth-stage information technology companies. Previously Mr. Dailey held senior executive management positions including Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing of Intralinks, Inc., a venture-funded secure document distribution company, Chief Operating Officer of LexiQuest, Inc., a technology-based company exploiting linguistics and natural language processing in developing software tools to manage, access and retrieve large Intranet document collections and Chief Operating Officer of Medcast Networks, a venture capital-backed start-up delivering comprehensive medical information to physicians. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Dailey held various senior level positions with Bloomberg Financial Markets, a global leader in the delivery of international real-time financial information where he spent 11 years in Asia opening operations in a dozen countries.
Daniel Hopkin, 34, was a previously a member of the Company's Board from January 2010 through December 9, 2010. Since 2004, Mr. Hopkin has been with HM LLC, a private equity firm where he served as an associate from 2004 to 2006 and has served as a Vice President from 2007 to present. He focuses primarily on the media and food sectors. Previous to joining HM LLC, Mr. Hopkin worked in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters degrees from Brigham Young University in 2002.
Dean MacDonald, 51, currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Newport Partners Income Fund, a Toronto-based Private Equity Fund. Mr. MacDonald has a long and successful career as an operating executive and entrepreneur. His operating experience includes serving as the chief operating officer of Rogers Cable and as the chief executive officer of Persona Communications, a TSX-listed cable and internet services company. Mr. MacDonald worked with a syndicate of investment partners to turn around Persona's operations and subsequently sold the business at a significant premium to its purchase price in 2007. Mr. MacDonald has also served as chairman of the Newfoundland and Labrador Energy Corporation, which manages the province's oil and gas assets. He has management and investment experience in a number of industries, including advertising, marketing and communications. In 2007, Mr. MacDonald was selected as CEO of the Year by Birch Hill Capital Partners.
Michael Montelongo, 56, currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Sodexo, Inc., an $8 billion quality of daily life solutions enterprise, where he is responsible for driving increased growth, brand awareness, cross-disciplinary synergies, and tighter enterprise alignment. Previously, Mr. Montelongo served as the company's Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing. In 2001, Mr. Montelongo was appointed by former President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Board of Trustees for Aerospace Corporation and on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Advisory Council, and is a former board director for Denny's Corporation and Datapath, Inc. Mr. Montelongo received an M.B.A. from the Harvard School of Business and a B.S. in Engineering from the United States Military Academy.
Richard Siber, 49, has spent the last 25 years exclusively in the wireless industry. Currently, Richard is the Founder, President and CEO of SiberConsulting LLC. SiberConsulting provides strategic, technical and marketing services to members within the wireless ecosystem. Richard retired as a partner in the Communications, Electronics,, High Tech and Media and Entertainment practice at Accenture. While there, he founded the global wireless consulting practice and helped grow it to thousands of employees and hundreds of millions in revenue. While at Accenture, Richard was also deeply involved in a number of Government and Homeland Security initiatives utilizing a variety of wireless technologies.
His expertise cuts across all wireless industry licensed and unlicensed technologies including Cellular, PCS, LMR/SMR, Paging, Narrowband and Broadband Mobile Data, WiFi,/WiMax, LTE, and Satellite. He has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as a "Guru In TheWireless Industry" (9/20/99) and by the Industry Standard/ The Grok as the"Guru of Gadgets" (11/00).
Richard has a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University , a Masters of Business Administration from the Carroll School of Management from Boston College. He also holds a certificate of special studies from Harvard University Extension School. Additionally, Richard was a senior lecturer within the marketing department at Boston College, having taught Professional Selling (a Marketing Elective for Seniors) there for nearly ten years.
Richard serves or has served on the Boards of Directors for Digit Wireless, InCode (sold to Verisign), Integrated Mobile, JumpTap,, and SingleTouch Interactive (BB: SITO) as well as a number of Technology Advisory Boards and is involved with several charitable organizations.
Robert Sperry, 55, has been a member of our Board since April 2012. Mr. Sperry has been with HM Capital Partners, a private equity firm, since February 2011. Mr. Sperry has 30 years of operating and investment experience. At HM Capital, Mr. Sperry serves as a principal with Mr. Sperry's primary responsibility is operating oversight and deal sourcing of the Firm's consumer product investments. Prior to joining HM Capital Partners, Mr. Sperry had been a Partner with Brynwood Partners, a private equity firm, since 2004. He was previously affiliated with HM Capital Partners as an operating partner when he served as COO of Metropoulos & Co. Before Metropoulos, Mr. Sperry spent 17 years with Nestle in a wide range of general management roles. Mr. Sperry is a graduate of Central Connecticut State College and has attended executive management programs at Cornell University and IMD in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Sperry is a director of Advanced H2O, a producer of private label bottled water and water-based beverages, and Milk Specialties Global, a manufacturer of whey and specialty dairy protein ingredients serving the sport nutrition, food manufacturing and animal nutrition end markets. Our Board has determined that Mr. Sperry should serve on the Board based on his management and investment experience in a number of industries.
Robert F. Stott, 65, is a telecommunications industry veteran. In 2007 he retired as President of the Northeast Region of Verizon Wireless after serving at Verizon and its legacy companies for over 40 years. Mr. Stott began his career as an equipment installer with the New England Telephone Company and held a number of senior-level positions with NYNEX Mobile through the Company's merger with Bell Atlantic in 1995. Following the merger, Mr. Stott was appointed the President of Bell Atlantic Mobile's Philadelphia Tri-State region, where he remained until assuming the role in New England in 1998. Mr. Stott received an M.B.A. from Pace University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from UMass Lowell.
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