Alan B. Howe has extensive operational expertise combined with 20 years of corporate finance and business development experience. Mr. Howe is currently a Vice President of Business Development for Covad Communications focused on wireless last mile alternative access. Prior to joining Covad Mr. Howe was a principal at Broadband Initiatives LLC a boutique consulting and advisory firm. Mr. Howe was also previously Chief Financial Officer of Teletrac Inc. for six years raising approximately $200 million in public high yield debt private equity and bank financing. He helped lead Teletrac through a complex recapitalization and eventually worked to facilitate its sale to Trafficmaster PLC a global leader in telematics services.

Mr. Howe joined Teletrac from Sprint where he was Director of Corporate Development and one of the initial team members that helped start Sprint PCS. Before joining Sprint he was an Assistant Vice President at Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JP Morgan Chase & Co.) in New York where he cross-sold a wide range of corporate finance products including syndicated bank credits interest rate swaps M&A advisory services mortgage financings private placements subordinated debt financings structured finance products cash management and trust services. Prior to his experience at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Mr. Howe worked at Draper and Kramer Inc. a large privately held real estate firm based in Chicago. Mr. Howe serves on the board of directors of Crossroads Systems Inc. a Nasdaq listed company. Mr. Howe holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Indiana University Kelley Graduate School of Business with a specialty in finance.