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Mr. Hertz, age 51, has over 28 years of management experience in the telecommunications industry in the inter-exchange carrier, local exchange carrier and wireless segments both in the United States and South America. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Hertz was the Chief Operating Officer of Western Wireless Corporation, a provider of rural wireless communications services, where he was responsible for managing domestic operations, including all key business functions, and leading more than 2,500 employees across 19 states. From 2001 to 2002, he was Region President of AT&T Digital Broadband Wireless. From 1991 to 2001, Mr. Hertz was employed by BellSouth Corp., a FORTUNE 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, in a number of posts of increasing responsibility.
Mr. Hertz obtained a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business Administration of the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. | 