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Mr. Hewitt was appointed Chief Strategic Officer in October 2007 and has served has been a member of the Company’s advisory board since December 2005. He is a partner with EcoSystem Partners and Nextbend. He has over 26 years of experience in the communications and entertainment technologies. Mr. Hewitt provides in depth technological guidance for these companies as well as many other companies in the communications industry.
Mr. Hewitt started his career in Alaska with the creation of the paging network, which was later acquired by Craig McCaw. He was then elected Chairman of the Public Utilities Board to help rebuild the utility systems and the telephone, electric, water, sewer, and steam/hot water utilities. He later joined Motorola Communications where he first worked on the design of the trunk radio system (core to the Nextel system), the ARDIS Network (core to the Blackberry system), and finally the IRIDIUM system in the areas of ground segment support and network design. He later joined Sterling Cellular where he led overall program management, engineering, site selection, market development, and regulatory areas.
Later, Mr. Hewitt joined Frontier Communications as Sr. Director, Engineering and Product Development where he led technology in the emerging IP systems field. Global Crossing later acquired Frontier. Mr. Hewitt then joined I-Link as Sr. Vice President of Business Development and Product Marketing. There he launched the first softswitch/IAD in the United States . The associated service became the first national broadband voice network in the United States . He received numerous product of the year awards that were instrumental in increasing the shareholder’s value more than ten fold to $800+ million. Following the successful venture with I-Link, Mr. Hewitt has operated as CTO at a number of communications, portal, and entertainment device companies. He is well known in the industry as a visionary and a technology guru.
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