Mr. Hooper is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in telecommunications and wireless companies. He represents Ignition as Director on the boards of RadioFrame Networks, MobileLime, and AVST. Hooper previously served on the board of Avogadro (acquired by OpenWave) and UIEvolution (acquired by SquareEnix). Prior to Ignition, Steve worked closely with Craig McCaw for 18 years and was CEO of every major McCaw Company except Nextel. Most recently, Hooper was the Chairman and CEO of Nextlink Communications (now XO Communications). Prior to Nextlink, he served as the co-CEO of Teledesic with Craig McCaw. In that capacity, he oversaw the operation of the company and the negotiation of the multi-billion dollar satellite contract with Motorola. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Hooper served as CEO of AT&T Wireless. As President and CEO of AT&T Wireless, Hooper grew the company from $1.8 billion sales to $4 billion. Prior to becoming CEO of AT&T Wireless, he was part of the small McCaw team that recognized cellular's promise in the early eighties. Hooper financed McCaw's expansion into cellular, raising $200 million in the industry's first high-yield cellular deal and taking the company public in 1987. Steve also had extensive operational responsibility at McCaw. Steve was the President of McCaw's cable operations and successfully sold that business for $750 million. From there he moved into Cellular operations where he was responsible for a large part of the McCaw cellular footprint in the United States.