Principal Members

Prince Jenkins, J.D., B.A.  

Prince Jenkins is a telecommunications regulatory attorney who has extensive management experience with international and national telecommunications companies. Mr. Jenkins most recently served as Project Director for the Bahamas Telecommunications Reengineering project.

Mr. Jenkins was formerly the Acting Vice-President of Regulatory and Industry Policy at Intermedia Communications, where he was involved in strategic planning, policy development and advocacy. He has previously served as senior legal counsel at a successful start up DSL Operator, where he advised management regarding the legal and regulatory implications of entry into the telecom market. Prince Jenkins has also served as a regulatory and interconnection attorney for MCI Telecommunications. While at MCI, he was responsible for monitoring implementation of MCI's regional interconnection agreement with an incumbent operator and initiating enforcement actions if necessary, to persuade the incumbent operator to abide by the terms of the agreement.

Mr. Jenkins is also an experienced international telecom consultant with extensive international consulting experience in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. He has served as a Legal and Policy Advisor to the telecommunications regulator of El Salvador--Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecommunicaciones ("SIGET"), the Namibian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority where he helped to advise and establish a new regulatory agency in the Republic of Rwanda. Mr. Jenkins' areas of expertise include drafting telecom sector reform legislation; privatization matters, regulatory capacity building, and representing operators and stakeholders before public utility regulators.

Mr. Jenkins is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School and Rutgers University.

Julius D. Kearney, J.D., B.A.  

Julius Kearney is an attorney and a former state Public Utility Commissioner. Mr. Kearney is also an experienced international consultant who has worked extensively on telecommunications sector reform and privatization in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States. Mr. Kearney has served as a legal and regulatory advisor to a number of international entities including the Lesotho Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), the telecommunications regulator of El Salvador uperintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecommunicaciones (IGET) , the National Communications Commission in the Republic of Georgia; and the Agency for Telecommunications in Montenegro. Mr. Kearney responsibilities included reviewing and analyzing telecom laws, regulations and competition policies, developing Universal Access policies and procedures and developing recommendations to regulators for improving such.

As a former Commissioner at the Arkansas Public Service Commission, Mr. Kearney presided over numerous arbitrations, rulemaking proceedings and other regulatory litigation involving the telecommunications sector. Mr. Kearney has helped set policies, rates and operating standards for a number of regulated industries including the water, electricity, and natural gas sectors.

He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard University.

Rogelio Peña, J.D., B.A.  

Rogelio has over 20 years of legal experience and has practiced administrative law for the last 14 years, with the last 8 years primarily limited to communications law. Rogelio has extensive state and local regulatory experience and he has litigated or otherwise worked on a variety of issues related to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 including Section 252 arbitrations, negotiation and implementation of interconnection agreements, state certification issues, and other matters.

As a former Senior Regulatory Attorney for MCI Communications Inc, Rogelio represented the company before the Oregon Public Utility Commission and Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. Rogelio's current practice includes handling telecom matters before the Texas Public Utility Commission, as well as representing clients before several other Western public utility commissions, including the California Public Utilities Commission and the Public Utilities Commission of Colorado.

Kent Jones, M.B.A., BBC  

Kent has over 12 years of financial and management experience most recently serving as Director Strategic and Corporate Business Planning for a national Integrated Communications Provider (ICP). Kent has worked on numerous mergers and acquisition projects, capital formation projects and feasibility studies within the telecommunications industry. He is recognized for an exceptional ability to develop and execute business strategy with an emphasis on the interrelationship of people, process and technology.

Kent received his MBA with a specialization in finance from the University of Florida in 1994.

Executive Management Consultants

Gerald B. Breed, B.A., MBA

Mr.Breed has extensive experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries with emphasis on business planning, business development and operations. At Impressa.Com. an Internet Company specializing in ecommerce software, Mr. Breed was Vice President Business Development. Prior to his engagement with Impressa, Mr. Breed worked more than 30 years at BellSouth, where he held a number of executive positions including: General Manager/Chief Operating Officer of BellSouth Chile, Group Manager- Technology and Planning at Optus Communications, Sydney Australia and Senior Director Data Services BellSouth International.

Mr. Breed helped to facilitate BellSouth's international expansion strategy by serving on, or leading BellSouth's Technical Evaluation Teams charged with conducting due diligence on prospective wire line and wireless companies in Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and Argentina. At Optus Communications he was responsible for the long range network planning and expansion of the nationwide wireless, long distance and fiber optics networks. He also had responsibility for the network capital budget.

As a member of the team which established BellSouth International, Mr. Breed was Managing Director Network Services and he directed project teams in Guatemala, Thailand, China, Australia, and Puerto Rico.

Mr. Breed has an Associate Engineering Degree from Southern Polytechnic State University, a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oglethorpe University and a Master's of Business Administration from Georgia State University.Mr. Breed served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and held a Top Secret security clearance.

Associate Members

CHARLES E. ZETTERSTROM, A.E.

Mr. Zetterstrom has over 40 years in the telecommunications industry including extensive involvement in new telecommunications start up ventures. Mr. Zetterstrom's expertise is in network engineering, planning, construction, capital budget development and operations. He is experienced in a wide range of communications technologies including wireless, broadband and wireline networks.

Mr. Zetterstrom recently completed a project for a US nationwide broadband fiber optic network and prior to this, he completed an assignment with Cingular as a Project Executive responsible for upgrading their network in Los Angeles California.

Mr. Zetterstrom worked three years with Dynergy Connect LP where he was responsible for the deployment of a nationwide fiber optics network in the USA. Prior positions included fifteen years As Executive Director BellSouth International where he was responsible for development and operation management of cellular wireless and long distance telephone networks.

He has held positions as Vice President of Engineering and Operations, Executive Director, Director of Operations and Director of Implementation. He has extensive national and international experience including executive positions in China, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Middle East, Africa and

Israel. Mr. Zetterstrom has an Associates degree in Engineering from El Camino City College and attended Loyola University, Los Angeles.

C. H. (CHUCK) MANLEY, B.S.

Mr. Manley has more than 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry and he has extensive experience in management and operations in an executive position. As Executive Director for BellSouth International, Mr. Manley was involved in the startup and management of cellular companies in Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Israel as well as business development activities in Argentina, Brazil, and a number of other countries in Latin America.

Mr. Manley has experience in mergers and acquisitions and he has managed the development of wireless joint ventures with local partners in Latin American countries. He has performed economic and market research, provided business development guidance, participated in financial modeling teams, developed business plans for future expansion, and participated in licensing processes. He has led implementation efforts including: budget development and preparation, team building, hiring and training of personnel.

Mr. Manley received a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.

MICHAEL MOSCARITOLO, B.A.

Mr. Moscaritolo has served the telecommunications industry for more than 30 years. He began his communications career in 1970 with New England Telephone and subsequently held positions at AT&T, New York Telephone, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic Mobile and Verizon. He served in a variety of positions in engineering, network (wire, wireless and broadband), as well as in the deployment of various management methodology when at AT&T.

Prior to the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX merger, Mr. Moscaritolo was Director of Engineering for NYNEX Mobile. He was the lead Director in charge of aggressively growing their wireless network (doubling it size). He accomplished this by generating an entrepreneurial culture to minimize corporate bureaucracy focused on increasing the footprint of the wireless communications to respond to the customers needs not the networks. He shared oversight of and responsibility for the restructuring of the network engineering units for both NYNEX Mobile and Bell Atlantic Mobile. He also had responsibility for the network capital budget. At Covad Communications he became the National Director of Network Services where he was instrumental in launching the nation's first deployment of a national based Broadband Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service. (3,000 Central Offices (COs) in a 2½-year time frame), He also managed to save 25% ($3.5M/month) while running a nation wide transport network while improving its uptime to 99.99%.

Michael has a Bachelor of Engineering Technology Northeastern University; Boston, MA –and a Degree in Mechanical Engineering for Wentworth Institute; Boston, MA.

LYNDALL NIPPS, B.S.

Lyndall Nipps began his career in the telecommunication industry in 1979 as a retail customer service representative in the Napa Valley office with Pacific Bell/SBC (now known as AT&T.) He specialized in pre-order, order, provisioning, billing & collections, methods and procedures, interconnection performance measures, improving results, personnel and union issues, and wireless interconnection billing contracts.

Lyndall was eventually promoted to Director of the Local Wholesale Customer Service Center (LSC-Southern Ca.). Lyndall was recruited away from Pacific Bell/SBC by Allegiance Telecom where he was responsible for developing and implementing back-office methods and procedures for Allegiance Telecom's retail sales organization. Lyndall later transferred to Allegiance's Regulatory Department where he was promoted to Vice President, Industry Affairs. Responsibilities included Bell System Companies competitive entry into inter-lata long distance (271) , numbering subject matter expertise, end-to-end process issues, negotiating performance measures, establishing benchmarks, filing testimony, state level regulatory compliance, rates and tariffs, assessments, policy and legislation.

Lyndall also served as a Director on the Board of CALTEL in 2000, an industry regulatory and legislative coalition. Lyndall was later recruited by Verizon Wireless and was the Director for the Indirect Channel, Methods and Contracts.

Lyndall holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix, and a Certificate in Marketing Leadership from University of California at Berkeley, SF-Extension Campus. He also holds training certificates for TQM Team Leader Training and ISO9000.

RICHARD A. ROBISON, B.S., M.B.A., CFA

Mr. Robison held a range of positions in market research, operations and financial and strategic planning in addition to fifteen years in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). During a more than thirty year career at BellSouth Corporation, a Fortune 100 Telecommunications Service Provider, he worked closely with the most senior management of that company and its joint venture partners worldwide. He managed BellSouth Corporation's in-house investment banking staff in its efforts to determine the valuation and financial impacts of mergers, acquisitions, start-ups, divestitures and joint ventures on the Corporation for over ten years.

He is experienced in all aspects of Corporate Finance, including cost of capital and capital structure objectives as well as financial analysis and modeling. As Executive Director – Mergers & Acquisitions at BellSouth Corporation he managed deals involving wire line and wireless telephone services, mobile data, cable television, paging, yellow pages, commercial real estate, internet services, computer equipment leasing and maintenance as well as equipment sales and service, worldwide. He has extensive knowledge of financial valuation theory, financial analysis and all aspects of corporate finance and is skilled in deal negotiations.

At BellSouth he coordinated the efforts of Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Legal, Tax, Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Strategy and Corporate Development executives within the company to determine the viability of new ventures, including determination of total investment requirements, financing alternatives and project specific return requirements.

He has worked directly with investment bankers from all of the major banks including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and others worldwide. He has evaluated and concluded transactions in the USA, China, Israel, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, India, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Argentina and Mexico. Transactions varied in size from a few million dollars to multi-billion.

Mr. Robison has a Master of Business Administration, from Augusta State University, Augusta, GA, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing from Indiana University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.