Advisory Board

Stephen Anderson

Steve is a managing director of IG Partners Inc., a management firm based in the San Francisco Bay area. Before forming IG Partners, he was president of Six Sigma Group Inc., a San Francisco investor strategy firm serving private, pre-public and public companies.

For the majority of his career, Steve has served as an executive and corporate staff of two FORTUNE 500 companies, ESB Inc. and Westmoreland Coal Company.

Michael Crooks

As an executive consultant and advisor with Zencos Consulting, LLC, based in Durham, N.C., Michael leads a team of professionals in business intelligence strategy development in the Global 2000. He has held executive and board positions at Nortel Networks, Northern Telecom and First Safe Deposit Corporation.

His career has focused on increasing the effectiveness of IT as it relates to enterprise architecture, systematic software reuse and organizational modeling. Customers include Bank of Montreal, Best Buy, Dun & Bradstreet, Motorola and Universal Underwriters Group.

Jack Grubman

Jack founded Magee Group, LLC, based in New York City, to provide strategic consulting for telecom and technology companies, especially companies developing enabling applications/technologies for IP, wireless, broadband and next-generation networks.

He worked on Wall Street from 1985 to 2002. He joined PaineWebber in 1985 as a telecommunications equity analyst and then joined Salomon Brothers in 1994 as their telecommunications equity analyst, with Salomon becoming Salomon Smith Barney in 1998 and eventually becoming part of Citigroup. He was a Managing Director at both PaineWebber and Salomon Smith Barney and was head of global telecommunications research at Salomon Smith Barney.

Before his Wall Street career, Jack held a variety of positions at AT&T doing economic modeling, divestiture planning and business and strategic planning.

Michael McHale, Jr.

Mike was most recently CEO of Telespectra LLC, a 10mm wireless, broadband network service provider based in Phoenix, Ariz. Before that, he served as president and COO of Telseon, Inc., a national metro GIG-E network service provider, which he led from startup to profitability with $20 million in annual revenues. He also served as chief marketing officer and president of national services at XO-NextLink Communications, a 500mm national CLEC/ISP.