Director since June 2006. Barry Rowan has approximately 24 years of financial and operational experience in building technology and communications companies. From August 2005 until June 2006 he was Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer of Nextel Partners and its subsidiaries. Mr. Rowan joined Nextel Partners in August 2003 as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and from August 2003 to August 2004 he also served as the company's Treasurer. From January 2002 to August 2003 he was a principal at Rowan & Company LLC a consulting and private investment firm and from 1999 to 2001 Mr. Rowan was the Chief Financial Officer at Velocom Inc. an international communications company during which time he served as Chief Executive Officer of Vesper the company's Brazilian subsidiary for six months. From 1992 until 1999 Mr. Rowan held a number of executive management positions at Fluke Corporation including Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President and Division General Manager. Mr. Rowan earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and his B.S. summa cum laude in Business Administration and Chemical Biology from The College of Idaho. |