Jim has served as a director of the Company since May 2004. Jim currently serves as President of Qualicom Systems, Inc., a company he formed in 1977, that provides mobile telephone and other communications services. Jim was a founder of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association ("CTIA") and served on its board for sixteen years and as its Chairman in 1995-1996. Jim has also formed a number of telecommunications companies, including InterOP Technologies, a company providing voice and data carrier solutions; Wireless One Network, a cellular telephone company formed in 1997, which was sold to AT&T Wireless in 2000; Independent Cellular Network, a cellular telephone company formed in 1987, which was sold in 1996 to 360 (Communications; American Cellular Telephone Company, a cellular industry pioneer that built the original non-wireline systems in eighteen of the top ninety markets and was sold to BellSouth Mobility in 1986; and C.Q. Communications, a paging company of which Jim was the President from 1985 through its sale in 1989. From 1969 through 1975 Jim was an attorney and Vice President of Western Union International in New York, and served as the President of its subsidiary Air Signal International. Jim received his BBA from City College of New York and his J.D. from New York University School of Law. Jim is also a Director of NSight Communications and Pharos Systems, LLC. |