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Fred is thought of as a skilled executive who has been building teams and guiding companies to significant successes in the telecommunications and technology markets for the past 39 years. Fred started his career as an engineer with Michigan Bell and departed AT&T as a Division Manager in New York twelve years later when he joined Sprint Corporation as President of United Telephone of Florida a $1.2 billion telco. Fred was tasked by the Sprint Board of Directors as the senior executive to lead the planning, engineering, construction and maintenance of Sprint's state-of-the-art $3.5 billion global fiber optic network. The first ever fiber optic network in the world.After a successful tenure at Sprint, Fred joined ADC Telecommunications as President of the Transmission Group a $400 million business unit and was responsible for product lines ranging from optical transmission systems and wireless transmission systems to voice/video/data networking systems and was responsible for consistent year over year growth of 25%. After growing ADC substantially, Fred joined ComStream Corp. as CEO. The company was an internationally recognized leader in satellite based communications technology. While at ComStream the company developed the first direct to home satellite receiver technology, what is widely used today in the DirecTV and the . The company was also the market leader in satellite modems, audio rand data receivers as well as rural telephony systems worldwide. Upon successfully selling satellite DTV receiver business to Rockwell Semiconductor, Fred left to become Chairman, President and CEO of California Microwave, a publicly traded, diverse manufacturer of telecommunications transmission products and defense related intelligence services. While at California Microwave Fred successfully transformed this $150 million company into Adaptive Broadband Corp, which became a $2 billion global market leader of broadband wireless transmission products. Since retiring from corporate operational positions Fred is an active venture partner of California Capital and Shepherd Ventures, both are Southern California based venture capital firms. Fred as also been active on several Boards of Directors and also spends time instructing MBA students at San Diego State University.

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