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Matt Desch
Chairman of Board |
Matthew
J. Desch became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Airspan
on July 1, 2000. Mr. Desch has been serving as the Chief Executive
Officer of Telcordia Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary
of SAIC, Inc. since July 2002. Telcordia is a supplier of operations
support systems and services for service providers around the
world. Since January 2003, Mr. Desch has served as a member
of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Board of Directors
of Flarion, Inc. Flarion is a privately held company that manufactures
mobile, wireless broadband access equipment. From 1987 through
May 2000, Mr. Desch served in a variety of management positions
with Nortel Networks, a global supplier of networking solutions
and services that support voice, data, and video transmission
over wireless and wireline technologies. From 1996 through May
2000, he served as Executive Vice President and President of
Nortel’s Wireless Networks division, responsible for Nortel’s
global wireless infrastructure business. Mr. Desch also serves
on the Board of Directors of SAIC, Inc., a private corporation
which provides systems integration, engineering, and R&D
services to the U.S. government. Mr. Desch also has a B.S. from
Ohio State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of
Chicago.
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Eric Stonestrom
President & Chief Executive Officer |
Eric
D. Stonestrom joined Airspan at its inception in January 1998
as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In
May 1998, he was named President and Chief Executive Officer
as well as a member of the Board of Directors. From 1995 to
January 1998, Mr. Stonestrom was employed by DSC Communications
Corporation as a Vice President of operating divisions, including
the Airspan product line. From 1984 until 1995, Mr. Stonestrom
worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T in a variety of positions.
He received B.S., M.S. and M. Eng. degrees in 1982, 1983 and
1984, respectively, from the College of Engineering at the University
of California at Berkeley.
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Jonathan
Paget
Senior
Vice President &
Chief Operating
Officer |
Jonathan Paget joined Airspan in April 1999 as Vice President,
Product Operations. In June 2000, Mr. Paget was named Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining
Airspan, from 1997 to October 1998, he served as Group Chief
Executive of Telspec Plc, a company specializing in the development,
manufacture and sale of advanced wireline telecommunications
equipment. From 1992 to 1996, he served as vice president and
general manager of the European Radio Networks Solutions Group
of Motorola, a provider of trunked radio systems. He holds a
Masters Degree in Engineering Science from Cambridge University.
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Peter Aronstam
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer |
Peter Aronstam joined Airspan
in March 2001 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
From 1983 to 2001, Mr. Aronstam served in a variety of positions
at Nortel Networks Limited, the last as Vice President, Customer
Financing of Nortel’s Caribbean and Latin America region.
From 1978 to 1980, he worked at Bank of Montreal in its international
banking division, and from 1981 to 1983 at Bank of America in
its Canadian corporate banking group. He received B.Com., LLB
and PhD. degrees in 1971, 1973 and 1978, respectively, from
the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Henrik
Smith
Petersen
President of Asia Pacific
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Henrik
Smith-Petersen joined Airspan in February 1998 as Senior Director
in Sales. He became Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific
and later President, Asia Pacific in February 2001. Prior to
joining Airspan, he was with DSC Communications Corporation,
a United States based telecommunications company, from July
1997,as Director of Business Development. Within DSC he gained
extensive experience developing new business and partnerships
worldwide in the wireless telecommunication market. Before joining
DSC, he worked for four years for AT&T’s Network Systems
Group in Italy, where he developed AT&T’s operation
systems business and later became Key Account Manager for Italtel,
AT&T’s local partner in Milan, developing the Telecom
Italia business. He received his B.Sc. in Business Economics
degree from Copenhagen School of Economics in Denmark in 1990,
and a M.B.A. from SDA BOCCONI University in Milan in 1992. |
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