Glenn Laxdal was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2023. He
joined Airspan as President and Chief Operating Officer of the company in January
of 2022, responsible for the product portfolio, global operations and services.
Mr. Laxdal comes to Airspan from Infinera where he served as senior vice president
and general manager of products with responsibility for all operational aspects
of Infinera’s product business. Prior to joining Infinera, Mr. Laxdal was senior
vice president of Ericsson North America’s multi-billion dollar network products
business overseeing strategy, product management and solution development. Mr.
Laxdal also served as chief technology officer and head of strategy for Ericsson
North America.
Prior to Ericsson, Mr. Laxdal served as vice president of global product
management at BlackBerry and prior to that held executive roles in product
management and operations at Airvana and Nortel.
Mr. Laxdal holds an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BA in Economics and
Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Saskatchewan.
Marc Heimowitz
Investor
Mr. Heimowitz joined the Board in November 2023. Mr. Heimowitz is the founder
and Managing Member of Coda Advisory Group LLC. Coda Advisory Group is an
independent advisory firm that specializes in providing advice to and advocating
for parties-in-interest involved in complex restructurings and special situations, and
can act as an unconflicted professional fiduciary for litigation and liquidation trusts.
Prior to founding Coda Advisory Group, from 2012 to 2017, Mr. Heimowitz was a
portfolio manager for Claren Road Asset Management, a long-short credit hedge
fund owned by The Carlyle Group. Prior to Claren Road, from 2006 to 2012, Marc
was a Managing Director, Head of Credit Special Situations, and Co-Head of the
Distressed Trading Desk for Citigroup Global Capital Markets. Mr. Heimowitz
received his B.S.B.A. in finance with Highest Honors from the University of Florida,
holds a J.D. from Columbia University, practiced law in New York and Florida and is a
CFA Charterholder.
Mr. Heimowitz was selected to serve on our Board of Directors due to his significant
financial and leadership experience.
Scott Mair
Investor
Scott Mair led AT&T Network Engineering & Operations, overseeing 32K+
professionals and 40K contractors responsible for technology development,
wireline and wireless network engineering, deployment and operations, business
continuity and AT&T’s global leadership in the transition to software-defined
networking (SDN) and a fiber-based fixed and 5G wireless broadband network.
Scott managed the company’s global network engineering, construction,
operations, and network technology development. He also led research and
development functions through AT&T’s Bell Labs and Intellectual Property group.
Lin Chen
Managing Director in Fortress’s Intellectual Property Grou
Mr. Chen serves as a Managing Director in Fortress’s Intellectual Property Group,
where his responsibilities include new investment underwriting and ongoing asset
management. Before joining Fortress, Mr. Chen held the position of Vice President
at Sixth Street Partners, where he focused on special situations credit investments.
Prior to joining Sixth Street, Mr. Chen was a member of the investment team at
Silver Point Capital, a distressed special situations fund based in Greenwich, CT,
and began his career as an analyst in Rothschild’s Debt Advisory and Restructuring
practice based in New York, NY. Mr. Chen received a B.S. in Foreign Service,
majoring in International Political Economy, from Georgetown University’s Edmund
A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
