Brij Bhushan
Donald Dean
Richard Kozak
Ben Lisowski
Stuart Mathison
Philip Walker
Brij Bhushan
Brij Bhushan brings 35 years of experience leading and designing projects for enterprise and carrier networks. He has worked at the forefront of technologies in voice, data and video networks for his entire career.
Carrier networks that have benefited from his involvement include Sprint, Global One (now Equant), MCI (now Verizon), Bell Canada, Teleglobe, and others. He has worked on projects in telecommunications areas such as wireline and wireless (WiFi and WiMAX), Wide Area Networks (WAN), Local Area Networks, PBXs, T1 multiplexing, tariffs, network design studies, infrastructure cost studies, technology assessments, product positioning, network management systems (NMS) and services, product planning, and “triple play” (voice, data/Internet and video) services.
He has led or supported projects ranging from system architecture to network design and from protocol work to product positioning. He recently designed the national WiMAX network in Haiti for an emerging carrier; he also designed a project funded by the U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA), a hybrid fiber/WiMAX network serving the city of Wroclaw, Poland.
He holds a Bachelor’s of Engineering degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, and advanced courses toward a Ph.D. at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
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Donald Dean
Donald Dean’s more than 25 years of management experience in finance, as well as in operations and sales, allows him to provide thought guidance across organizational functions. He has played leading roles as the CFO in a number of companies, ranging from small entrepreneurial companies to much larger international firms in both the telecommunications and technology industries.
He has been involved in over 20 merger and acquisition transactions in 10 countries with responsibilities for contract negotiations, due diligence, financial modeling, and board presentations, as well as the successful integration of the acquired entities. Recently, he developed an extensive financial model for use in the business plan for an IP “triple play” network, based on gigabit Ethernet fiber and WiMAX technology.
He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration from Ohio State University and is a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Richard Kozak
Mr. Kozak is an experienced business executive and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of U.S. and international P&L experience. During his career, he founded and built one of the first pan-European B2B e-business technology services companies in 10 markets, for which he raised €60 million. He co-founded and built a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) that operated fiber optic metropolitan area networks (MANs) in 30 U.S. markets, for which he raised $250 million and secured a listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
He was recognized as one of the top 100 communications executives by Telephony Magazine for his development and operations work at Metropolitan Fiber Systems, and he pioneered the successful development of global messaging applications and services at Telenet Communications Corp., for which his work was recognized as “Electronic Mail Company of the Year.”
Recent client projects include business and financial due diligence and credit review of an international telecom operator in Latin America for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and a triple-play broadband services feasibility study for a utility in Poland for the USTDA.
He serves on the Board of TeleCommunication Systems (NASDAQ: TSYS) as chairman of its audit committee, advises early-stage entrepreneurial companies at the University of Maryland and at tech incubators, is a reviewer of business plans for potential funding by the State of Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH), and is an examiner of companies for the Baldrige Quality Awards Program in the state of Maryland in the U.S.
He received a BS in Engineering from Brown University, studied at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and completed his MBA in Finance at the George Washington University School of Business and Government Administration in Washington, DC, after fulfillment of his military service.
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Ben Lisowski
Mr. Lisowski has over 30 years experience spanning all aspects of data communications, from switch implementation to network engineering, product planning, product marketing and strategic planning.
He spent most of his career at Sprint, the U.S. interexchange and wireless carrier, where he played a key role in the development and deployment of new data services including Frame Relay, ATM, IP VPNs and VoIP, services which now dominate the telecommunications landscape.
Sprint’s Global One joint venture with France Telecom and Deutsche Telecom gave him the opportunity to work extensively outside the United States while developing strategies for combining the networks of these three carriers. More recently, Mr. Lisowski developed engineering plans for a USTDA-funded fiber and WiMAX network serving the city of Wroclaw, Poland. He holds a B.S. in Physics and History from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from George Washington University.
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Stuart Mathison
Mr. Mathison has more than 35 years of experience as a network designer, entrepreneur, management consultant, and author. He has worked on planning and design for some of the largest enterprise and government computer communication networks as well as a wide range of carrier networks including metropolitan networks, national networks, and global networks.
He was the co-founder of Telenet Communications Corp., one of the world's first packet-switched data communications providers, and served as its corporate planning officer from its inception in 1972 through its global expansion in the 1980s and its integration into Sprint International and Global One in the 1990s.
He developed the strategic plans for Sprint’s international expansion into 65 countries and also prepared the strategic plans for Global One, a joint venture of Sprint, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom. He recently helped prepare the business plans for a national WiMAX network in Haiti, and a USTDA- funded hybrid fiber/WiMAX network serving the city of Wroclaw, Poland.
He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School at MIT. He is the co-author of a book entitled Computers and Communications: Issues in Public Policy.
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Philip Walker
Phil Walker is a multidisciplinary attorney with over 35 years telecom industry experience. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President, Law and Corporate Strategy, for Comsat International, Inc. until Comsat’s sale to British Telecom in 2007. As general counsel of the company, he was responsible for legal and regulatory affairs throughout Comsat’s operations in 13 Latin American countries.
Earlier, Mr. Walker was responsible for worldwide regulatory affairs as well as corporate development at Teleglobe, the Canadian international operator, and prior to that at Sprint International, where he was instrumental in the company's expansion into overseas markets.
He was one of the founders and was VP and General Counsel of Telenet Communications Corporation, one of the world's first packet-switched data communications providers, and he held several key regulatory positions at GTE Corporation (now a part of Verizon) after GTE's acquisition of Telenet.
He holds a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Yale University, an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is co-author of a book on public policy issues in telecommunications, published in the U.S., Brazil and Japan.
