BART STUCK BartStuck@signallake.com

Technical Expertise in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications

• 1972: ScD in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Control Theory) MIT, Cambridge MA (see MIT Student Days)
• 1972-1984: Bell Laboratories (see Bell Labs Days)
• 1972-1976:Mathematics Research Center, Signal Processing, 10+ technical papers
• 1976-1984:UNIX, computer systems, wide area and local area data networking, 20+ technical papers, coauthored one book with E.Arthurs (A Computer Communications Network Performance Analysis Primer, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985)
• 1984-1998: founder of Business Strategies LLC, concentrating on early stage network computing and telecommunications business opportunities, over 450+ client engagements involving over US$60B+ in capital commitments, working with firms such as Telcordia (nee Bell Communications Research), SAIC, Global Crossing, Korea Telecom (see also KT2000 Strategic Plan), Frontier Communications, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Group, Charles River Ventures, General Atlantic, Telesoft, Matrix Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Warburg Pincus, Sevin Rosen Funds, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs
• 1998-: Managing Director, Signal Lake
• Four patents granted or applied for

• major telecom industry equipment players: Lucent, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, Alcatel, ADC
• major telecom industry service providers: AT&T, MCI Worldcom, Sprint, Global Crossing, Qwest
• Wall Street and venture capital firms

• CorEdge Group
• CorEdge Networks
• Hermios
• SeraStar
• SLT Logic LLC
• Terago Communications
• RemoTV

• MIT Enterprise Forum, 2004-2006 

MICHAEL WEINGARTEN MikeW@signallake.com

 

• Columbia BA/MA (History), Harvard MBA
• 22 years as a business strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, Monitor

• international telecom strategy expert, working for major incumbent and competitive telecom service providers and equipment vendors; considerable expertise in telecom regulatory issues
• worked closely with Bart Stuck for the past 13 years on telecom strategy projects
• 1998-: Managing Director, Signal Lake

• Substantial operating/turnaround and sales/packaging experience as operating CEO and fiduciary owner of several companies (as a Chapter 11 US bankruptcy court trustee); experience in forensic accounting, criminal referrals
• One example (Erin Foods): ran all Burger Kings in State of New Hampshire and contiguous Massachusetts region for two years, employed 3,000 people, disbursed $110M and sold the company to Burger King for 15X estimated cash flow

• CorEdge Group
• CorEdge Networks
• Hermios
• SeraStar
• SLT Logic LLC
• Terago Communications

 

AVERY LYFORD avery.lyford@signallake.com

 

• Digisense, President and CEO, 2007-2009
• Linuxcare, President and CEO, 2005-2007
• McKinsey Consulting, San Francisco (Business Building),
• IBM, PC/Server Business Units 1983-1997

Strong Technical Credentials

Director of the Following Firm

• Replicus

 

WILLIAM CHU Will@signallake.com

 

Solid Business Experience
• MBA MIT Sloan
• Founding MIT Campus Partner representative for ITU Ventures (Pacific Capital Group affiliate): Led investment in MIT wireless startup and elected to the Board of Directors
• Founding member of Fidelity's web partnership and product development teams: Helped increase online customer base and online assets by over 1000%, assisted in developing strategic business partnerships and led numerous project teams that developed award winning web applications
• Co-founder and President of an Internet finance portal company
• Marketing Engineer, Texas Instruments Telecommunications business unit
Strong Technical Credentials
• BS/MS, Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Tufts University
• Design Engineer, Texas Instruments Telecommunications business unit
• Senior Manager, Fidelity Investments web development group
• Senior Technical Research Consultant, Adero
• Nine Patents Granted or Applied For