Alan Howe
Alan has a broad business background and has been exposed to a wide variety of complex business situations within large corporations, financial institutions, start-ups, small-caps and turnarounds. Currently, Alan is Managing Partner of Broadband Initiatives, LLC, a boutique corporate advisory firm. His specialty is in providing board and executive leadership working with small-cap and micro-cap companies particularly in turnaround situations. Over the last decade, Alan has served on 30 different public and private boards and served as Chairman of the Board in five circumstances. Alan currently sits on the following boards: Chairman of Data I/O (Nasdaq: DAIO), a Director at Resonant (Nasdaq: RESN), a Director of Sonim Technologies (Nasdaq: SONM), a Director of Babcock & Wilcox (NYSE: BW) and a Director of Orion Energy Systems (Nasdaq: OESX). Alan also previously served as Chairman of JPS Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: JPST) that was sold to Handy & Harman Ltd. (Nasdaq: HNH); Chairman of Ditech Networks (Nasdaq: DITC) that was sold to Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) a director of Urban Communications (TSE.V: UBN) that was sold to Dr. Peng Media & Telecom Group Ltd. (SHA:600804), a director of MagicJack Vocaltec (Nasdaq: CALL) that was sold to BRileyFBR (Nasdaq: RILY) and a director of CafePress (Nasdaq: PRSS) that was sold to Snapfish.
Previously, he served as Vice President of Strategic & Wireless Business Development for Covad Communications, a national broadband company. Before that, Alan was CFO and VP of Corp Dev of Teletrac for six years until the company was sold. Alan joined Teletrac from Sprint, where he was Director of Corp Dev and one of the initial team members that helped start Sprint PCS.
Alan holds a B.S.-Bus. Administration from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A.-Finance from the Indiana University Kelley Graduate School of Business. Alan also holds his Series 7 and Series 63 Securities licenses.
Lee Gopadze
Lee is a Co-Founding Principal of BBI, LLC. He has an extensive background in telecommunications technology and has served as CEO or on the executive team of multiple wireless service providers and network infrastructure manufacturers.
His recent client assignments at BBI, LLC include:
Interim Operations management for a division of a $70M global technology firm
M&A engagements for large regional CLECs;
Market development expansion for a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer
Spectrum acquisition strategy in recent FCC spectrum auctions
5G market entry for a large telecommunications components manufacturer
His prior roles in telecommunications companies include serving as General Manager of a $200M division of a national CLEC, CEO of a $30MM network infrastructure manufacturer, SVP of Deployment & Operations at a $200M wireless data provider and Founder & CEO of a regional wireless data provider.