Session Speakers: WISPAPALOOZA 2022

Profile Picture	Full Name	Company	Job Title	Speaking At	Attendee Bio
(not set)	Rami Cohen	RADWIN Inc	Director of Product Marketing	Dealing With Interference - Session Sponsored by Wireless Coverage	(not set)
	Timothy Murphy	Siklu Communications	Director of Network Development	Hybrid Wireless/Fiber to the Home Great Troubleshooting Methods	With over 25 years of expertise in the telecommunications/wireless data industry, Mr. Murphy has played a fundamental role in developing, designing, and implementing network deployments worldwide. These networks cover a broad range of applications, from mines, ports, energy production facilities to hospitals, retail centers, city-wide & neighborhood networks, campuses, and public safety projects. Some recent notable projects are the Statue of Liberty, NASA’s Johnson Space flight Center and the US National Mall & Capital. Mr. Murphy has held management roles with AT&T, NEC, Lucent/Bell Labs, Phillips, Sprint, Vivato, Vislink, PeckTeck, and Siklu.
	Jerry Hogan	Solara Technical	Director of Marketing & Engineering	Grounding - Stop Losing Equipment	Jerry, currently the Director of Engineering and Marketing at Solara Technical Sales, has a BSEE from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His early career in R&D and technical marketing in power electronics and power systems was at the largest of companies: AT&T Bell Labs, Texas Instruments, Siemens and Rockwell. His later career included executive management positions at several smaller technical companies. He’s been directly involved with grounding related issues for over 40 years.
(not set)	Allie Schomaker	Fibersmith	Director of Marketing & Customer Engagement	WISP Marketing/PR	(not set)
(not set)	Mark Foster	TP-LINK USA CORPORATION	Director of IoT	CBRS and Other Private Network Strategies	(not set)
(not set)	Larissa Simone	Sonar Software	Director of Growth Marketing	Best Practices for Marketing	(not set)
(not set)	Richard Webster	Ethoplex	Director of Business Development	WISP Marketing/PR Building Customer Confidence To Switch to FWA	• Currently the Director of Business Development @ Ethoplex for 3 Years • Corporate Account Executive with AT&T (Cingular/Legacy AT&T Blue) • Owned PC Repair Business in West Bend, WI Name Your Price PC • General Manager with Vibratrim • Direct Sales Representative with Spectrum (Charter/Time Warner) • A+ Certified, Networking Certification • Designed and Implemented Live Streaming system for his Church • His Kids are his Hobby
(not set)	Wayne Bunce Heyl	Jonard Tools	Director of Business Development	Dealing With Interference - Session Sponsored by Wireless Coverage	(not set)
(not set)	Jordan Fong	Alyrica Networks	Customer Support Manager	Resiliency and Reliability in WISP networks	(not set)
	Scot Loach	Preseem	CTO & Co-Founder	Troubleshooting Fiber	As Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, Scot is responsible for the technology direction of Preseem, and managing the intellectual property of the company. Scot has been working in the networking equipment industry for over 20 years. Before Preseem, Scot was a Senior Architect at Sandvine, where he contributed to many innovations across all product lines, and met Dan and Gerrit. Scot has filed several patents and has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
(not set)	Jesse Raasch	Baicells Technologies	CTO	Helium, Pollen and Other Ways to Monetize Your Existing Broadcast Sites	(not set)
(not set)	William Hadala	MetaVerse Capital, LLC	CSO	All Things Private Equity	(not set)
	Dan Siemon	Preseem	CPO & Co-Founder	Universal Access Architecture with Adaptive Cloud Networking Network/Traffic Engineering	Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Aterlo/Preseem and a self-proclaimed “networking geek,” Dan is responsible for the product direction at Preseem. Dan’s market knowledge and expertise has been informed by almost 25 years of ISP industry experience, including three years as the owner and operator of an ISP and 9 years on the board of directors for a local provider. As CPO, Dan is focused on providing the best tools and analytics to the ISP community to help them gain and retain customers by measuring, analyzing, and improving subscriber QoE. Prior to co-founding Preseem, Dan was a Senior Product Manager at Sandvine, working on 3GPP and wired network products. Dan holds an MSc in Computer Science from Western University in London, Ontario.
	Chris Kilbourn	Wi-Fiber	COO & CMO	WISP Marketing/PR	Chris is the COO and CMO at Wi-Fiber, a WISP that partners with other WISPS to help them grow and get some sleep. He has 15 years of experience as a marketer and entrepreneur with three exits.
	John Bagalini	Triad Wireless	COO/CFO		(not set)
	Martha Huizenga	DC Access LLC	COO and Co-Owner	WISP Marketing/PR	(not set)
(not set)	Amie Hsu	Vilo	COO	Earning Additional Revenue from Customers	(not set)
	Abbi Hubler	TekWav	COO	All Things Employee - Your Most Important Resource Culture vs Company Values: What Do I Need? Service Installs: Let's Make Them More Efficient	Abbi Hubler is a seasoned professional known for her expertise in operations, business strategy, and leadership across various industries, including telecommunications and technology. Her career has been marked by a relentless commitment to driving productivity and efficiency through innovative processes and software solutions, coupled with a knack for effective team building and problem-solving. With a strong background in roles spanning customer success, technical support management, marketing, and team leadership in the WISP industry, Abbi has excelled in people management, talent acquisition, and pioneering training programs for enhanced onboarding and team performance. Her passion for leadership and professional growth remains her focus. Now, as the CEO and founder of Catalyzer, Abbi Hubler continues to leverage her extensive experience to empower organizations, providing strategic insights and operational excellence to catalyze sustainable growth.
	K.C. Halm	Davis, Wright, Tremaine	Communications & Technology Partner	Rules That All WISPs Should Know Issues In Selling And Buying A WISP	K.C. Halm is a communications and technology partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and co-chair of the firm’s national multi-disciplinary AI practice group. Broadband ISPs, wireless providers, and cable operators rely on K.C. for experienced counsel on a wide range of broadband policy and competition matters, broadband funding opportunities, wireless licensing and spectrum acquisition issues, privacy and special access (business data services) regulations, and state attorney general and PSC investigations. In addition, K.C. advises clients on privacy and data/network security issues under federal and state law, with a recent focus on issues arising under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), the telephone and cable privacy sections of the Telecommunications Act (CPNI), and mobile privacy and location-based services. K.C. also co-chairs Davis Wright Tremaine LLP’s AI Team, a national cross-disciplinary team of lawyers and professionals providing strategic guidance to clients deploying AI/ML-enabled applications and services. He advises the firm’s AI clients on issues arising in the use of AI and machine learning applications under existing and emerging legal frameworks.
	Jeff Kohler	Rise Broadband	Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer	Issues In Selling And Buying A WISP	Jeff has worked in the wireless industry for over 25 years, and he is responsible for all mergers and acquisitions, governmental affairs, spectrum development and media and trade relations for the largest privately-held fixed wireless broadband service provider in the United States serving customers in sixteen states. He serves on the board of directors for the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) and is active in advocacy efforts with both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Congress. Rise is a recipient of the FierceWireless Service Provider of the Year award and in 2021 was named Best Rural ISP Overall by CNET.
	Daniel White	Atheral LLC	Co-Founder	Culture vs Company Values: What Do I Need?	Mr. White is a 20-year telecommunications veteran and the Co-Founder of Atheral LLC, a white-Label services company that builds customer-centric cloud solutions that are geo-redundant, highly available, and scalable. Atheral offers a white-label cloud VoIP solution that more than 150 WISPs utilize in their network today. Before Atheral, he was the Managing Director of Sales and Operations for CTIconnect, and the Managing Director of North America for SAF Tehinka. He also served in engineering, installation, and tower climbing roles. Mr. White previously served on the WISPA Board of Directors.
	David Theodore	Climate Resilient Internet, LLC	Co-founder	Resiliency and Reliability in WISP networks	David Theodore pioneered the fixed wireless industry in 1987 as founder and CEO of Microwave Bypass. Microwave Bypass created the first 802.3 compatible, 10 Mbps wireless access tech, built on a 23GHz radio platform. It gave world leading universities, hospitals, research centers and tech companies their first access in the early days of the internet when fiber was scarce. Today, David is co-founder of Climate Resilient Internet where they're developing a new standard and certification program around resilience to extreme weather. The certification is meant to empower WISPs to kill it in the enterprise space, with a premium service that's sold by the gig, based on quality and criticality, not lowest price. Hit me up for more on that!
	Georgette Lopez-Aguado	Sonar Software	Client Experience Manager	WISP Management Systems From Lead to Installed: The Customer Journey Service Installs: Let's Make Them More Efficient	Georgette Lopez-Aguado is a native of Fort Worth, TX. She began working in the ISP/OSS arena in 2016 and joined Sonar Software in 2017. In her current role as the Sr. Director, Strategic Accounts, Georgette and her team are laser focused on helping customers harness the power of Sonar through partnerships. Connecting the dots is her superpower.
(not set)	Jay Anderson	FiberLight	Chief Technology Officer	Fiber for the Longhaul	Jay Anderson has more than 20 years of Networking Engineering and Management Leadership experience within the telecommunications industry. As FiberLight’s Chief Engineer, he leads the company in network design, planning and evolution in addition to steering alignment across functional teams throughout the business. During his tenure at FiberLight, Jay has held multiple other responsibilities, through which he has promoted organizational growth via new initiatives and effective use of processes and software. Prior to joining FiberLight, Jay was Director of Regional Engineering for FiberTower LLC, where he managed a team of engineers focused on planning, designing and implementing backhaul networks supporting the major Wireless Carriers in the United States. Other past experiences include Bluegrass Cellular and AT&T Wireless where he designed and managed cellular and backhaul networks.
	Claude Aiken	Nextlink Internet	Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Legal Officer	Issues In Selling And Buying A WISP	Claude Aiken is the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Legal Officer for Nextlink Internet, the premier provider of fixed-wireless and fiber Internet and phone services across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa. He leads the company’s work on strategic market development and M&A, as well as heading its legal and government affairs practices. Prior to joining Nextlink, he was President & CEO of WISPA, leading the association to significant growth in budget, membership, and industry relevance. Claude joined WISPA after nearly a decade at the Federal Communications Commission. While there, he served as advisor to Chairman Wheeler and Commissioner Clyburn. He held senior leadership positions in the Wireline Bureau and Office of General Counsel, as well key staff attorney roles throughout the Commission. He has been recognized as a Rising Star in the wireless industry by FierceWireless, and has held multiple positions on federal advisory boards under the FCC and the Department of Commerce. Claude also holds a law degree from New York Law School and an English degree from Grove City College.
	Alex Doorduyn	Siklu	Chief Revenue Officer	Practical Capacity and Distance for Licensed Backhaul The Path to Gigabit - At Scale!	Alex Doorduyn is VP & GM Siklu Americas where he is focused on leading, creating and executing the strategic vision of the Siklu Americas team to provide gigabit speed wireless connectivity for multiple applications, including helping to bridge the Digital Divide in underserved urban as well as rural areas.
	Bryan Mauk	Pc's For People	Chief Innovation Officer	All Things MDU - From Sales to Service to Tech From Lead to Installed: The Customer Journey	Bryan started with PCs for People as the Executive Director for Ohio, as the founding director of that office. Through his work, his role has expanded to Chief Innovation Officer, where he leads in national expansion of new markets, development and deployment of internet services, and new strategic initiatives. Since the start of the Covid Pandemic, Bryan has identified the need for digital equity and inclusion in terms of internet accessibility. Bryan has spearheaded the WISP and ISP department of PCs for People, where we are now creating wireless internet opportunities for communities across the country. Prior to joining PCs for People, Bryan Mauk was the Vice President of Workforce Development for Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry for seven years. He has been serving the community for over 15 years helping to provide outreach and employment services to individuals who were homeless and previously incarcerated. Bryan has a B.A. from John Carroll University and a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) from Case Western Reserve University. Bryan has also served as an adjunct faculty member at John Carroll University teaching classes on social entrepreneurship at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
	Jeff Little	Above Wireless LLC	Chief Executive Officer		I have been in the industry since I was a young kid. I am a second-generation tower climber. I have been working in the industry since 2007 right after high school and have been going since. I have worked for a few companies over the years before starting Above Wireless in 2017. I am active in NATE (North American Tower Erectors) and WISPA. I helped build and teach the tower tech program at many colleges. I hope to contribute more over the years to both NATE and WISPA.
	David Burns	Wireless Coverage Ltd	Chief Executive Officer	RF Design and Planning	David Burns is a well-known industry figure in the Fixed Wireless Access industry, as Chairman of UKWISPA and founder of Boundless Networks and Wireless Coverage. In 2018, David launched Wireless Coverage Ltd, which provides ground-breaking software to model property coverage for Fixed Wireless. The underlying technology (WISDM) was initially built to plan and model large scale next generation networks that are based on FWA technology. WISDM technology has several innovative features that are specifically optimised for high speed FWA and 5G modelling. These result in the creation of networks that use the minimum amount of equipment to provide the maximum coverage.
	Bryan Scott	9Stone LLC	Chief Everything Officer	Fiber for the Longhaul	(not set)
	John Sweeting	ARIN	Chief Customer Officer	Achieving Network Autonomy	John Sweeting, the Chief Customer Officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) maintains and oversees all aspects of customer relations at the organization. He brings extensive expertise in the Internet industry, having a track record of building and managing large global networks with leading international carriers such as MCI, Cable & Wireless, Teleglobe and Tata. Prior to joining ARIN, John served as the Senior Director of Architecture & Engineering for Time Warner Cable, where he was responsible for selecting and testing all network infrastructure, from the core backbone to the service delivery platforms. John is a retired Chief Warrant Officer having served 24 years in the United States Army Signal Corps.
	Jimmy Schaeffler	The Carmel Group	Chairman/CSO	Broad Policy Changes, Their Effects On Your Business, And Practical Strategies To Reduce Or Eliminate Their Debilitating Effects	Jimmy Schaeffler is chairman/CSO of The Carmel Group, a telecommunications, computer, and media industries business analysis and expert consultant. Under the umbrella of The Carmel Group, Mr. Schaeffler has helped wireless communication and media companies to plan, value, and optimize their systems, since 1995. He worked with and interviewed hundreds of wireless Internet service providers to create the Wireless Internet Service Provider Associations (WISPA) 2021 “Lift-off” report, which covers key benchmarks and trends in the Fixed Wireless and Hybrid Fiber Wireless Broadband industry. Mr. Schaeffler and The Carmel Group focus their expertise in cable, satellite, wireless, and telephony, and such new and/or advanced services as broadband, VOD, DVRs, HDTV, AI, VR, AR, interactive TV, and satellite radio. His insights and views are reported in such publications as Investor’s Business Daily, USA Today, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also a regular speaker at international events such as the NAB, NCTA Cable Show, WISPAPALOOZA, CTAM, and CES. The Carmel Group’s website link is www.carmelgroup.com
	Patrik Melander	Connect 5G, Inc.	Chairman and CEO	Building Customer Confidence To Switch to FWA Earning Additional Revenue from Customers	Patrik Melander is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Connect 5G, which enables acceleration of mobile network deployments through focus on quality, agility and automation with expertise in multi-vendor Services of 5G, CBRS, LTE and legacy technologies, bridging the digital divide in Rural America and enables 5G across the USA through new and innovative solutions. Patrik has 27 years of global telecom and services experience, building global organizations, leading transformations, and since 2016 an entrepreneur in the AI, IoT and 5G space serving on BoD and Advisory boards of growth companies in this space and is in addition the Chairman and President of the Swedish American Chamber, Dallas-Fort Worth He is Swedish of origin and spent 24 years within the Ericsson group, living in Sweden, Japan, Brazil, Costa Rica, UAE and San Diego, Chicago, Boca Raton and Dallas in diverse leadership and General management positions. Patrik currently lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Kristina and two children.
	Mark Albertyn	Wisper ISP, LLC	CFO	Financial Accounting for WISP's Preparing for a Financial Statement Audit	Mark is currently the CFO at Wisper ISP and has been with Wisper for almost 4 years. Before joining Wisper Mark was in South Africa as the CFO in the Education and Training space. Mark has been in finance for over 25 years and has worked for the licensed operator of the National Lottery in South Africa as well as in the financial services sector for one of the top 4 banks. Mark has been a part owner in a currency trading business as well as having his own import and export company. Mark holds a bachelor’s and post graduate honors degrees in finance from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Mark is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA)… similar to a CPA qualification in the USA. Mark is passionate about sports and grew up swimming while later representing his home country of South Africa in Indoor and Beach Volleyball.
(not set)	Garth Nicholas	New Wave Net Corp	CFO	Fiber Dos and Don'ts Legal Requirements of Installing Fiber	Cofounder & CFO New Wave Net Corp, Bloomington, IL. Founded in 1999 and now covering 12 counties in Central IL using a mix of unlicensed, CBRS, and EBS wireless spectrum as well as FTTH. Specializing in extending broadband to rural and small towns. Garth has experience with Government funding programs having won in CAF2 as a consortium member and recently being awarded 2M in the FCC’s Secure Equipment Funding program. Garth has been a strong advocate for the small and mid-sized WISPs and has served 2 terms on the WISPA Board and 3 of those years as Treasurer.
	Layne Sisk	ServerPlus	CEO & Janitor	Updated Training for Customer Service Representatives	Layne is the CEO and Janitor at ServerPlus, and the Founder of Real Choice TV. Layne is a proud husband, father and grandfather. Layne has been active in the ISP industry for over 20 year and has a passion for great customer service.
	Brett Woollum	Tekify Fiber & Wireless	CEO/Founder	Troubleshooting Fiber	(not set)
	Nathan Stooke	Wisper ISP	CEO & Founder	Breakfast/Opening Session/State of WISPA Speed Dating WISPA Awards Luncheon All Things Private Equity Entrepreneurial Operating System for WISPs Closing Session and 50/50 Drawing	In the last 19 years, Nathan Stooke went from programming PCs to building Wisper into a successful multi-million dollar Internet service provider. With headquarters in Mascoutah, IL, Wisper now services Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. In 2018, the FCC announced that Wisper ISP won $220.3 million of federal funding in the FCC's rural broadband auction, the Connect America Fund Phase II. This money will be distributed to Wisper over a period of ten years. Wisper was one of 103 providers to win financial support from across the country. As CEO of Wisper, Nathan has provided high-speed Internet service to tens of thousands of happy customers; many in rural, underserved areas where previous service providers had been spotty or nonexistent. Stooke is a well-respected businessman in the St. Louis area; he was selected as a "Top 30 Under 30" by the St. Louis Business Journal and named on the list of the "Top 100 St. Louisans to Know" by the St. Louis Small Business Monthly. Wisper was named one of the Top 20 Small Businesses in 2014 and one of the 50 Fastest-Growing companies in St. Louis by St. Louis Small Business Monthly. Nathan credits his battle with Dyslexia, and his competitive nature gleaned from hours of intense training, which earned him a spot on the. U.S National Swim Team as his catalyst for success. His vision is to create standards in the wireless industry, establish Wisper as a household name, and continue to serve exceptional customers in rural and metropolitan communities. When not at the office, Stooke enjoys spending time with his wife and three children and you can often find him at the McKendree Rec Plex coaching a Seahawks Swim Team. He volunteers on the Wireless Internet Service Provider Association (WISPA) board and is a founding member of the Dyslexic Advantage, an educational, scientific and charitable organization that improves the lives of those with Dyslexia. Stooke attended high school (and currently resides) in O’Fallon, IL and received his undergraduate degree and his MBA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
	Ajith Pasqual	Paraqum Technologies	CEO/Director		Ajith Pasqual is the CEO and Founder of Paraqum.
	Gerrit Nagelhout	Preseem	CEO & Co-Founder	Exit Strategies	As CEO and co-founder of Aterlo Networks and Preseem, Gerrit’s passion is helping ISPs understand and improve subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE) on their networks, while uncovering new opportunities to help customers thrive and scale. Prior to co-founding Aterlo/Preseem, Gerrit spent 12+ years developing product and managing engineering teams for platforms used by some of the largest ISPs in the world. Now, however, he’s dedicated to helping local and regional ISPs take on the big guys and solve network problems with products that people love. Gerrit has a degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo.
	Tomas Kirnak	NetCore j.s.a. (Unimus)	CEO	Ransomware - Proofing Your ISP Resiliency and Reliability in WISP networks	A former IT specialist with heavy focus on networking, Linux, virtualization & clustered and distributed systems. While I love designing and building IT infrastructure, I am especially passionate about in-depth monitoring, automation, DevOps and NetOps. I have now moved to a management role, and serve as the Team Lead & CEO of NetCore j.s.a. In 2016 I started writing Unimus, with the goal to create a simple, user friendly, but powerful Network Automation and Network Config Management solution. Unimus now has thousands of deployments world-wide, and these days my role has transitioned to the Team Lead and CEO of NetCore j.s.a. - the company behind Unimus. Our mission has since expanded to bring other new tools which are missing in the Networking industry to the market. We want to create software that will make life easier for net-admins around the world.
	Ryan Reid	ROAMR Wireless & Broadband	CEO	Service Installs: Let's Make Them More Efficient	(not set)
(not set)	Cory Strange	EdgeTeam Technology	CEO	Earning Additional Revenue from Customers	(not set)
	Bob Pensworth	CresComm WiFi. LLC	CEO	What Does it Mean to be a Manager?	My first job was Operations Manager for a radio paging company. I climbed towers, and maintained the sites. I launched their WISP business in 2006. In 2011, I was hired by CresComm WiFi, LLC (current employer) to handle commercial accounts. I worked in the Long Beach office. In 2014, I was promoted to General Manager and in 2016 I became CEO. My first major project was migration of accounts to Powercode. I do everything from Site Surveys, Installer Training, Network Design, and Deployment. We moved our main office to Port Angeles, WA in 2019 and maintain a satellite office in Astoria, OR. My hobbies include Amateur Radio, Dancing, Photography, Alumni Groups, and travel.
	Mark Radabaugh	Amplex	CEO	WISP Financing Technical Considerations in Multi Access Networks	Mark Radabaugh is the President of Amplex Internet that has been providing broadband to Northwest Ohio since 1997 and now serves thousands of residences and businesses. He has been a member of WISPA since 2006. In 2020, Mark was elected Chairman of the WISPA Board of Directors.
(not set)	Dave Täht	TekLibre	CEO	Technical Considerations in Multi Access Networks Network/Traffic Engineering	Dave Taht is one of the originators of both early wifi in linux, as well as being responsible for improving it greatly recently via the make-wifi-fast and bufferbloat projects with new algorithms like fq_codel.
	Elizabeth Bowles	Aristotle Unified Communications L.L.C.	CEO	How the IIJA and Other Congressional Statutes Have Changed the Regulatory Landscape and Impacted Your Plans for Fiber and Wireless Deployments Developing Public Private Partnerships With States and Local Governments The Importance Of Grassroots Advocacy To Growing Your Business Understanding the Subsidy Landscape: How the Government is Affecting Your Business	L. Elizabeth Bowles is CEO of Aristotle Unified Communications, LLC, a broadband internet service provider headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. In that position, Elizabeth guides the strategic direction and vision of Aristotle and is integral to the development of Aristotle’s business relationships, including partnerships, investment strategies, and joint ventures. A passionate advocate for the expansion of affordable broadband services in rural and underserved areas, Elizabeth has testified before Congress and the FCC and served two terms as Chair of the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, which is an independent advisory body tasked with making policy recommendations for eliminating the digital divide. A past President of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), Elizabeth currently serves on WISPA’s Policy Committee and is its Arkansas State Coordinator and Regional Ambassador for the Southeast Region. Elizabeth is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C. and Arkansas, as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States and a number of U.S. Courts of Appeals. Prior to joining Aristotle’s leadership team in 2000, Elizabeth was an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter, where she practiced in the fields of intellectual property and commercial litigation with an emphasis on international and technology law. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a B.A. in International Studies and obtained her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1993, where she graduated first in her class, Order of the Coif, and was awarded the Founder’s Medal. Elizabeth also received the top score on the 1993 bar exam. Elizabeth has served on numerous boards and committees, including the Arkansas State Bank Board, Better Business Bureau of Arkansas (past President), Rotary Club 99 (Communications Chair), Central Arkansas Executives Association, City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock (Founding Board Member), YPO Chapter Chair and Regional Education Chair, Arkansas’ Quality Digital Learning Study Committee, the Arkansas Broadband Council, and Arkansas’ FASTER committee.
	Marc Perea	RemoteWinBox	CEO	Great Troubleshooting Methods IP Conservation	MikroTikMarc has decades of route/switch experience paired with multi-vendor certifications as well as computer science and management information systems degrees combined with entrepreneurial spirit resulting in a wealth of knowledge for Marc Perea to draw from
(not set)	Sunil Naik	Cable Aml Inc	CEO	Practical Capacity and Distance for Licensed Backhaul	(not set)
(not set)	Brian Vargyas	Vargyas Consulting, LLC	CEO	Fiber Technologies - 10Gbps Design Overview Exit Strategies	Serial Entrepreneur focused on IoT, 5G wireless technologies.