Sarasota, Fl., USA - December 2, 2010, Sarasota, Fl., USA - MB Technology Holdings, LLC announced that George Schmitt has been named new chief executive officer, effective December 1.
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Mr. Schmitt has more than 45 years of broad telecom experience in wireless and wireline companies. He currently serves on the boards of Calient, Kentrox, and Teleworx. Mr. Schmitt is an SBIC Director at TeleSoft Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, and is a Trustee of St. Marys College of California in Moraga, California.
Mr. Schmitt's experience includes e.spire Communications, Omnipoint Communications, LHS Group, Objective Systems Integrators, PCS PrimeCo, AirTouch Communications, Mannesmann Mobilfunk (Germany), Pacific Telesis, Pacific Telephone, and AT&T.
Most recently, Mr. Schmitt was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of e.spire Communications, a provider of voice, data and Internet services to markets throughout the U.S. Previously, he was President and a Director at Omnipoint Communication Services until VoiceStream's acquisition of Omnipoint Corporation in 2000.
Mr. Schmitt was also a Director of two telecom software companies: LHS Group where he was a director and member of the Audit Committee prior to its acquisition by Sema in 2000, and Objective Systems Integrators where he was also a director and chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee, which was acquired by Agilent Technologies in 2000.
Prior to joining Omnipoint, Mr. Schmitt was President and Chief Executive Officer of PCS PrimeCo (now part of Verizon Wireless), a national PCS partnership formed by AirTouch, Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and U.S. West.
Mr. Schmitt came to PrimeCo from AirTouch, where he was Executive Vice President of International Operations responsible for AirTouch’s operations in its ventures in Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Japan, Korea and Thailand.
Prior to PCS PrimeCo, Mr. Schmitt was a member of the board of management of Mannesmann Mobilfunk in Germany, and also headed the company’s technical department ■
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