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Directors
Name, Independence, and
Committee Appointments
Experience
Director since
Age
Marcelo Claure
SoftBank Affiliate Director
Member of the Finance Committee
Mr. Claure is the founder of Brightstar Corp. and has been its Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
and President since October 1997. Brightstar provides: value
- added distribution, supply chain
solutions, handset protection and insurance, buy
- back and trade - in solutions, multi - channel
retail solutions, and financial services to wireless manufactures, retailers and operators. Mr.
Claure has been an Executive Director of Brightstar Corp. since October 1997. He serves as a
Director of Activate IT, Inc. He served as Director of Mobilestop Inc. He serves on the board of
directors of the Bolivian
- American Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Trustees
of Bentley College.
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Ronald D. Fisher
Vice Chairman
SoftBank Affiliate Director
Chairman of the Finance Committee
Member of the Compensation
Committee
Mr. Fisher joined SoftBank in 1995, overseeing its U.S. operations and its other activities outside
of Asia, and was the founder of SoftBank Capital. He is currently Director and President of
SoftBank Holdings, Inc. and also serves as a member of the board of directors of SoftBank
Corporation. Mr. Fisher has over 30 years of experience of working with high growth and
turnaround technology companies. Prior to joining SoftBank, Mr. Fisher was the CEO of Phoenix
Technologies Ltd., the leading developer and marketer of system software products for personal
computers, from 1990 to 1995. Mr. Fisher joined Phoenix from Interactive Systems Corporation, a
UNIX software company that was purchased by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1988. At
Interactive Systems he served for five years as President, initially as COO and then CEO. Mr.
Fisher
’ s experience prior to Interactive Systems includes senior executive positions at Visicorp,
TRW, and ICL (USA). Mr. Fisher earned an MBA from Columbia University, New York, and a
Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
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Frank Ianna
Independent
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee
Mr. Ianna retired from AT&T in 2003 after a 31 - year career serving in various executive
positions, most recently as President of Network Services. Following his retirement, Mr. Ianna
served as a business consultant, executive and board member for several private and nonprofit
enterprises, and has experience in telecom company operational as well as wireless technology.
Mr. Ianna is a director of Harbinger Group, Inc. Mr. Ianna formerly served on the board of
Tellabs, Inc.
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Adm. Michael G. Mullen
Independent
Member of the Compensation
Committee
Security Director
Admiral Mullen serves on the board of directors as the "Security Director" under the NSA.
Admiral Mullen served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 2007 until
his retirement in September 2011. Previously, Admiral Mullen served as the 28th Chief of Naval
Operations (“
CNO ” ) from July 2005 to 2007. CNO was one of four different four - star assignments
Admiral Mullen held, which also included Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and
Commander, Allied Joint Force Command, and the 32nd Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Admiral
Mullen serves on the board of directors of General Motors, and since 2012, he has served as
President of MGM Consulting LLC and is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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