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Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oneida Broadband

Mr. Furchtgott-Roth is President of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises, a consulting firm he founded in 2003. He frequently consults on issues related to the communications sector of the economy. From 2001-2003, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he completed the writing of “A Tough Act to Follow”, a book about the difficulties implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He is Chairman of Oneida.

From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. In that capacity, he served on the Joint Board on Universal Service. He is one of the few economists to have served as a federal regulatory commissioner, and the only one to have served on the Federal Communications Commission.

Before his appointment to the FCC, he was chief economist for the House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Earlier in his career, he was a senior economist with Economists Incorporated and a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses.

Mr. Furchtgott-Roth is a member of the Washington Legal Foundation's Legal Policy Advisory Board. He is the co-author of three books: Cable TV: Regulation or Competition, with R.W. Crandall, The Brookings Institution, 1996; Economics of A Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, with B.M. Owen et al, Quorum Books, 1995; and International Trade in Computer Software, with S.E. Siwek, Quorum Books, 1993.

Bill Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder, Oneida Broadband

Bill Wilson brings many years of experience as a senior operating executive of rapidly growing wireline and wireless communications, Internet and technology-based companies. He has significant experience in capital formation, having raised more than $3 billion in public and private equity and debt, including completing 3 IPOs. He has extensive M&A experience involving the acquisition, merger or sale of more than 100 companies.

As EVP and CFO of USA Mobility, formerly Arch Wireless, from 1989 to 1998, he helped build a start-up wireless communications business into a billion dollar public company with more than 6 million subscribers in more than 200 markets across 44 states.

He is a CPA and worked for Ernst & Young in their Boston office for 5 years. He holds a BA from Luther College; an MSc in Accounting from Northeastern University; and an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College where he majored in Finance. He has been a director on the boards of two public companies, including PSINet, a $1 billion ISP, as well as on the boards of 9 private companies.

Christopher J. Shipman, Partner, Catalyst Investors

From 1995 until co-founding Catalyst in 2000, Mr. Shipman was a Vice President and Director at TD Capital. He served on the boards of many of TD’s investments including General Communication, Inc., Wireless One Networks, Nassau Broadcasting Partners, Prime Communications and Worldly Information Network, Inc. He was also on the Advisory Committees of Spectrum Equity Investors and Intermedia Capital Partners IV. Prior to joining TD, Mr. Shipman served as an economist at Banker’s Trust Company. He received an MA and a BA in economics from Boston University, and MBA from UCLA. Mr. Shipman represents Catalyst Investors on the Board of Directors of Wireless Venture Partners, Nine Systems and Security Broadband.

Tyler C. Newton, Principal, Catalyst Investors

Prior to joining Catalyst in 2000, Mr. Newton was a Vice President in Toronto Dominion’s Media, Telecom & Technology Group where he focused on providing a variety of financial, advisory and capital markets services to both established and emerging companies in the media, telecommunications, cable and Internet industries. He earned a BA, with honors, in economics from Middlebury College and is also a CFA Charterholder. Mr. Newton serves on the board of Catalyst portfolio company CaseShare Systems, Inc.

Peter G. Schiff, President, Northwood Ventures

Prior to founding Northwood Ventures LLC in 1983, Mr. Schiff worked in the venture capital division of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., and previously, had been an officer in the corporate division of Chemical Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.). Mr. Schiff serves as a director of many of Northwood's portfolio companies. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lake Forest College, a trustee of the Brooks School and the New York Racing Association, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Wildlife Conservation Society. He also serves as vice president and director of The Community Foundation of Oyster Bay. Mr. Schiff is a graduate of Lake Forest College and received an M.B.A. from University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business with concentrations in Finance and Marketing.