Guiding Communities into the Broadband Economy

PEW BROADBAND ADVISORS

Partner Profiles

Derek is the former co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of and currently the primary strategic and technological consultant to Wireless Philadelphia.  In his various roles at Wireless Philadelphia, Derek managed the RFP process, negotiated the first major U.S. city wireless network agreement and pole attachment agreement, oversaw the political process, designed the first digital inclusion programs and has overseen the design and deployment of both the network and internal support workflow process for city-wide broadband deployment.  Derek has informally consulted with numerous broadband exploratory committees including domestic committees from Boston, San Francisco, Miami Beach, Chicago and Stamford and foreign committees from Paris, France, Seoul, South Korea, Florence and Rome, Italy and Porto Allegre, Brazil.

 

Derek is currently the Chairman of Boathouse Communications Partners, LLC, a partnership that creates, invests in and develops companies in the broadband, next generation network and information technologies spaces.  Prior to that, Derek was the President of a smaller nationwide telecommunications company.  Derek began his career as an investment banker and then as an attorney.  In both instances, he specialized in large public company transactions. Deals in which he participated represented over $70 billion in market value and included the merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX that created Verizon.

 

Over the past several years, Derek has acted as an advocate for competitive choice for Pennsylvania consumers, frequently acting as the spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Carriers' Coalition, an informal partnership of communications companies that Derek helped create among several smaller competitive service providers in Pennsylvania.

 

Derek is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, as well as on the Advisory Boards of the Greene Towne School and The Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA).  Derek has also served on charitable committees for, among others, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Philadelphia Zoo.

 

Founder and Principal

E-mail: dpew@pewbroadband.com

DEREK N. PEW

Phone: 215 731 9013

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Mark has over 20 years of managerial experience, including 17 in the telecommunications and technology industries. Throughout his career, Mark has had direct responsibility for negotiating and closing transactions with deal values of approximately $4 billion and has involved with raising over $900 million of private equity and $1.5 billion of debt facilities.

 

In addition to being a co-founder and Partner of Pew Broadband Advisors, Mark is a founder and director of Boathouse Communications Partners, LLC, a management team and Investment Company located in Philadelphia PA that is focused on broadband, next generation network and information technologies initiatives. In addition, Mark is a founder and director of several of Boathouse’s portfolio companies including InterTech Health, LLC, Procedian, LLC, and Remi Communications Holdings, LLC.

 

In 2000, Mark was a co-founder of MainStream PCS, LLC a wireless service company serving urban and sub-urban markets throughout the mid-West.  Mark started his career at Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) as a member of the auditing staff. In 1984, he left the public accounting industry to begin a 14-year career at Bell Atlantic Corporation (now Verizon Communications) where he held a number of finance and business development positions. Mark left his position as Vice President of Planning and Business Development for Verizon Wireless at the end of 1998 shortly after he developed an industry first strategy that led to the sale of a portfolio of over 1,400 communications towers for a value in excess of $750 million.  After leaving Verizon, Mark joined Triton Cellular Partners, L.P. a private equity-backed rural wireless company with revenues in excess of $170 million. At Triton, Mark served as Executive Vice President of Finance and Business Development where he was responsible for all business development and financial planning activity including overseeing the auction process and related negotiation of the sale of the company for $1.25 billion.

 

Mark has a B.S. in Accounting from King’s College and is a CPA.  He resides with his wife and four children in Haverford, PA.

 

JOE MONZO

 

 

Principal

 

 

E-mail: jmonzo@pewbroadband.com

 

 

Phone: 215 839 7937

MARK RUPP

 

 

Principal

 

 

E-mail: mrupp@pewbroadband.com

 

 

Phone:  610 649 8544

Joe is a seasoned networking industry veteran with over 20 years experience in sales and sales management. In addition to being a Principal of Pew Broadband Advisors, Joe is a member of the Board of Directors of Boathouse Communications Partners, LLC, Remi Communications, LLC, and Procedian Technologies.

Previously, Joe was the Sr. Vice President-Eastern Region Sales for Exodus Communications. In February 1997, Joe was Exodus’ first employee in the east responsible for launching and then managing all sales, revenue, and sales support activities for Exodus’ eastern operations. He drove the explosive growth of that organization from just one person to a peak level of 250 sales and sales support personnel in 2001, representing an $800 million revenue plan. While at Exodus Joe’s leadership and experience were key to establishing the business in the start-up phase then scaling to extremely aggressive growth targets, while evolving the team to adapt to the ever changing technical and solution offerings.  During this time Joe’s organization was extremely successful in securing and managing a constant stream of customers representing some of the most prominent and demanding internet environments in the world, the culmination of which was a record contract to operate all aspects of the design, launch and ongoing operations for Merrill Lynch’s online initiative in 1999. 

Prior to joining Exodus, Joe was Vice President of Sales for Teleport Communications Group (TCG), a pioneer in alternative local telecommunications.  Joe held responsibility for TCG’s critical revenue engine, a team of 75 sales and operations resources, covering their New York Region, which represented nearly 50% of all revenue at the largest CLEC in the country at the time.   Prior to TCG, Joe held several senior positions with Northern Telecom (Nortel) and Summa Four over a 13 year period covering various complex, emerging technologies and service offerings including open switching, AIN, global network outsourcing, messaging switching, LAN/digital switching.

Joe started his career at Burroughs Corporation where he was responsible for selling a variety of complex computing systems.  Joe earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Marketing from King’s College.