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Rivada Mercury Appoints Former Sprint Wholesale ExecutivesRivada Mercury today announced the appointments of four former Sprint (News - Alert) executives to its senior leadership team. Pierre Elisseeff, Peter Campbell, Bill Esrey, and Todd Rowley bring a track record of wholesale-market and operational success to Rivada Mercury. Rivada's Open Access Wireless Marketplace allows bandwidth to be bought, sold, and traded at the wholesale level, lowering barriers to entry into wireless and ensuring that no mobile network capacity is wasted. Rivada's efficient, transparent approach is made possible by the company's patented Dynamic Spectrum (News - Alert) Arbitrage (DSA) technology, which allows buyers to acquire wireless bandwidth for a specific period of time in a specific location. Having built a successful wholesale business at Sprint, Rivada Networks' new hires will leverage the company's technological advances to transform the mobile broadband industry. Elisseeff is Rivada Mercury's chief financial officer. He was previously vice president and wholesale business unit CFO at Sprint, where he successively oversaw the Enterprise/Wholesale and Postpaid Consumer businesses. Campbell will join Rivada Mercury as chief information officer. He has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications sector, and joins Rivada after holding the same post at Sprint, where he recently led the deployment of OSS and BSS systems in support of Sprint's multi-billion-dollar National US LTE (News - Alert) Network Upgrade covering tens of thousands of cell sites. Esrey joins Rivada Mercury as senior vice president of wholesale and business development. Bill has more than 20 years of senior management experience in sales, operations, product management, marketing, strategy and customer management. Before joining Rivada, Bill was with Sprint where he was responsible for the growth and retention of Sprint's largest business customers selling cloud, wireline, wireless, M2M and various mobility applications. He served in Sprint's Global Wholesale organization as vice president of operations, product, marketing and global sales. Bill brings over 27 years of experience in the telecom industry working for Sprint, Ameritech, and CentelCorporations. Rowley joins Rivada Mercury as senior vice president of business development. He most recently spent the past 16 years serving as vice president of business development at Sprint. There he was responsible for leading certain strategic partnering and commercial deals and working with the business units to develop strategic direction and new business models and opportunities. He has also led Sprint's strategic efforts to develop and execute a rural LTE coverage strategy through partnerships with rural and regional carriers across the country. The appointments follow the recent announcement that former Sprint CFO Joe Euteneuer joined Rivada Mercury as CEO. Rivada Mercury is the company formed by Rivada Networks, Fujitsu (News - Alert), the Harris Corporation, Nokia and Black & Veatch to offer to build out FirstNet's nationwide public-safety broadband network. Euteneuer also serves as co-CEO of Rivada Networks. Commenting on the appointments, Rivada Networks Co-CEO and Executive Chairman Declan Ganley said: "Rivada is building the best wholesale and network operations team in the industry as we move to disrupt the way wireless works. Pierre, Peter, Bill and Todd are second to none at what they do. I look forward to working them as Rivada drives the commoditization of mobile bandwidth." Rivada Mercury CEO Joseph J. Euteneuer said: "I am delighted to welcome Pierre, Peter, Bill, and Todd to the team here at Rivada Networks. I consider myself privileged to have worked alongside these four leaders at Sprint, and I am certain that the peerless leadership and experience they bring will serve Rivada Networks well as we continue to expand our capabilities and team. "Rivada is working with its partners to deliver a solution that will power a purpose-built, reliable, secure, resilient, dedicated and self-financing public safety network to America's first responders. This mission, which only Rivada's patented Open Access Wireless Marketplace for excess bandwidth can truly enable, is an idea that Peter, Bill, Todd and Pierre have completely embraced. I am looking forward to reuniting with them, as we continue to build the strongest possible team here at Rivada Networks." Rivada Mercury CFO Pierre Elisseeff said: "The transformational idea of applying a dynamic, transparent pricing model to wireless bandwidth will call for an equal measure of financial ingenuity. I'm thrilled to help spearhead Rivada Networks' approach to financing this revolutionary wireless offering." Rivada Mercury CIO Peter Campbell said: "I am tremendously excited by the opportunity to join Rivada at this critical stage in its growth, and look forward to joining Joe and his team at Rivada Networks. Great businesses are built by great people, processes and systems. Rivada has the people and the technology to transform wireless. This is an exciting moment in this industry, and I am very proud to be part of building a great new player in the wireless business." Rivada Mercury SVP Bill Esrey said: "Rivada Networks' technology, and its vision for how that technology will change the face of the wireless industry, grabbed my attention immediately. When this opportunity became available, I did not hesitate. I am delighted to join Joe and his team, and look forward to the challenge and the opportunities ahead." Rivada Mercury SVP Todd Rowley said: "I am honored to join Rivada Networks and eager to get to work. What Rivada offers this industry is unique and timely. The opportunities the Open Access Wireless Marketplace will provide to not just public safety, but the industry at large, are almost too great to be fully understood at this time. This is a fascinating and, for me, unmissable opportunity to work with some of the most innovative and visionary people in the wireless industry, and at the same time to help deliver a pioneering and sustainable solution to America's first responders." About Rivada Networks Rivada Networks is a leading designer, integrator and operator of wireless, interoperable communications networks. Rivada's technology, Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage-Tiered Priority Access (DSATPA), allows wireless broadband capacity to be dynamically bought and sold in a fully competitive on demand process to competing commercial entities. DSATPA is a game changer for the way in which spectrum is consumed, maximizing the efficiency of radio spectrum bandwidth and unlocking the potential for more extensive, higher capacity broadband networks.
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