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Rivada Networks Announces Appointment of Karen Freitag as Executive Vice President of SalesRivada Networks is pleased to today announce the appointment of Karen Freitag as the company's new Executive Vice President for Sales. Karen Freitag is an experienced and accomplished sales executive, having previously served as Vice President of Sales for Ericsson (News - Alert), Vice President of Sales and Operations for Nortel, and most recently as President of Sprint Enterprise, Wholesale and Wireline Solutions, where she had full responsibility for Sprint's (News - Alert) Enterprise, Wireline and Wholesale Business Units. In 2015, she was named to the "Influential Women of Wireless" list compiled by wireless industry publication FierceWireless, and was a 2014 finalist for Capacity Magazine's (News - Alert) Executive of the Year Award for Industry Contribution. Karen is active in her community and has received numerous sales, sales management, and civic leadership awards throughout her career. She was voted by her community peers as one of Kansas City's Most Influential Women in the March 2008 Kansas City Business Magazine. Karen was recently appointed to the University of Kansas Business School Advisory Board and is a past Board Member of the American Cancer Society's Chairmen's Circle, Children's Mercy Hospital Hands and Hearts Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity. In addition to her board responsibilities, Karen has been a volunteer at Children's Mercy Hospital Parent to Parent Pediatric Oncology Group and served as Chair of the American Cancer Society's Kansas City Cattle Baron's Ball for 2007 and 2008. Karen earned a Bachelor of Science deree in Marketing and Management from Mid America Nazarene University and an MBA from Baker University. Karen has also completed the Kellogg School of Management Women's Senior Leadership Development Program. Karen joins Rivada at an exciting time for the company, which is a bidder for the FirstNet contract to build out the nationwide public safety broadband network in the United States, and is also actively engaged in opportunities in Mexico and elsewhere. This week, it was announced that Rivada Networks had been named by the State of New Hampshire as their choice to build out that State's emergency broadband network, in the event that it should choose to "opt out" of the FirstNet process. Rivada's Open Access Wireless Market, in combination with its patented Dynamic Spectrum (News - Alert) Arbitrage (DSA) technology, for the first time enables 4G mobile network capacity to be bought and sold in real time and in response to market demand. Commenting on the appointment, Rivada Networks Executive Chairman and Co-CEO Declan Ganley said: "I am beyond delighted to welcome Karen to our team here at Rivada Networks. Her career to date has been a case study in achievement and excellence, and her decision to join us as we move forward with our plan to build out the FirstNet network, and to use our technology to maximise the value of networks in the United States and around the world, is a significant boost to our company." Newly appointed Rivada Executive Vice President of Sales Karen Freitag said: "Rivada Networks is an exciting company equipped with the three things necessary for success: talented people, an incredible product, and an exciting and transformative vision. It made absolute sense for me to join Rivada at this time of growth and expansion, and I look forward with anticipation and confidence to the challenges ahead. I am delighted to be working with a team of seasoned and proven executives, led by Declan Ganley and Joe Euteneuer, and I am thrilled to get started on the important work ahead." 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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