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Specialties: Strategic Development, with the ability to identify ways to leverage and expand a company's existing operations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, coupled with strong financial and general business acumen. Experience in a high-touch, customer-focused, business-to-business service environment. An ability to anticipate issues, intercede and manage preemptively. Strong relationship building skills and the ability to communicate and persuade.

Matthew 'Matt' Desch is a Member at The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), Board Member at Iridium World Communications Ltd, and Chief Executive Officer at Iridium World Communications Ltd and is based in McLean, Virginia. He has worked as Chief Executive Officer at Telcordia Technologies, Supervisor at Bell Labs, and Board Member at Starent Networks. Matthew works or has worked as MEMBER at AOPA Foundation Board of Visitors. He attended University of Chicago between 1983 and 1986 and The Ohio State University between 1976 and 1980.

LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., is chairman of United States Cellular Corporation, a publicly traded subsidiary of TDS. Carlson is president and chief executive officer, and a director, of TDS. He is also chairman and a director of TDS Telecommunications Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of TDS.

Shirley Bloomfield is chief executive officer of NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, the premier association representing nearly 850 independent telecommunications companies that are leading innovation in rural and small-town America. With more than 30 years of experience representing the country’s smallest telecom operators, Bloomfield is an expert on the role of federal communications policies in sustaining the vitality of rural and remote communities and the benefits rural broadband networks bring to millions of American families, businesses and the national economy. Bloomfield has a strong track record of leadership in aligning strategic partnerships among rural telecom companies, their larger counterparts, other rural utilities and federal agencies, advancing digital equity and economic opportunities for rural Americans. Under her leadership, NTCA has promoted public-private partnerships among rural communications providers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and FCC, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars flowing to rural communities to advance broadband networks and help close the digital divide. Bloomfield is a strong supporter of national efforts to improve the resilience and reliability of critical electric and telecommunications infrastructure and serves as a board member of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative and the Southeast Reliability Corporation (SERC).

Background spans over twenty years and has been focused on growing and improving the operational, financial and market position of various types of businesses. Proven Operations and Financial executive with extensive experience leading the planning, development and hands-on management of operations for telecommunications and utility companies. Accomplished record of developing strategic and tactical initiatives that maximize enterprise value through a combination of streamlined operations, cost reduction, efficient capital investment, and financial structuring to enable long-term growth. Proactive, driven leader who builds top-performing, diverse teams and coaches individuals to exceed expectations and take personal responsibility for their career growth.