Ali Shadman

Ali Shadman has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. During the 13 years prior to joining JK&B, Ali was with Ameritech with a variety of responsibilities. Immediately prior to joining JK&B, he was the President of Ameritech New Media, which provided competitive broadband cable services to over 250,000 subscribers. Ali was also Ameritech's designee on the board of Americast, a joint venture between Ameritech, Walt Disney, GTE, BellSouth, and SNET. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Ameritech responsible for developing long-term business strategies. In this capacity, Ali led the negotiations for the merger between Ameritech and SBC. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Operations and Business Development where he had full technical, operational and budgeting responsibility for implementing the technical infrastructure for delivery of broadband consumer products. Prior to that, Ali was the General Manager of Network Services and Technology Planning, Assistant Vice President Network Platforms, and Executive Director of Data Networking.

Before joining Ameritech, Ali was with MCI Telecommunications where he was the Director of Technology Development and with INTELSAT where he was a member of the technical staff.

Ali is on the Board of Directors of Atrica, Ivivity, TenXc and AirPlay Network and participates with the Board of Directors of Aperto Networks and Nanochip.

Ali earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an M.S.E.E. and a B.S.E.E. from Oregon State University.