Network origin in Michael Benson first degree
| Entity | Entity type | Industry | |
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McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
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| Extinct | Wireless Telecommunications | 18 |
Chart of Companies connected to the second degree
Multi-company connection
Companies connected to Michael Benson via their personal network
| Company | Sector | Related people | Main position |
|---|---|---|---|
| COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | Specialty Stores | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
LIN Broadcasting Corp.
 LIN Broadcasting Corp. BroadcastingConsumer Services LIN Broadcasting Corp. provides television broadcasting and cellular telephone services. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA. | Broadcasting | Director of Finance/CFO Director/Board Member | |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Corporate Officer/Principal Director of Finance/CFO | |
New Aurora Corp.
 New Aurora Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. | Packaged Software | Chief Executive Officer Director of Finance/CFO | |
| F5, INC. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
RateIntegration, Inc.
 RateIntegration, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services RateIntegration, Inc. provides real-time mobile marketing, loyalty, and advertising solutions. It offers RoundBuzz, a mobile marketing platform and service network and Sixth Sense Media, a platform that enable businesses to leverage a spectrum of real-time, event-triggered marketing to audiences in any market. The firm provides pre-launch concept development, campaign development and execution, post launch and analytical services. The company was founded by Matthew Lucas in 1999 and is headquartered in Durham, NC. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Chairman | |
Kollective Technology, Inc.
 Kollective Technology, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Kollective Technology, Inc. engages in operation of a cloud based software company. It offers software distribution, enterprise video, and Microsoft 365. It also provides network analytics and integrations. The company was founded by John Wainwright, Mike J. Homer and Wade Hennessey in 2000 is headquartered in Bend, OR. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member | |
Clearwire Corp.
 Clearwire Corp. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Clearwire Corp. provided fourth generation wireless broadband services. It built and operated next generation mobile broadband networks that provided mobile internet and residential Internet access services. The company was founded by Craig O. McCaw in October 2003 and was headquartered in Bellevue, WA. | Specialty Telecommunications | Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Director/Board Member Director/Board Member Chief Operating Officer | |
S5 Wireless, Inc.
 S5 Wireless, Inc. Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology In 2003 the founders of S5 Wireless, recognizing the limitations of existing location technologies, conceived of a novel RF approach to location and telemetry. The unconventional approach enjoys dramatic advantages across an array of performance metrics, offering high accuracy, low-latency, long battery life and excellent indoor coverage at a cost that enables rapid mass market adoption. Capable of serving standalone applications as well as fully integrated operation within existing data/voice applications, the S5 technology expands the possibilities of the LBS market. Historically, location and telemetry applications have faced four prominent barriers which have prevented mass market adoption of LBS. These barriers include: total cost, operational range, signal penetration and battery power. While existing wireless technologies meet a subset of these needs, a solution which simultaneously solves all requirements has proven elusive. This has resulted in applications which are only partially served by the chosen technology. Consequently, LBS market adoption has been constrained to a set of fragmented verticals rather than enjoying growth through mass market adoption driven by a horizontal technology enabler. This is no longer the case. Unlike conventional location and telemetry technologies, S5 meets all requirements to enable mass market adoption: Low Total Cost (hardware and subscription) Wide Area Coverage (metropolitan regions leading to global coverage) Excellent Indoor and Outdoor Coverage Long Battery Life (measured in years, not weeks) Low-latency and Rapid Updating (instant availability of present location) In function, S5’s tag is similar to an RFID tag, in that it can be easily embedded or attached to almost anything: products, people, pets, vehicles, etc. Further, with the integrated telemetry capability, the item can report “presence” information such as temperature, vibration, moisture or any other sensed aspect. However, unlike RFID systems, customers need not deploy, operate and maintain a multitude of expensive and proprietary tag readers. “Plug and Play” meets location and telemetry. | Aerospace & Defense | Director/Board Member | |
Trilogy International Partners LLC
 Trilogy International Partners LLC Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Trilogy International Partners LLC provides wireless communication services. It offers mobile voice and data, emergency response applications, commercial mobile payments, and customized language phone services. The firm serves to telecommunications, insurance, and credit card sectors. The company was founded by John W. Stanton, Theresa E. Gillespie, and Bradley Jay Horwitz in November 2005 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. | Specialty Telecommunications | Founder Founder | |
Eagle River Holdings LLC
 Eagle River Holdings LLC Financial ConglomeratesFinance Part of Eagle River, Inc., Eagle River Holdings LLC operates as an investment holding private company. The company is based in Kirkland, WA. Craig O. McCaw has been the CEO of the company since 1993. | Financial Conglomerates | Chief Executive Officer Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| TERAGO INC. | Major Telecommunications | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
Ivy Corp.
 Ivy Corp. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Ivy Corp. provides communication solutions. It offers Ivytalk, a group messaging solution for businesses and organizations. The firm's product provides solutions for employee communication, customer engagement, alarm notifications and software customization and integration services. It serves retail, hospitality, utilities, public safety, information technology, security and technical support markets. The company was founded by Mary Jesse and Steven Michael Knox in 2009 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA. | Internet Software/Services | Chairman Founder | |
New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc.
 New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc. Wireless TelecommunicationsCommunications AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. provided voice, data and video telecommunications services. It was acquired by Cingular Wireless LLC in October 26, 2004. The company was headquartered in Redmond, WA. | Wireless Telecommunications | Chief Executive Officer Corporate Officer/Principal Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer Corporate Officer/Principal Corporate Officer/Principal Chief Operating Officer Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| Stanford University | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Masters Business Admin | |
University of Washington
 University of Washington Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Masters Business Admin Masters Business Admin | |
VantagePoint Management, Inc.
 VantagePoint Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance VantagePoint Management, Inc. (VantagePoint) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Alan Edward Salzman, James D. Marver. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with additional office in Beijing, China. | Investment Managers | Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| McGill University | College/University | Undergraduate Degree | |
| Washington State University | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Corporate Officer/Principal Corporate Officer/Principal | |
Trilogy Equity Partners LLC
 Trilogy Equity Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Trilogy Equity Partners LLC (Trilogy Equity Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by John Stanton. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | Investment Managers | Private Equity Investor Private Equity Investor Private Equity Investor Private Equity Investor | |
| TWITTER, INC. | Internet Software/Services | Director/Board Member | |
| NEW RELIC, INC. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member | |
| Cantel, Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | ||
Two Degrees Mobile Ltd.
 Two Degrees Mobile Ltd. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Two Degrees Mobile Ltd. provides telecommunication services. It offers prepaid, pay monthly, Mobile Data and online services. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. | Specialty Telecommunications | Director/Board Member Private Equity Investor | |
| Clearwire International LLC | President | ||
RECON Dynamics LLC
 RECON Dynamics LLC Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology RECON Dynamics LLC develops terrestrial based technologies for remote tracking, monitoring, and control services. It offers high-performance technology at low cost, meaning radically enhanced remote tracking and monitoring capabilities are now available to a wide range of industries. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA. | Aerospace & Defense | Director/Board Member Chief Executive Officer | |
Schlumberger NV (Netherlands)
 Schlumberger NV (Netherlands) Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Part of SLB NV, Schlumberger NV (Netherlands) is a Dutch company that designs, develops, produces, and supplies technologies, services, products, and systems for the oil & gas industries. The private company is based in The Hague, the Netherlands. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member | |
| PENDRELL CORPORATION | Miscellaneous Commercial Services | Chief Executive Officer Director/Board Member | |
| Clearwire, Inc. | Director/Board Member | ||
| TRILOGY INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS INC. | Wireless Telecommunications | Founder Founder Chief Executive Officer | |
| Trilogy LLC | Founder Founder Chief Executive Officer |
Statistics
International
| United States | 44 |
| Canada | 6 |
| New Zealand | 2 |
| Netherlands | 2 |
Sectoral
| Communications | 18 |
| Technology Services | 13 |
| Consumer Services | 6 |
| Electronic Technology | 6 |
| Finance | 6 |
Operational
| Director/Board Member | 172 |
| Corporate Officer/Principal | 53 |
| Chairman | 49 |
| Independent Dir/Board Member | 34 |
| Chief Executive Officer | 34 |
Most connected contacts
| Insiders | |
|---|---|
| Maggie Wilderotter | 43 |
| John Stanton | 32 |
| Craig McCaw | 28 |
| Peter Louis Sparre Currie | 25 |
| John H. Chapple | 25 |
| James Barksdale | 22 |
| Mikal Thomsen | 21 |
| Nicolas Kauser | 19 |
| Peter Klein | 18 |
| Mary Jesse | 18 |
| Dennis J. O'Connell | 17 |
| Brad Horwitz | 15 |
| Donald Guthrie | 14 |
| R. Gregory Breetz | 10 |
| Theresa E. Gillespie | 9 |
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