founded Arbinet (ARBX), Transit Wireless, GroundLink, Governing Dynamics, Elematics, Comgates. Raised over $300m from leading VC's PE & strategic investors. Investor in over 60 companies including eBuddy, nSphere, Iron Planet, mylife, Local Matters, Javelin, Slide. Inventor of 50 patents related to communications and web services technologies. See www.governingdynamics.com for more details Specialties:take great ideas from concept to industry leadership. Develop strategy & recruit A teams. Raise capital.

CEO @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Greater San Diego AreaMember Board of Directors @ Joined NVTL as a nominee of a group of shareholders. see http://www.marketwatch.com/story/novatel-wireless-announces-agreement-with-investor-group-2014-04-29 From April 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Greater San Diego AreaFounder & Managing Partner @ Governing Dynamics is a forward looking & pioneering early stage technology venture fund. We specialize in disruptive Mobile Web Services, Web Exchanges & Market Places & Communications services. We empower innovation & invest in creative people who want to change the world. We combine managed investments where we develop young visionary companies with co-investing with other leading funds in a more traditional VC model. From August 2004 to Present (11 years 3 months) New YorkFounder & Chairman @ Transit Wireless (TW) is a $300m project to build and operate the worlds largest DAS LTE wireless system in the NYC 300 underground subway stations. The network provides coverage to 8,500,000 daily commuters. TW won a 25 year franchise from the MTA and completed buildout of the first 100 stations in 2015. AT&T , T-Mobile, Sprint & Verizon have signed up over $500m in contracts with TW to provide service to their clients underground. From February 2003 to Present (12 years 9 months) Greater New York City AreaBoard Member @ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tellabs-third-avenue-reach-agreement-160000803.html From February 2013 to December 2013 (11 months) Greater Chicago AreaVice Chairman @ Helped raise capital and advise founder on how to scale the company From 2010 to 2013 (3 years) CEO @ Name.Space has been operating domain names since 1996. The company originated over 500 names such as .books .art .NYC and is currently applying with ICANN in the 2012gTLD process. From December 2011 to September 2012 (10 months) New yorkFounder & CEO @ GroundLink is a global transportation provider with over 200 employees and $50m in revenues, it offers Limo & Car service via a network of 45,000 providers in 172 countries. The company is a leading SAAS technology provider that aggregates, manages and provides ground transportation services worldwide. From May 2005 to December 2011 (6 years 8 months) Greater New York City AreaMember @ Active member of the NY chapter. From March 2003 to September 2011 (8 years 7 months) Metro NYFounder, CEO & Board member @ Founder and board member of the telecom industry largest exchange. Company has over 1700 phone companies as members exchanging over 20b transactions a year. Arbinet merged with Primus in 2011 and the combined company had $1.5b in annual revenues. In 2012 the combined company sold its assets and distributed over $800m to shareholders. From January 1995 to September 2011 (16 years 9 months) New YorkInvestor @ Adviser to Founder & CEO, angel investor. From 2005 to August 2011 (6 years) Investor & Advisor @ eBuddy provides direct IM services to over 250m users worldwide. From March 2004 to December 2010 (6 years 10 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsFounder & Chairman @ Elematics has created the industry leading multi vendor control plane software for optical telecom infrustructure - Real time discovery, provisioning, activation and failover management. From January 2001 to June 2004 (3 years 6 months) Founder @ Founder of this leading soft switch vendor, company sold to Telco Systems in jan 04. From August 1997 to January 2004 (6 years 6 months)

BS, Economics @ Tel Aviv University From 1987 to 1989 attended EE, Electrical Engineering, Type 1 @ Open University of Israel From 1980 to 1982 Alex Mashinsky is skilled in: Fundraising, Telecommunication..., Web Services, Ad Exchanges, VoIP, Wireless Services, Ground Transportation, Social Entrepreneurship, Local Search, Gift Cards, Venture Capital, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Mergers, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing Strategy, Entrepreneur, Wireless, Strategy, Investments, SaaS, Corporate Development, Mobile Devices, E-commerce, New Business Development, Angel Investing, Online Marketing, Corporate Finance, Executive Management, Business Development, Management, M&A experience, Cleantech, Leadership, Product Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Due Diligence, Venture Financing, Telecommunications, Cross Promotions, Partnership Marketing, Alliance Marketing, Business Planning, Emerging Markets, Restructuring, Product Management, International Business, Start-up Ventures