Company: NXNVW
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-031073
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Company: NEXTNAV INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 13
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), and several operators including ICO Global Communications, Nextel, and PrimeCo, where she began as a radio frequency engineer. Ms. Sorond has served as a member of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee since 2014 and joined as a member of the Federal Communications Commission’s Technical Advisory Committee in 2022. Ms. Sorond has been awarded several patents, with others pending and is an author and frequent speaker and panelist at industry forums. Ms. Sorond’s experience leading transformational change across mobile, wireless, fixed and satellite networks for more than 30 years and her leadership positions within start-ups and Fortune 500 enterprises qualify her to serve on our Board. Board Committees : None Bandel L. Carano has served as a director since October 2021. Prior to this, Mr. Carano served as a director of former NextNav from September 2014 to October 2021. Mr. Carano joined Oak Investment Partners, a multi-stage venture capital firm, in 1985 and has been a General Partner of Oak Investment Partners since 1987. Mr. Carano has been a Managing Partner of Oak Investments Partners since 2010. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Carano was a member of Morgan Stanley’s Venture Capital Group, where he was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development and sponsoring venture investments. As a venture capitalist, Mr. Carano has been involved with numerous technology companies in the telecommunications, wireless, rich media and semiconductor industries including 2Wire, Inc., Avici Systems, Qtera Corporation, Sentient Networks, Inc. and Wellfleet Communications, among others.

Mr. Carano currently serves on the board s of directors of company nLight, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASR) , a public company and Centric Software, a private company . M r. Carano has previously served on the board of several public companies, including Airspan Networks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MIMO), NeoPhotonics Corp. (Nasdaq: NPTN), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions , Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), Tele Atlas BV (acquired by TomTom (OTCMKTS: TMOAY) in 2007), Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), FiberTower Corporation (acquired by AT&T (NYSE: T) in 2018), Virata, Inc. (acquired by Globes