The Leadership

E. Craig Sanders, Managing Director

Driving change with senior level leadership
Background

E. Craig Sanders is a seasoned business leader with over 30 years experience in leadership positions. He has led public and private (including Private Equity portfolio) companies serving consumer, business and government markets with a focus on network communications, wireless, digital media, and security measures.

Mr. Sanders has a proven track record of working with organizations in transition:  building businesses and fixing troubled divisions and companies, finding channels to growth and profitability, and identifying and implementing strategic solutions that benefit shareholders in early stage and large organizations.

Expertise 
  • Consistently and significantly increased shareholder value.
  • Provided public company leadership in developing strategic solution for shareholders.
  • Identified targets, negotiated and led mergers, acquisitions and integration activities.
  • Led turnaround situation focused on increased revenues, shareholder savings and company repositioning.
  • Launched regional business and raised substantial equity for further expansion.
  • Directed product portfolio and led organization turnaround.
  • Led alternate channels marketing group consisting of affinity sales agents and resellers.
  • Initiated and oversaw start-up of new services division.
  • Developed and guided early stage company growth.
Experience
  • Interim CEO, regional wholesale broadband carrier’s carrier
  • President and Founder, The Verona Group
  • Chairman and CEO, Utilicom Networks
  • President, CEO and Director, Peoples Telephone Company, Inc.
  • Senior VP of Product Management, Sprint Communications
  • VP and GM, Sprint Intermediaries Marketing Group (IMG)
  • President and CEO, United TeleSentinel, Inc.

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