David W. Garrison, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Garrison joined iBAHN in October 2002 and brings 20 years of experience in leading telecommunications and technology services companies in the wireless and Internet industries. Garrison has served as chairman and CEO of Netcom, a pioneering Internet service provider. At Netcom, he successfully led NASDAQ financings, using proceeds to expand geographically within the US to build one of the first Internet networks, and expanded the company internationally to create the top-rated Internet company in the U.K. and Canada. Currently, Garrison is an independent director of SonicWALL, a leading company in providing security solutions to small and medium enterprise customers worldwide. Additionally, Garrison has served as independent director on more than a half-dozen boards of private and public companies, including election to chair the independent directors committee at Ameritrade.
Gregory G. Hodges, President
Mr. Hodges joined iBAHN as the Chief Operating Officer in October 2003, bringing a wealth of operational and financial expertise to iBAHN’s executive team. Hodges joins iBAHN from Humana, Inc., a Fortune 200 company, where he served as Director of the Business and Markets consulting group. There, he led high-level re-engineering projects focused on sales processes, platform migrations and financial impact analysis associated with process strategy and market operations. Prior to Humana, Hodges served as the COO for High Speed Access Corp., a publicly traded HSIA provider. Through his leadership, his teams created and implemented a business model that increased the subscriber base by approximately 450% in eighteen months, while reducing operating cash burn by 75% and setting a new market standard on quality customer care metrics. Hodges received, with honors, his BS with a dual emphasis in Accounting & Business Management from the University of Colorado, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Graeme Powell, Managing Director - EMEA
Mr. Powell joined iBAHN in March 2000. Prior to joining iBAHN, Mr. Powell worked for Nomura’s Principal Group for a year and previously from February 1993 until April 1999 for Thorn in a variety of positions including four years with Quadriga (Thorn’s supplier of in-room technology to the hospitality industry) most recently as Financial Controller. Mr. Powell trained as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte Haskins and Sells (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and worked for them from September 1986 until January 1993. Mr. Powell holds a BSc. (Econ) from the London school of Economics and Political Science and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
