William Kennard of Staple Street Capital co-founded Astra Capital, consisting of three Internet infrastructure companies; Board includes people from questionable organizations

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An anon posted this as a new thread….re-posting their dig in an actual bread so it can be notabled. Also adding some of my diggs below.

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Kennard became Chairman of AT&T on November 6th, 2020, replacing Randall Stephenson who had been chairman of the board since 2007.

Kennard timeline:

• 1997-2001 - FCC Chairman

• 2009-2013 - US Ambassador to the European Union

• 2014 - co-founder of Astra Capital Management, based in Washington DC.

Astra has acquired majority stake in the following three companies, which form its portfolio (KEK, yes folks, only three companies in its portfolio):

• Communication Technology Services, LLC

A U.S. provider of wireless infrastructure services, CTS designs, installs and operates secure, dense, and mission-critical in-building wireless networks and technology.

www.cts1.com

• DartPoints

DartPoints is an owner and operator of edge colocation data centers.

www.dartpoints.com

• Logix Fiber Networks

The largest fiber network provider in Texas, a leading provider of business, data, and voice solutions, and operator of high-performance colocation data center facilities in Houston, Austin and Dallas.

www.logix.com

Seems to be only internet infrastructure type of companies.

Could be helpful to control the infrastructure if you needed to kill the internet or keep certain types of traffic that were routed to polling places hidden.

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William Kennard of Staple Street Capital co-founded Astra Capital, consisting of three Internet infrastructure companies; Board includes people from questionable organizations

Other founders and their past work experience of Astra Capital Management include:

Matt M Murphy - President of Grande Communications; SVP, Corp Development of Atlantic Broadband, Presidential Internet in 1994 under the Clinton administration

Mark J Johnson - Managing Director, Carlyle Group (10 years); Associate, Blackstone Group; served on 2008 Obama-Biden Presidential Economic Transition Team

Todd M Crick - Advisor to President, Cylance; Board member, Positioning Universal (IoT); CEO and Board member, Global Cloud Fleet (GPS fleet and asset tracking); SVP Operations, AlienVault (acquired by AT&T; cyber attack management); CEO and Board member, inCode Consulting (acquired by Ericsson, consulting for telecoms); VP, Head of Consulting and Integration, Ericsson; SVP, Global Consulting Services, VeriSign; Sr Manager, Deloitte Consulting

Kevin L Beebe - President and CEO of 2BPartners (clients included The Carlyle Group, GS Capital Partners, KKR, and TPG Capital); Group President of Operations, ALLTEL Corp; EVP Operations, 360° Communications; Board member, Syniverse Technologies; Board member, Nextel International; Board member, Frontier Communications Corp; Chairman, Nii Holdings; First Vice Chairman, NCH Healthcare Systems

Its Advisory Board includes:

Tuvia Barak, Technology - educated in Israel (Bachelors and Masters); Venture Partner, Lux Capital (since 2005); Venture Partner, Grove Ventures; Venture Partner, Lytical Ventures; Tadiran (12 year stint, based in Israel, one of major suppliers of tactical communications to the US Army); CEO, Crossways Consulting Group; Special Advisor, Kymeta Corp, Special Advisor, Heller Industries; Board member, Board Member, WhiteCanyon Software Inc; Board Member, Weatherbell Analytics LLC; Board Member, Toonimo Inc; Board Member, Skyline Software System Inc

Mary Clark, Mobility & Tech Services - CMO and Chief Product Officer, Synchronoss Technologies (cloud, messaging, and digital transformation for tech-media-telecom industry); CMO, Syniverse; Board member, CTIA Wireless Foundation

David W. Hitchcock, Mobility - CFO and EVP, Global Product Management & Development, Syniverse (9 years); sold Syniverse to the Carlyle Group; CFO North America, Alcatel-Lucent (6 months); SVP and VP in Finance and Corp Controller, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs (5 years)

Richard J Shea, Operations - CEO and CIO and COO, Atlantic Broadband (14 years); CTO, AltiComm; GE; Corps of Engineers Officer, US Army (4 years)

Richard J Wilhelm, Cybersecurity - Sr Partner and EVP, Booz Allen Hamilton (16 years)n; Captain, Intelligence, US Navy (28 years), Political appointee in Clinton administration (Sr Policy advisor to VP Al Gore, Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs, 3rd ranking national intelligence official); Director of Information Warfare, NSA; Director of Joint Intelligence Center for the first Gulf War, supporting the Secretary of Defense; Russian Area Studies graduate of Syracuse University

Sauce:

Bios came from Astra's website and the individuals' profiles on LinkedIn, Bloomberg, and RelationshipScience

https://about.att.com/story/2020/william_e_kennard_att_board_of_directors.html

https://www.astracapitalmgmt.com/portfolio / https://archive.vn/eQxnI

https://www.astracapitalmgmt.com/our-team / https://archive.vn/B5OHk