Management Team

Dennis James - Chief Operating Officer,
Acting Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

Bringing a dynamic range of business knowledge of the telecommunications industry, Dennis James joined Telesphere as Chief Operating Officer in 2005, and served on its Board of Directors from mid 2005 through mid 2006. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. James served as President and a Director of Teledesic Corporation, a company formed in the mid-nineties by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates to provide global broadband internet service using a constellation of non-geostationary satellites. He joined Teledesic as its General Counsel in August 1998, was elected Vice President in January 1999 and then President in March 2000. As a development stage company, Teledesic raised nearly $1 billion in capital. Mr. James oversaw the repositioning of the business and the successful winding down of Teledesic’s satellite business in 2003, prior to its reconstitution as a private investment fund named Rally Capital LLC. Prior to joining Teledesic, Mr. James was vice president and general counsel of various companies affiliated with the Caroline Hunt Trust Estate in Dallas, Texas, including Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, an international luxury hotel company with operations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, and Start Technologies, a provider of telecommunications services to tenants in commercial office buildings. From 1980 to 1982 and then from 1985 to 1988, Mr. James was an associate and then a partner in a large Dallas law firm, handling general corporate, securities, international and venture capital transactions. From 1982 to 1984, Mr. James worked as a resident foreign attorney on cross-border transactions for Anderson, Mori & Rabinowitz in Tokyo. Mr. James has a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University and a J.D. and M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.