Oliver Valente

About Oliver Valente

Inc 500 recently named Airtower Networks its Top Ranked Wireless Communications Infrastructure Provider. The Company\'s vision is to enable the millions of wireless connections needed by Building Owners, Property Managers, Enterprises, and Mobile Network Operators for smart building applications and their end users Airtower, named One of America\'s Fastest Growing Private Companies by Inc 500, designs, builds, owns, & operates wireless networks within buildings including offices, data centers, industrial, retail, residential, higher education, hospitality, healthcare, stadiums, and public venues. Contrary to many competitors in the marketplace, who focus first on mobile network operators, Airtower’s direct-to-owner-first strategic sales program, prioritizes the private ownership of in-building wireless assets ahead of the wireless carrier’s participation in a project. This model has yielded an impressive project portfolio of several hundred buildings with tens of millions of square feet. Growth plans include leveraging this success to ensure mobile network operators meet their 5G coverage & capacity needs in these same venues while simultaneously offloading the wireless carrier’s outdoor networks, driving a significant cost reduction as the infrastructure is in place ahead of the demand. Valente is an experienced technology, communications infrastructure, and telecom executive with over 25 years of leadership & operational experience ranging from private equity backed start up and mid sized businesses to Fortune 50. Participated at senior management level in two different companies sequentially from start up phase through $1B+valuations. Extensive track record of building and leading high performing teams and companies having worked in both public & private equity backed businesses. Over his career, led the wireless & wireline network design, engineering & construction of thousands of cell towers/rooftop sites, thousands of miles of fiber, data center deployments, and tens of thousands of indoor & outdoor small cells. Areas of expertise include sales support, wireless and wireline towers, small cells, data center, and fiber network design, engineering, construction, radio frequency (RF) and WiFi planning, indoor and outdoor distributed antenna solutions (DAS), operations, technology development, enterprise program management, strategy, M&A, general management, product development, supply chain, IT & marketing disciplines as well as working with Wall Street analysts, private equity, and media to position company capabilities and performance.

Experience

1. CEO

   Airtower Networks

   Dec 2019 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• Keller Graduate School of Management

  MBA, Finance

  1993 — 1996

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Radio communications

  1987 — 1991