Derek Pew serves as Chairman and a Director of the Company. Mr. Pew is Chairman of The Pew Companies, LLC, a diverse holding company with interests in audio/visual distribution, cryptocurrency mining, eSport data mining, web-based media, LAN gaming centers and coal waste related patents. He is the Chief Executive Officer of RA Holdings. Prior to that, Derek was Chief Executive Officer of Network Acquisition Company, the entity that was formed to purchase the municipal wireless network in Philadelphia from EarthLink as well as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Boathouse Communications Partners, LLC and Pew Broadband Advisors, LLC, Chairman of Remi Communications, LLC and the former Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wireless Philadelphia.
Derek began his career as an investment banker with Bankers Trust Company and, thereafter, as an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. As an investment banker and attorney, Mr. Pew participated in over $70 billion in transactions including the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, the merger of Time and Warner Communications and the merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX.
Derek has served on multiple charitable boards including, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, the Maestro’s Committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Advisory Boards of the Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance of Pennsylvania and the Greene Towne School, the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Board of Directors of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation where he chaired the Technology Committee, and is a current member of the Board of Trustees of the Agnes Irwin School where he sits on the Executive Committee and is a former chair of the Development Committee.
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