Jeff White, Vice President – Multiservice Transport Networks, Ericsson

Jeff White leads the Multiservice Transport Networks Domain for Ericsson supporting AT&T. In this role he leads and is accountable for business development, solution development, and operations for IP Networking, Multiservice Edge, Fix Access and Transport Networks business for Ericsson at AT&T.

Prior to joining Ericsson, Jeff served as VP of Services and Support at Juniper Networks where he led Juniper services efforts focused on communication service providers.  Prior to Juniper, he also held positions at Alcatel-Lucent in operations, program management and business development.

Earlier in his career Jeff served in leadership roles at BellSouth and Cingular Wireless (now AT&T). At Cingular Jeff led the National Transport Infrastructure Engineering where he had responsibility for national transport, VoIP and IMS engineering. At BellSouth he led the Broadband Internet Operations and Support organization. In this role, he led the broadband tier 2 technical support, customer networking equipment business, OSS and end to end process. In other roles, Jeff led the technical planning, architecture, and product development for broadband access and data networks.

Jeff started his career in the Science and Technology division of BellSouth where he worked in broadband and Intelligent Networking.  He has also held positions in wireless network engineering and operations with Contour Networks Inc., BellSouth Mobility and Prime Co Personal Communications (now Verizon Wireless) where he was involved launched the first 2G CDMA wireless network deployment. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Polytechnic University.  

Larry Calton assisted with the early development and later helped found the North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology (NTEC), where he continues in the capacity of president and executive director.  As executive director, Larry’s responsibilities include managing the organization, assessing technology, and strategically mentoring start-up program companies to success. Larry also manages NTEC’s interactions and initiatives with the City of Frisco and NTEC’s local and regional partners. 

Most recently, Calton worked with the City of Frisco and the Frisco Economic Development Corp. to fund, design, build and now occupy a state-of-the-art, 50,000sf, $11 million medical technology development center. The facility is the largest such center in Texas and one of the largest in the U.S. Along with Frisco, Calton worked with Sinacola Commercial to master plan a 30-acre medical technology business park expected to encompass eight buildings equaling nearly half a million square feet of office and lab space at build-out.

Prior to joining NTEC, Larry served as director of Emerging Company Services for KPMG in Dallas where he worked with public and private technology companies in the Metroplex. In January 2000, Larry was asked to lead KPMG’s business development initiatives relative to venture-backed startup technology companies. In that capacity, Larry directly supported start-up company clients and worked closely with local first and second tier VC firms, as well as corporate VCs, area technology lenders and attorneys, and prominent service providers and vendors serving the technology space. Larry acted as KPMG’s primary community leader for emerging technology company activities and sat on the Startech Stakeholder Advisory Board, the first incubator in North Texas, and the Executive Committee for the MIT Enterprise Forum-Dallas. 

Prior to joining KPMG, Larry spent 10 years as a vice president with Comerica Bank – Texas, where he helped launch the technology lending function and the asset based loan audit group. As audit manager, Larry was responsible for audit oversight of Comerica’s billion dollar asset-based loan portfolio. Calton was also an innovator, creating the first “telecommuter” and “hoteling” department within Comerica Bank (1993) and the first fully electronic audit program. In his years as a commercial lender, Larry developed a specialized expertise in technology-based businesses and was responsible for Comerica – Texas’ portfolio of technology loans until the acquisition of Imperial Bank of California.

Calton is a frequent speaker, both locally and regionally, about such start-up company topics as business incubation, company creation, funding, and technology transfer and commercialization. He also regularly contributes to local and regional business and technology media publications about early-stage technology-based business topics.

Larry actively promotes entrepreneurialism in North Texas and holds leadership positions in several important technology focused organizations. Calton was one of the founding members of the Medical Device Action Alliance (MDAA), which is charged with regional awareness of and education for the medical device industry in North Texas. Calton also serves on the program committee of the Southwest Venture Forum, the Advisory Boards of both the Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas and the North Texas Regional Commercialization and Innovation Center (RCIC - part of the Emerging Technology Fund) and the Board of Directors for the MTBC. Further, in addition to the eight NTEC portfolio companies mentored by Calton, he is also an active business advisor to a half dozen other, local technology start- up companies. 

Larry attended Oklahoma State University, obtaining a BS degree in accounting with a minor in economics and ancient history.  He is also a Certified Incubator Manager and a Certified Public Accountant and member of the Texas Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs.

Affordable Computer Services (ACS) believes tech support goes beyond fixing a computer. Their approach to support involves partnering with customers to become their IT personnel. The team at ACS provides customers with the correct guidance to help maintain and service their computers, minimizing down time and increasing productivity.

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MISource offers the industry what many others cannot—a completely flexible national staffing solution. Founded in 1999 by technical staffing and recruiting experts, MISource is an international staffing solutions provider focused on the specialized areas of information technology, telecommunications and engineering.

 MISource recruits and places job candidates in the high-tech industry. Its mission is to provide its clients and consultants with the highest level of service and results to achieve complete customer satisfaction. The firm provides its clients with the most qualified experts on temporary contract, temporary contract to hire and permanent placement basis, resulting in:

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 Its industry-specific focus allows MISource to excel at its core competencies. In addition to its staff of highly trained professionals, MISource offers nationwide coverage through eight strategically located offices, flexible payment terms to match customers’ business models and cash flow cycles, a state-of-the-art recruiting database with more than 500,000 candidates and established relationships with the technical community.

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