Tower One Wireless was founded in 2015 with a mission to own and operate high-quality cellular network infrastructure sites in South American markets that are experiencing strong usage growth.
Tower One Wireless focuses primarily on building towers in municipalities where there is limited or no cellular coverage. Tower One is currently focused on 4G LTE infrastructure expansion in Colombia and will look to open other territories to enhance coverage. Tower One believes in a triple bottom line. The triple bottom line consists of social equity, economic, and environmental factors. "People, planet and profit" succinctly describes the Triple bottom line and the goal of sustainability.
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MANAGEMENT Alejandro Ochoa, President & CEO, Director
Mr. Ochoa has over 18 years of experience within the financial services industry, having worked at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Prudential Securities and Raymond James, currently serves as consultant to Mackie Research Capital Corp Investment Banking Practice with LATAM focus.
Mr. Ochoa is fluent in Spanish and has an understanding of the South American Capital Markets.
Dedicated to Latin America, his areas of expertise include mining and energy transactions in advisory, capital raisings and strategic assets sales with Latin American transactions in Colombia, Mexica, and Peru. He has also covered Telecom Infrastructure companies from the United States, Argentina, Colombia .
Mr. Ochoa has a Bachelors in Science with a focus in Finance from Florida International University
Luis Parra, COO
Parra was a partner and a co-founder of Ingeant SA; he currently co-manages the operation of Ingeant SA in Colombia and advises several companies on issues related to the development of infrastructure projects. Parra has worked at Ecopetrol with particular responsibility for the Barrancabermeja refinery and managed the operation of QMC-TELECOM in Colombia. Luis has worked throughout South America and managed the operations in the following countries Dominican Republic, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. He has a civil engineering degree from the National University of Colombia, as well as a degree in finance and project evaluation from the University of Antioquia.
Abbey Abdiye, CFO
Mr. Abdiye has extensive experience in the financial sector in both public and private companies. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), and former CFO of a reporting issuer, where he was responsible for all financial, fiscal management, regulatory compliance matters and reporting aspects of company operations. He also provided strategic guidance and direction in capital structuring and engaged in innovative financing program that leveraged sales and development.
At Pacific Therapeutics., Mr. Abdiye provides leadership and coordination in the administrative, business planning, reporting, and budgeting efforts of the company. He oversees the company’s financial reporting, internal controls, corporate governance management systems, annual audit and regulatory compliance matters. He obtained Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University and a Co-op Education certificate.
Octavio De LaSprilla, Manager (Colombia)
Formally COO with Continental Towers. Octavio help expand the portfolio to over 200 Towers in a two year period. His role today is the interface of Tower One with the four principal operators of Colombia.
Brian Gusko, Director
Brian has significant international telecommunication business experience at the highest level. His international experience includes working in Corporate Planning with a Mitsubishi group company in Tokyo, Product Management at a Vodafone spin-off in the Netherlands, and being Managing Director of Palm for its South Africa wireless subsidiary. He was a research associate with the U.S. Department of Commerce at an embassy posting. Mr. Gusko has also held management positions at Telus Advanced Communications, and Telus Planet Internet in Alberta Canada where he oversaw the Teams responsible for over 90% of data transmitted.
Robert "Nick" Horsley, Director
Mr. Nick Horsley has over 11 years of capital markets experience focused in finance, investor relations, marketing management, merchant banking, and merger & acquisitions. Mr. Horsley has served as a director and a consultant to several public and private companies and has worked in a variety of industries including: consumer goods, energy, nutraceuticals & pharmaceuticals, and technology.
Fabio Alexander, Director
Fabio Alexander is founder and CEO of Executive Investment Partners, LLC is a diversified investment company based in Miami, Florida with holdings in various industries including Aviation, Mortgage Banking, Technology, Insurance, Real Estate and Retail Services.
Rolland Bopp, Advisor
Mr. Bopp has extensive background at senior levels in the telecom space, including a role as Chairman, President & CEO of Deutsche Telecom Inc. New York, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany and Executive Vice President, and member of the operating board of Mannesmann Corp. in New York, NY and Düsseldorf, Germany, a US$ 20 billion global engineering and telecom service company operating worldwide and publicly traded.