ADVISORY BOARD

MARY PETERSON
Former SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
Cambium Networks
Mary Peterson is a seasoned B2B technology marketing executive recognized for building global marketing organizations that drive brand awareness, audience engagement, and scale with channel partners. Over the course of her career, she has led marketing transformations in both medium-sized wireless networking firms and iconic enterprise IT and telecommunications companies. With expertise spanning vision, strategy, and execution, she has overseen marketing budgets exceeding $30M annually, integrated digital marketing technologies, and consistently delivered measurable results—including quadrupling share of voice relative to market share, achieving best-in-class Net Promoter Scores with partners, and generating strong inbound lead growth.
Most recently, Mary retired in 2024 as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Cambium Networks, where she elevated the marketing function into a strategic driver of revenue growth. Before that, she served as Vice President of Marketing at Ruckus Networks (now part of CommScope), where she spearheaded a digital transformation that doubled share of voice relative to market share and significantly contributed to sales pipeline growth. Earlier, she spent 15 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, holding diverse leadership roles across business units, ultimately serving as Director of Marketing for the networking division. She joined HP through its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corporation where she held multiple marketing roles supporting both vertical industries and horizontal initiatives.
Mary earned her M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has also served as an officer and board member of St. Martin de Porres House of Hope in Chicago. Today, she resides in northern lower Michigan with her husband and is the owner of Tip of the Mitt Consulting, LLC
Mary currently holds the position of Chair of the Advisory Board.

VIJAY VENKATeswaraN
Strategy, Product and Business Development Executive
Viventum Inc.
Vijay Venkateswaran is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, technology manufacturing, and information systems. His career has focused on advancing emerging technologies into commercially scalable models across broadband access, advanced connectivity, private wireless networks, and AI-enabled operational systems. He is recognized for guiding organizations through technology and market transitions in ways that drive financial performance, adoption, and measurable enterprise outcomes.
Vijay has held senior leadership roles at Accenture, Corning, Verizon, Time Warner Cable/Charter Communications, and for the past 10 years has led Viventum Inc., a strategy and technology consultancy based in the DC-metro area. During his 10-year tenure at Accenture, he sold, guided, and delivered engagements across corporate and product strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and large-scale systems integration initiatives for Fortune 500 and international technology firms. At Corning, he advanced FTTx-economic models that supported FCC policy analysis related to nationwide fiber deployment strategies. While at Verizon, he led monetization strategy for FiOS digital services, including Games on Demand, Verizon Game Network, and Internet Security Suite offerings. At Time Warner Cable, Vijay led the operator’s Mobile 4G Data strategy and managed multi-million-dollar public Wi-Fi deployments at high-profile venues such as Central Park, Waikiki Beach, and the U.S. Open tennis facilities. He also spearheaded the company’s early CBRS technology strategy and ecosystem development initiatives.
Across his career, Vijay has advised senior executives, technology operators, and investors in areas spanning private wireless strategy and deployment, digital automation, Wi-Fi monetization, market expansion planning, product commercialization, due diligence, and technology investments. His advisory work bridges executive decision-making with implementation models, enabling organizations to align investment, operational execution, and technology strategy around high-value outcomes.
Vijay also serves in leadership roles with George Mason University, including the Board of Trustees, the President's Innovation Advisory Council, and the College of Engineering and Computing Dean’s Advisory Board. In these roles, he supports initiatives that link multi-disciplinary research, industry engagement, innovation partnerships, and applied technology programs that benefit the academic and regional innovation ecosystem.
He holds multiple U.S. patents spanning network session management, usage analytics, and device power management . His work has contributed to mobile and Wi-Fi deployment strategies used in broadband operations.
Outside of work, Vijay enjoys an active life in Northern Virginia. He is an avid hiker, enjoys photography, and is a committed runner, having completed 12 Army Ten-Miler races as well as several local events. He values time outdoors, ongoing learning, and experiences that provide balance, perspective, and creativity alongside his professional work.

MIKE CARROLL
FORMER Vice President
Georgia-PacificMike is a graduate of Ohio University with a degree in Engineering. Mike’s background includes Pulp & Paper - with Mead and Georgia-Pacific (GP), Robotics & Software in his early career including Deputy Chairman and CEO of UK based Shepard, LTD, and Construction and Building Products as co-owner of Atlanta based McTech Group, a company serving fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Kroger, and others. In 2010, Mike left retirement to join GP as VP Transformation & Innovation, where the MBM® philosophy and Mike’s mindset of innovation were complimentary. In 2019, he was named Innovator of the Year by ASPI, the Association of Suppliers to the Paper Industry. He also received the 2020 Visionary of the Year award from Smart Industry Magazine. He is involved in numerous innovations and transformations across GP and Koch Industries and continues to be a frequently featured keynote speaker at industrial and manufacturing events around the world where he is described as being the “air ahead of the spear”. He is recognized for his knowledge and experience in Leadership, Innovation, Organizational Transformation, and Humble Intellectual Honesty.

GEORGE MULHERN
Former CEO
CradlepointGeorge retired from his role as the CEO of Cradlepoint and Ericsson’s Enterprise Wireless Solutions global business unit in July 2024. He joined Cradlepoint in 2011 and over the course of his 13 years there, worked with an exceptionally talented team to build the company into the global leader for enterprise cellular wide-area networking. Growing from 80 to 1,500 employees and 100’s of millions of dollars of revenue. He raised $170M in venture capital and in November of 2020 the company was acquired by Ericsson for $1.1Billion. Post acquisition he spent three years leading the Enterprise Wireless Solutions business unit for Ericsson.
Prior to joining Cradlepoint, George spent three years as a general partner at Highway 12 Ventures, a Boise based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies in the intermountain region.
He began his career in technology at Hewlett Packard. Over the course of his 20 year career at HP, George had responsibility for hardware, software and services businesses that ranged in size from several million dollars to multi-billions of dollars of annual revenue. His last position with HP was as Senior Vice President, leading the LaserJet Global Business Unit.
George currently serves as an independent board director for Cambia Health Solutions, Regence Blue Shield of Idaho and Tracer - a Boise based brand security start-up. He is on the Idaho Technology Council board and previously served on Idaho Governor Kempthorne’s Science and Technology Advisory Council and Governor Little’s Cybersecurity Task Force. He was a member of McKinsey & Co’s Advisory Board for their technology practice and was recently inducted into the Idaho Technology Hall of Fame.
George attended San Jose State University on a Division I tennis scholarship, where he received his BS and MBA degrees.
George and Karen have four children between them and recently became Grandparents with the arrival of their first Grandchild.

ANTONIS PAPADOURAKIS
Former President & CEO
LANXESS CorporationAntonis Papadourakis founded AlphaPi Global Advisory, LLC in January of 2024 and he is currently serving as its President. Prior to that, Antonis served as President and CEO of LANXESS Corporation, as the Head of the Americas for the LANXESS Group, and as a member of the LANXESS Global Leadership team from July 2015 until his retirement at the end of October 2023. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the American Coatings Association (ACA), and the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) – Pittsburgh Section.
Antonis began his career with Rohm and Haas in Bristol, PA, US, holding positions of increasing responsibility, including Senior Chemical Engineer, Group Leader of the Process Economics Center, and Process Control Manager for Polymers & Resins worldwide. He moved to London, England in 1997 as the Purchasing Manager for Rohm and Haas (UK) Ltd. and later became the Purchasing & Logistics Manager, Europe, for Performance Polymers. He became Commercial Manager for Construction Adhesives, Europe, in January of 2001. Antonis moved to Paris, France in July 2001, to become Business Manager, Packaging and Converting, Europe for Rohm and Haas. He repatriated to the US in 2005 and joined Engelhard Corporation (now BASF) as Global Business Manager for Stationary Source and Indoor Air. He joined Arkema in February of 2007 as Business Director, Organic Peroxides, Americas. In September of 2008, he was promoted to General Manager, Sustainability Additives and in February 2012 joined Altuglas International (a subsidiary of Arkema) as the Regional Group President, Americas.
Born and raised in Greece, he earned a degree from the University of Thessaloniki and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, both in Chemical Engineering, and served one year in the Greek Armed Forces


