Bruce Smith

Revenue & Profit | Telecommunications | Enterprise Sales | Wireless | Management Consultant | Mentor | Expert Witness

Los Altos, California, United States

About

I can be reached at Bruce[at]oakgrove.com I am a management consultant with a background as a Fortune 500 Group Executive, NYSE CEO, Serial start-up entrepreneur, and am current in all communications technologies. Lots of Enterprise Marketing Success. Expert at marketing to the Financial Services vertical. Over 35 years of general management experience has resulted in my ability to quickly comprehend the entirety of businesses and market opportunities. I understand the functional disciplines of any technology business in depth and specifically engineering, marketing, sales, and finance. While not a financial analyst, I have a solid grasp of basic enterprise valuation models and securities transactions. Very capable in quantitative analysis and modeling whether it is radio propagation analysis or product costing. I am currently consulting for senior level executives on enterprise issues and researching technology based issues for investors and expert witness projects. Technologies include: Wireless and Radio Design, Modulation and Demodulation Techniques, Spectrum sharing and reuse TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDMA, Radio Propagation and Spectrum Analysis, Satellite Systems especially Communications, Cellular Systems and Architecture, IP and SONET(SDH) networking, Digital Systems Architecture, Telecommunications and Data Communications generally Marketing and Sales include: Sales Compensation Design, Market Segmentation, Enterprise Marketing, Total Cost of Ownership analysis, Strategy, and Pricing. Operations expertise includes: Product Cost systems, Overhead analysis, Global Supply Chain Management, and Statistical Quality measurement, QoS Specialties: Sales Compensation Design, Marketing Segmentation, Enterprise Marketing, Strategy, Pricing, Total Cost of Ownership Analysis, Wireless, Optics, Digital Communications, WAN and LAN, Business Process Methodology, General Management, Enterprise Executive, Marketing, Business modeling, Expert Witness, Expert Testimony

Experience

  • Founder, CEO, Management Consultant, Information Technology, CEO Mentor, Enterprise Sales at Oak Grove Enterprises
    Feb 1980 - Present · 46 yrs 5 mos

    Personal Venture Incubator started Silicon Wireless among others. Provides CEO, Interim CEO consulting, Executive Enterprise consulting, and Expert Witness

  • Chairman, Chief Technical Officer at GigEPath, Inc
    Mar 2002 - Aug 2005 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Worked with Private Equity to mine opportunities for asset transformation of large distressed telecom assets. Developed a strategy to transform distressed asset rich telecommunications properties. Secured $200 million private equity commitment from GCTR, obtained exclusive technology rights and explored several very large acquisitions.

  • CEO, Chief Executive - Entrepreneur at Autonomic Networks, Inc
    Dec 2001 - Jan 2002 · 2 mos

    Provided seed funding to commercialize non-linear dynamical analysis for Enterprise Network Security. Obtained Beta customers and completed proof of concept software.

  • CEO, Chief Marketing Officer - Entrepreneur at Silicon Wireless, Inc,
    Dec 1994 - Mar 1999 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Conceived, developed, patented and successfully field tested breakthrough DSP based mobile wireless GSM system that reduced the required cell density by 70%.

  • CEO, Chief Executive Officer - Entrepreneur at Nomadic Systems, Inc.
    Jan 1991 - Jan 1994 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Conceived, developed, tested and released a wireline/wireless software synchronization system.