
Special Advisors
Thomas E. Wheeler
Thomas E. Wheeler has served as a Special Advisor since October 2007. Mr. Wheeler has served as a Managing Director of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital fund, since 2005. He has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Shiloh Group, LLC, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services. From 1992 to October 2003, Mr. Wheeler served as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA). From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Wheeler served as Chief Executive Officer of multiple new technology companies. From 1976 to 1984, Mr. Wheeler was associated with the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), where he was president from 1979 to 1984. Mr. Wheeler served 12 years as a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and is Chairman of the Kennedy Center affiliate VSA Arts, and Chairman and President of the Foundation for the National Archives. Mr. Wheeler serves on the Board of Directors of Core portfolio companies Roundbox, UpdateLogic, Jacked, and Twisted Pair Solutions as well as Earthlink, Inc. (NASDAQ:ELNK) and HELIO, Inc., a joint venture formed by EarthLink and SK Telecom Co., Ltd.. Mr. Wheeler wrote Take Command: Leadership Lessons of the Civil War (Doubleday, 2000) and Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006). Mr. Wheeler received a B.S. from Ohio State University.
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