Mark
Callaghan
Mark
Callaghan joined McCaw Cellular Communications in 1987 as
Director of Acquisitions and Development. He was part of
the acquisition team that built the McCaw cellular network
nationwide through the acquisition of cellular licenses.
Mark
left McCaw in 1988 to co-found Capital Cellular and later
Columbia Cellular in Washington DC. C & C quickly established
themselves as the leading wireless brokerage firm in the
country handling over $1 Billion worth of transactions between
1988-90.
From
1991-93 Mark was a co-founder and initial Director of Business
Development for PhotoDisc in Seattle.
From
1994-95 Mark returned to McCaw to work for the International
Division. He led a team that applied for cellular licenses
in Colombia, Ecuador, Israel and India. He then managed
the construction and launch of the first nationwide cellular
network in Columbia.
Upon
the sale of McCaw to AT&T in 1995, Mark joined Eagle River,
Craig McCaw's holding company as VP of Acquisitions. This
involved working closely with several of the Eagle River
Portfolio companies such as Nextlink and Nextel.
Since
1998, Mark has been a Partner in Cedar Grove Investments
and serves on the boards of; PlayNetwork, Inc. and Invertix.
He received his BA from the University of Washington.