Alphabet’s Loon, which focuses on bringing balloon-based connectivity to remote areas, is adding former telecom executives from some of the largest mobile operators to a new advisory board focused on commercialization and network operator partnerships.
The three founding members of Loon’s new advisory board include telecom industry veteran Craig McCaw, formerly of McCaw Communications, Nextel and Clearwire, and currently chairman and CEO of private investment firm Eagle River; Marni Walden, who until last year was an executive vice president and president of global media and new business at Verizon; and Ian Small, currently CEO of Evernote and a member of the board of directors of Lumentum, a photonics and laser products company that used to be part of JDSU.
