MARK RUPP
Mark has served as a Director of BCP since its inception.  Mark is the Chief Financial Officer of Boathouse Communications Partners, Inc., is a Director of Remi Communications, and is a member of the Management Committee of The Pew Consulting Group. Mark has over 20 years of managerial experience, including 18 in the telecommunications industry. Throughout his career, Mark has negotiated dozens of transactions with deal values exceeding $4 billion.  In 2000, Mark was a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Finance & Corporate Development of MainStream PCS, LLC, a wireless service company serving urban and sub-urban markets throughout the mid-West.  At MainStream, Mark was responsible for negotiating the acquisition of wireless properties from affiliates of Verizon Wireless for $1.4 billion.  He was also instrumental in the company’s efforts to raise over $900 million of private equity capital and $1.5 billion of debt facilities. 

Mark started his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers as a member of the auditing staff. In 1984, he left the public accounting industry to begin a 14-year career at Bell Atlantic Corporation (now Verizon Communications) where he held a number of finance and business development positions. In 1998 Mark was the primary driver behind the wireless industry’s first sale and lease-back of a significant communications tower portfolio, setting a business model that was used throughout the industry. Mark left his position as Vice President of Planning and Business Development for Verizon Wireless at the end of 1998 to join Triton Cellular Partners, L.P., a venture capital backed rural wireless company with revenues in excess of $170 million. There he was responsible for all business development and financial planning activity including overseeing the auction process and related negotiation of the sale of the company for $1.25 billion.  Mark has a B.S. in Accounting from King’s College and is a CPA.

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