Brad Nicholas

Current

• Sr Director Software Plaforms Product Management at Alcatel-Lucent

Past

• Principal at BN Associates LLC
• Senior Director Product Strategy at Openwave
• Principal Product Manager at Openwave

• Product Manager - Communications Service Providers at onebox.com
• Director Customer Operations at MCI / Skytel
• Senior Consultant - Telecom at Deloitte Consulting

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Education

• University of Michigan
• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Brad Nicholas’s Summary

Highly experienced (14+years), professional telecommunications software product manager, business development executive and strategist that has built a successful communications software business from the ground up. Target customers are the large scale communications service providers worldwide. Deeply passionate technology visionary, business lead and team builder that thrives on success for himself and those that work with him.

Brad Nicholas’s Specialties:

Product Management & Business Development:

Software product management - product & technology strategy, portfolio management, pricing, product requirements, positioning, competitive analysis. contract negotiations, P&L, personnel development, recruiting.

Native, fluent Spanish speaker

Brad Nicholas’s Experience

• Sr Director Software Plaforms Product Management

  Alcatel-Lucent

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALU; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

• Principal

  BN Associates LLC

  (Telecommunications industry)

  July 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 2 months)

• Senior Director Product Strategy

  Openwave

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OPWV; Computer Software industry)

  June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

• Principal Product Manager

  Openwave

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OPWV; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years)

• Product Manager - Communications Service Providers

  onebox.com

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

• Director Customer Operations

  MCI / Skytel

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

• Senior Consultant - Telecom

  Deloitte Consulting

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

Brad Nicholas’s Education

• University of Michigan

  MBA , Marketing, Finance , 1992 — 1994

  Full time MBA
  Multidisciplinary Action Project Lead - 1 of 2 teams out of 20 with Outstanding evaluation

  Activities and Societies:

  Hispanic Business Students Association

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  BS , Electrical Engineering

Additional Information

Brad Nicholas’s Honors:

Key Contributor Award for outstanding support of sales teams, 2005