The CellBoat Company

The Cellboat Company provides a patented stealth wireless communications facility that turns a sailboat into a cell tower.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Telecommunications
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded March 2012
  • Employees 6
  • Website cellboats.com

Company Summary

Inspired by the extreme difficulties of siting a cell tower in pristine coastal areas such as the Hampton's or Martha's Vineyard, The Cellboat Company developed a solution that will inspire wireless carriers, please wireless customers, and placate local municipalities. The community gets the wireless service it craves without the annoyance of a ruined landscape. The wireless carriers get the coverage they need.

Team

  • Drew Overton
    CEO/President

    Andrew Overton has been working in the area of wireless infrastructure development since graduating from law school in 2000. He has worked throughout the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States in the area of Site Acquisition and Management, overseeing the acquisition and deployment of up to 700 sites at a time.

  • Rich Grant
    CFO

    Rich Grant was the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Genesis, Chief Financial Officer of Global Crossing Genesis Solutions Group of Global Crossing and Level 3, member of the Senior Leadership Team of Global Crossing. He was responsible for both the authoring and execution of the financial turn-around plan of Genesis Networks previous to the sale to Global Crossing and the integration of Genesis into Global Crossing and Level 3.

  • Michael McEntee
    Vice President/Sales

    Michael McEntee spent 13 years at InterDigital Communications LLC. InterDigital holds close to 20,000 U.S. and foreign issued patents and patent applications. As Senior Director of Corporate Development he was responsible for product management of cellular wireless technologies. He has an Executive MBA from Hofstra University, a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University.

Advisors

  • Fuoco Group
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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