John Shelnutt

Who is John Shelnutt?

John Shelnutt is Tropos Networks' Vice President

of Worldwide Sales, responsible for sales of Tropos MetroMesh products

to carriers, ISPs and municipalities around the world. Mr. Shelnutt

brings 22 years of carrier sales leadership to Tropos, most recently

serving for eight years as Group Vice President/Sales for Alcatel U.S.

At Alcatel, he sold the full range of the company's mobility products

to U.S. mobile operators such as Cingular, Verizon, Sprint/Nextel and

T-Mobile. Mr. Shelnutt also held the positions of Senior Director of

Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel NAFTA and Director of

Switching Sales for Alcatel. He secured DSL equipment contracts with

the Joint Procurement Consortium (JPC) comprised of Ameritech,

BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, and PacBell valued at more than $5

billion for Alcatel. He was key to establishing DSL in the market and

served on the Board of the DSL Forum, an industry consortium for the

definition and advancement of DSL. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shelnutt

sold for Northern Telecom, ITT, MCI and Alta Telecom (a subsidiary of

Telus).

Mr. Shelnutt holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.