Chris Rogers

Our Director, Chris Rogers, has an over 30-year track record of building businesses in TMT—operating and investing in technology and telecom. Mr. Rogers is currently a Partner at Lumia Capital LLC. He is responsible for leading Lumia’s investment and value-add activities for companies with significant exposure to mobile platforms.

Chris was the co-founder of Nextel Communications which he grew to $13B in sales and 19k employees before being acquired by Sprint for $35 billion. Chris brings 30 years of mobile industry experience as a founder, advisor, and operator. Most recently, Chris served as a Senior Vice President at Sprint (Fortune 100, 36K employees), where he oversaw mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments and joint ventures. He also was responsible for management and oversight of wireless spectrum licenses and Sprint’s portfolio of emerging technology investments.

Throughout his time at Nextel and Sprint, Chris sat on the boards of numerous venture-backed companies across five countries. Additionally, Chris has served as a director on multiple public company boards and as well as several Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic organizations. He currently sits on the board of Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS), NII Holdings (NASDAQ:NIHD).

Mr. Rogers received his B.A. from Tufts University and his J.D. from the Catholic University of America.