Campbell B. Lanier III

Senior Director at Kinetic Ventures

Cam’s activities focus on communications, software, and financial services. He is a director of Highline, SchooX, ITC Capital Partners, Instant Financial and OPTii Solutions, among others. He is also the Chairman of ITC Holding Company, LLC. He was formerly a director of Point Broadband (acquired by GTCR), Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX), LogicBlox-Predictix (acquired by Infor), Tower Cloud (acquired by Uniti; NASDAQ: UNIT), LeaseTerm Solutions (acquired by RealPage; NASDAQ: RP), and HotSchedules (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners). Earlier in his career, he co-founded Interstate Communications (Telecom*USA), which grew to be the fourth largest long distance service provider when it was acquired by MCI in 1990. Cam was the founding investor and Chairman of Powertel (now T-Mobile), which was acquired by Deutsche Telecom in 2000. He was also the founding investor for Mindspring, which later merged with EarthLink, and the founding investor in Firethorn, a mobile payments company that was acquired in the fall of 2007 by Qualcomm. In addition, Cam was the founding investor of ITC^DeltaCom, Knology and InterCall.

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