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Strategic Advisor and Deal Maker - Bluestein has more than 25 years of successful and high-level experience
completing smart deals for clients. He has
been called upon to negotiate deals
with leading companies, including Microsoft, Verizon, Intel, Nokia, Disney, American Express, RadioShack, Kaiser Permanente, British Telecom, Qualcomm and XO.
Bluestein knows the fine points of negotiation
and can help put together the deal that makes
a company successful. He has been involved in more than 100 mobile deals involving spectrum, applications and wireless services over his career.
Growth Strategy - Bluestein's experience with new businesses and ventures combined with his negotiation expertise provides clients with a significant strategic resource. For more than 20 years, he was a senior executive reporting to CEOs and Presidents in several well-known and fast-growing, innovative companies. With this real world experience, he can put himself in your shoes, and understand your needs and the environment in which you operate. He has sat at the table and participated when important company decisions, strategies and deals were being made. Do you need to think through your strategy, define your product, identify likely prospects or partners, or lay out a go-to-market strategy? Over the years, he has helped bring to market cellular and paging services, the first MVNO (more
than 12 years ago), an exciting mobile multimedia company, as well as shared service providers, an enterprise software company, wholesale broadband companies, Internet service providers, a rural broadband company, and countless others.
International Development
- Bluestein has managed complex global alliances
for leading telecoms companies, and negotiated
and managed successful joint ventures in Europe.
Asia and Canada. He has also helped UK and European companies develop strategies to enter the lucrative US market. He understands the nuances of language,
culture and international deal-making. The process
starts by talking with leading prospects, picking
the right partner with whom you share a common
vision, building trust, a relationship
and then a business construct that makes sense, and negotiating
terms that work for both sides. His extensive experience produces results for you.
Vendor Selection and
Negotiations - Bluestein understands both
sides of a service agreement. A former attorney
and a skilled negotiator who has represented service providers
and customers, Bluestein brings substantial experience
into every situation. He has negotiated deals
in wireless (Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Sprint Nextel and others), fixed
(Verizon, SBC, PacBell, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic,
GTE, independent telephone companies) and
cable services. In fact, a telecom industry veteran said Bluestein has negotiated more wireless deals in his career than anyone in the US. He has obtained new services for
clients and companies, including the industry's
first number portability and collocation, negotiated
bulk service agreements, and created partnerships
with incumbent service providers not accustomed
to partnering. His experience is not limited
to telecoms. He has worked extensively and produced results for clients in the
energy, retail, financial services and healthcare
fields.
Business Plans and Presentations - Because Bluestein has written and reviewed scores of business plans for early-stage and established
companies, ventures and alliances, and advised
leading VCs, he knows how potential investors look at your company, and adds his strategic
instincts and vision that can help you think through and
present your concept and strategy in a clear and
convincing way.
Board and Advisory Services
- Bluestein has sat on the Boards of Directors
of US AirWaves, VersaPoint and NorthPoint-Canada,
among other for-profit companies. He is currently a strategic advisor to several mobile and wireless companies. He is also a
member of the Boards of Directors of Friends of
the Earth and Bluewater Network, and an advisor
to The Baum Foundation.
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