Board of Directors

Peter Giacalone
Peter Giacalone has over 25 years of operating experience in media and communications, most recently as the President and CEO of 180 Connect, Inc., a publicly-traded outsourced infrastructure services provider that was acquired by UniTek and DIRECTV in 2008. Mr. Giacalone brings significant experience in finance, business development, acquisitions and integration to UniTek. He served as Executive Vice President, Customer Satisfaction for DIRECTV, Inc. For an eight year period prior to that, he served as Vice President, Finance for The News Corporation Limited, an international media and entertainment company. Mr. Giacalone has his MBA and BA from Adelphi University.

C. Scott Hisey
Scott Hisey was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of UniTek USA, and is now the Chief Executive Officer of UniTek Global Services, Inc.  Since the company’s inception in 2004, Mr. Hisey has led the company through two private equity transactions, multiple acquisitions, and has expanded the company to include a workforce of over 5,500 people across four diverse industries.  UniTek Global Services is recognized as the performance leader of the permanently outsourced technical services industry.

Prior to founding UniTek, Mr. Hisey spent over 15 years in positions of increasing responsibility in both the cable television and satellite communications industries.  Starting as a field technician, he progressively worked his way into senior management positions with larger companies.  His roles included Chief Operating Officer in a private equity turnaround and President of a multi-service construction company.

Mr. Hisey began his career in the United States Navy. He served as a Second Class Radioman aboard the USS Forrestal, and received an honorable discharge as a Disabled Veteran.

Mr. Hisey is a Board Member of UniTek Global Services, Inc.  He also serves on the Board of the Satellite Broadcasting Communications Association (SBCA).

Rich Berliner
Rich Berliner was the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Berliner Communications, Inc. from 1995 to 2010.  His professional career in the telecommunications industry spans over 25 years and includes a number of leadership positions.  As founder of Berliner in 1995, he built the company from the ground up, using his corporate vision and leadership to create a powerful services organization that focused on achieving the highest possible degree of customer satisfaction.  Under his leadership, BCI has evolved into a nationwide provider of integrated wireless and wired services and turnkey business solutions to telecommunication firms, enterprise clients, equipment manufacturers and government users. The company has been a major factor in the build out of the top tier wireless carrier’s networks over its history and Mr. Berliner is proud of the role BCI has played in the rollout of new communications technologies over the years. 

Prior to founding the company, Mr. Berliner held the position of Executive Vice President of Communications Development Systems from 1992 to 1994. In this capacity he was directly responsible for managing sales, marketing and customer activities for construction services to cellular carriers. Prior to his tenure with Communications Development Systems, Mr. Berliner held multiple senior executive positions including Vice President of Sales with AAT, a communications oriented property management firm, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Drive Phone, a major distributor of cellular phones and cellular service in the New York Metropolitan area.

Mr. Berliner is a Fellow in the Radio Club of America and is a graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Art degree in business administration.

Peter Brodsky
Peter Brodsky has over 16 years of investment experience and joined HM Capital Partners in 1995.  Mr. Brodsky’s primary responsibility is deal sourcing, execution and monitoring of the HM Capital Partners' media investments.  Mr. Brodsky serves also serves as a director of LIN Television (NYSE: TVL), Choice Cable TV, Canpages, and PDC Pages.  Prior to joining HM Capital Partners, Mr. Brodsky worked in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse First Boston.  Mr. Brodsky received his BA from Yale University.

Joe Colonnetta
Joe Colonnetta has over 21 years of investment experience and joined the HM Capital Partners in 1998.  Mr. Colonnetta's primarily responsibility is deal sourcing, execution and monitoring of the HM Capital Partners' energy investments.

Mr. Colonnetta serves as a director of BlackBrush Oil & Gas, TexStar Midstream Services, UniTek USA and TriDimension Energy. In November 2008, Mr. Colonnetta was appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to serve as a trustee of the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board.

Prior to joining HM Capital Partners, Mr. Colonnetta was a Partner with Metropoulos and Co.  Before Metropoulos, Mr. Colonnetta served in various executive officer and oversight roles in companies owned by Bass Investment Partners and Oppenheimer & Co.

Mr. Colonnetta received his BS from the University of Houston.

Dean MacDonald
Dean MacDonald current serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Newport Partners Income Fund, a Toronto based Private Equity Fund.  Mr. MacDonald has a long and successful career as an operating executive and entrepreneur. His operating experience includes serving as the chief operating officer of Rogers Cable and as the chief executive officer of Persona Communications, a TSX-listed cable and internet services company. Mr. MacDonald worked with a syndicate of investment partners to turn around Persona’s operations and subsequently sold the business at a significant premium to its purchase price in 2007. Mr. MacDonald has also served as chairman of the Newfoundland and Labrador Energy Corporation, which manages the province’s oil and gas assets.  He has management and investment experience in a number of industries, including advertising, marketing and communications. In 2007, Mr. MacDonald was selected as CEO of the Year by Birch Hill Capital Partners.

Richard Siber
Richard Siber has spent the last 25 years exclusively in the wireless industry.  Currently, Richard is the Founder, President and CEO of SiberConsulting LLC.  SiberConsulting provides strategic, technical and marketing services to members within the wireless ecosystem.  Richard  retired  as a partner in the Communications, Electronics,, High Tech and Media and Entertainment practice at Accenture.  While there, he founded the global wireless consulting practice and helped grow it to thousands of employees and hundreds of millions in revenue.  While at Accenture, Richard was also deeply involved in a number of Government and Homeland Security initiatives utilizing a variety of wireless technologies.

His expertise cuts across all wireless industry licensed and unlicensed technologies including Cellular, PCS, LMR/SMR, Paging, Narrowband and Broadband Mobile Data, WiFi,/WiMax, LTE, and Satellite.  He has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as a “Guru In TheWireless Industry” (9/20/99) and by the Industry Standard/ The Grok as the“Guru of Gadgets” (11/00).  

Richard has a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University , a Masters of Business Administration from the Carroll School of Management from Boston College. He also holds a certificate of special studies from Harvard University Extension School.  Additionally, Richard was a senior lecturer within the marketing department at Boston College, having taught Professional Selling (a Marketing Elective for Seniors) there for nearly ten years

Richard serves or has served  on the Boards of Directors for Digit Wireless,  InCode (sold to Verisign), Integrated Mobile, JumpTap,, and SingleTouch Interactive (BB: SITO) as well as a number of Technology Advisory Boards and is involved with several charitable organizations.

Mark S. Dailey
Mark S. Dailey has served on the board of directors of BCI Communications, Inc. since February 2006.  Mr. Dailey is President of Interim Management International specializing in international growth-stage information technology companies. Previously  Mr. Dailey held senior executive management positions including Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing of Intralinks, Inc., a venture-funded secure document distribution company, Chief Operating Officer of LexiQuest, Inc., a technology-based company exploiting linguistics and natural language processing in developing software tools to manage, access and retrieve large Intranet document collections and Chief Operating Officer of Medcast Networks, a venture capital-backed start-up delivering comprehensive medical information to physicians. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Dailey held various senior level positions with Bloomberg Financial Markets, a global leader in the delivery of international real-time financial information where he spent 11 years in Asia opening operations in a dozen countries.

Michael F. O’Donnell
Mr. O’Donnell, CPA, is a financial expert with close to 40 years of experience in the audit and consulting industries. He has dealt extensively with multinational corporate boards and senior management teams on key strategic issues, external auditors and consultants. Most recently Mr. O’Donnell served as a Founding Managing Director of Protiviti, Inc., a global business consulting and internal audit firm specializing in risk, advisory and transaction services. He was jointly responsible for the development and implementation of the company’s overall strategic plan and, during his tenure, revenues grew from million to over 0 million annually. Previously, Mr. O’Donnell spent 33 years at Arthur Andersen LLP, occupying numerous senior level positions in risk consulting, audit services and the energy industry program. Mr. O’Donnell received a B.S. in Accounting from Central Michigan University, where he was also recognized as an Honorary Doctor of Commerce.

Michael Montelongo
Mr. Montelongo currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Sodexo, Inc., an billion quality of daily life solutions enterprise, where he is responsible for driving increased growth, brand awareness, cross-disciplinary synergies, and tighter enterprise alignment. Previously, Mr. Montelongo served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing. In 2001, Mr. Montelongo was appointed by former President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Board of Trustees for Aerospace Corporation and on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Advisory Council, and is a former board director for Denny’s Corporation and Datapath, Inc. Mr. Montelongo received an M.B.A. from the Harvard School of Business and a B.S. in Engineering from the United States Military Academy.

Robert F. Stott
Mr. Stott is a telecommunications industry veteran. In 2007 he retired as President of the Northeast Region of Verizon Wireless after serving at Verizon and its legacy companies for over 40 years. Mr. Stott began his career as an equipment installer with the New England Telephone Company and held a number of senior-level positions with NYNEX Mobile through the Company’s merger with Bell Atlantic in 1995. Following the merger, Mr. Stott was appointed the President of Bell Atlantic Mobile’s Philadelphia Tri-State region, where he remained until assuming the role in New England in 1998. Mr. Stott received an M.B.A. from Pace University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from UMass Lowell.