Our Management Team

Dee Alipanah

Mr. Alipanah is the founder, chief executive officer and president of Stream Wireless. Mr. Alipanah has over 29 years of operations and management experience in the telecom industry. Mr. Alipanah most recently was at Wireless Facilities, Inc. where he was the Vice President responsible for global engineering business operations. His prior responsibilities at WFI also included, Managing Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations; and Vice President of Fixed Network Engineering services. Prior to joining WFI, Mr. Alipanah was the Vice President of Engineering at Entel, a Consulting Engineering and Deployment service organization, where he was responsible for several major national projects building the nations early PCS wireless network services for the major carriers. Mr. Alipanah has also worked in Senior Consulting position and management role at MITRE Corporations and Dominion Resources Inc.

Mr. Alipanah has received his BS in electrical engineering from Virginia military institute (VMI) and has worked on his Master in System Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI).

 

Efrain Cortez

Mr. Cortez is the Vice President of Sales and Business Development. He has 21 years of telecom experience that includes various engineering roles for wireless and wire line operators, start-up operations and technical consulting. Previous to Stream Wireless he worked at LCC International as the VP of Sales. Mr. Cortez has also worked at WFI, where he served as Director of Fixed Network Engineering and Vice President of Sales and Business Development. Prior to WFI he was involved with start-up wireless network engineering projects in Mexico with Pegaso followed by South Africa with Cell C. He also held various engineering management assignments at Ameritech in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Cortez received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and MS in Telecommunications from DePaul University.

 

Craig Robinson

Mr. Robinson is the VP of engineering and Operations. Mr. Robinson has 19 years of telecom experience, with a background in strategic planning, network design, and network deployment. His career includes stints at carriers and consulting firms where his focus centered on feasibility analysis, technology consulting, and metro/last mile network design and deployment. He most recently served as Director of Fixed Network Engineering at WFI where he was responsible for fixed network engineering and the spectrum relocation activities. He also served as Director of Fixed Network Engineering at LCC where his responsibilities included core network engineering, transport/transmission engineering, network optimization, switching and subsystem planning, and transport facility implementation for microwave, leased line, and fiber optic systems. Prior to joining LCC, Craig served as Manager of Systems Engineering at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for strategic planning for aspects of Cisco’s softswitch development and implementation. Craig also served as the Manager of Transport Engineering for Teligent, where he was responsible for the planning and design for all transport facilities and circuits, including trunking with ILECs and IXCs and backhaul between Teligent facilities. Prior to joining Teligent, Craig was a consultant at Booz, Allen, Hamilton where he supported their telecommunications practice.

Mr. Robinson has a BS in Electrical Engineering from NC State University.