Allen Proithis

Allen Proithis is a renowned transformational business leader with a vast expertise in developing strategic partnerships and launching new products and services. He has been leading various advisory projects in mobile and emerging technologies with Private Equity, emerging, and large companies. Proithis is widely known for building and leading high-performance teams to achieve business opportunities to the fullest by providing the right application of strategy, partnerships, talent, and execution supplemented by his extensive experience across geographies (North America, Europe, Asia) and technologies (IoT/M2M, mobile, software, emerging technologies).

In his career, Proithis led a successful team at Sigfox, where he built an Internet of Things business for B2B partners and customers, providing wireless coverage to over 70 million US customers, becoming the top performing country in the world. He also spearheaded the creation of a $155M IoT joint venture (Convida Wireless) with Stephens Capital, InterDigital, and Sony, where he served as Chairman and raised the venture's IP portfolio valuation from $25M to $100M. Proithis raised $15M to launch an Internet of Things data spinout called wot.io from Interdigital with global recognition within a year of its launch.

Proithis's fluency in representing the company brand has seen him build rapport with media outlets like CNBC, WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, and industry analysts like Gartner, ABI Research, LHS, Machina Research, and Ovum. He boasts of vast skills in mergers and acquisitions, executive leadership, market entry, P&L management, business development, and commercialization. Proithis has a Bachelor of Arts -BA in Telecommunications, History from Penn State University.