Jonathan Pelson

After an early career as a writer and marketer with Young & Rubicam, Jonathan Pelson joined Lucent Technologies during the telecom boom of the 1990s, helping create and market some of the company's breakthrough technology solution. He later served as the chief of convergence strategy for British Telecom, developing a global wireless plan for the company. During his time with these and other telecom companies, Pelson traveled to China and saw the country's fledgling telecommunications companies grow and, eventually, seize the world lead. With deep personal experience in the sector and rare access to the people who ran the world's largest telecom companies, he decided to investigate how the lead was lost to China and what we could do to take it back. Pelson has a degree in economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.