Executive Team

Our executive team has extensive experience in the technology industry with a successful track record, completing diverse projects nationwide in over 35 states.

Scott Rediger, Chief Executive Officer, has been the CEO since AM3's inception in January of 2007. AM3 is a rapidly growing triple-play provider of High Speed Internet, DIRECTV television and Voice Services to multi-tenant residential properties in the Chicago, Minneapolis/St Paul and South Florida markets. Under Scott's leadership, AM3 has grown to over 500 buildings and over 50,000 subscribers.

Scott has extensive experience helping build successful companies that deliver exceptional products. Most recently the Chief Operating Officer of Oak Brook Terrace, Ill.-based CIMCO Communications, Inc., Scott co-founded and developed Ovation Communications - a competitive local exchange carrier business offering facility-based local, long distance, and data services to medium and large sized businesses in the metropolitan areas of Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee and Detroit. After much growth and success in just two years, Ovation Communications was sold to McLeod USA in 1999 for $402 million. After the sale, Scott served as a Senior Vice President of Products and Development for McLeod USA, developing the company's still-strong presence in the Midwest.

Prior to his success with Ovation, Scott worked with MFS Communications, one of the pioneers of the telecommunications revolution, where he held various managerial positions, worked and lived in London assisting with the companies' U.K. launch, and helped develop MFS' entry strategy into Canada. Scott has been actively involved in fund raising activities which has produced $100m debt financing and $100m of equity. Scott also served as an investor and board member of Advocate Networks, an Atlanta-based communication services firm, and held key executive positions as President and Chief Operating Officer of Dantis, a Chicago-based web hosting and managed services firm.

Dean Matt, CFO, previously served as Chief Operating Officer of AFN, LLC, in which all functions reported to him. Other prior professional assignments include President of his privately held consulting firm; ConAgra, a leading branded food company, where he served as Director of Business Development and was responsible for strategy and mergers and acquisitions for a $13 billion business unit; Wizdom Systems and Wizdom Controls where Mr. Matt was Chief Financial Officer (concurrently) for these privately held software companies. In this role he executed an exit strategy for the owners leading to the sale of the company to a Fortune 100 company.

Prior to the Wizdom companies, Mr. Matt served as VP-Controller and was the third executive on board United Waste Systems, a start-up solid waste consolidation play where he was responsible for developing the accounting and IT infrastructure prior to and after its December 1992 IPO. From 1982 to 1989 Mr. Matt served in various capacities at Waste Management including Division Controller and Region Chief Information Officer. Mr. Matt received his Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he received his MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Mr. Matt is also a Certified Public Accountant and registered with the State of Illinois.

Tracy O. Kerr, CFA, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, is responsible for strategic growth initiatives including acquisitions, joint ventures, and minority investments. She has a combined 18 years of experience in merger and acquisition advisory services and venture capital investing.

Most recently she was a Managing Director at Meritage Funds, a venture capital firm with over $600 million under management. She was recruited in the firm’s development stage to lead all aspects of due diligence on all portfolio company investments. At Meritage, she served on the Investment Committee, represented Meritage at the board level for a number of portfolio companies, and managed a number of limited partner relationships. Prior to Meritage, she was a partner of The Wallach Company, a Denver-based boutique investment bank specializing in merger and acquisitions and private placements of debt and equity. A former licensed Professional Engineer, she worked for five years as a civil engineer after earning her BE from Vanderbilt University. She has an MBA in Finance from the University of Denver and is a CFA charterholder.

Jim Johnson, Senior Vice President of Sales, is responsible for Direct Sales, Channel Sales and strategic alliances at Access Media 3. Jim brings 25 years experience developing and leading high-performance sales teams and effective go-to-market strategies in the telecom industry.

Prior to joining Access Media 3, Jim has served as Vice President and General Manager at AT&T Wireless in Chicago and the Great Lakes where he was responsible for delivering all measures including P&L. He developed the AT&T Wireless Central Region "Go to Market" distribution strategy, building and launching the Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland markets. He grew the Chicago market from start-up to $650M in revenue by 2005. He also led the integration of the Indianapolis market acquired from Cingular. Jim spent 10 years with Ameritech Cellular in a variety of increasingly senior sales and management positions, serving as Regional General Manager for both Detroit and Chicago markets.

Additionally, Jim's entrepreneurial interests have led him to leadership roles in three privately owned companies, driving market penetration through strategic alliances and partnerships and developing high-performance teams. He served as Vice President of Sales and Customer Care at Revol Wireless, a carrier in the pre-paid, flat-rate wireless market operating in Ohio and Indiana. Previously he served as Vice-President of Worldwide Sales at Spotwave Wireless, the leading indoor wireless repeater firm, signing a key "rainmaker" alliance with Verizon Wireless's CTO. And Jim served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at CCG Communications, a pioneering "triple-play firm – wireless voice, commercial dial tone and Internet services, serving the commercial markets in Chicago.

George Spengler, Senior Vice President of Operations, will head the company’s wide-ranging customer service and operational agenda, including the company’s call center, project management, and field operations.

George comes to AM3 with extensive experience in telecom industry management. Most recently, he served as Vice President of OSP Network Operations, Power and Environmental Engineering at PAETEC, where he held executive oversight of engineering construction, maintenance, and operation of over 380 telecom switch sites, POP sites and data centers. Prior to the acquisition of McLeodUSA by PAETEC, he was McLeod’s Vice President for Facilities, OSP Construction and Operations. He was recognized in 2009 as an “Industry Thought Leader” by OSP Magazine, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Technology/Construction Management from Eastern Illinois University.

Vito Caragiulo, Senior Vice President of Technology and Product Development, is responsible for the development and evaluation of all AM3 technologies and network infrastructure, including standardization designs, processes and procedures.

Prior to joining AM3, Vito has held an array of diverse Engineering and Operations leadership roles. Among them, Vito served as VP of Corporate Engineering and Technology for Cablevision Systems, where he managed a large team of ideation and engineering professionals at the dawn of the broadband revolution. Additionally, he served as VP of Engineering and Operations for Cablevision Lightpath, where he directed the day-to-day engineering and operations of Cablevision’s enterprise-centric and fiber-rich competitive local exchange carrier. As VP of Outside Plant, Construction, Rebuild & Design, Vito oversaw Cablevision’s entire CATV physical infrastructure and critical multi-year bandwidth expansion projects to support enhanced services. Most recently, as VP RF and Data Networks, Network Operations & Wi-Fi, he was responsible for the entire Cablevision commercial IP and transport infrastructure, tiers 2 & 3 technical support and designed and managed the largest Wi-Fi deployment in North America. Prior to Cablevision, Vito served as Director of Engineering for Time Warner Cable’s flagship NYC system for several years.

Vito holds an MSEE from Polytechnic University of New York.

Eric Welles, Senior Vice President Business Development, is currently head of product management, technical evaluations, and marketing. In this role, Eric is critical to rolling out Access Media 3's product offering, and development of new markets and products.

Eric has been with Access Media 3, Inc. (AM3) since October of 2007, when AM3 acquired the satellite television assets of Tunnel Vision Technology. Under Eric's prior role as Vice President of Sales, AM3 has grown to over 450 buildings and over 44,000 served RGUs. Prior to his time with Tunnel Vision Technology, Eric has held management positions at several CPG companies, including management with Procter and Gamble, category management with Del Monte and national account management with The Guinness Bass Import Company-where he managed the national account team's launch of Smirnoff Ice-which became the most widely distributed product in the company's history. During his twenty year career in packaged goods, Eric has successfully sold every food, drug or mass merchant in the US. Eric has worked with DirecTV for eight years, and he was the sales and operational leader, while at Tunnel Vision Technology. During his tenure there, Tunnel Vision Technology grew its revenues over 300% in two years, and he also helped to propel Tunnel Vision to become one of Lutron's top three shade distributors, nationwide.

Christine C. Kidder, SPHR, Senior Director of Human Resources & Employee Relations, is responsible for all human resources matters including recruitment, employment, employee relations, benefits, compensation, and overall strategic management of the Human Resource function.

Christine started her career in financial analysis after receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from DePaul University and passing the Illinois CPA exam. After working in financial analysis and forecasting for a number of years, Christine used this experience to become an accounting/finance recruiter for Fortune 500 companies in the Chicago area. Prior to working for Access Media 3, Ms. Kidder was a Human Resource Manager at A.M. Castle & Co. a +$1 billion international metals distributor headquartered in the Chicago area. In her role at Castle her responsibilities included recruitment, employee relations, labor relations, benefits, training and development, international employment, expatriate assignments, and succession planning. She is a Senior Human Resource Professional (SPHR) as designated through the Human Resource Certification Institute(SHRM).