Howard is an MBA graduate of Cleveland State University. He currently serves as an Executive Director of the International Engineering 
Consortium and is the past Director of the Litewave Institute. Howard is also a member of the American Mensa Society, the Society of 
Industrial Leaders, the Global Communications Society, the Gerson Lehrman Group Council and serves as the Supply Chain Director for t
he National RFID Institute. Howard has served as a Board member at Alcatel Networks, GTE Automatic Electric and Gandalf. 
Howard began his communications and information services career as a telephone craftsman and progressed through management positions 
in traffic engineering, equipment engineering, capital budgeting, accounting, data processing, information technology and carrier service 
operations. Howard shifted his career path toward information technology development and product marketing, at the onset of the Internet revolution. 
In this high tech path, Howard has held key executive, general manager and Vice President positions in product line management, 
new product marketing and high tech industrial sales with Alcatel, Gandalf Technologies, GTE Automatic Electric, NEC America, Terabridge Technologies and TRW.  
Howard’s digital product creation experience began with TRW, where he served as the Product Line Manager for the first digital toll switch 
and first microprocessor based digital billing data collection systems in the United States. His focus on evolving billion dollar new markets 
includes the delivery of the first digital Class 5 switch in the US, the first remote-switching host service platform, the first data service switch,
the first national operating support system, one of the first interactive voice response systems, the first four fiber bi-directional SONET rings, 
the first ATM video switching system, the first Signal Control Point (SCP) and Ancillary Processing platforms for Intelligent Networks 
and the first distributed Supply Chain Management (SCM) application for financial services and ERP operations. 
 
Over the last ten years, Howard has focused his marketing, infrastructure knowledge and operating experience to help build and expand 
small companies and turn-around troubled suppliers. These entrepreneurial efforts have include helping these firms raise over $250 million 
in capital, create over 1,000 new jobs and generate $100 million in new annual sales. These efforts have typically focused on the development of 
evolving market business applications and the development of organizations, the creation of distribution channels and deployment of business 
operating processes for new services and new technologies. His list of accomplishments include the first commercial High Definition Television (HDTV) 
broadcast service in the US, the First SS7 over IP data switched network service provider, the first ATM voice switched service and the first ‘smart shelf” 
and “end cap” content delivery service supplier in the US, that is revitalizing the retail shopping experience in the market today. 
 
Howard authored the "Principle of Traffic and Network Design” and recently released “Basics of IPTV” for publication by the International 
Engineering Consortium. Mr. Gunn has also had numerous articles published in business trade press and the Annual Review of Communications. 
His most recent article, “Peering into our Future” describing the P2P and digital portable consumer device networking revolution that is underway, 
today. 
 
Howard and his family live the Dallas Forth Worth area of Texas.