Experience

AAVAA

• Canada
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada AAVAA solves the biggest problem in personal audio enhancement - giving people control of what sounds they want to hear. AAVAA fuses cutting-edge, non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface, Artificial Intelligence, and Acoustic Engineering technologies to allow users to focus their audio enhancement devices on the sounds they want to hear, simply by paying attention to them. AAVAA’s attention detection technology can also recognize and use intentional eye-blinks as commands to control… Show more AAVAA solves the biggest problem in personal audio enhancement - giving people control of what sounds they want to hear. AAVAA fuses cutting-edge, non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface, Artificial Intelligence, and Acoustic Engineering technologies to allow users to focus their audio enhancement devices on the sounds they want to hear, simply by paying attention to them. AAVAA’s attention detection technology can also recognize and use intentional eye-blinks as commands to control remote devices, thus enabling hands-free and voice-free human-device interactions. AAVAA's software platform can be implemented in virtually all current audio and visual enhancement form factors such as hearing aids, earbuds, headphones, noise-cancelers, AR/VR sets and more, and we have substantive discussions underway with several major OEM's to integrate our software into their devices. AAVAA is supported by a strong IP and patent portfolio and development funding from TandemLaunch, a world-leading deep-tech incubator. Show less


Hawkwood Group, LLC
• CEO and Founder

  • May 2019 - Present


The Johns Hopkins University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Fellow in Economics & Center for Financial Economics

  • Jan 2004 - Present

  Professor of Managerial Economics and Business Strategy course with preference for seniors majoring in economics, mathematical finance, and mathematical sciences.



Iota Communications, Inc.

• United States
• Data Infrastructure and Analytics
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Chairman and Co-Founder

  • May 2019 - Jul 2021

  Greater Philadelphia Area

• CEO and Co-Founder

  • Sep 2014 - May 2019

  Greater Philadelphia Area Iota Communications is the new commercial business name for M2M Spectrum Networks, LLC.



Preferred Communication Systems, Inc.

• Chairman & CEO

  • Mar 2013 - Jan 2016

  Phoenix, Arizona Area Preferred Communication Systems, Inc. acquired cellular spectrum licenses in the Continental US and Puerto Rico in the early 2000's. Brought in as CEO to re-form the company after its reorganization in 2013, Barclay Knapp successfully re-established the business and its FCC licenses, and successfully concluded a major asset sale and debt reductions which paved the way for further endeavors to optimize the value of its assets going forward.



ProCapital Group, LLC

• United States

• Chairman & CEO

  • Jan 2004 - Sep 2014

  Greater Philadelphia Area ProCapital Group, LLC is a strategic consulting firm specializing in developing promising tech-oriented services companies into "break-away" performance leaders of their sectors/industries. Barclay Knapp is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of ProCapital. He has spent the last 30 years pioneering, financing, and building industry leading companies from start-ups, including five publicly traded companies that revolutionized their respective sectors and became industry leaders in the cellular,… Show more ProCapital Group, LLC is a strategic consulting firm specializing in developing promising tech-oriented services companies into "break-away" performance leaders of their sectors/industries. Barclay Knapp is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of ProCapital. He has spent the last 30 years pioneering, financing, and building industry leading companies from start-ups, including five publicly traded companies that revolutionized their respective sectors and became industry leaders in the cellular, cable TV, telephone, wireless, and broadband Internet access industries. The five public companies Barclay Knapp and his core group of former senior managers (who are now his fellow partners in ProCapital) developed and led from the ground up created over $50 billion in peak equity or exit value and investment multiples over 100 times on combined basis. The five companies were all the "breakaway" performance leaders of their industries as well, reaching on a combined basis 15.7 million customers and $6.7 billion in annual recurring service revenues; and were all the "breakthrough" financing and m&a leaders of their sectors as well, On a combined basis the five companies launched 27 new subsidiary companies, executed 43 acquisitions with a combined value of $17 billion, and completed 63 public market or large commercial financings raising a combined total of $20 billion in operating capital. Show less



Clearband

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairmain & CEO

  • Aug 2006 - Sep 2013

  Greater Philadelphia Area Leading this ProCapital Investors portfolio company in the wireless broadband internet industry.



NTL, Incorporated

• CEO & President

  • Apr 1993 - Aug 2003

  Co-founded and led this UK Cable Television, Telephone and Internet company from its start-up, to its industry-first public offering, and through its multi-billon dollar growth to eventual industry leadership.



Cellular Communications Inc

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President & COO

  • May 1983 - May 1996

  New York, United States Mr. Knapp began his career in 1983 as a co-founder and CFO, then later President and COO, of startup Cellular Communications, Inc (CCI). CCI, operating under the Cellular One brand, became the first cellular company in the U.S. to go public in 1986. After over ten years of industry-pioneering operations, Mr. Knapp facilitated the sale of CCI/Cellular One and its two international affiliates, Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico, Inc., and Cellular Communications International, Inc. at… Show more Mr. Knapp began his career in 1983 as a co-founder and CFO, then later President and COO, of startup Cellular Communications, Inc (CCI). CCI, operating under the Cellular One brand, became the first cellular company in the U.S. to go public in 1986. After over ten years of industry-pioneering operations, Mr. Knapp facilitated the sale of CCI/Cellular One and its two international affiliates, Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico, Inc., and Cellular Communications International, Inc. at valuations totaling over $5.8 billion in 1995, 1997, and 1998, respectively. Show less