Kathleen K. Hanafan
President, Chief Operating Officer and Director

Kathleen Hanafan, Chief Operating Officer, joined AirGATE in 2007 where she is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the corporation. Ms Hanafan has 20 years of executive experience driving revenues for both major corporations and highly successful niche-focused companies. Ms. Hanafan was founder, president and CEO of Onit Communications, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) IP Centrex Company. Ms Hanafan grew the company into one of the largest B2B VoIP enterprises nationally through a combination of organic growth and key mergers and acquisitions. Before founding Onit, she was Senior Vice President of worldwide sales and marketing for VCampus Corporation, where she significantly increased market share in the corporate, government and commercial segments.

Prior to VCampus Corporation, Ms. Hanafan served as Senior Vice President of core and enterprise services at Primedia Workplace Learning, a satellite based learning company managing nine of the company’s 11 operating and sales divisions and delivering 75 percent of the company's total revenues. As Executive Vice President for Internet service provider BroadbandNow, Ms. Hanafan played an integral role in creating the company’s business plan, raising over $100 million in pre-IPO capital and launched the company’s nationwide operations, sales and marketing team.

Ms. Hanafan's other prior positions included Vice President for Archstone Communities, Inc., a national REIT managing operations and other segments of the organization. She served as Director of Telecommunications, Inc. in which she was responsible for growth of new products, mergers and acquisitions and managing operations until the company merged with AT&T. Prior to Telecommunications, Inc., Ms. Hanafan has had other executive positions in which she was responsible for the business plan, raising capital, sales, marketing and operations of services and consumer products nationally and internationally.

Ms. Hanafan received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Old Dominion University and her Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Ole Miss. She currently sits on the board of Onit Communications Inc. and other boards in various industries. Ms. Hanafan is an advisory board member to an investment banking firm and a board member to a non-profit organization in preventive care for urban areas.