Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Frank Mong is the chief operating officer at Helium, the first, or the the world's first peer-to-peer wireless network

owned and operated by consumers. At helium, Frank is leading the global go-to-market organization,

introducing the helium hotspot nationwide and enabling anyone to build the

People's Network. Prior to joining helium, Frank was a VP GM at HP Enterprise

Security Products where he led go-to to market activities that included product

marketing service and research marketing channel marketing technical

alliances in overall customer success. Before HP Frank was the head of business development and alliances at Silver Spring Networks.

While there, Frank successfully led a team to establish a vibrant ecosystem for the smart grid and smart home market and source the mezzanine Round of Financing prior to the IPO.

So Frank, welcome to the Second Grand Podcast.

Oh, thanks, Cameron.

It's great to be here.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this. First off, I just want you to kind of tell us a little bit more about what the kind of people-owned network is or this peer-to-peer network is,

so we understand it. I've got a rough idea, but maybe just give us some glimpse into what the core business is first.

Yeah so helium and what helium's trying to do is you know I think on the crossroads of

science fiction and crazy the company is trying to build a

global ubiquitous wireless network that serves Internet of Things or IoT.

And what's IOT?

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