Kevin L. Spence also currently serves as a consultant to Antarctica Capital Management, LLC, a global investment firm headquartered in New York, with operations in the United States, United Kingdom and India.
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. – Airborne Wireless Network announced that on December 28, 2017, the Board of Directors named Kevin L. Spence as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective January 3, 2018.
Mr. Spence has over 35 years of experience in corporate management and financial fields. He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Armor Scientific Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of Single and Multi-Factor Authentication software. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Remington Designs, LLC (DBA iCoffee by Remington), a designer and developer and distributor of coffee brewers utilizing proprietary patented technology. Mr. Spence oversaw all financial and strategic planning and was instrumental in assisting in Remington "obtaining retail shelf space" in over 40 major U.S. retailing operations and increasing revenue from zero to a cumulative, aggregate $25 million in its first three years of operations.
Mr. Spence also currently serves as a consultant to Antarctica Capital Management, LLC, a global investment firm headquartered in New York, with operations in the United States, United Kingdom and India. Antarctica is dedicated to investments in global infrastructure, real estate and financial services. Having been consulting to Antarctica for four years, he was instrumental in Antarctica's creation of Citizens Parking, one of the largest parking companies nationwide with over 1,200 locations. Mr. Spence has provided Antarctica with strategic planning, acquisition due diligence, accounting and cash management functions.
Mr. Spence was an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United States Filter Corporation, a publicly traded New York Stock Exchange leading global provider of industrial and commercial water and wastewater treatment systems and services. During his tenure, USFilter's annual revenues increased from approximately $17 million to nearly $4.2 billion, while the number of employees grew from 200 to over 30,000 worldwide. Mr. Spence oversaw a series of over 250 acquisitions and conducted public offerings in the equity and debt markets, raising more than $500 million of equity and public debt totaling approximately $1.5 billion. USFilter was sold in 1998 to Vivendi SA in a transaction totaling $6.2 billion in cash and the assumption by the purchaser of $2 billion in debt.
Prior to his success at USFilter, Mr. Spence also served as an audit partner with the international accounting firm of KMPG and was responsible for all aspects of client services in accounting and auditing, and working in areas ranging from manufacturing, banking, real estate and franchising in Southern California.
Mr. Spence graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Southern California and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network where she is the Editor-in Chief. She is also responsible for the daily operation and the financial policy. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales.
She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
