J. Armand Musey CFA, Summit Ridge Group, LLC

Armand Musey President and Founder of Summit Ridge Group. He has over 15 years of equity research, investment banking, and consulting experience in the telecom, media, and satellite sectors. Armand has completed dozens of financial valuation, strategic analysis, business development, corporate governance, and business plan creation assignments in the communications industry and has experience working on numerous financing and M&A transactions. He lead Summit Ridge Group’s support for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust division’s review of the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger. Previously, Armand led the satellite industry research teams for Banc of America Securities, and later Solomon Smith Barney, where he also covered the wireless tower industry. He earned numerous honors as a research analyst, including being named to the Institutional Investor “All American” team three times (2000-2002) and the Wall Street Journal “All-Star” team. Armand regularly speaks at major industry conferences.

Armand regularly speaks at major industry conferences and has been frequently quoted in leading trade publications and by national publications as an expert in communications finance and corporate governance. He authored the highly regarded publication The Spectrum Handbook 2018, and his recent industry research has been published in leading law journals. His legal background allows him to understand the heavily regulated telecom sector. Armand’s legal background also allows him to quickly digest legal documents and identify industry issues likely to be most relevant to the legal team he supports during litigation support assignments.