Mr. Lake is a Managing Director of Signal. He is currently a board member of ABB Holdco, Inc., Georgetown Telephone Company, Northwest Missouri Holdings, Inc., and Oceanic Digital Communications, Inc.,

Before joining Signal, from 1993-1996, Mr. Lake was a director of budget and finance, for two early-stage telecom companies: Telular Corporation, a wireless local loop equipment company, and Transworld Communications (USA), a satellite communications company. Prior to that, he spent six years with William M. Mercer structuring executive compensation and creating performance-based incentive plans.

Mr. Lake received a BS in Physics from Trinity College and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.