Business View Magazine | July 2020

79 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2020 A HISTORY OF SUCCESS Goodman Networks was founded in 2000 by five Goodman brothers. Each brother was an experienced telecommunications professional with a passion for delivering a white glove experience with every job completed. From our inception to 2006, we focused on technician- based solutions serving both wireline and wireless carriers. 2006 Our team’s commitment to quality and customer service helped propel Goodman Networks to over $100M in revenue. 2007 We expanded our offerings to include wireless cell site construction services. 2011 Our quality, customer service and on-time performance helped Goodman Networks build revenue to over $700M. 2012 Our passion for innovation led Goodman Networks to expand services in anticipation of emerging small cell and IoT technologies through M&A activity. 2014 Goodman Networks’ revenue growth continued to expand, reaching $1.2B. 2016 Goodman Networks strategically decided to focus on our core field services (technician-based) capabilities to prepare the company for its next phase of growth in the support of last-mile, white-glove, technician based services for wireless and IoT technologies. 2017 – 2020 Today, Goodman Networks is organized around last-mile field services and Closed-Loop Logistics capabilities. Our services are delivered by more than 2000 technicians and an impressive electronics forward and reverse logistics operation. We serve three key industry segments: network operators, electronics retailers and electronics manufacturers. GOODMAN NETWORKS Goodman, our Chairman and CEO, started it in the second bedroom of his apartment. Of course, their wives all thought they were crazy at the time for leaving completely good jobs.” The company centered around serving a niche market, as DSL was really rolling out in the U.S. They believed that with technology changes, they could bring on a lot of tech graduate students and create a low cost model and a really good work force. The firm was successful at that, and has been serving telecommunication carriers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, ever since. By 2012, Goodman Networks was at $1.2 billion in revenue and 5,000 employees. According to Pickett, “We had a bump in 2016/17 and then we worked on reinventing the company. We’ve become very good at recruiting and training and developing technicians, so today we provide field services and technicians to the consumer electronics industry, as well. We work with quite a few appliance manufacturers, such as LG, where our technicians go into the