There has always been McCown Tech since the early 19902.. It was the owner of intellectual property (Patents, designs, trademarks etc) as well as the owner of all critical production machinery. My wife and I own this 100%
Beehive Telephone Company was started in 1963 by Art Brothers. He died a couple of weeks ago. I worked for Beehive Telephone off and on for about 30 years. Quit 4 times fired twice. I actually came from Oregon Telephone. Art hired me to get him out of trouble with the REA (now called RUS) in 1986 as he had used materials that were not allowed under the loan program and they were denying him loan draw downs. I was a central office installer and a REA contract inspector in Oregon so I knew the proper way to do things. Art did nothing properly. So I helped Art learn how to properly build a telephone company and get out of trouble with the feds. (It was a mess, crappy PBX systems in semi trailers in the desert as central offices). I had a hard time working for him and his wife de jour for any length of time and went to Quincy Illinois, started MTC and manufactured airborne PBX systems for head of state, corporate and military aircraft. Art kept trying to get me to come back to Beehive. I did as a consultant and contractor and eventually stayed in 1999. In 2003 I used the insurance settlement from a personal tragedy and started the WISP Wireless Beehive with Art Brothers. 50/50 I started WB Manufacturing a couple of years later having developed some antennas used by Wireless Beehive. In 2013, we sold to Digis. Art told his wife (7th wife, about 40 years his junior, second Russian wife (6th if you don’t count common law)) that we got $90M and I would not give him any. He was a character. Prevaricator and confabulator without peer. She started to get paranoid I think (a common trait amongst Russians). During Wispapalloza the fall of 2013, while I was in Vegas, Art, his wife and her attorney rolled in and cleaned out a bunch of bank accounts. He told all the employees he was dying of a brain tumor and was going to travel the world. They engineered a takeover firing of myself, CFO, COO and several others. Most of the employees I hired and gave equity to all sided with the coup. (A regular paycheck is more powerful that integrity and loyalty I guess. ) Brain tumor never reappeared... And then they started suing almost everyone that got fired. This has been going on for a couple of years. So, no I was not about to continue to operate WB Manufacturing to the benefit of a guy the was suing me. WBM is also subject to the lawsuit as is my wife, the wife of the CFO, and a handful of other going concerns they shut down the the frenzy of attempting to rain fire from the sky. (Then even bought the mortgage of my factory building from Zions bank, told me they were now my banker, declared me a risk and said I was in default due to extraordinary risk and were going to foreclose. I was never late on a payment, they even returned payments they had accepted and refused to take any more payments... I have a TRO against them and a pending suit against them on that too) MTC was in operation and was a going concern and owned all the IP and rights to everything. So MTC just started selling what it already owned. WB Manufacturing is in mothballs and has been for a long time pending litigation and liquidation. Art has done this before. 21 years ago this month, he did almost the exact same thing to his kids. Threw them out, sued them, and really never talked to them since. He was a ward of the state growing up. Lived in 13 different foster families. Learned to burn every bridge, take every advantage and make no permanent friends. He has burned everyone that has spent more than a handful of years with him and every business partner he ever had that had skin in the game. I knew what he was like when I came back to Beehive in 1999. That is the reason MTC solely owns the IP, critical production equipment and all rights. It is also the reason I owned (I thought) my own building... The 30 somethings (sycophants?) that he assigned to take the jobs that were vacated are currently living high on being captains of business and industry and trying to continue to show the old guys how difficult they can make things for us. Tough guys, real hard ball players... Hubris Writ Large. As long as they keep the Russian happy, they will probably have jobs... So, did that answer the question? From: Rory Conaway Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 9:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and beehive? Are they 2 separate companies now? Rory Conaway • Triad Wireless • CEO 4226 S. 37th Street • Phoenix • AZ 85040 602-426-0542 [email protected] www.triadwireless.net “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.”
