Passion. Experience. Diligence.

With over 30 years in the radio and wireless industries, including work in standards (IEEE, TIA, CPRI, 3GPP) and regulatory work including as an invited panelist at FCC Workshops and other International engagements, SFC’s founder, Stephen Wilkus founded Spectrum Financial Partners, LLC to invest in several FCC Spectrum auctions. Since then, a number of other applicants have engaged Spectrum Financial Consultants, LLC to help in preparing for more recent auctions, presentations to potential investors, and round by round bidding using semi-automated bidding and optimization software that solves the knapsack problem using Integer Programming via Mathematica™.

Spectrum Financial Consulting has expanded into regulatory support, standards, interference analysis, and energy, wireless, security, and business trend analysis.

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Stephen Wilkus

I am a creative problem solver, using objective and careful approaches to getting clients to successful conclusions. Like the photograph at right, I am playful and think out of the box, like in the photograph here where I am pictured in a 7,921 digit prime number of my creation.

I bring the same objective, but clever, approach to solving problems of financial import in your service. My 27 years in Bell Labs, working with tier-1 wireless operators and internal product developments has lead to my work on SAW Filters used in the early trans-continental submarine fiber optic cables, then in cellular base stations design, and RFID products, I’ve architected and published on several product developments including hybrid satellite/terrestrial mobile communications networks.

I founded and am the Managing Partner of Spectrum Financial Partners, LLC, which has invested in radio spectrum licenses and have been the bidder in several spectrum auctions.

©2021 Stephen Wilkus with original photo by Kene Sperry of Eye in The Sky Photography. The photo was encoded in a 7921 digit prime number which when printed as 89 rows and 89 columns appears as the 10 level grayscale image show.

I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naïve. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible.

— Hans Rosling