At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CEO’ operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Rami Musallam
Chief Executive Officer of CafeX Communications
Rami Musallam is the CEO at CafèX Communications.
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About CafeX Communications, Thrupoint: CafeX is a WebRTC company enabling business applications with real-time communication capabilities across mobile and desktop endpoints.

Josh Lefkowitz
CEO of Flashpoint
Josh Lefkowitz executes the company’s strategic vision to illuminate the Deep and Dark Web and deliver unparalleled insights to customers, empowering them with the industry standard in intelligence from these areas of the Internet. He has worked extensively with federal, state,and local authorities to track and analyze terrorist groups. Mr. Lefkowitz also served as a consultant to the FBI’s senior management team and worked for a top tier, global investment bank, where he gained experience with Fortune 500 companies and ultra high net worth individuals.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.

Marshall Aronow
Co-Founder & CEO of MetTel
Marshall Aronow is a co-founder of the company and has served as CEO since 1996. Under his leadership, the company has achieved profitability and consistent growth of over 15% by expanding services and footprint. Previously, he was a finance specialist and managing partner of JDK Partners, a Manhattan-based hedge fund that specialized in technology and telecommunications. Prior to that, he was a member of both the Chicago and New York Mercantile Exchanges.
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.

Laurence Zimmerman
Founder/CEO of Landover Wireless Corp.
Laurence Zimmerman has been successfully engaged in the global wireless telecommunications industry since 1991. He has over 25 years of experience building, strategically planning, and investing in growth companies in the telecom industry. Laurence is an experienced spectrum license holder who has acquired and developed national and regional footprints of 38 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 2.6 GHz and 1600 MHz/MMDS licenses and developed strategic relationships creating additional value in the spectrum assets. Laurence was the Founder, Principal, and Board Member of two Nasdaq-listed companies: Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (now Fiber Tower) and National Wireless Holdings Inc. Laurence was an early seed investor and one-time largest individual shareholder of Nasdaq-traded Winstar Communications (now StraightPath), the largest 38 GHz last-mile broadband solution in the US. Laurence founded Landtel, a European broadband wireless provider which won spectrum licenses in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and several Eastern European countries, and built high-speed internet access on 3.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz. Laurence was the co-founder and control shareholder of Bazillion, Inc., one of the first nationwide toll-quality VoIP service providers in the US addressing the residential market. Laurence re-entered the telecom market in 2007, pursuing opportunities driven by the accelerating demand for mobile bandwidth, emerging technologies, and spectrum scarcity. In April 2008, Laurence founded Landover Wireless to build a nationwide mobile broadband platform utilizing the 600 MHz spectrum band.
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About Landover Wireless Corp.: Landover Wireless is a mobile broadband operator building nationwide services for enterprise customers.

Olivier Pailhès
Co-Founder and CEO of Aircall
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About Aircall: Aircall is a cloud-based call center software that integrates with CRM, productivity, and helpdesk tools.
Ahmed Khattak
Founder & CEO of US Mobile
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About US Mobile: US Mobile builds a next-generation connectivity platform to connect the next billion wireless devices onto nationwide 4G and 5G networks.
Anthony Hayes
CEO of AIkido Pharma
Anthony C. Hayes is an attorney and former partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, an AMLaw 100 firm. Mr. Hayes has successfully monetized patents through a wide variety of monetization methods, including price arbitrage and litigation licensing brought against companies such as Cisco, Broadcom, Nokia, Ericsson, Tellabs, and Alcatel-Lucent. Mr. Hayes has received national recognition during his legal career, including: Special recognition by President George W. Bush, American Board of Trial Advocates Young Lawyer of the Year; and City of Columbia “20 Under 40.” Mr. Hayes earned a Juris Doctor from Tulane University School of Law in 1995 and his B.A. in Economics from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1990.
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About AIkido Pharma: AIkido Pharma develops drugs and supplements, and offers a commercialization platform for protected technologies.
Jay Jideliov
Founder & CEO of Callision
Jay Jideliov is the Founder & CEO of Callision.com
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About Callision: Callision is the world’s fist free business phone system.
Bankim Brahmbhatt
President & CEO of Bankai Group
Bankim Brahmbhatt is President and CEO at Bankai Group.
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About Bankai Group, Panamax Inc.: Bankai Group is a telecommunications company specializing in billing, routing, and VoIP Solutions.

Daniel McCarthy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Communications
Daniel J. McCarthy became President and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Communications in April 2015. He was elected to the Frontier Board of Directors in May 2014. Prior to becoming President and Chief Executive Officer, he held other positions of increasing responsibility at the Company, including President and Chief Operating Officer (April 2012 to April 2015), Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (January 2006 to April 2012) and Senior Vice President, Field Operations (December 2004 to December 2005). He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler and an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix. Mr. McCarthy serves as a Trustee of The Committee for Economic Development of the Conference Board and of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Danbury Hospital and a member of the Business Roundtable. Mr. McCarthy is a member of the Board of Directors of Constellation Brands, Inc.
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About Frontier Communications: Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.

Michael Oeth
Cofounder & CEO of OnSIP
Mike Oeth is the CEO of OnSIP Business VoIP and winner of the Telecommunications Executive of the Year in the 2013 American Business Awards. Mike graduated from Harvard College in 1991 with a degree in Economics and has since worked for technology companies, cofounding OnSIP in 2004. Mike is an active community member and father, balancing his roles as board member of the local YMCA, member of the father-daughter Y-group Adventure Princesses, and basketball coach for his three daughters’ basketball teams. Mike also enjoys rock climbing with his teenage son.
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About OnSIP, The Un-CEO: OnSIP is a leading provider of real-time communications services to businesses.

Shrihari Pandit
President & CEO of Stealth Communications
Shrihari Pandit is the President and CEO of Stealth Communications, a company he founded with his wife (Jinci Liu) in New York City in 1995. Before creating Stealth, Mr. Pandit was a network-security consultant to various software and telecom companies, including MCI, Sprint and Sun Microsystems. He also was an independent consultant to several U.S. agencies, including NASA and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), now part of the Department of Homeland Security. Stealth Communications is now one of New York City’s preeminent Internet-gateways. It provides connectivity services to a broad roster of customers in telecom, finance, real estate, education, and government. These services include Internet transit, transparent LAN, optical wavelength, dark fiber, and Internet-protocol traffic-exchange services. In February of 2013 Stealth became the first company to receive an informational franchise from the City of New York. With that and its telecommunications franchise, it began building its own fiber-optic network in June 2013. Stealth’s network’s initial coverage areas in Manhattan include midtown, midtown south, and the financial district. It allows Stealth to control its network directly to the customer’s premises and provide services economically. Specialties: business process, business modelling, workflow, BPM, information management, information architecture, business transformation, business frameworks, IPv4, IPv6, Voice Over IP (VoIP), ENUM, SRV, Peering, Optical Switching, Fiber Optics, Dark Fiber, Photonic switching, Ultra-high speed networking and communication protocols, Ethernet Transport & Tunnelling technologies, WiFi, Wireless, Interconnection of networks, Software Engineering, Router/Switch architectures.
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About Stealth Communications: A provider of Gigabit Internet Access in NYC using the latest in fiber and photonic technologies.

Ian Roncoroni
Co-Founder & CEO of Next Caller
Ian Roncoroni is Cofounder of Next Caller, an Advanced Caller ID platform. Ian is responsible for business development and strategy. Prior to Next Caller, Ian founded Soho Energy Corp, an energy derivatives brokerage in New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a degree in Philosophy, and was a member of the varsity wrestling team.
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About Next Caller: Next Caller develops and offers a real time call verification technology solution that provides phone fraud detection services.
Tomer Aharoni
CEO of Nagish
Tomer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nagish Inc. He graduated from Columbia University after serving as a technological intelligence analyst in the Israeli Defense Forces. Tomer previously worked as a Software Engineer at Bloomberg, and as a researcher on various academic projects in NLP and IoT.
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About Nagish: Nagish makes phone calls more accessible.

Roel Jansen
Chief Executive Officer of Hiber
Roel Jansen is the CEO at Hiber.
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About Hiber: Hiber is a global and affordable IoT connectivity via Hiberband, industry leader in the next generation IoT core infrastructure.
Carmen Branca
Chairman, President & CEO of NewVisions Communications
Carmen N. Branca, Jr., is the founder of the Company and leads the organization. In this role, he develops the company’s goals, vision and operating philosophy. Mr. Branca has over thirty-five years of management, marketing and operations experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to working for New Visions, Mr. Branca was a Senior Vice President for Enikia, a powerline chipset supplier. He was co-chairman of the regulatory committee of United Powerline, a national organization that represents utility and technology companies in the field of powerline technology. Mr. Branca has held senior management positions with Telergy, Inc., Siemens Communications and Telplus Communications, Northeast.
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About NewVisions Communications: New Visions Powerline Communications provides broadband solutions for residents and small businesses.

C Vijayakumar
Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies
C Vijayakumar (CVK or Vijay) is the President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US$ 6.7 billion global IT services company. Vijay leads HCL Technologies, a team of over 111,000+ professionals in 32 countries helping customers reimagine their businesses as a 21st Century Enterprise with technology at the core. Driving growth and transformation in an age of connected assets and connected experiences, Vijay is responsible for devising a robust strategy, overseeing meticulous execution and guiding enduring partnerships. Vijay joined HCL Technologies in 1994 as a member of the core team that designed and implemented India’s first ever fully automated trading network at the National Stock Exchange. With a strategic vision and global outlook, he relentlessly reinvented himself to emerge as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and deftly navigate the shifting industry landscape. Most recently, as Chief Operating Officer, he led the company’s strategy to leverage the transformative nexus of forces like Digitalization, Internet of Things, Cloud, Cyber-security and Artificial Intelligence. His Mode 1-2-3 Strategy today serves as the company’s blueprint for serving IT needs of the 21st Century Enterprise. Previously, as President of HCL’s Infrastructure Services Business, he led its exponential growth and market dominance over the years leading up to a contribution of 40% to HCL’s revenues today. As part of the founding team of its wholly owned subsidiary HCL Comnet, he played an instrumental role in building the Remote Infrastructure Management value proposition which is today a multi-billion-dollar market. Over the years, Vijay has held several Technology, Business & Operational leadership positions at HCL and is widely recognized in the industry for his strategic thinking and impeccable execution. He is currently a member of Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council and is on the Steward Board of World Economic Forum’s Strategic Initiative on ‘Future of Education, Gender and Work’. Vijay is deeply invested in promoting sustainable business practices in the communities where HCL operates in, with an emphasis on advancing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning for the youth and is also a passionate champion of the Diversity and Gender empowerment agenda. Known for his hands-on approach, diligence, and deep connect with his teams and the clients, Vijay’s leadership style has been commended in the business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ by renowned management guru David G. Thomson. Vijay is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. Vijay was born in Coimbatore in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.[11] He is currently based out of New York City and Cary, North Carolina in United States.[12] Vijay is married and has one daughter. In his free time, he likes to listen to classical music and read books.[13]
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About HCL Technologies: HCL Technologies is a global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.

Taoufik ZAGDOUD
CEO and Co-Founder of CALLR
CEO and Co-Founder of CALLR.
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About CALLR: Voice & SMS API – Call Tracking – Voice & SMS Broadcasting
Vic Bozzo
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pareteum
Prior to joining Pareteum Corp., Mr. Bozzo served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Telarix Inc., a market leader in interconnect solutions for service providers. Under Mr. Bozzo’s sales and marketing leadership, sales increased significantly and the company received numerous market leadership accolades, ultimately leading to a highly successful exit for investors. Prior to joining Telarix, Mr. Bozzo served as President and General Manager of Pac-West’s Emerging Technologies division after selling Pac-West his startup, Factor Communications, an innovative portfolio of cloud-based communications services. He was also responsible for significant revenue and customer growth and investor returns at at NexTone Communications, ITXC Corporation, and Voxware.
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About Pareteum, Telarix: Pareteum is a provider of Software as a Service.

Kaiwei Tang
Co-founder / CEO of Light
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About Light: Light offers the Light Phone, which is designed to be used as little as possible and gives back time and attention to its users.
Matthew Lombardi
Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Metro
As Chief Executive Officer, Matthew is responsible for Atlantic Metro’s day-to-day-operations, as well as leading the company’s growth and development of managed technology services. He is dedicated to helping Atlantic Metro’s customers succeed, overcome IT challenges, and enable their business growth. Matthew is responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships and relationships, as well as overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Stephen Klenert and James Cornman. Matthew is an established business leader with over 25 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Atlantic Metro in 2010, Matthew spent 18 years as the Vice President of Information Technology at Toys”R”Us and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the company’s e-commerce platform. He has held influential leadership roles as the President and COO at Planet Technology Solutions, President at Vytek Wireless Solutions, Chairman and CEO at Sentinel Business Systems, and Senior Vice President at DecisionPoint Systems. Matthew has had a successful career developing and leading profitable IT organizations; he now works with Atlantic Metro to achieve the same success.
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About Atlantic Metro: Atlantic Metro delivers custom-tailored IT solutions like cloud hosting, nationwide network connectivity, and secure data center colocation.
Bob Thompson
CEO of Underline Infrastructure
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About Underline Infrastructure: Underline works with communities to deliver foundational intelligent infrastructure including open-access fiber-optic networks.
Payman Samadi
Founder and CEO of eino
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About Cornell Tech, eino: Predicting future for optimal planning and distribution of our resources

Paul Banco
CEO of etherFAX
As CEO of etherFAX, Banco is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and leads technology development, including the patented etherFAX and etherFAX SEN intellectual property. Banco helped organizations automate their fax server operations. As a visionary, he identified the need to leverage the cloud for secure document delivery and co-founded etherFAX in 2009 with other telecom industry veterans.
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About etherFAX: etherFAX develops technology solutions that focus on the management of business-critical fax communications.
Jeff Shaffer
CEO of Fiberspark
Jeff Shaffer is Founder & CEO of Fiberspark, an Ithaca based startup ISP that is using fiber optics to provide faster and more reliable broadband. Jeff studied Information Science at Cornell University where he researched Human-Computer Interaction, studied technology policy and internet infrastructure, and oversaw multiple production web systems.
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About Fiberspark: A new kind of Internet Service Provider.

Dan Wagner
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudSmartz, Inc.
Dan Wagner is co-founder and CEO of CloudSmartz, Inc., a business transformation and IT services company that was recently established through merger of CloudSmartz LLC and IPLogic. The combined company provides a wide array of IT services all designed to help energize businesses, innovate through bundling of native and best in class IT solutions, create Cloud growth strategies, improve operating performance, and focus companies on actions that rapidly enhance enterprise value. Dan most recently held the position of President of XO Business Services, where he managed more than 1,800 finance, marketing, sales, care, and service delivery employees nationwide who interact daily with XO business customers. Prior to XO, Dan was an executive with Global Crossing (now Level 3), where he held several titles over his 14 years including Executive Vice President of Enterprise and Collaboration Services, President of Europe, and Chief Information Officer. He began his career with Accenture where he spent several years working in Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, and other high performing industries. Dan attended Cornell University where he earned his BS in Electrical Engineering.
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About CloudSmartz, Inc.: SDN/NFV Productization, Agile Development, Digital Transformation, DCX Portals, Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO)

Denis Sklyarov
CEO / Co-Founder of WiFi Map
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About WiFi Map: WiFi Map is the largest Wi-Fi community in the World!
Kenny Heitner
President & CEO of Consolidated Technologies
Kenneth Heitner is President & CEO of Consolidated Technologies, Inc. Prior to founding CTI in 1997, Mr. Heitner was Vice President of Sales for International Business Phone Corp. Mr. Heitner currently serves on the advisory board for Avaya, is a founding member of the international organization “Aura Alliance” and active with Sunrise Association, whose mission is to bring back the joys of childhood to children with cancer and their siblings world-wide. Mr. Heitner is a 1988 graduate of State University of New York at New Paltz, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Communication.
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About Consolidated Technologies: Consolidated Technologies is a telecommunications company providing managed IT services and unified communications solutions.

Noel Goddard
CEO of Qunnect
Noel Goddard is the CEO at Qunnect.
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About Qunnect: Qunnect is a spin-off venture company enabling the quantum internet for quantum repeater operation.

Ronald Durando
President & CEO of mPhase Technologies
Ronald Durando is a President & CEO at mPhase Technologies.
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About mPhase Technologies: mPhase Technologies develops and commercializes next-generation solutions for telecommunications and nanotechnology applications.

Brad Gammons
Chief Executive Officer irth Solutions of Irth Solutions
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About Irth Solutions: Irth Solutions provides productivity tools for the utility, energy, and telecom industries.

Arik Hesseldahl
Founder and CEO of Anchor Ventures
A veteran tech reporter most recently for Recode, who previously worked at AllThingsD, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News and Forbes. He’s also contributed to CNBC, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and NPR.
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About Anchor Ventures, General Counsel: Communications Consulting

Christopher Rabii
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of FiberLight
Christopher Rabii is the Executive Chairman and CEO at FiberLight.
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About FiberLight: FiberLight provides mission critical high performance networks for enterprise, carrier, government and service providers.
Kasper Abildgaard Svendsen
CEO & Founder of Wing Internet
I am a young tech entrepreneur focusing on bringing millions of unconnected people online in developing countries. Execution is king. While studying, I worked 80h a week on 4 projects and graduated within the nominated time. I consider myself as a global nomad, having lived and worked in 7 countries on 4 continents. Furthermore, I love exploring the world, its people, and its future. I am a blockchain nerd. I have spearheaded blockchain technology since 2013 where I have bridged the gap between business and blockchain. I founded the largest blockchain organisation in Northern Europe, Nordic Blockchain Association, doing blockchain pilot projects for public sector institutions and raised $7million USD in a startup in New York.
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About Wing Internet: We will make it possible for anyone to share internet bandwidth and make money while bringing millions of unconnected people online.
Jerry Brager
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of 1-800-DOCTORS
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About 1-800-DOCTORS, HealthSTAR Communications: 1-800-Doctors provides an online and telephony service offering information about healthcare providers.
Steven Francesco
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cohere Cyber Secure
Steven Francesco is Chairman and CEO of Cohere Communications. Prior to founding Cohere, Mr. Franccesco was CEO of U.S. Operations and a member of the Board of Directors at China to Net. Before China to Net, Mr. Francesco joined Netrix Corporation as its Chairman and CEO with the goal of refocusing the company to provide voice/data telecommunications solutions. To that end, he facilitated a strategic merger with OpenRoute and acquired AetherWorks.The resulting company, re-named Nx Networks, offered a comprehensive suite of secure voice communications over Internet Protocol and partnered with industry leaders, such as Motorola, Siemens, and Alcatel. Mr. Francesco provided overall strategic direction and positioned Nx Networks as an industry leader in the Internet-based voice communications market. During his tenure, the company’s value rose from $18 million to its peak of $1.32 billion.
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About Cohere Cyber Secure: Cohere provides unsurpassed skills in meeting the needs of today’s businesses.

Ilissa Miller
Founder & CEO of iMiller Public Relations
Ilissa Miller is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at iMiller Public Relations (iMPR) since November 2011. Ilissa brings nearly two decades of experience in sales, marketing and product development to her clients in an effort to help them differentiate their messages and achieve notoriety within an ever expanding and evolving industry. With a wealth of experience and knowledge in the emerging global telecommunications and technology industries, her extensive expertise and practical skill set have allowed her to implement and spearhead and launch many companies as well as global product and marketing campaigns including that of international private line and networks, IP transit, peering, IPVPN, hosted PBX, cloud computing, Ethernet, managed services, colocation and data center products and solutions. Ilissa is a recognized leader in the global telecom and technology space where her knowledge and insights provide strategic guidance that enhance performance resulting in a remarkable reputation for effectiveness and client satisfaction. In addition to her aforementioned role, since 2013, Ilissa has also served as the President of the Northeast DAS and Small Cell Association where she functions as the driving force for the association’s annual programs including conferences, training sessions and networking socials. A key ingredient to the Association’s success is the Advisory Council, which was formed in 2013 consisting of industry executives and thought leaders who actively interact with the highly dynamic landscape of the in-building wireless industry. In 2012, Ilissa was elected to public office as Trustee in the Village of Mamaroneck where she successfully ran for re-election in 2014. As Trustee, Ilissa sits on the Village’s Board with legislative and policy decision-makers, governing over 19,000 local residents and serving her community with steadfast dedication. Prior to founding iMPR, Ilissa was the Managing Partner at a Public Relations firm serving the telecom industry where she spearheaded the company’s growth from 2008-2011. While Ilissa’s current experience works ‘on’ the sector, she has extensive hands-on experience working ‘in’ the sector. From 2007-2008, Ilissa was the Director of Marketing Communications and Public Relations for the interconnection company, Telx; a product marketing manager for Australian incumbent carrier, Telstra, where she was responsible for the company’s International Private Line (IPL) and IPVPN/MPLS products; and also served as a channel marketing manager for Telstra where she successfully positioned it’s Asia-Pacific network solutions as a leading partner to various leading US-domestic network operators. From 2000 to 2004, Ilissa worked with Band-X, Inc. the US subsidiary of Band-X the Exchange where she held roles including Director of IP Services and Director of Business Development and Marketing. In this position, Mrs. Miller supported the global marketing efforts of all Band-X’s products including the procurement and exchange of global IPLs, colocation, and voice minutes. Ilissa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing and Literature from SUNY Potsdam where she also studied voice performance at Crane School of Music.
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About DE-CIX, Forbes Agency Council, iMiller Public Relations, Independent Data Center Alliance, NEDAS: iMPR is an international marketing and public relations firm that works with global telecom and technology companies.
Nicholas Farina
Chairman & CEO of EeroQ
CEO, EeroQ Quantum Hardware, founded in 2016, building a universal quantum computer using a novel qubit architecture. Member of U.S. Quantum Industry Coalition. Sponsor, Unitary Fund (QC software grant program). Founder, QCEthics.org, a multidisciplinary organization developing the ethical framework for quantum computation and recently featured in Gizmodo. A PE/Angel investor. Earlier, founded EOC (leading higher ed services corporation) and served on the BOD of Chicago Public Television.
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About EeroQ: EeroQ is a quantum hardware start-up based in New York and Lansing, Michigan.

Jarrod Musano
CEO of Convo Communications
Jarrod Musano is CEO at Convo Communications.
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About Convo Communications: Convo develops video relay services (VRS) technologies that enable phone conversations for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Arie Barendrecht
Founder & CEO of WiredScore
Founder at WiredScore
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About WiredScore: WiredScore is the company behind Wired Certification, the international digital connectivity rating system for commercial office buildings.
Joel McIntyre
Founder and CEO of GiGstreem
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About GiGstreem: GiGstreem is an innovative Internet and Managed Network services provider.
Mike Dazio
CEO of ZT Technology Solutions
Mike Dazio is CEO of ZT Technology Solutions. ZT was created in late 2010 to focus on supporting legacy products in the wireline telecom space. Partnering with Alcatel -Lucent (Nokia), ZT has expanded its customer base to include all the major North American telecom service providers as well as several NTCA phone companies. Dazio’s passion has been the concept of extending the life of legacy telecom systems. This has been a lifelong passion for him that started during his tenure at AT&T/Western Electric and Lucent Technologies. Dazio’s extensive knowledge has given him the opportunity to speak at several conferences and is considered an expert in technology obsolescence, product life cycle Management, and Total Cost of Ownership as they relate to legacy products.
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About ZT Technology Solutions: ZT Technology Solutions provides government, telecommunications, and enterprise customers with technology solutions.
Marco Pariente-Cohen
Founder, CEO of MindWeaver
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About General Assembly, MindWeaver: MindWeaver is a haven for invention, a technological lab that brings innovative ideas to the marketplace.

Denis Pershin
Co-Founder & CEO of Gamma Telecom
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About Gamma Telecom: Founded in 2008, Gamma Telecom is a New York, Moscow and Novosibirsk based telephone service provider.

Arnaud Derasse
Founder and CEO of Enyx
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About Enyx: Deliver smart, ultra low-latency network solutions for the financial industry

Elnaz Sarabchian
Co-Founder & CEO of MedAux
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About MedAux: MedAux provides a digital follow up solution through SMS to healthcare organizations.
Richard Sherwin
Founder & CEO of Spot On Networks
Richard J. (“Dick”) Sherwin is one of our founding members, a Manager and our Chief Executive Officer. From 1990 through 1999, Mr. Sherwin played a key role in the formation and development of the company that became Metromedia International Group, Inc., an organization formed to expand wired and wireless communications in several republics of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In this role, he initiated joint ventures with several eastern European partners and governments and established operations (which included developing technologies, creating marketing and sales programs and instituting financial reporting) in many of these areas. From 1999 until our formation in 2003, Mr. Sherwin was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rigo Telecommunications, Inc., a vehicle for investment in foreign entities and a consultancy in the field of telecommunications. Mr. Sherwin received a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Spot On Networks: Spot On Networks offers tech platforms that provide wireless broadband internet access to residential users in multifamily dwelling units.
Paul Anthony Diesu
CEO of Forerunner Technologies
Paul Anthony Diesu serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Forerunner Technologies.
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About Forerunner Technologies: Forerunner Technologies is a telecommunications company providing voice, video, and data IP solutions.
Jordan Cooper
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Coopkanics
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About Coopkanics: Coopkanics offers Wildcard, a product- and service-related software suite for browsing the internet and other communications networks.
Lance Anderson
CEO of Lance-AR
Lance Anderson is steadfast to the belief that Augmented Reality will profoundly change the human experience, and is dedicated to leveraging his past expertise with this emerging technology to help bring AR to the masses in the ‘now’ term.
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About Lance-AR, Vuzix: Lance-AR enabling scaled enterprise AR deployments.

Larry Roher
CEO of myVRM Scheduling and Workflow
Videoconferencing has always held an important place in Larry’s world. He sees the potential that people do not have to travel to be face to face. In his past Larry has always tied technology and futures with existing technology. He has built several businesses and each of them has been the building block for his work in the scheduling environment. Larry launched myVRM, the Versatile Resource Manager, a web based, multi level access solution at InfoComm 2006. myVRM schedules multi-point communications, tracks meetings and launches calls to the endpoints while providing complete resource management, catering and housekeeping. Born as a conference set-up interface for Expedite Video Conferencing Services, myVRM software was spun off as an independent company founded in 2006. Larry has been awarded a Patent for his work on Multi-Point Communications, and has two additional patents pending. Larry leads a team that features experience and talent in the world of collaborative conferencing. In this area of web-enabled applications he has devised customized solutions that not only work for the basic purposes for which they were designed, but have been flexible enough to meet the needs of organizations as they expand and contract, while at the same time establishing a certification method to documents its client’s green initiatives of reduced carbon footprints. The latter has brought global attention of a now energy minded society.
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About myVRM Scheduling and Workflow: myVRM is a web-based solution that enables its users to schedule meetings by connecting them to audio, video, and telepresence technologies.