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Jim Butman
Group President of Marketing
Sales & Customer Operations,
TDS Metrocom
(Medium Member Category)
Jim Butman is Group President of Marketing, Sales and Customer Operations at TDS Metrocom Prior to this appointment, Butman was president and general manager of TDS Metrocom. Before becoming president of TDS Metrocom in May 1997, he was president of USLink, TDS Telecom's long distance operation in Minnesota and North Dakota. Butman joined TDS Telecom in 1985 and held various positions in state and federal regulatory affairs and product management. Prior to that, he held various financial positions with GTE. He has a total of 24 years of telecommunications experience in the local exchange, long distance and competitive local exchange segments of the telecom industry.
Ed Cadieux
Director/ Regulatory Counsel
Windstream
(Large Member Category)
Kevin B. Coyne
President & COO
FiberLight LLC
(Small Member Category)
Kevin Coyne, co-founder of FiberLight, LLC serves as president and COO of the company, which operates in 15 metro markets. Coyne has over 10 years of public accounting experience in the telecom field and is responsible for restructuring FiberLight’s predecessor, Xspedius Fiber Group, bringing the company to profitability and creating FiberLight, LLC in 2005. Prior to joining Xspedius, Coyne worked with ACSI Network Technologies, where he established the finance and accounting department. ACSI later became NT Assets/Xspedius Fiber Group. Coyne has a Master’s degree in Taxation from the University of Baltimore and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Towson State University. He is an active Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. FiberLight is a carrier-neutral metro optical transport provider that offers Ethernet, wavelengths, IP, SONET and dark fiber to carriers and enterprise companies. During Coyne’s tenure, FiberLight was named a Rising Star in Deloitte and Touche’s USA LLP’s Technology Fast 50 program for Georgia in 2006 and 2007.
Steve Dorf
President and General Manager
Kansas Fiber Network
(Small Member Category)
David Eckmann
Director of Core Business Development, Legal & Regulatory Affairs
FPL FiberNet LLC
(Medium Member Category)
David Eckmann was one of the three founders of FPL FiberNet, the fiber-optic subsidiary of NextEra Energy (formerly FPL Group). He developed the original business plan for FiberNet, which was described in the UTC Journal as “arguably the most successful” utility telco. He served as a founding member of the board of the NAP of the Americas LLC, a consortium of telecommunications companies that established the NAP of the Americas in Miami. The NAP of the Americas is the nation’s fifth Tier-I and most technologically advanced Internet network access point. He also serves as treasurer of ITFlorida, a private-public sector partnership established by Florida’s governor to support the growth of the state’s high-tech economy.
For the past 26 years, Eckmann has been with NextEra, working in finance, accounting, strategic planning, and telecommunications. Prior to joining NextEra, he worked as an electrical engineer for Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. and Burns & Roe Inc. Eckmann has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Duke, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.
Gary Fry
Managing Partner
United Gateway, LLC
(Small Member Category )
Gary Fry actively serves as a managing partner of United Gateway and has responsibility for the overall management, direction and growth of the company. Fry is involved with sales, marketing, operations as well as ongoing partner vendor relationships. He has over 16 years of executive telecommunications experience and is regarded as an industry authority on domestic and international telephone services. He has been a regular speaker at various industry trade associations throughout the United States and Europe. Prior to United Gateway, Fry has served in executive positions at various successful communication companies including Wiltel, Verizon, Americatel/Matrix, Pacific Gateway Exchange and ANI Networks. Fry has served two terms as a member of the COMPTEL Board of Directors, and has assisted the association in several meetings with the FCC and Congress on the state of telecommunications competition within the United States.
Grey Humphrey
Vice Chairman
DDR Broadband Networks
(Small Member Category)
Grey Humphrey began his telecommunications career in 1984 at TSI LineOne, a South Carolina carrier. Through mergers and acquisitions, Humphrey worked at SouthernNet, Telecom*USA and MCI, primarily in sales management. At MCI, he was senior national accounts manager for University and Government Markets in S.C. and N.C. After leaving MCI in 1998, Humphrey joined SCANA Communications as its manager of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. Humphrey then joined Spirit Telecom, serving as its COO in his last position at the company. In November 2007, Humphrey became and continues to serve as president of PalmettoNet, Inc. Humphrey was elected to the DDR Broadband Networks Board in 2007 and as vice chairman in 2008. A native of South Carolina, Humphrey is a graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor's degree in Administrative Management. He received his M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business.
John Monday
Director of IP and Voice Services
FastTrack Communications, Inc.
(Small Member Category)
John Monday is a hands-on director at FastTrack Communications, Inc., a facilities-based competitive local exchange provider located in Durango, Colo. He leads the network engineering and operations team responsible for supporting internet, voice and optical transport services. Prior to joining FastTrack, Monday’s 15 years of progressive industry experience accumulated to being the design and engineering lead at Norlight, Inc for all voice products and services serving local markets in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Kentucky. Monday has a Bachelor of Science degree in EET from Roosevelt University and holds multiple industry certifications including Cisco Certified Voice Professional (CCVP) and Nortel Certified Technology Expert (NCTE). He is currently a board member of the Metaswitch User Group.
Michael K. Robinson
Director, President & CEO
Broadview Networks
(Medium Member Category)
Michael Robinson joined Broadview as president and CEO in March 2005, and is responsible for all operations and strategy for the company. Since 2005, the company has executed and integrated several acquisitions, as well as shifted its strategy to focus on integrated communications solutions to SMBs, including a focus on IP and cloud service offerings. Prior to this, Robinson had been with US LEC Corp. (now part of PAETEC), a publicly traded competitive communications provider, as executive vice president and CFO since July 1998. At US LEC, Robinson was responsible for all financial operations including treasury, general accounting and internal controls, investor relations, billing and information systems development, information technology, human resources and real estate. Prior to joining US LEC,Robinson spent 10 years in various management positions with the telecommunications division of Alcatel, including executive vice president and CFO of Alcatel Data Networks and the worldwide financial operations of the enterprise and data networking division of Alcatel. Prior to these roles, he was CFO of Alcatel Network Systems. Before joining Alcatel, Robinson held various management positions with Windward International and Siecor Corp. (now Corning).
Robinson participates in various industry and regional business associations. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of FairPoint Communications as of its restructuring and emergence. Robinson earned an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University.
Dale Schmick
Chief Strategy Officer
YourTel America
(Small Member Category )
Dale Schmick, Chief Strategy Officer, YourTel America, and Chairman of COMPTEL’s Board of Directors
Dale Schmick is Chief Strategy Officer of YourTel America, which was founded in 1995 to supply core city residents with low-cost telecommunication services. Schmick began his telecommunications career working for PageNet in the New York City, selling wireless products. He was then promoted to manager of reseller distribution – Kansas in 1993. He has been with YourTel America since 1997 in various leadership positions, leading the migration of the company from a reseller of paging products to a full-fledged switch- based CLEC, ISP and wireless carrier. Schmick also serves as the chairman of COMPTEL’s Board of Directors. In addition, he is on the board of the Kansas City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and in 2011 was elected to the board of Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey. Schmick also is a fire captain with the Southern Platte Fire Protection District.
Russell Shipley
Senior Vice-President Wholesale and Network Services
TelePacific Communications
(Large Member Category)
Russell Shipley has 28 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has performed a very broad range of roles and responsibilities. At TelePacific, Shipley has overall responsibility for network design, deployment and operation and is responsible for sales and support of all wholesale products including voice, private line and last mile access of all types, Internet services and converged services. Prior to joining TelePacific, Shipley served as president of Wholesale and Chief Network Officer at Mpower Communications, a network rich CLEC acquired by TelePacific. Before starting with Mpower, he held several leadership positions with Global Crossing and Frontier Corp., including service, operations, engineering, technology, construction, sales and business development groups, where his most notable contributions were leading the design and construction of the Frontier national fiber optic network and then leading the worldwide planning, implementation and operation of the Global Crossing data network. His career also includes various leadership positions held while he was in the accelerated management development program at Rochester Telephone Corp.
Shipley holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.B.A. with concentration in Operations Management from the University of Rochester.
CEO
Matrix Telecom
(Medium Member Category)
Debbie Ward
CEO
TSI
(Small Member Category)
In the early 1980's. Debbie Ward founded lMS, a Pacific Bell Joint User in Southern California. With a need to serve customers outside the Pacific Bell territory, Ward established lSI in 1999 reselling CLEC and long distance services nationwide. Shortly thereafter, lSI became a facility based carrier. For over 20 years, Ward has successfully provided executive management by delivering communication products and services to thousands of business and wholesale customers throughout the United States. In her role as CEO, Ward is responsible for the company's profit and loss and guides the company's long term strategy. She participates regularly on industry webinars, trade association panels and executive committee forums. She is currently a regular contributor to various groups devoted to the promotion of females in executive leadership positions. Ward is one of only a handful of female CEOs in the highly competitive telecommunications space, and is highly regarded by her peers, devoted employees and valued customers
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