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Directors
Chairman of the Board, Ermis Sfakiyanudis, P.E.
Ermis Sfakiyanudis is an experienced executive and business leader who co-founded eTelemetry in 2004 and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to launching eTelemetry, Ermis founded Sigma Engineering in 1993 and served as its president for 11 years, overseeing substantial growth. Ermis currently serves on the Board of Visitors for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Additionally, Ermis is an acting commissioner on the Maryland Economic Development Commission, where he chairs the Advanced Technology Subcommittee; and he has been an active member of the board of directors for BankAnnapolis (Nasdaq: ANNB) since 2000. Ermis has a Civil Engineering Degree with the University of Maryland and is a Maryland registered Professional Engineer.
Steven Chrust
Steven Chrust is founder and a Senior Principal, Member of Centripetal Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm and has decades of investing experience. He is also a board member and a partner in Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC and EAM Partners L.P., the general partner of both the General Partner and the Management Company. He is also Founder and President of SGC Advisory Services, Inc. a financial services company. In addition, he co-founded WinStar Communications in 1994 and served as its Vice Chairman.
Chrust began his career in 1970 at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a financial institution that handled more than $100 billion in client assets at its peak and is currently a part of Alliance Capital, an AXA company. He became a partner in 1976 and served as its Director of Technology Research. While at Bernstein, he ranked in the top tier of analysts each year for more than a decade (including a first-place ranking in his sector for five consecutive years), as ranked by Institutional Investor. He has testified before Congress on various regulatory matters. He has been on the Board of Directors of a number of private and public companies. He also served as Chairman of ALTS, the industry association of local carriers. He also has been a featured lecturer at the Harvard Business School. Chrust is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research and the New York Society of Security Analysts.
Stephen A. Mucchetti
Stephen A. Mucchetti is USi’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). As COO of the largest independent Application Service Provider, he is responsible for USi's global operations and service delivery, with a specific focus on enhancing and expanding USi's industry leading services. Mr. Mucchetti’s responsibilities include executing against USi’s business plan, developing new operating strategies, and incorporating new technologies into USi’s infrastructure to evolve the business and deliver additional benefits, and higher quality, more cost-effective services to USi’s clients. In addition to his overall responsibilities for USi’s day to day operations, Mr. Mucchetti plays a key role in the establishment of USi’s strategic direction and corporate initiatives. Mr. Mucchetti joined USi’s executive team as COO in September of 2003.
Prior to joining USi, Mr. Mucchetti served as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Scient, Inc., an internet consulting and services company. During his tenure at Scient, where he began as Chief Operating Officer, the company grew from a start-up to approximately 2,000 professionals attaining a market capitalization of over $2 billion at its peak.
Mr. Mucchetti held senior executive positions with the IBM Company from 1992 to 1998. From 1995 to 1998, he was the General Manager of IBM’s Global Telecommunications, Media and Utilities (TM&U) Solutions Unit, where he successfully grew business volume for three consecutive years. Mr. Mucchetti joined IBM in 1992 and became Chief Operating Officer of the IBM Consulting Group. He also served as a member of IBM's Worldwide Management Committee, the Senior Management Group, and the Corporate Technology Council. In 1993, he co-led the initiative to merge all consulting within IBM into a single, integrated organization.
Mr. Mucchetti has also held executive positions with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Services (Regional Managing Partner, Northeast Region), Booz, Allen & Hamilton (Vice President), and Western Union Telegraph Company (National Director).
Lev Volftsun
Lev Volftsun is a communications software expert with twenty years of experience in the worldwide telecommunications market, is the co-founder of Washington Capital Ventures (“WCV”), and has served as its Managing Partner since the fall of 2001. Prior to launching WCV, Volftsun held the position of General Manager and Vice President of the Telephony Internet Services Unit at Cisco Systems from 1998 until late 2000. In 1996, Volftsun co-founded Lightspeed International, an innovator in voice signaling translation technology, where he remained as Chief Executive Officer until the company’s acquisition by Cisco Systems in 1998.
News Coverage
eTelemetry has been featured in numerous publications, including BusinessWeek, Inc., and Computerworld.