About Us
Directors
Andrew P. Lombard
Andrew P. Lombard joined us as our Chief Executive Officer on October, 2010 and has served as our Chairman since May 2010. Mr. Lombard is also currently the Chief Technology Officer of PeopleJar Inc., a Nevada Corporation, and has served in that capacity since January 2010. Mr. Lombard has founded three start-up companies, Protégé Sports Inc. (“Protégé”), airBand Communications, Inc. (“airBand”), and Cue Imaging, each of which have been funded by one or more venture capital investment, angel investment and private equity firm investments. Mr. Lombard currently serves as Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arizona Chapter's Venture Ready entrepreneurial leadership program.
From November 2008 to November 2009, Mr. Lombard served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Eumedic Limited, a UK based medical device company in trials with UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, and Cambridge University for an Asthma therapy.
From November 2007 to November 2008, Mr. Lombard was the President of Cue Imaging Corporation, a subsidiary of Peerless Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: PRLS) (“Peerless”), a public software company. In this role, he is credited for formulating Cue Imaging's corporate strategy and attracting an executive team of known industry experts. He also served as Vice President of Corporate Development of Peerless, with responsibility for formulating the strategic direction of the company, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and corporate communications functions.
In August 2005, Mr. Lombard co-founded Protégé, privately held a digital media and sports Internet company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until November 2007. He has served as Protégé's Chairman of the Board since August 2005. Protégé has over 5,000 proprietary sports training videos and over 50 exclusive agreements with professional athletes in various sports.
In January 2000, he founded and operated airBand, a privately held wireless communications company. As Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of airBand, he attracted $60 million of venture capital funding and grew it into a national broadband wireless and VoIP services company and in 2002 airBand was recognized as one of Red Herring's Top 10 start-up companies. airBand is a wireless business service provider serving 30 markets in the United States.
From January 1998 to January 2000, Mr. Lombard served as Vice President Corporate Development and General Manager of Adaptive Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ: ADAP), a wireless broadband equipment company, where he was part of the core management team that grew Broadband's market capitalization from $150 million to $3 billion in less than two years.
From 1984 to 1997 Mr. Lombard held various executive roles at Motorola, Inc. where he led sales and operations in Asia and later was a director for Motorola Network Ventures.
Mr. Lombard was named an Ernst and Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist in 2003, and was selected by President George W. Bush to the 2001 Presidential High-Tech CEO Forum.
In 1986 he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri, and completed an executive MBA program offered by Stanford University in Hong Kong in 1992.
Jeffrey I. Brodlieb
Jeffrey I. Brodlieb serves as a member of our Board of Directors designated by eT Venture, our majority shareholder. Mr. Brodlieb has over 30 years experience developing, implementing and financing growth and turnaround strategies for companies ranging from small and medium sized enterprises to Fortune 100 companies.
Mr. Brodlieb began his career in 1973 as a financial analyst for Chase Manhattan bank. He subsequently joined a NY area retail furniture chain as Vice President of Finance and Operations in which position he streamlined operations and implemented several successful customer retention and cost reduction programs.
In 1977, Mr. Brodlieb left that firm to pursue an MBA at the Harvard Business School. After receiving his degree, Mr. Brodlieb joined American Television and Communications (a division of Time Inc.) in 1980 and launched PREVIEW, a subscription television company, which under his leadership became the nation’s fastest growing subscription television operation.
In 1982, he created and started The Learning Adventure, a Boston-based educational network offering mini-courses to the young professional market in New England. After selling that business, Mr. Brodlieb, in 1985, joined the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s foremost management consulting firms. At BCG, Mr. Brodlieb worked with clients to improve corporate value and competitiveness, focusing on strategic management, customer service operations and new ventures to middle market clients.
In 1988, he was recruited by GE Capital as part of a newly created turnaround buyout group, which called upon Mr. Brodlieb’s combined experience in strategy, operations and finance. Among the transactions completed by this group was that of a European insurance company which subsequently became an operating division within GE Capital and a major component of their international strategy.
Mr. Brodlieb returned to independent consulting and private investment advisory in 1992 as well as participating as principal in entrepreneurial ventures.
Mr. Brodlieb has been associated with Mr. Chrust since 2001 and became a Director of SGC Advisory Services, Inc. in 2002. Together with Mr. Chrust, he was a co-founding member Centripetal Capital Partners and is currently a Manger and Principal of Centripetal. In addition to his MBA from Harvard, Mr. Brodlieb holds a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University.
Steven Chrust
Steven Chrust serves as a member of our Board of Directors designated by eT Venture, our majority shareholder. Mr. Chrust began his career in 1970 at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a well-regarded financial institution that is currently part of Alliance Capital Management L.P. He became a partner of the firm in 1976 and also served as its Director of Technology Research. While at Bernstein, his ability to evaluate the commercial and investment prospects of telecommunications-related and other emerging technologies placed him in the top-tier of telecommunications analysts each year for more than a decade (including a first-place ranking for five consecutive years), as ranked by Institutional Investor.
In 1985, Mr. Chrust joined Vodavi Technology as Executive Vice President of corporate planning. While at Vodavi, Mr. Chrust engineered Vodavi’s acquisition of ISOETEC and EXECUTONE and shepherded the consolidation of the three companies into an enterprise (now known as E-Lottery) that was four times larger than Vodavi at the time of his arrival.
In 1990, Mr. Chrust became the President of AMNEX, an operator services long distance company for which he had served as a director since 1987. He was later named that company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Chrust left AMNEX in 1991 in order to launch SGC.
In 1994, he co-founded WinStar Communications, a facilities based local telecommunications provider utilizing fixed wireless technology. From 1994 through 1998, he served as Vice Chairman of WinStar, raising over $2 billion in the capital markets and successfully executing their plan of building a local broadband network. Mr. Chrust stepped down as Vice Chairman at the end of 1998, with the plan and management team firmly in place, in order to refocus his efforts on SGC.
During his career, Mr. Chrust has served on a number of boards of directors and as an advisor to numerous companies. In 1998, Mr. Chrust served as Chairman of the Association for Local Telecommunications Services, the national organization representing facilities-based competitive local exchange carriers. He has testified before Congress concerning the break-up of AT&T and before state public utility commissions on various regulatory matters. He also has been a featured lecturer at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Chrust is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research and the New York Society of Securities Analysts. Mr. Chrust is a graduate of Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Richard A. Fennessy
Richard A. Fennessy joined eTelemetry as a member of the Board of Directors in May, 2010.
From November 2004 to September 2009, Mr. Fennessy was President and CEO of Insight Enterprises, Inc., a Fortune 500 global IT solutions company with operations in 22 countries and a broad portfolio of hardware, software, and services targeted towards small, medium, and large corporate and public sector institutions. Under his leadership, Insight significantly expanded into new IT categories, such as networking services, and into new markets through the expansion into 19 new countries over the five year period. As a result, the Company experienced substantial growth with revenue growing from $2.8B in 2004 to $4.8B in 2008 and earnings from operations growth at a compounded annual growth rate of 13%.
Prior to joining Insight Enterprises Inc. in 2004, Mr. Fennessy enjoyed a 17 year career with IBM, where he held several senior level executive positions both domestically and internationally. His most recent position was General Manager of ibm.com, which is IBM's web and telephony business in 83 countries throughout the world. Through the phone or the web, over 350 million customer interactions occurred annually via ibm.com resulting in over $12B in net sales.
Prior to this role, Mr. Fennessy lead all marketing and brand management for IBM's personal computer business, which was a $10B global business derived from a line of Desktop, Notebook, Server products and associated accessories including the award winning IBM “ThinkPad” notebook computer. He assumed this marketing leadership role after successfully building a start-up operation within IBM's personal computer business focused on selling computers “direct” versus through the traditional reseller channel that IBM had utilized since the inception of the first IBM PC. In the first 14 months, the newly-developed business generated over $1B in new sales in the United States alone. In 2001, Mr. Fennessy led the expansion of the model in Europe and Asia Pacific and built a set of global capabilities, processes, programs, and best practices to serve IBM's customers worldwide.
Mr. Fennessy joined IBM as a Sales Representative in Chicago, Illinois after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Michigan State University in 1987. Mr. Fennessy is actively involved in several community and charitable organizations, such as Boys Team Charities and Xavier College Preparatory as a member of its Board of Trustees.
Lev Volftsun
Lev Volftsun Volftson 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. During that time he acted as CEO of Dynamicsoft, a SIP based software provider which has subsequently been acquired by Cisco Systems.
Prior to launching WCV, Lev 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, Lev 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.
Previously, Lev held senior leadership roles at MCI, Stratus, British Telecom and Concert, where he designed and developed a range of telephony products and platforms. These include MCI’s Enhanced Voice Services platform, Advanced 800, and Vnet services.
With Stratus, Lev had responsibility for the telephony platform architecture including systems for mobile and IN applications and developed unique IN solutions for a number of major telcos including ATT, Telecom Australia and Televerket.
With British Telecom and MCI/Concert, he designed and implemented the first global intelligent network supporting a full set of services, including virtual voice, audio and video conferencing, call centers, calling card, voice processing and operator services.
Lev has vast experience in overcoming the integration issues encountered in delivering worldwide telecommunications solutions and has a proven record of implementing designs which optimize available technologies that meet business objectives.
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