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Executive Team
Vision, experience, innovation and entrepreneurial
drive. These traits distinguish a leadership team that's making giant
strides by offering customers superior value in communications.
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Michael Robinson - President & Chief Executive Officer
Brian Crotty - Chief Operating Officer
Corey Rinker
- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary
Charles C. Hunter
- Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Kenneth A. Shulman
- Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer
Terrence J. Anderson
- Executive Vice President – Corporate Development
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| Michael Robinson, President & Chief Executive Officer
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Mr. Robinson joined the company as the President & CEO in March 2005. Prior to this, Mr. Robinson
had been with US LEC as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since
July 1998, responsible for financial operations, investor relations, billing and
information systems development, information technology, human resources and real
estate. Prior to joining US LEC, Mr. Robinson spent 10 years in various management
positions with the telecommunications division of Alcatel, including Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Alcatel Data Networks and the worldwide
financial operations of the enterprise and data networking division of Alcatel.
Prior to these roles, Mr. Robinson was Chief Financial Officer of Alcatel Network
Systems. Before joining Alcatel, Mr. Robinson held various management positions with
Windward International and Siecor Corp. (now Corning). Mr. Robinson holds a masters
degree in business administration from Wake Forest University.
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| Brian Crotty, Chief Operating Officer |
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Mr. Crotty, Chief Operating Officer, brings to Broadview over thirteen
years of senior management experience in the telecom industry. In his role with
Broadview Networks, he is responsible for all operational aspects of the company including
sales, provisioning, billing, network operations, repair, field services and customer
service.
Mr. Crotty formerly served as Bridgecom’s Chief Operating Officer responsible for
all divisions of the company except Finance, whereby he lead the company’s exponential
three year period of growth from developmental stage to maturity of over $86 million
in profitable and free cash-flowing revenues until the time of its merger with
Broadview. He then oversaw the successful integration of Broadview and Bridgecom
and assumed his current role at the time of the merger.
Prior to joining Bridgecom in 2000, he held a succession of positions with CoreComm,
a publicly traded integrated communications provider with facilities throughout the
Northeast and Midwest, most recently acting as Director of Operations. Mr. Crotty
joined CoreComm through the acquisition of USN Communications where he held a
succession of senior management roles in both sales and operations, most recently as
Vice President of Operations. Prior to that, Mr. Crotty was the co-founder and
served as Executive Vice President of The Millennium Group, one of the first
competitive local exchange carriers in the state of Wisconsin. In addition,
Mr. Crotty has also served in managerial positions with CEI Communications, which
he founded, and AT&T Corp. Mr. Crotty obtained a degree in Business Administration
from St. Norbert College.
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| Corey Rinker, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary |
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Mr. Rinker, a certified public accountant and attorney, joined the Company
(with Bridgecom) as Chief Financial Officer in January, 2001 following seven years
experience serving in a similar position with both privately-held and publicly traded
corporations including The Intellisource Group, a Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.
partnership company (NYSE:SFE). Mr. Rinker exercised significant responsibility
and oversight of financial, legal and regulatory operations for these corporations
with respect to public and private financial reporting, compliance and mergers and
acquisitions. Mr. Rinker also possesses nearly a decade of cumulative experience
with predecessors of the Big Four accounting firms of Deloitte & Touche and
Ernst & Young, serving in increasingly senior managerial positions in the tax and
consulting areas. Mr. Rinker also serves as the Assistant Secretary and Treasurer
of Broadview. He has an accounting degree, with honors, from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst and a J.D. degree from Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School
of Law.
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Charles C. Hunter, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary |
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Mr. Hunter has served as Vice President and General Counsel of Broadview since 2003
(with Bridgecom), where he continues to be responsible for the corporate and legal
affairs of the Company, including federal and state public policy advocacy. He is
a 25-year veteran of telecommunications law and policy who has represented competitive
providers of telecommunications services for well over a decade.
Prior to joining Broadview, Mr. Hunter headed the Hunter Communications Law Group, a
Washington, D.C.-based boutique telecommunications law firm with a nationwide clientele.
He began his legal career as a trial attorney with the Federal Maritime Commission and
afterwards was a partner specializing in telecommunications matters at the Chicago-based
law firm of Gardner, Carton and Douglas and the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Herron,
Burchette, Ruckert and Rothwell.
Mr. Hunter received his J.D. from the Duke University School of Law and his
undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is a member of
the bars of the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous Federal
Appellate Courts.
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Kenneth A. Shulman, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer
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Mr. Shulman joined Broadview Networks in 1999 as Chief Technology Officer. In this
role, he is responsible for the architecture, technology, standards and evolution
plans for the company’s integrated communications networks and services. As Chief
Information Officer, Mr. Shulman is also responsible for the company’s industry
leading patented integrated provisioning, billing and CRM systems, software and
IT infrastructure. Mr. Shulman has nearly 30 years of leadership experience in
communications technology. He previously served as Vice President of Local Network
Technology for AT&T, a position he assumed when AT&T acquired Teleport Communications
Group (TCG) in 1998. From 1987 to 1998, Mr. Shulman held officer positions with TCG,
including Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Earlier, he was Director
of Systems Engineering for MCI International. Before that, Mr. Shulman specialized in
network planning with Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and Bell Laboratories.
He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at
Stony Brook, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and
an M.B.A. from The Wharton School. Mr. Shulman has served on many technical advisory
boards, and currently serves on advisory boards of Baker Capital and Baypackets.
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| Terrence J. Anderson, Executive Vice President – Corporate Development |
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Mr. Anderson was a co-founder of Broadview Networks in 1996 and served as Executive Vice
President, Finance, since the company’s inception. He has led efforts to raise startup
capital, offered financial direction, and secured subsequent financing to sustain
Broadview Networks’ operations. Previously, as a Vice President in the media and
telecommunications finance group of Chemical Bank from 1988 to 1995, Mr. Anderson
was responsible for originating and executing transactions and financing for diverse
customers, including several large cable operators. Mr. Anderson holds a bachelor’s
degree in economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. with honors from Columbia
University.
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