Board of Directors
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Tom Turner
Chairman |
| Mr. Turner has over 30 years in the high tech field and served as an executive of several high tech companies including Wang Labs, Symbol Technologies, WhereNet, Itronix, General Dynamics and as President and/or CEO of Wang Canada, Datamax and Itronix. Mr. Turner brings domestic and international business experience and a history of success in growing and selling technology companies based in value creation and solid financial performance.
Mr. Turner graduated from Tufts University (BSEE), attended NYU Business School focused in finance. Mr. Turner holds two US Patents in the area of Real Time Location Systems. |
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Peter Marcum
Director |
| As a major network integrator in the mid 1980's, Peter Marcum began his entrepreneurial career first as a self-taught programmer and then as owner of multiple Computerland stores.
Marcum founded Nashville Computer Liquidators (NCL) in the early 1990s. Under Marcum's leadership, NCL grew to a company generating more than $200 million in annual sales. Marcum sold a majority stake of NCL in 1998 and his remaining interest in April 2000.
In June of 2000, Marcum founded Essex Technology Group (ETG), a multi-million-dollar eCommerce company and in 2001 co-founded Wilhagan Ventures, LLC in order to capitalize on the wealth of inexpensive high-tech equipment liquidated during the dot-com bust of the late nineties.
In 2003, with the success and buying power of Wilhagan Ventures, Marcum decided to expand into the network backbone business after buying assets from the distress sale at Enron. With a single nntp news server business he formed WV Fiber and a year later spun off the new server business (now UseNetServer) to focus on the network.
Marcum attended Morehead State University. |
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Harish Shah
Director |
| Mr. Shah gained 12 years of engineering design and project management experience while serving with prestigious companies Merck & Co and American Cyanamid, followed by 20 years of entrepreneurial success. He has been involved in the development, improvement, sale or return to profitability of over 20 small businesses. He brings to the company his no-nonsense approach to business negotiations coupled with a solid fiscal discipline.
Mr. Shah holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Farleigh Dickinson University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Haven. |
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| Management Staff |
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Richard Eller
General Manager |
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Richard Eller has been with WV Fiber since February 2004 and has been focused on Business Development, new products and services for the WV Fiber Portfollio.. Ric works with many regional carriers, state co-ops, ISPs, record labels, media companies and web developers in developing business partners for WV Fiber.
Ric has more than twenty years of high tech experience at IBM, 3M, and Motorola. Ric attended the University of Hawaii at Monoa, B.A. and Owens School of Management at Vanderbilt University, MBA.
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Karen Bairaktaris
Vice President of Finance and Administration and Controller |
| Ms. Bairaktaris began her career in public accounting in Atlanta. For more than 15 years, Karen Bairaktaris has engineered the financial infrastructure of companies such as st3 (a streaming media start-up) and Omni Home Medical (a home medical supply company).
As Vice President of Finance & Administration for WV Fiber, Ms. Bairaktaris oversees all financial functions including annual audits, monthly financial reporting, budget preparation, cash management, tax return preparation and all billing, accounts payable and payroll functions.
Bairaktaris is a Certified Public Accountant, earning the Elijah Watts Sells National Honor Award and a Gold Medal for the State of Georgia in 1986. Bairaktaris also graduated Summa Cum Laude from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting. |
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Eric Krichbaum
Vice President Engineering |
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Mark Wilson
Vice President of Business Development |
| Mark has been with WV Fiber since the inception of the company. Involved in the design and implementation of our international network and wearing many different hats, has kept Mark very busy with more responsibilities than only the business development of WV Fiber.
Mark has ten years experience in Telecom starting with AT&T in the mid 90's in Atlanta where he established relationships with most of the carriers in the US. Mark's blood is orange with loyalties being where he grew up and went to school. Knoxville, TN and the University of Tennessee Vols. |
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Brandon Nelson
Director of Sales |
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Brandon is a long time telscom man with experience through Looking Glass where WV Fiber was one of his accounts and then with Level 3. Brandon brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to WV Fiber and is a welcome addition to the team.
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