Posted: 12/1999
Adds, Moves & Changes
PointOne Telecommunications Inc., Austin, Texas, has appointed 26-year industry veteran Ron Harden chief operating officer. Harden will be responsible for the management of strategic planning, customer care, sales and marketing for PointOne's Internet protocol (IP) communications network. Harden most recently was vice president, sales and marketing at Williams Communications Group, a unit of Williams. Prior to his role as vice president, Harden served as director of wholesale marketing for WilTel, a division of WorldCom Inc.
Net2Phone Inc., Hackensack, N.J., the Internet telephony arm of IDT Corp., has announced Jonathan Fram has joined the company as president. He oversees the expansion of the company's voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) business, broadens Net2Phone's distribution agreements and develops strategic relationships with Internet service providers (ISPs) and communications companies worldwide.
Net2Phone also has added three executives to its board of directors. Dan Schulman, president and chief operating officer of priceline.com; Martin Yudkovitz, president of NBC Interactive Media; and Michael Fischberger, senior vice president of domestic telecommunications and Internet services at IDT, will join the board, bringing the number of directors to 11.
| RateXchange Inc., San Francisco, has named Donald H. Sledge chairman and CEO of the wholesale bandwidth exchange. Sledge is an industry veteran with 32 years of management experience and 15 years of CEO experience, his most recent post being president and CEO of TeleHub Communications Corp. Sledge also served as president and chief operating officer of WCT, which was acquired by Frontier Corp.; head of operations for New T&T, a Hong Kong-based startup that competed with Hong Kong Telephone; and chairman and CEO of New Zealand Telecom International. |  Donald H. Sledge |
Charles F. Liggett is now part of the executive team of Pathnet Inc., Washington. Liggett has become senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the carrier's carrier of digital telecommunications capacity to second- and third-tier U.S. markets. He previously served as vice president-portfolio development and strategy at Concert Global Communications.
IXC Communications Inc., Austin, Texas, has elected Richard Irwin chairman of the board of directors, and named Stanley W. Katz chief financial officer. Irwin succeeds former chairman Benjamin Scott, who resigned from the board. Katz replaces outgoing chief financial officer James Guthrie, who resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities.
| A former MCI International president has taken the helm of GlobeNet Communications Group Ltd. (Globe-Net), St. David's, Bermuda. Jerry A. DeMartino now is the independent undersea cable company's CEO, assuming the day-to-day-duties of GlobeNet from present CEO and Chairman Mike Kedar, who will focus his attentions on his role as chairman. DeMartino has more than 26 years of experience in international telecommunications. |  Jerry A. DeMartino |
| CapRock Communications Corp. has named Leo J. Cyr president and chief operating officer and has been nominated to fill a vacant seat on its board of directors. Cyr comes to CapRock from MCI WorldCom, where he spent 13 years in various positions. Most recently, he was senior vice president of MCI WorldCom's intelligent network architecture and development organization. |  Leo J. Cyr |
