Management Team
Paul E. Borgman, Chief Executive Officer
Paul manages Smoothstone's strategic planning and implementation, sales, marketing and operating processes. In addition to Smoothstone, Paul has successfully founded and operated several companies. He is the founder and principal of a 10 state regional service company, BDS Management Group. BDS owns license rights to B-Dry Waterproofing and other patented solutions that provide next-generation, engineering solutions that solve the radon, humidity and foundation leakage issues found in below grade space. Paul has earned patents associated with these solutions. Under Paul's leadership, BDS has shown double or triple digit revenue growth each year over the last 5 years. Paul was also the co-founder of ViperLink, the first high-speed wireless Internet access provider in the United States. He is also a shareholder of a company that operates Hampton Inn hotels. In the past, Paul was President of Louisville Edible Oils and Vice President of asset-based lending at First National Bank. Paul attended the University of Kentucky, received a BS in Economics from the University of Louisville and an MBA from Bellarmine University.
Jeff M. Wellemeyer, Chief Technology Officer
Jeff brings tremendous technical expertise and innovation to Smoothstone IP Communications. In addition to developing Smoothstone's centralized delivery platform and creating the concept behind a centralized delivery of PBX services, he has founded several companies and launched numerous technical products into the marketplace. Beginning in 1991, he created TeleVoice - the first solid state residential voicemail system. In 1993, he created a product for the casino industry that keeps tracks of house banks by using a series of laser and reflective sensing devices. In 1994 he developed VirtualPAY, the Internet's first billing and payment lockbox and then sold it to National Processing Company (NYSE: NAP) in 1996. This system provided Internet payment capabilities for customers of Mobil Oil, First USA VISA, and Sunoco. Mr. Wellemeyer developed ViperLink in 1997, enabling the delivery of the first high-speed wireless Internet access in the United States. In 1999 ViperLink was sold to Paul Allen backed Darwin Networks, where he served as CTO founding Teledvance (now Smoothstone) in 2000.
Shelly Godfrey, Chief Information Officer
Shelly is one of Smoothstone's founding members and has been largely responsible for the development of its product deployment, implementation, and back end operational support systems. Shelly began her technical development career by implementing a national sales force automation system for the merchant card and transaction processing division of National City Bank. In 1996, as VP of Emerging Technologies for National Processing Company (NYSE: NAP), Shelly worked to develop the VirtualPAY System, the Internet's first billing and payment lockbox system designed to facilitate online payments from millions of consumer customers of Mobil Oil, First USA VISA, and Sunoco. In 1999, Shelly went to Darwin Networks where she was responsible for rollout of Computer Associates Unicenter TNG network operations and control technology. Later she served as Director of Engineering at Darwin, where she was tasked with operational responsibility of the engineering group, including national backbone infrastructure deployment, metropolitan wireless communications network build out, and research and development along with sales engineering.
Christopher Assif, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Cris brings twenty-five years of information technology and telecommunications experience to his role at Smoothstone. At Smoothstone, Cris is the executive overseeing the company's sales, marketing and channel development strategies. Early in his career, Cris held senior management positions with large public companies including AT&T (formerly Ameritech), Baxter International and Cerner Corporation. For the past ten years, Cris has led entrepreneurial technology ventures including two enterprise software companies and a fast growing IT professional services firm. Also during this period, Cris served as a member of the board of directors of Dynamic Healthcare Technologies (NASDAQ: DHTI) and Emergisoft Corporation.
Jon Jorgl, Chief Development Officer
Jon brings twenty years of telecommunication industry experience to his role as with Smoothstone. At Smoothstone, Jon's focus is on strategic account and partnership development. Prior to Smoothstone, Jon served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development of WestCom, the leading provider of trader voice services to the global financial community. Jon also served as Senior Vice President of Sales, Global Crossing NextGen Markets. During his career, Jon has also held management roles at Frontier Communications and Allnet Communications.
Missy DeArk, Chief Financial Officer
As the Chief Financial Officer at Smoothstone, Missy brings an in depth entrepreneurial background and over 18 years of service experience to the company. After working for her family's retail business through her college years as well as working for the Paul Schultz Company family business, Missy started her public accounting career at Ernst and Young. Her love of family owned business lured her back to Paul Schultz in 1992. In 2000, Missy became the Chief Financial Officer of Paul Schultz Company spending most of her time along side the Executive Management Team transforming the company into an integrated marketing communications firm. To keep her retail heritage alive, Missy is a partner in Seven Alarm Restaurant Management. She also makes it a priority to give back to the community as a member of the Greater Clark County School Board. Ms. DeArk holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bellarmine University, as well as a Masters in Business Administration from Indiana University.
Chuck Piazza, Senior Vice President
Chuck brings thirteen years in the telecommunications industry to his role at Smoothstone. At Smoothstone, Chuck is responsible for leading the company's channel partner development process. Prior to joining Smoothstone, Chuck held senior level positions in direct and indirect sales with Lightyear Network Solutions. While at Lightyear, Chuck played a key role in strategic growth and development of numerous direct sales offices in the country's northeast region. In addition, Chuck was responsible for driving nationwide agent activity, while promoting the company's business strategies and increasing revenue-generating opportunities.
Randy McGraw, Vice President of Solution Design Engineering
Randy has served as Smoothstone's Vice President of Solution and Design Engineering since December of 2004. Prior to coming to Smoothstone, Mr. McGraw was Director of Operations and Information Technology for First Residential Mortgage Network, developing and implementing its technical infrastructure to become one of the largest Internet-based residential lenders. Randy's background in data network design began at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) working with various Fortune 500 companies on a global basis and continued on at AEGON USA. Mr. McGraw received a BS in Management Information Systems from Western Kentucky University.
Chris J. Parker, Director of Network Infrastructure Engineering
As the Director of Network Infrastructure Engineering at Smoothstone, Chris brings a wealth of experience to the company. He began his career in 1995 as the Technical Coordinator for Internet Access and Training Program (IATP), working for the U.S. Department of State to provide the Internet access and training through a network of access sites in 11 countries. Mr. Parker spent 3 years in Uzbekistan (a former Soviet Republic), building the network infrastructure allowing access to the Internet for the first time. This included the deployment of VSAT satellite earth stations linking the former Soviet Republic to Moscow, Russia, and the deployment of wireless broadband networks interconnecting the universities and major government centers. Upon his return to the U.S. he joined ViperLink, where he was responsible for the metropolitan wireless network infrastructure. In 1999, when ViperLink was acquired by Darwin Networks, he served as the Director of Network Infrastructure building Darwin's national broadband data communications network. Mr. Parker holds a degree from Rhodes College, as well as some of the highest certifications awarded by Cisco Systems.
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