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Anastasios N. Kyriakides is President and CEO. Mr. Kyriakides received a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Florida International University in 1975; in 1977, he received a degree in investment banking from the American Institute of Banking. From 1979 to the present, Mr. Kyriakides has consulted for numerous companies in the areas of shipping, travel, banking, and electronics. His cruise ship career started with Carnival Cruise line out of the Port of Miami, and continued to a successful start up with Tropicana Cruises; one of the first gaming ships out of the Port of Miami. In 1994, Mr. Kyriakides became the Chairman of Montgomery Ward Travel, a company created to provide full travel services to eight million Montgomery Ward customers and credit card holders; he served in this capacity from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Kyriakides had previously organized the successful start-up of Seawind Cruise Line in 1990; there, he was the founder, and later, the Chairman, CEO, and Secretary until 1994. In 1984 Mr. Kyriakides founded Regency Cruise Line, the world’s first publicly traded company in passenger shipping, and served as its Chairman and Secretary until 1987. In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides founded the Mylex Corporation to develop and produce the world’s first hand-held optical scanner and VGA card for personal computers. As the President and Chairman, Mr. Kyriakides guided Mylex from its beginning as a private company to its becoming a public company traded on the NASDAQ under the stock symbol MYLX until it was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM (NYSE: IBM). In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides was the founder and Chairman of Tower Bank NA, a full service commercial bank, with three offices, headquartered in Dade County, Florida.
In 1980, Mr. Kyriakides, was the founder of Delcor Idustries of Hollywood, Florida, an electronics manufacturing facility, assembling OEM products for various electronics companies including IBM mainframe and gable division employing over 150 skilled employees. In 1979, he was the founder and Chairman of Lexicon Corporation, the worlds first hand held electronic language translator the LK3000 that translated into 12 different languages. This company, publicly traded on the NASDAQ, under the symbol LEXI, was ultimately acquired by Nixdorf Computers of Germany.
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Kenneth Hosfeld is Executive Vice President. Kenneth has over twenty-two years of international sales, marketing, and business management experience in the telecommunications industry. Before co-founding NetExpress, he was the Regional Director of Brazil, the Andinos, and the Caribbean for Tellabs, Inc. He secured Tellabs’ first “turn-key” contract (a complete, fully managed network deployment including all products and services and project financing). He opened Tellabs’ offices in Brazil and regularly exceeded revenue targets. Prior to that, Kenneth was Vice President of Nera Latin America, a subsidiary of Nera Telecommunications (formerly ABB), with full P&L responsibility for the region. He opened offices throughout Latin America including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela and additionally penetrated the Mexican and Chilean markets. Prior to Latin America, Kenneth was responsible for sales in Africa and in China. He speaks over six languages including fluent Spanish and Portuguese.
Severino (Rino) Rivano is Vice President of Marketing. Rino’s extensive knowledge of the International Telecommunication’s Market is based on over 30 years of experience and field presence, in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the USA. Rino actively participated in introducing evolving technologies, applied to developing markets. Rino has worked as a Math & Telecommunications University Professor, and as a Program manager of notable international projects. He was a co-founder and Director of a mobile Trunking Radio system operations company. Rino has done consulting for Trimble navigation, Bristol Babcok and Positron. He has been International Sales Manager for Multinationals such as GE and Singer as well as, director of strategic accounts for Harris Corp. and international sales director for Viadux. He has pioneered the introduction of new technologies, developed markets and businesses for GE, CCA, Bristol Babcok, and Harris Corp. Rino is fluent in four languages.
Stephan M. Gardner is Vice President and Director of Business Development. Stephan earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, with majors in Business Administration and Journalism. He has extensive experience in the fields of investment banking, sales consulting and television production. From 1970-1979, Mr. Gardner was an independent television producer headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From 1979, he owned several companies, which provided consulting services in the fields of banking, health care, and sales administration in California as well as Florida. Beginning in 1984, Mr. Gardner was involved in public offerings of stock, and stock syndications in the fields of health, medical products, and leisure activities, (cruise ships). For the last two decades, Mr. Gardner has worked as a marketing and public relations consultant.