VoIP Industry Executive Ron Harden Joins VoX as EVP-Sales & Marketing
CELEBRATION, FLA. August 22, 2005 – VoX Communications, a premier packet communications services provider deploying VoIP (voice over IP) residential and business applications nationwide, today announced that telecom and VoIP industry executive Ron Harden has joined the company as executive vice president – sales and marketing. Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp., a CLEC and integrated packet communications service provider based in White Plains, NY.
“Ron has a great reputation and will be a strong addition to our VoX team,” said Mark Richards, Chief Information Office of VoX Communications. “He has more than 25 years’ domestic and international experience in the areas of sales & marketing, engineering, business development, and strategic planning, and understands the VoIP business better than most in the industry,” he added.
Harden comes to VoX from Volo Communications, where he served as executive vice president-sales and marketing for the next generation voice, data and enhanced services provider which was recently acquired by VoIP, Inc. Prior to that, Harden worked for broadband service provider Grande Communications, where he was executive vice president, responsible for sales, marketing, business development, and account management. Before that, he was a director and chief operating officer at PointOne Telecommunications, Inc., a network provider that offered VoIP and data services to wholesale and enterprise markets.
A recognized leader in the telecommunications industry, Harden previously worked with three other prominent telecom organizations: Williams Communications, where he served as vice president of sales and marketing, WorldCom Inc., and the original WilTel, where he had varied executive management responsibilities in sales and marketing for both wholesale and retail channels. Harden has served on the ASCENT and CompTel/Ascent board of directors for six years, most recently as chairman.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an executive MBA from the University of Wisconsin.
About VoX Communications
Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. Using its advanced, nationwide Voice over IP (VoIP) network, VoX offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable, wireless and wireline operators, and enhanced VoIP telephone service to the small business and residential marketplace. VoX's VoIP service is a feature-rich, low-cost and high-quality alternative to traditional landline phone service. For more information, visit www.voxcorp.net.
About eLEC Communications
eLEC Communications Corp., headquartered in White Plains, NY, is a publicly traded local telecommunications company that is taking advantage of the convergence of the technological and regulatory developments in the Internet and telecommunications markets. eLEC provides an integrated suite of communications services to business and residential customers, including local, long distance, dedicated access, and VoIP. For more information, visit www.elec.net.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. eLEC’s actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, certain risks and uncertainties over which the company may have no control. For further discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the discussions contained in eLEC’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended November 30, 2004 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the periods ending February 28, 2005 and May 31, 2005, and any subsequent SEC filings.
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