Douglas J. Mello President and Founder DJM Advisory Services, Inc. A telecommunication advisory services firm focused on assisting CEOs with execution of major decisions, with a particular focus on sales Doug Mello is a Senior Advisor to Cronus Partners. Specializing in the telecommunications industry, he is a seasoned, accomplished business leader with an exceptional record of achievement in officer-level sales, marketing and operations positions in the industry�s largest, most important and most hotly contested markets. Mr. Mello is currently on the Boards of Directors of Warwick Telephone Company, Xstream Solutions, USA Datanet and Straitshot Communications. A key member of the leadership teams of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic corporations, he successfully led major business sales organizations through a decade and a half of domestic growth and rapid change, including the breakup of the Bell system and formation of NYNEX, and more recently, NYNEX�s merger with Bell Atlantic. Mr. Mello�s positions included: President, Large Business Sales, North at Bell Atlantic, where he was responsible for market and channel management, sales and service for Fortune 500 companies in New York and New England; Vice President, Sales at NYNEX, where he led a sales force of 10,000 and doubled revenues to $1 billion; Group Vice President, Manhattan at NYNEX; and Chairman, President and CEO of NYNEX Business Information Systems. Prior Affiliations: Director of Nx Networks, E-Doctor, Ixnet, Paradigm4, Eyecast and Telexis (now March) Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Advanced Management Development program Boston College, B.A. |