James A. Gillis was named president of AGL Networks in June, 2006, having joined the company in 2003 as vice president of wholesale markets. Gillis is responsible for leading all aspects of Networks� operations, including p & l, engineering, operation and construction, sales and all new market and business expansion. He plays a vital role in the development and implementation of a sustainable long term growth strategy for Networks.
Prior to being named president, Gillis served as vice president of sales, marketing and business development for AGL Networks since January 2004. In that role he was responsible for setting an aggressive customer attainment and retention program in the wholesale and enterprise markets as well as evaluating new network and market expansion.
Gillis was a founding employee of KMC Telecom Holdings, a national facility based CLEC with 35 operating markets. During his tenure with KMC he held positions there as vice president southeast region, vice president market development, vice president carrier sales and senior vice president of data outsourcing. In this last assignment he originated long term agreements that had annual sales of $300M.
He spent the first 10 years of his career with Union Carbide in several sales and sales management roles in Houston, Los Angeles and the New York area. Gillis has over 25 years of sales and business development experience with the last 15 years in telecommunications.
Gillis is a graduate of Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. |