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Mr. Bannerman began serving as a director of the Company in August 2007. With over 25 years of industry experience, Bannerman has experience in nearly all sectors of the telecommunications industry and was engaged in the early introduction of digital and Internet technologies and services throughout the world. He has extensive experience in the areas of strategic planning, business development, as well as sales and marketing, engineering, systems development and network operations.
From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Bannerman was a senior executive and most recently CEO of Verso Technologies. Before joining Verso, Bannerman served as Terremark Worldwide's Chief Technical Officer from 2000 to 2004, where he led the teams responsible for the design, implementation and operation of the Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas , the fifth tier-one NAP in the world. The NAP is home to over 165 of the worlds' largest carriers and many US government entities and is one of the primary interconnection and peering facilities in the United States . He was also instrumental in raising capital for the company.
Prior to that, from 1996 to 2000, Mr. Bannerman founded IXS.NET, which developed and deployed one of the first integrated VOIP network platforms in Asia providing services in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He had previously founded DSP.NET from 1993 to 1996, one of the first commercial ISPs in northern California .
From 1983 to 1993 Mr. Bannerman served as Vice President at Bell Canada International, to assist Nortel Networks in the global introduction and market development of Nortel's new DMS digital central office switching and SL-10 packet network products. Prior to that, Bannerman had been with Bell Canada since 1979, where he was involved in the introduction of the first digital switching and packet network systems to national and international corporations.
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