Sammy J. Thomas, Executive Director at Telcordia Technologies for the Company's Global Services Group. Prior to Telcordia, Mr. Thomas held senior positions at NYNEX (now Verizon) that included Chief Economist, Vice President - Financial Planning, and CFO of the Greater New York Metro business unit. While at NYNEX, he was successful in developing and negotiating joint ventures, managing a multi-billion dollar business unit, and re-engineering the major business processes to reposition NYNEX for the emerging competitive marketplace in which it soon found itself operating. Mr. Thomas has over 25 years of telecommunications experience and successes, and is sought out by many firms in the industry for his insights and guidance. Mr. Thomas has published several landmark industry papers, many relating to Fiber-to-the-Premises. |