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LYNX Management Team

Our management team at Lynx is comprised of industry leaders that have extensive experience in telecommunications at management and executive levels. We have been assembled a team of people that are innovators and leaders who have been at the cutting edge of telecommunications for many years. Our management team and staff are committed to excellence and have a long history of working with major corporations and clients globally.

Learn More About Our Management Team:



Leonard Elfenbein

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Len has been Chairman of Lynx Network Services, Inc. since 1976. He has more than 35 years of management and professional experience in information systems and telecommunications.

He specializes in strategic and tactical aspects of global networking for carriers and enterprise users. He is recognized for his experience with telecom market issues including new services development, infrastructure, the economics of global networks and rates for telecommunication capacity and services.

Since 2005 he has led a group of LYNX senior telecom executives in the development of service offerings in the wireless and mobile telecommunications market for enterprise companies.

Len has worked with the senior management at AT&T in the strategy and economics of its ventures with IBM and BT-Concert. Additionally, he has worked on the development of strategy and pricing and the rollout of new services for BT, France Telecom, Infonet, NTT-Japan, France Telecom, and Equant.

He has been responsible for managing large-scale projects in conjunction with the development of global networks for Alcatel, Bank of America, Barclay's Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, IBM and IBM-Advantis, ITT, VISA International, and many other enterprise companies.

Over the past ten years Len has managed numerous projects for The U.S. Department of State in the redesign and development of their global diplomatic network. He has worked on several projects for various government vendors and intelligence organizations and holds a top secret clearance from the U.S. Government.

He has also provided assistance for numerous clients in the preparation of RFP's for global network services, selection and negotiation of contracts with winning carriers. These services have been provided for many of the major business consulting companies for their own networks including Arthur Andersen, BearingPoint, McKinsey & Co., and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

From 2000 to 2002, Len was Chairman of the Dow Jones Fiber Optic Index Committee which was responsible for the development of a series of indices for measurement of changes in the price of fiber optic cable worldwide.


Early in his career he was an analyst for the New York Stock Exchange and participated in the development of the first automated trade reporting system driving a national network for distribution of online market data.

 

Charles Skibo

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 Charles Skibo is an accomplished telecom executive and industry veteran. He is currently on the Advisory Board of Athena Technology Ventures, Palo Alto, California.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of iBasis, one of the largest carriers of international voice, prepaid calling services and mobile data services for mobile operators. iBasis was acquired as an affiliate by KPN, the national carrier for the Netherlands.

Previously he was the CEO of COLO.COM, a provider of facilities and co-location services to the communications and information technology industries. He raised $500 million and built 26 carrier-class data centers in the U.S.

Prior to COLO.COM he was involved with a variety of acquisitions, financing and consulting within the telecom industry as Chairman of Strategic Enterprises and Communications, Inc.

He served as President and CEO of US Sprint, where he merged US Telecom, GTE Sprint, and GTE Telenet to form Sprint.

Prior to Sprint he held various executive management positions at MCI, including President of MCI Southeast, Senior VP of Network Operations, and Senior VP of Business Development, Strategic Planning and Administration.

 

John Parsons

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John joined LYNX in 2006, following his retirement from Eastman Kodak, where he had a 34-year career in Information Technology and Telecommunications. During his last four years with Kodak, he was both Manager, Global Telecommunications, Worldwide Information Systems and Manager, Global Contracts Management, Worldwide IS.

In these positions, he was responsible for all aspects of architecture, strategy, design and operations of Kodak's worldwide data, voice and video telecommunications services in over 350 locations in 55 countries. John directly managed a $60 million corporate telecommunications budget with accountability for over $100 million in global telecom expenditures, including major outsourced operations. Included was management of a 70 person global organization of domestic and regional telecom managers and their respective staffs who designed and delivered telecom services globally.

He was responsible for managing and negotiating numerous carrier, supplier and outsourcing contracts for IT infrastructure services representing well over $100 million in annual spend. He successfully delivered well over 10% cost reduction each year in this position while improving telecom service performance, capacity and business capabilities.

He was a senior member of the Worldwide IS management team responsible for IT Infrastructure services throughout Kodak and its subsidiaries.

For sixteen years prior to his leadership of all telecommunications at Kodak, he held various management positions in telecommunications including Manager, Global Telecom Planning and Design and Director, Telecommunications Strategic Planning.

He Holds a BS degree with Distinction, Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University.

 

David Grill

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David Grill has more than 25 years of professional experience in the telecommunications industry. He has worked both as a consultant and as a manager of telecommunications for major enterprise companies.

During the past two years with LYNX, he has had extensive experience in working with clients to support the development of new wireless and mobile programs including the preparation of RFPs, analyzing carrier responses, selection of winning carriers and coordination of implementation of services, billing programs and other wireless operations.

His experience includes wide area networks, mobile and wireless services, contact center applications, speech recognition, voice over internet protocol (VOIP), MPLS, multi-site PBX installations, and business continuity planning.

He has worked closely with, and is familiar with the product lines and offerings of Cisco, Nortel Networks, Siemens, Avaya, NEC, Mitel, AT&T, Verizon/MCI, and Sprint, and is well acquainted with the product offerings of smaller niche players in the industry.

From 1985 through 1996 David was Manager, Telecom Management Services at Johnson & Johnson. His responsibilities included wide area voice and data networking, corporate data center mainframe communications, and management responsibility for a call center with 125 agents.

 

Susan Tucker

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Susan Tucker has more than 25 years of professional experience in the telecommunications industry including 10 years with NYNEX and Verizon.

Prior to joining LYNX, for seven years she was a Managing Consultant at Detecon, Inc. in their Reston, VA office. Detecon is a large international consultancy with headquarters in Germany. Assignments included market and business model assessments, competitive analysis and the development of service concepts in emerging technologies. She also developed marketing strategies, sales and distribution strategies for major carriers.

Prior to Detecon she provided consulting services to the telecommunications industry and headed mobile and wireless projects in the area of strategic marketing including distribution channel strategies, pricing and product strategies, competitive analysis and forecasting by market and channel.

She also was General Manager for Marketing and Sales Planning at PT Excelcomindo Pratama in Jakarta, Indonesia. In this position she developed key marketing strategies associated with implementation of a GDM cellular network in Indonesia. Responsibilities included marketing plans, services pricing and sales management.

 
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