Andy Berman Joins i2Telecom International Board of Directors
Source: voip-buzz.com
Former Head of Strategic Alliances and Business Development for RadioShack Expands Board to Five Members
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – April 14, 2008 — i2Telecom International, Inc. (”i2Telecom®”) (OTCBB: ITUI), a developer of patented and innovative high-quality Voice-over-Internet Protocol (”VoIP”) products and services, today announced that Andy Berman has been appointed to its board of directors, increasing the number of board members to five.
With over 26 years of industry experience, Mr. Berman has been involved in nearly all sectors of the technology and telecommunications industries and was instrumental in revolutionizing global Internet connectivity in the early 1990s. He has extensive experience in the disciplines of strategic alliance planning and business development, as well as sales and marketing, product development and distribution.
Mr. Berman, age 49, is the founder and owner of Chesapeake Ventures, LP (”Chesapeake”), a consulting group specializing in strategic global alliances and business development for the technology and telecommunications industries. His clients at Chesapeake have included Monster Cable, Cisco, RadioShack and Valence Semiconductor, among others. Mr. Berman was President and Chief Executive Officer for Nextlink USA, Inc, AB, a Denmark-based headset manufacturer from May 2006 to February 2007, at which time he was elected to their Board of Directors. He served as Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Business Development, at RadioShack from July 2003 through April 2006, where he successfully delivered emerging technologies and new products/services to distribution channels and brought many licensing and investment opportunities to the company. Mr. Berman, as a Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CipherOptics from January 2002 through June 2003, successfully negotiated strategic relationships with SafeNet, CNT, IBM, EMC, Storage Technology, and Hitachi Data Systems.
“We are excited that Andy Berman has joined i2Telecom’s Board of Directors,” stated Paul Arena, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Andy has a demonstrated record of success and is well-respected in the technology and telecommunications industries. His ability to identify strategic opportunities, enhance shareholder value, and manage profitably during periods of rapid growth is consistent with our corporate objectives. Andy’s leadership and strategic initiatives were instrumental in generating hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenues and shareholder value during his more than 26 years of building new businesses and introducing new technologies and services into a variety of global markets.”
“I am personally gratified that Andy has elected to invest his time with us,” added Mr. Arena. “His enthusiasm is shared by other members of our board of directors and senior management team. We have established aggressive goals for future growth and profitability and look forward to Andy’s contributions towards the achievement of these goals.”
“I believe that i2Telecom has created a valuable intellectual property portfolio surrounding its Internet telephony technology and has an excellent platform from which to deliver end-to-end Internet telephony solutions and applications on an international scale,” commented Mr. Berman. “Unlike many of its competitors, i2Telecom has successfully developed award-winning solutions and applications that are superior for the communications needs of users in many demographics. I hope to leverage my business and sales experience to assist i2Telecom in penetrating a variety of key strategic markets.”
About i2Telecom International, Inc.
i2Telecom International, Inc. is a developer of patented and innovative high-quality Voice-over-Internet Protocol (”VoIP”) products and services that employ best-of-breed VoIP technology and use a combination of the Company’s own services network and the Internet to deliver high-quality phone calls, streaming video and text chat to customers on a global scale. i2Telecom International provides its VoiceStick®, MyGlobalTalk™, Digital Portal communications and microgateway adapters for VoIP long-distance and other enhanced communication services to its subscribers. Its patent pending services technology platform is compliant with the Session Initiation Protocol (”SIP”) telecommunications industry standard. For additional information visit www.i2telecom.com or www.voicestick.com or www.myglobaltalk.com or call 404-567-4750.
