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IPtimize Adds Three Business Experts To Its Board
Of Directors
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Business Experts
IPtimize, Inc.
September 29, 2008
Denver, CO -- IPtimize, Inc. (Pink Sheets: IPZI, "IPtimize"), a
broadband voice and data service provider, announced today it has
added three new board members to its board of directors, bringing
the full board to a total of seven members. |
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Jeffrey Galgano, Michael Geller and Martin Grusin
have joined the board at IPtimize, adding to the business expertise
already brought to the IPtimize board by Ron Pitcock, Bob McGraw,
Stan McGinnis, and Paul Maxwell.
Mr. Galgano has been President and a Director of the privately-held
Sentinel Technologies, Inc. and CFO of Sentinel's operating company
Tidel Enginnering, L.P. since October 2006. Tidal designs,
manufactures and sells timed access cash management technology
platforms and machine networks used by convenience stores,
restaurants and other retailers. Mr. Galgano developed extensive
expertise in brokerage and investment banking leading the Denver
corporate finance office as Managing Director of Stifel Nicolaus &
Company, Inc. and as Managing Director of A.G. Edwards & Sons,
Inc.'s Denver corporate finance office earlier in his career.
Mr. Galgano holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of
Management, Northwestern University and a BSC from DePaul
University.
Mr. Geller brings manufacturing, retail and distribution knowledge
to the IPtimize board, having worked with Seagram Distillers for 11
years, eventually leaving his division Vice Presidency to pursue
other interests. He has been CEO of Beverage Distributors, the
Chairman at Best Card LLC, the Chairman of Lowell 17 Hospital and
the President of the Colorado Wholesalers Association. At one point,
Mr. Geller was lauded by Time Magazine with the national recognition
of being named the Wholesaler of the Year. Mr. Geller has a BBA in
Marketing and Accounting from Pace University.
A specialist in finance, taxation and law, Mr. Grusin is an actively
practicing attorney who specializes in tax planning for individuals
and corporations, real estate, real estate planning and development
matters, estate planning, and banking. He is a principal in the Law
Office of Martin A. Grusin, P.C. and was formerly, for 24 years
prior to now, a principal in the firm of Johnson, Grusin, Kee &
Surprise, P.C. In addition to his law practice, he has served as
President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board
of directors of United American Bank and its holding company, W.B.T.
Holding Company, and he has served as an associate professor at the
University of Arkansas in the Graduate School of Engineering. Mr.
Grusin received a B.S. degree from the University of Memphis and
received his J.D. from University of Memphis School of Law and an
L.L.M. (Tax Specialty) from the University of Miami School of Law.
He is a member of the Memphis Bar Association, Tennessee Bar
Association, and the Tax Committee of the American Bar Association.
"We're very pleased to supplement the board with the additional
business, technical, financial and legal expertise that these three
gentlemen offer," said Ron Pitcock, IPtimize's CEO. "We are a
rapidly expanding business with an opportunity-filled future, and
the guidance of a well-rounded and business-focused board will be
vital to charting the long-term course ahead of us."
About IPtimize, Inc.
IPtimize is a broadband voice and data service provider focused on
connecting, adapting and managing commercial and residential IP
services for select industry channels. Utilizing proven,
standards-based Internet delivery technologies, IPtimize enables its
customers to offer business-class bundled services that are easy to
implement and network. The solutions/services are carrier and
terminal equipment agnostic, cost efficient, fully monitored and
supported. IPtimize works directly with leading international
network providers to simplify each customer's competitive navigation
and management of the voice business and other IP opportunities. For
more information, visit www.iptimize.com.
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