Cellcross.com Names William Mosconi President and CEO.Business Editors WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2000 William Mosconi, with 26 years of varied experience as a management consultant and corporate executive, has been named president and chief executive officer of Cellcross.com, a new company formed to develop and deploy technology permitting cell phone traffic worldwide over the Internet. The appointment was made by Michael S. Pascazi, chairman and co-founder of Cellcross.com, who also invented the system technology upon which the new venture is based. For the past five years, Mosconi, 48, has been president and chief executive officer of Elgin Technologies, a public company involved in the telecom and lighting industries. Previous to that position, he served as vice president and lead partner for seven years with Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., following seven years as a partner in management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects services with the firm of Coopers & Lybrand. His career began with three years as a senior auditor with Arthur Anderson Arthur Anderson may refer to:
BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in finance and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in accounting from Lehigh University Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1866 by Asa Packer. It has undergraduate colleges of arts and science, business and economics, and engineering and applied science, as well as several graduate programs. . "Mr. Mosconi's wide-ranging experience as both a consultant and corporate manager, including his work in the telecom industry, certainly qualifies him to lead the progress of our new enterprise," Pascazi said. The Cellcross technology will let a cell phone user anywhere in the world call another cell phone user by translating the signal to Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. , transmitting it around the globe by Internet, then reconverting it to complete the call, with no intervening phone companies or long distance tolls involved. One of Mr. Mosconi's first tasks will be to direct the construction of a prototype network among four major cities -- such as New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Rome, Tokyo and Santiago -- within the next six months. With this initial network in place, further deployment will follow, Pascazi said. Pascazi and his co-founder of Cellcross.com, Frank Zarzeka, were also founder of Fiber Optek, a rapidly growing designer and installer of fiber optic networks. Both companies are headquartered here. The company is aggressively pursuing $20 million in venture capital to finance its near-term growth, Pascazi said. Interested parties should contact him via e-mail at: chairman@Cellcross.com. Fiber Optek is a registered trademark of Fiber Optek Interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. Corp. http://www.fiberoptek.com Cellcross is a registered trademark of Advanced Advisory Corp. |
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