Former Comcast Executive Rian Wren Joins AccessLine Communications' Board of Directors.BELLEVUE, Wash. -- AccessLine Communications Corporation, a leader in hosted communications and voice services, today announced that Rian J. Wren, formerly senior vice president and general manager of voice services for Comcast Communications and the former president of Comcast Business Communications, has joined the company's board of directors. Wren is a telecommunications industry veteran most recently known for overseeing the planning, development and launch of Comcast's VoIP phone See IP phone and softphone. service. "The addition of Rian Wren to our board of directors represents a particularly significant milestone for the company," said Doug Johnson The name Doug Johnson may refer to the following people:
Wren had a distinguished career at Comcast, the nation's largest facilities-based provider of cable telephone service. After joining the company in 1999, he served as president of Comcast Business Communications before being named CEO of Broadnet, Comcast's international wireless telecommunications company See telecom company. headquartered in Belgium. He returned to Comcast in 2002 to head up Comcast Digital Phone before being named senior vice president and general manager of voice services, a position he resigned in July 2005. "At a time when the Digital Voice (VoIP) adoption rate is accelerating in the business community, I'm pleased to serve on the board of directors of one of the leading service providers in the VoIP for business space," Wren noted. "I'm looking forward to adding my expertise in developing processes and systems for entry into new telephony markets to the board's collaborative initiatives in the coming months." Prior to joining Comcast, Wren worked at AT&T for more than 20 years in the areas of business and consumer communications services, network services and network systems manufacturing, most recently serving as the company's southwest regional president. He was an AT&T Sloane Fellow while earning his MS degree from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , and holds an undergraduate degree “First degree” redirects here. For the BBC television series, see First Degree. An undergraduate degree (sometimes called a first degree or simply a degree in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. About AccessLine AccessLine Communications provides hosted VoIP services for the business market nationwide. The company enables service provider partners and resellers to rapidly enter the voice market with a fully rebrandable, turnkey VoIP service that is easy to implement, cost effective, and delivers a complete range of powerful features. With a customer base of more than 100,000 business users, AccessLine provides unprecedented application quality, functionality and customer support. AccessLine recently won the "Pulver100" Award for top VoIP growth companies and the "Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: 100" award for the best 100 private companies in America. For more information, please visit www.accessline.com. |
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