Interlink Global Corp. Announces New Board of Directors, Officers, Capital Structure and Projected Earnings.MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. -- Interlink Global Corp. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :ILKG), today announced the election of its new board of directors and the appointment of new officers. Interlink combines the talents of its principals in the fields of Telecommunications, Engineering, and Administration of public companies with over 100 total years of experience. The members of the Board of Directors and officers of Interlink include: PRESIDENT & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. ANASTASIOS N. KYRIAKIDES Mr. Kyriakides received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Florida International University Florida International University, primarily at University Park, Miami; coeducational; chartered 1965, opened 1972. A research university, it has 18 colleges and schools and many specialized centers and institutes, including those in biomedical engineering, database in 1975. In 1977, he received a degree in investment banking from the American Institute of Banking. Mr. Kyriakides has extensive experience in the field of investment banking and venture capital. From 1979 to the present, Mr. Kyriakides has consulted for numerous companies in the areas of banking, shipping, travel, and electronics. In 1994, Mr. Kyriakides became the Chairman of Montgomery Ward Travel, a company created to provide full travel services to eight million Montgomery Ward customers and credit card holders; he served in this capacity from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Kyriakides had previously organized the successful start-up of Seawind Cruise Line in 1990; there, he was the founder, and later, the Chairman, CEO, and Secretary until 1994. In 1984 Mr. Kyriakides founded Regency Cruise Line, the first publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in passenger shipping, and served as its Chairman and Secretary until 1987. In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides founded the Mylex Corporation to develop and produce the world's first hand-held optical scanner and VGA card for personal computers. As the President and Chairman, Mr. Kyriakides guided Mylex from its beginning as a private company to its becoming a publicly traded company on NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the stock symbol MYLX, until it was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM). In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides was the founder and Chairman of Tower Bank N.A., a full service commercial bank, with three offices headquartered in Dade County, Florida. He also was the founder and Chairman of Lexicon Corporation, the world's first hand-held language translator, the LK3000, that translated 12 different languages. It became a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ, under the symbol LEXI, until it was acquired by Nixdorf Computers of Germany. Mr. Kyriakides is also the founder and Chairman of the on-line brokerage firm NowTrade Corp., as well as being the founder and Chairman of Internet Stock Market Corp., an investor relations and public relations firm for public companies. CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER OSCAR (Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime) AOL's internal project name for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The core functions of OSCAR, known as the Basic OSCAR Services (BOS), include Login/Logoff, Locate (find out about other AIM users), Instant Message LIGARDI Mr. Ligardi is a resident of Chile who has spent most of the past seventeen years working for Telecommunications services and Technology providers in the United States, Latin America and Chile. Mr. Ligardi received the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering Bachelor of Engineering (commonly abbreviated as BE or BEng) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at an accredited university in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Korea, Sciences in 1986 from the University of Santiago There are two well-known places called University of Santiago:
In 2002 he created Interlink, and from 1997 to 2001 worked for Tellabs Int'l. As a Sales Manager and Northern South America Northern South America is a region in the continent South America. This region has a rich range of natural resources exploited to European explorers over the past couple of centuries. Most of the most populous cities, such as Bogotá, are located temperate conditions of the Andes. and Latin America Business Planning Director, he negotiated large contracts in Mexico and Brazil. He worked in the development of Tellabs' first "turn-key" contract (a complete, fully managed network deployment including all products, services and project financing). He developed Tellabs' offices in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Iusatel Chile S.A. as a Chief Technical Officer and International carrier relations expert. This involvement was the development of a Long Distance Company joint venture between Bell Atlantic and Grupo Iusacell based in Chile. From 1992 to 1994, he served in Bell South Chile S.A. as a Business and Products Manager, responsible for Product Development. Between 1988 and 1992 he worked in Telefonica in similar positions. He speaks fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese. CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER KELLY KING Kelly K. King is the CFO See Chief Financial Officer. . Mr. King is a partner of Tatum CFO Partners, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . His experience spans twenty-two years principally in the property-casualty insurance and insurance services industries. He has worked both in large organizations, with many affiliated enterprises including insurance, banking, timber, hotel, and real estate development as well as smaller singularly focused businesses. He possesses experience in financial forecasting, financial reporting, raising of private and public equity, acquisition due diligence and negotiations, bank financing, budgeting and planning and information systems. Mr. King possesses twenty-two years of progressive financial management experience. He has been a partner of Tatum CFO Partners, LLP since May 2000. During his tenure with Tatum, he has served clients in the life insurance, aircraft engine repair, transportation, reverse logistics, property-casualty insurance, surety bail bond, space industry (NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. ), economic development agency of state government, wireless network and pay telephone industries either on a project basis or as chief financial officer. Mr. King previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Insurance Management Solutions Group, Inc. ("IMSG IMSG Informational Message IMSG IM Systems Group, Inc. IMSG International Messages "), a $60 million insurance outsourcing provider. As CFO, Mr. King was the primary catalyst in developing an outsourcing business model that resulted in the cobbling together of certain affiliates, business units, cost centers and assets into what became IMSG. IMSG went public in 1999, less than two years from the time this strategy took shape. Mr. King served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bankers Insurance Group and many of its 40 subsidiaries that produced more than $300 million in consolidated revenues. Mr. King also served as Controller of Integon P&C Companies, Winston-Salem, NC from 1987-1992 (completing an IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. while there). He was an auditor for NAC See network access control. Re Corporation from 1986-1987. For the years 1982-1986, he was an analyst for the Best Company in Oldwick, NJ. He began his career with Kemper Insurance Group in 1980. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES KENNETH HOSFELD Kenneth's background includes over twenty-two years of international sales, marketing, and business management in the telecommunications industry. Before co-founding NetExpress, he was the Regional Director of Brazil, the Andinos, and the Caribbean for Tellabs, Inc. There, he negotiated deals as large as $350 million. He secured Tellabs' first "turn-key" contract (a complete, fully managed network deployment including all products and services and project financing). He opened Tellabs' offices in Brazil and regularly exceeded revenue targets by 130%. Prior to that, Kenneth was Vice President of Nera Latin America, a subsidiary of Nera Telecommunications (formerly ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s ), with full P&L responsibility for the region. He opened offices throughout Latin America including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela and additionally penetrated the Mexican and Chilean markets. Prior to Latin America, Kenneth was responsible for sales in Africa and in China. At Nera, Kenneth regularly grew sales in his region between 80-200%, annually. He speaks over six languages including fluent Spanish and Portuguese. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING SEVERINO RIVANO Severino (Rino) Rivano has joined as Vice President of Marketing. Rino's vast knowledge of the International Telecommunications Markets is based on over 30 years of experience and field presence, in Europe, Latin America, Africa and USA. With active participation in introducing evolving technologies, applied to developing markets, he worked as Math & Telecommunications University Professor, Program manager of important international projects, Co-founder and Director of a mobile Trunked Radio system A trunked radio system is a complex type of radio system that is used to maximize available capacity in a two-way radio system, usually UHF. Groups of users are given a logical talkgroup to share for their communications, rather than a dedicated radio frequency. operator, Consultant for Trimble navigation, Bristol Babcock and Positron positron: see antiparticle. positron Subatomic particle having the same mass as an electron but with an electric charge of +1 (an electron has a charge of −1). It constitutes the antiparticle (see antimatter) of an electron. , International Sales Area manager for Multinationals such as GE and Singer products, Director of strategic accounts for Harris Corp. and international sales director for Viadux. He pioneered the introduction of new technologies, developed markets and businesses for GE, CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A , Bristol Babcock, and Harris Corp. for more than $500M USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . In these years, he implemented technologies as broadcast (Radio and TV), satellite, mobile communications, Scada, data transmissions & networks, ACDs & CADs (911 type) for emergency and security, microwaves, GPS & AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) See mobile positioning. , xDSL, wireless broadband, wireless IP, LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 28 GHz range in the U.S. and 24-40 GHz overseas. It requires line of sight between transmitter and receiving antenna, which can be from one to four miles apart , MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service or Microwave Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 2.2-2.4 GHz range. , among others. Recognized as a fluent multilingual speaker (Italian, Spanish, English and French), with updated clear vision of new tendencies of technology and its adaptation to markets environment, developing business plan projections, presentations and competitive analysis. VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT STEPHAN M. GARDNER Mr. Gardner earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U in Coral Gables, Florida Often called "The Gables," Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Miami, in the United States. The city is best known as the home of the University of Miami, and as an example of City Beautiful urban planning. , with majors in Business Administration and Journalism. He has extensive experience in the fields of investment banking, sales consulting and television production. From 1970-1979, Mr. Gardner was an independent television producer headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (IPA: [saŋ hwaŋ]) (from the Spanish San Juan Bautista, "Saint John the Baptist") is the capital and largest municipality on Puerto Rico. . From 1979, he owned several companies, which provided consulting services in the fields of banking, health care, and sales administration in California as well as Florida. Beginning in 1984, as an investment banker, Mr. Gardner structured public offerings of stock, and stock syndications in the fields of health, medical products, and leisure activities, (cruise ships). In 1989, Mr. Gardner became the owner/operator of Med Test, Inc., a private company, which is a provider of mobile medical testing services. For the last two decades, Mr. Gardner has worked as a marketing and public relations consultant. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT MARTIN A. SALZEDO Mr. Salzedo began his cruise line experience in 1972 with the startup of Carnival Cruise Line. His responsibilities grew along with the company. With positions both onboard and ashore, as Chief Purser PURSER. The person appointed by the master of a ship or vessel, whose duty it is to take care of the ship's books, in which everything on board is inserted, as well the names of mariners as the articles of merchandise shipped. Rosc. Ins. note. 2. , Reservations Manager, Pier Supervisor, Purchasing Manager, Personnel Manager and Accounting Services, he is more than qualified to oversee the operation of a new operation from concept to fruition. As Operations Manager at Carnival, Mr. Salzedo was charged with overseeing the four existing ships of the Line. He was then recruited by Paquet French Cruises as vice-president of operations, in charge of both the Marine and Hotel departments aboard the ships. Mr. Salzedo prepared organizational and procedural manuals to improve effectiveness, efficiency and staff knowledge of the company's policies. He introduced computerization com·put·er·ize tr.v. com·put·er·ized, com·put·er·iz·ing, com·put·er·iz·es 1. To furnish with a computer or computer system. 2. To enter, process, or store (information) in a computer or system of computers. to control and reduce expenses and oversaw a ship renovation. Mr. Salzedo then went on to become president and Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed Discovery Cruise Line. During a period of eleven years he successfully directed the overall operations and revenues for the company. He was responsible for implementation of policy, procedures, forecasting and budgetary procedures. The acquisition and staffing of all Discovery ships were under his direction. Revenues increased by 123% and expenses decreased. Mr. Salzedo is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University “FAU” redirects here. For other uses, see FAU (disambiguation). Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. with a bachelor's degree in business administration. The Company presently has 14,806,063 million common shares outstanding, with management owning 13,300,000 shares of restricted stock, and 900,000 shares in the float. The Company has no outstanding warrants, preferred stock or convertible shares. Management projects that it will achieve its second profitable year in 2005, realizing $.058 per share in net earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is a non-GAAP metric that can be used to evaluate a company's profitability.
About Interlink Global Interlink Global (OTC:ILKG), founded in 2002, provides telecommunication solutions around the world. Founded in Santiago, Chile by Oscar Ligardi, Interlink has positioned itself as a leader in hosted VoIP telephony services. Interlink Global is currently doing business in North America, South America/Caribbean, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. Interlink Global provides SIP-based broadband telephony solutions, WiFi, WiMax, Marine Satellite Services, calling cards, and other enterprise services internationally. Interlink Global, using VoIP technology, provides long distance telephone service, with full features, at prices that are greatly reduced in comparison with traditional telephone companies. Following its own strict quality and service guidelines, Interlink has emerged as one of the few profitable VoIP enterprises in the world. The company is audited by Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting firms. The company recently went public and short range planning calls for Interlink to go to NASDAQ or AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange by 2006. Interlink Global Gross projected income will be $719,000.00 per month on an annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. basis, and net cash flow of $89,250.00 per month will be realized, also on an annualized basis. Interlink Global Corp. has 14,806,063 common shares outstanding, and the float is 900,000 shares. Interlink is proud to announce that it is one of only a few VOIP service companies that is currently profitable. Last year, its audit, issued by Deloitte Touch, showed a net profit from its Latin American operations of $63,000. The management anticipates that such profitable status will continue throughout 2005 as it expands its operations through the Harris contract, previously announced, and expand its services offered in the US, the Middle East and Africa. FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Factors which may affect the Company's results include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to expand its customer base, the Company's ability to develop additional and leverage its existing distribution channels for its products and solutions, dependence on strategic and channel partners including their ability to distribute the Company's products and meet or renew their financial commitments, the Company's ability to address international markets, the effectiveness of the Company's sales and marketing activities, the acceptance of the Company's products in the marketplace, the timing and scope of deployments of the Company's products by customers, fluctuations in customer sales cycles, customers' ability to obtain additional funding, technical difficulties with respect to the Company's products or products in development, the need for ongoing product development in an environment of rapid technological change, the emergence of new competitors in the marketplace, the Company's ability to compete successfully against established competitors with greater resources, the uncertainty of future governmental regulation, the Company's ability to manage growth, obtain patent protection, and obtain additional funds, general economic conditions and other risks discussed in this Press Release and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements and risk factors included in this document are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to the Company as of the date thereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or risk factors. |
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