Company

Management Team

Mr. Norman Worthington - CEO

Mr. Norman Worthington is a serial entrepreneur/investor and founder or co-founder of over a dozen companies. Including Software Toolworks, one of very first highly successful consumer software companies and original creator/publisher of such titles as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! and the Chessmaster series. These titles continue today as the leaders in their category and each has sold tens of millions of copies. Software Toolworks became a public company in the early 90's and was subsequently purchased and taken private and then sold to Mattel in 1999.

In 1993 Mr. Worthington entered a joint venture with Computer Associates which developed and successfully launched the world's first enterprise class application integration system. This product, called Opal, integrated back office systems of Fortune 1000 companies and made the information accessible over the Internet. It was used by WalMart, among many others, as the backbone of their hugely successful supply-chain extension strategy in the late nineties. Opal was the featured product of Computer Associates' 1995 annual report and, in 1996, Computer Associates purchased Mr. Worthington's interest in the joint venture.

Also, Mr. Worthington received his BA from New College of Florida and JD from Northwestern School of Law. Since 1997, he has acted as investor, advisor and board member for numerous technology-based startup companies.

Mr. Joseph Rhem - President and CTO

In addition to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Rhem is responsible for running the day to day operations at Star2Star Communications. Mr. Rhem has innovated several new technologies and founded many successful high tech firms in his career. Most recently, Mr. Rhem held the position of Global Principal Architect for Wireless Technologies at Computer Associates (CA), the world's 4th largest software company. Mr. Rhem also ran the CA Worldwide Information Management Advanced Technology Group, reporting to CA co-founder and board member Russ Artzt. During this time Mr. Rhem re-engineered the B2B integration for the WalMart supply chain to run over the Internet. In 2003 Mr. Rhem co-founded Highwall Technologies and patented the long range wireless security sensor known as the Highwall Sentinel. In 2001 Mr. Rhem co-founded Voyage Data Corporation which is a successful wireless platform application development firm. In 1996 Mr. Rhem founded Mindwave Technologies and sold within a year to a subsidiary of Computer Associates. Mr. Rhem has a degree in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and while attending college he founded Summit Software Corporation which was one of the first document imaging and laser disk storage solutions on the market.

Mr. Graham D. Potter - Chief Operating Officer

While providing standards for service and reliability to ensure quality voice capabilities, Mr. Potter, Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for the formalization of test processes, providing installation, customer support and quality assurance to our dealer channel, end users and local field support. Mr. Potter has more than 30 years of experience with delivering exemplary service and support to customers and technology partners around the globe. Once described by industry analysts as "The front man of Rockwell's stellar service organization," he has led highly effective service organizations for such companies as British Telecom, Aspect Telecommunications, SDX Business Systems (acquired by Lucent/Avaya), and Rockwell FirstPoint Contact. During his tenure leading the customer service organization at Rockwell, the team won awards from Pelorus Research and Contact Center World as a global winner of Best After Sales Service.

Mr. Gary Arnold - Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Arnold is responsible for all of the financial operations of Star2Star. Mr. Arnold is a CPA with over 25 years of experience in corporate accounting, finance, treasury, and tax matters. Mr. Arnold began his career with KPMG, a large international accounting firm, and later served as an executive officer of several well-known public companies, including Boston Scientific Corporation, Sunbeam-Oster, and Harcourt Brace & Company. Mr. Arnold's career experiences include 2 successful IPO's, a management-led LBO, and over 60 mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of both public and privately-held companies. On the entrepreneurial side, Mr. Arnold founded a tax consulting firm that specialized in identifying and implementing sophisticated tax reduction strategies for large corporations, which he later sold to a national tax consulting firm. In more recent years, Mr. Arnold has been involved in incubating several technology-related startups and serves as Managing Partner of a Florida-based venture capital firm. In addition to his responsibilities at Star2Star, Mr. Arnold provides financial consulting and CFO-oversight services to several other technology companies, and serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of a public company as well as two privately-held companies.

Ms. Bonnie Seitzinger - Vice President of Finance

As Vice President of Finance, Ms Seitzinger is responsible for all of the finance and accounting operations of Star2Star. Ms. Seitzinger is a CPA with over 30 years of experience in the accounting field combined with business technology operations management. Prior to joining Star2Star, Ms. Seitzinger achieved turnaround results consulting with small, high growth businesses through implementation of custom management tools and systems. She also spent 16 years as a key member of the Arthur Andersen Accounting and Tax Technology division. She managed a joint application software development business including leading an award winning ground up technology solutions supporting AA global client employee programs. Ms. Seitzinger received her BA in Accounting from Arizona State University and her MBA in management from Lehigh University.

Mr. Kristian Kielhofner - Vice President of Systems Engineering

Mr. Kielhofner is responsible for the design and implementation of Star2Star's VoIP services. Mr. Kielhofner is very active in the Asterisk community and is the creator, maintainer, and lead developer of AstLinux, a very compact Linux distribution designed for embedded devices. With over 85,000 users worldwide, AstLinux has quickly grown in popularity since its creation in 2004. Mr. Kielhofner has contributed to several books published by O'Reilly media and is currently working on another book to be published late 2006. He is also a frequent speaker at VoIP and Open Source related events. Most recently, Mr. Kielhofner was formerly President of KrisCompanies, a consulting company serving clients on six continents.

Mr. Jamaal Savwoir - Vice President of Quality Engineering

As the Vice President of Quality Engineering, Mr. Savwoir is responsible for the Star2Star System from end-to-end. His focus on intelligent response ensures the highest quality voice over internet service for our customers. Prior to joining Star2Star, Mr. Savwoir crafted infrastructure monitoring and IT service management solutions for Fortune 1000 corporations as a senior consultant for Computer Associates (CA), the world's 4th largest software company.