Executive Team Overview
David S. Clark - Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Since participating in our founding in June 2003, Mr. Clark has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors. Mr. Clark has overall responsibility for strategic guidance, personnel, financing, sales and corporate development/administration for us.
From May 1997 to January 2001, Mr. Clark was Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing and Senior Vice President, Investor Relations for MGC/Mpower Communications. Mr. Clark’s responsibilities included corporate sales and marketing development and implementation and a leading role in securing nearly $1 billion in private equity, IPO, secondary equity and high yield debt financing. Mr. Clark was also the primary contact for investors and Wall Street funds and analysts at Mpower.
From February 2001 to May 2003, Mr. Clark was a principal with Gallagher Equity Management. Mr. Clark has been in the telecommunications industry since 1989 with companies spanning private pay telephone, inmate phone system, specialty satellite services and CLECs.
Mr. Clark was a civilian contractor to the British military in Bosnia and was responsible for the Welfare Phone Service (via satellite) provided to British troops serving under the United Nations peacekeeping mandate. Mr. Clark serves as a director of Antenna Technology Company, Inc. in Chandler, Arizona, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Texas Tech University.
Mr. Clark was named 2006's CEO of the Year-- IP Communications and Voice Services by Frost & Sullivan and 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year by The Technology Business Alliance of Nevada (TBAN).
Gregory K. Roeper - President
Mr. Roeper joined CommPartners in April 2007 as President. Prior to joining CommPartners, Mr. Roeper served most recently as President and CEO of Vodavi Technology, Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications systems which in 2006 was acquired by Vertical Communications.
Mr. Roeper joined Vodavi in 1994 and while there held positions as the company’s chief operating officer; executive vice president, finance, administration and operations; secretary of the company; and as chief financial officer and treasurer.
Prior to Vodavi Technology Inc., Mr. Roeper served as Senior Manager at a major accounting firm where he managed capital formation, deal structuring, SEC compliance, public offerings of debt and equity securities, cost reduction studies, and litigation projects.
Mr. Roeper holds a B.B.A. degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Iowa and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mark W. Peterson – Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Mr. Peterson joined us as Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing in August, 2004. Mr. Peterson has over 25 years experience in executive management roles in marketing, corporate communications and sales.
Mr. Peterson's experience in telecommunications began in 1996 when he served as President, Western Region for Mpower Communications. In this role, he negotiated interconnection agreements with PacBell (now SBC) and GTE (now Verizon). Mr. Peterson was responsible for the companies' profit and loss, sales, marketing and operations in California and Nevada through October 2000 as it became one of the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) operations in the region and one of the first companies to deploy VoIP technology for commercial use.
Mr. Peterson also served in executive and management roles with Allegiant Air, Bank of America, WestAir/United Express and AirCal Airlines. He also served as a consultant with Gallagher Equity Management, providing management services to invested companies.
Mr. Peterson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from California State University, Chico. He also attended the California Northern School of Law.
Paul Mona - Vice President, Engineering
Paul Mona serves as Vice President of Engineering for CommPartners Connect, a position he has held since 2007. He is responsible for network design, equipment selection, application development, and support of the CommPartners Connect network. Mr. Mona joined CommPartners Connect in 2003 as its first employee and initially served as Director of Engineering.
Prior to joining CommPartners Connect, Mr. Mona was head of Engineering at MPower Communications (acquired by TelePacific) and spear-headed the design, development, and deployment of one of the first revenue producing VoIP networks in the nation. Mr. Mona also held an engineering position with Tollbridge Technologies, a leading developer of high-quality, voice-over broadband solutions. Mr. Mona holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technologies from University of Phoenix.
Larry G. Costa - Vice President, Information Systems
Mr. Costa joined CommPartners Connect as Assistant Vice President, Information Services in February 2008. Mr. Costa has over 28 years experience in the telephone industry working primarily in the Information Services and telephone billing areas.
Mr. Costa's experience in telecommunications began in 1980 as a programmer for Centel Corp in Las Vegas, Nevada. During his 15 years with the company, he managed various areas of the Information Services department including Application Development and Quality Assurance with his primary focus being billing systems. Mr. Costa also played a major role in the consolidation of Centel’s multiple billing systems into one ‘Centel Uniform Billing System’ and was later transferred to Chicago to manage the development and quality assurance groups for the new system. In 1992, Centel and Sprint Corp merged giving Sprint local telephone operations in 19 states. In support of this merger, Mr. Costa relocated to Kansas City where his major responsibilities included the conversion of the Centel billing system to Sprint’s billing system, as well as management of the existing Application Development teams in both Chicago and Kansas City.
In October 1996, Mr. Costa accepted a position with Nevtel/MGC/Mpower Communications, which was later acquired by Telepacific Communications, where he worked in various Director-level positions within the Billing, Information Services, and Operations areas for the next 12 years until moving to CommPartners Connect.
Mr. Costa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis and Secondary and Adult Education Teaching credentials from San Francisco State University.