Tom Edrington




 

Board Member  - Healy & Company
Senior Advisor - SHUI United States - Japan Consulting
Principal - Set'Graph
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 Past Board Member - United States Telecommunications Association
Outside Director - various companies 

Personal Interests - San Souci

Business  Affiliations

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Mr. Edrington is a seasoned CEO and Board member with successful hands on management and total P&L involvement in technology premised companies ranging in size from start-ups to very large organizations in the communications industry.

  • CEO hands on management of large and small companies
  • Experience with  startups, mature growth, turnaround and shutdown
  • Superior leadership capabilities, excellent spokesperson
  • Long term Asian relationships and solid US network
  • Seasoned outside Board member

As the successful  CEO  of the 9th  largest independent telco, Mr. Edrington was an elected member of  the USTA Board of Directors. In Pacific Bell his role of chief technical officer and network planner for the the company was accomplished as Assistant Vice President responsible for network technology planning, network equipment standards, and technology strategy. Mr. Edrington created Project Victoria, the first operationally deployed voice and data digital loop service for voice and information access. While Vice President of Engineering for Raynet he directed the research and design of  the first large customer deployed fiber optic passive optical network (PON)  system for the loop.  

CEO start-up roles include a) designing and building a 1.6 terabit fiber optic transmission system and b) a mid-call service company producing a voice-actuated system for on the fly, voice triggered, mid-call contextual data acquisition.

Mr. Edrington is a graduate of UCLA, the Stanford Executive Program, and the Bell System Center for Technical Education .

Outside Board  Member - Company Descriptions

  • Telecommunication Services, outsourced operations & engineering,  strategy consulting
  • New network- launching a very high bandwidth,  low latency revolutionary topography for enterprise networks
  • Ocean cables - operating and constructing submarine cables  and cable landing stations  
  •  Billing service - middleware and ASP solution that creates natural, manageable general ledger and cost center relationships from the tangle of unintelligible  communications bills
  •  Edge consolidation - concept leader for network edge device for multiple access to any network protocol 
  • Last yard - providing  the "last yard" to the cubicle with breakthrough cost reduction design of  optical and electrical cabling systems that meet all the  emerging standards  for very high bandwidth to the desk.