As CEO and President, Morken is responsible for everything that Bandwidth.com does or fails to do. In 2008 Morken was named one of the Triangle Business Journals 40 Under 40 top business leaders. In 2008 Bandwidth made the Inc. Magazine 500 list for the third consecutive year as the fourth fastest growing privately held company and the fastest growing telecommunications company from 2002 to 2007. The company is private and profitable.
In 1994, Morken co-founded the Internets first online tax filing service, efiling.com. He was called to active duty by the Marine Corps in 1995 and served four years as a Judge Advocate, criminal prosecutor and headquarters company commander. Morken is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and a member of the Virginia Bar Association. He received his undergraduate degree from Oral Roberts University where he also served as President of the student body.
Morken suffers from an addiction to endurance athletics, and was part of Team Bandwidth's 2010 four man cycling team that finished first in RAAM (Race Across America). In 2009, he was named the "Healthiest CEO In The Triangle (Raleigh-Durham)" by Business Leader Magazine. In 2008, Morken finished 22nd in the Wasatch 100 mile Ultramarathon in under 27 hours. He was the first finisher from North Carolina in the 2005 Ironman World Championships held in Kona Hawaii, finishing in 9 hours and 43 minutes. Morken was a two-time member of the Marine Corps Triathlon team in 1997-98.
Morken resides in Chapel Hill with his wife Chrishelle and their six children.
Morken and Kaestner were each named by American Venture Magazine as one of the Top 40 Under 40, and together were named by Frost and Sullivan as the 2006 CEO of the Year in the North American IP Communications Services industry.
Morken and Kaestner have co-founded two non-profit organizations: DurhamCares, a non-profit charity which seeks to bring awareness of excellent charities that are transforming Durham, and Talent Capital of Durham, which invests in entrepreneurs that would not otherwise be eligible for traditional funding from banks, angel or VC funds.
To see what Morken and Kaestner attribute their motivation and success to, please read biographical article from WRAL Local Tech Wire (Secret sauce at Inc 500 star Bandwidth.com? It's a matter of faith).
Kaestner joined Morken as Co-Founder in 2001 when he merged Bandwidth International into Bandwidth.com and served as CEO until early 2008. In his position as Executive Chairman, Henry Kaestner works with partner David Morken on the firm's strategy, financing and marketing functions. Kaestner also oversees the partnership's not-for-profit activities.
Previously, Kaestner was the CEO of Bandwidth International, an international wholesale telecommunications broker based in London, England. He was also a founder of Chapel Hill Broadband, a US based consultant and broker that specializes in dark fiber and large wholesale transactions that was sold to Cantor Fitzgerald.
Kaestner was a Founder and former President and CEO of Chapel Hill Brokers, an energy broker which achieved more than $50 million in daily trade volume on more than 150 transactions, for clients including Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Chapel Hill Brokers was sold to APB Energy (now ICAP Energy) in 1999.
Kaestner oversees the firm's BandwidthCares initiative, is a member of the Local Outreach Committee and the Church of the Good Shepherd in Durham, is on boards and involved in several Durham based charities and is actively involved in missions work in South Africa through his work for the African Enterprise Leadership Training Centre in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Kaestner lives in Durham with his wife Kimberley and their 3 sons.
Morken and Kaestner were each named by American Venture Magazine as one of the Top 40 Under 40, and together were named by Frost and Sullivan as the 2006 CEO of the Year in the North American IP Communications Services industry.
Morken and Kaestner have co-founded two non-profit organizations: DurhamCares, a non-profit charity which seeks to bring awareness of excellent charities that are transforming Durham, and Talent Capital of Durham, which invests in entrepreneurs that would not otherwise be eligible for traditional funding from banks, angel or VC funds.
To see what Morken and Kaestner attribute their motivation and success to, please read biographical article from WRAL Local Tech Wire (Secret sauce at Inc 500 star Bandwidth.com? It's a matter of faith).
As Bandwidth.com's Chief Financial Officer, Matt Petzold is responsible for the strategic direction, operation and management of Bandwidth.com's financial resources and brings more than 20 years of telecommunications experience to the position. Petzold previously held the position of CFO at Motricity and UUNET.
An industry veteran with more than 20 years of telecommunications experience, Petzold has served as the chief financial officer of Motricity, a mobile content delivery company, where he was instrumental in the largest private equity funding in North Carolina history. At Verestar, a leading provider of integrated satellite and fiber network access solutions, Petzold oversaw the management of the finance, human resources and legal teams.
Previously, Petzold was vice president and chief financial officer of UUNET, then the largest worldwide Internet Service Provider. Petzold was responsible for the company's financial planning and reporting, management reporting, capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and acquisition integration activities. During his tenure at UUNET, Petzold provided strategic and operational financial management during a period of growth from $20 million to $4 billion in annual sales and employee growth from 150 to 10,000. Petzold started his career as an audit manager at Arthur Andersen.
John is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Bandwidth.com. In addition to John's in-house corporate experience with Bandwidth, his private practice background and experience includes 15 years prosecuting complex civil cases on behalf of companies, governmental entities, and individuals. His practice areas include class actions, ERISA, FLSA, anti-trust, data theft and privacy, securities, consumer, and product defect actions. John has extensive experience serving as special counsel, being appointed to handle multiple complex civil cases to four different Ohio Attorney Generals, both Republican and Democrats, as well as working for other state and political subdivisions. John's practice experience ranges from working in the environment of a large, full service business focused law firm, to successfully founding a boutique law firm that focuses on complex civil litigation and environmental regulatory matters.
John's experience uniquely includes serving as special counsel for the State of Ohio against the tobacco industry, resulting in a $9.86 billion landmark settlement, and John has served as lead or co-counsel in numerous other multi-million dollar complex civil litigation cases or class actions.
John was is among a select group of attorneys designated multiple times as an Ohio Super Lawyer for his high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, and has been listed in multiple editions of Cincinnati Business Courier as being among the significant legal decision-makers in the region. John has earned the highest peer review rating (AV) for professional excellence from Martindale-Hubbell in recognition of his high level of legal skills, ethical standards and integrity.
John has practiced in all levels of state and federal trial and appellate courts. John is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio, as well as the Federal Claims Court. In addition, John has been admitted pro hac vice to practice before many state and federal trial courts around the nation. John is amember of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cincinnati Bar Association, and has been inducted as a Fellow at the Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers, where John led numerous attorney leadership retreats and programs.
John earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance in 1987 from Miami University of Ohio. Upon graduating John served on active duty with a regular commission as a United States Marine Corps officer from 1987 to 1991. During this time, John served as a tank platoon leader and company executive officer. Besides John's combat role in tanks, he further served as a forward air controller to coordinate air strikes and conducted fire support coordination duties. During his formative training, John was a Distinguished Graduate, ranked first in his class. John left the Marine Corps with the rank of Captain and is a combat veteran of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
In 1994 John earned his Juris Doctor in 1994 from the University of Notre Dame College of Law.
John engages in many outdoor activities including competitive cycling as a licensed USA Cycling Category 1 racer, upland game bird and duck hunting; and John achieved All-American honors in swimming. John is happily married and a proud father of four children.
In his role as Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Chris Chuang is responsible for leading Bandwidth.com's product, marketing, IT, strategy, and corporate development functions. Chuang's broad experience in the telecommunications industry, ranging from serving as a management consultant to Fortune 100 companies, to investing in the sector as a venture capitalist, to driving strategy for a leading private wireless data company, provides him a strong foundation for his broad leadership responsibilities at Bandwidth.com.
Prior to joining Bandwidth.com, Chuang served as the Vice President of Strategic Development for Motricity, a leading provider of mobile data infrastructure solutions. In his role at Motricity, Chuang was instrumental in developing strategies leading to over $2 billion of mobile content transactions served through Motricity's platform and a 10x growth of revenue from $10M to over $100M. Motricity has now filed its S-1 as it pursues an IPO.
Chuang also led Motricity's Corporate Development function which successfully completed three acquisitions (including Motricity's $135 million purchase of publicly-traded Infospace's mobile division), while also raising several hundred million dollars of equity financing, including the largest private equity funding in North Carolina history.
Prior to joining Motricity, Chuang was an investment professional with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a $7.7 billion venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, where he helped lead the firm's coverage of the telecom markets. Previously, Chuang was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Company where he focused on serving Fortune 1000 technology and communications companies. Prior to McKinsey, Chuang also worked in the tech & telecom investment banking groups of both Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. Chuang is a graduate of Stanford University and resides in Raleigh with his wife Linda and their two sons. In his spare time, Chuang is passionate about basketball in every form, but especially his dear Lakers whom he has supported since Magic Johnson hit the junior sky hook over the Celtics in 1987.
In his role of CEO of Bandwidth.com's network subsidiary, Mitch is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company's national VoIP network which directly connects Bandwidth.com to virtually every market in the US.
Prior to joining Bandwidth.com CLEC, Mitch held various executive leadership, operational and technical management positions at MCI, MFS Communications, Worldcom, Telcordia, Level 3 Communications, and Access One Inc.
He is a 1990 graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, with a BS degree in Computer Science. Mitch held various positions as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army before entering the telecommunications industry in 1993. In his spare time, Mitch can be found playing lacrosse or ice hockey.
Currently in his role as Executive Vice President, Kade Ross manages key strategic accounts as well as oversees all real estate, facilities, and purchasing needs for Bandwidth.com.
A veteran of Bandwidth.com since 2001, Kade has served in a multitude of sales and operational roles within the company. In 2008, Kade was responsible for the team that completed the initial build out of the Bandwidth.com CLEC network within 9 months.
A North Carolina native, Kade graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As the V.P. of Operations, Joe Campbell brings Vision and Mission to operational efficiency across all of Operations; of which sets Bandwidth.com apart from its competitors. Joe is a 14-year veteran of the Telecommunication industry. He draws on the technical and administrative experience gained throughout his career with the United States Army and MCI. Joe's continuous focus on process and procedure has been essential in integrating service bundles across the Bandwidth.com portfolio of carriers as well as standing up new product offerings.
Prior to Bandwidth.com Joe was a manager in the MCI Global Data Test Center where he managed MCIs Global East customer base. Joes most notable achievement while with MCI was the development of MCIs Chronic Assessment Group, which handled all 3rd level trouble resolution. Prior to MCI Joe spent 4 years in the United States Army as a 31P, Tech Controller. Mr. Campbell is a Graduate, with honors, of North Carolina Wesleyan, where he earned his BS in Business Administration.
Earl is responsible for leading Bandiwdth.com's best of breed operations team. From sales support through order completion, service turn up, customer care, trouble management and billing and collections, the Bandwith.com operations focuses on creating the best customer experience with the most knowledgeable staff and an unparalleled customer centric attitude.
Earl brings a wealth of operational experience to Bandwidth.com from his 14 year history in telecom operations at companies like MCI, Sprint and Winstar. Earl comes most recently to Bandwidth.com from Covad communications where he was VP of Network Services. Earl spent the last 8 years at Covad guiding and transforming several different customer and network operations teams with an eye towards efficiency and an ever improving customer experience.
Earl holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication Studies from the University of Virginia.
As VP of Product Management and Information Technology, Jim is responsible for the management of new product development and improvement efforts, as well planning and managing Bandwidth.com's strategic IT initiatives. Jim draws on over 10 years of experience as both a management consultant and software engineer.
Prior to joining Bandwidth in 2009, Jim was a management consultant with Edge Consulting (now IBM Global Services) and an associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton. In these roles, Jim guided IT strategy, software development and performance improvement projects for a variety of Fortune 500 and government clients. Prior to joining Booz Allen, he also worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as a software and systems engineer. Jim holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Brian Dally orchestrates product strategy for Bandwidth and leads the company's mobile line of business. His expertise in creating and building new services and applications at mass market scale is based on a 15-year career spanning the global wireless, broadband, entertainment and management consulting industries.
Prior to joining Bandwidth in 2010, Brian served in a variety of global product management and operational roles at high growth technology companies including Motricity, Openwave and broadband pioneer Excite@Home. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia.
Joe Merrill is one of the innovative forces at Bandwidth, focused on creating and developing products, partnerships, and initiatives, which make Bandwidth a market leader. Joe has a proven ability to create significant value for Bandwidth and their customers, which he has demonstrated in Sales, Business Development, and Product Management responsibilities. Joe is currently focused on business development opportunities and Bandwidth's data product and strategy.
Prior to joining Bandwidth, Joe worked for Qwest Communications and Fidelity Investments and graduated from the Gore School of Business at Westminster College. A Utah native, Joe now resides in Cary with his wife Monica and their four children, but remains an avid skier and a sports enthusiast. Joe credits Bandwidth with making his helicopter skiing dreams become a reality and believes he still has a shot at the Olympics playing ping pong.
