Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 27, 1999

Dan Trampush – Gst Telecommunications (gstx)

DAN TRAMPUSH brings over 27 years of telecommunications industry experience to GST Telecommunications. As Chief Financial Officer he is charged with directing and controlling all financial activities, as well as identifying and directing the Company's long-range financial objectives and strategies. Mr. Trampush has played a key role in the re-alignment of GST's focus on its core telecom, broadband, and data services, as well as the Company's improved financial performance. During his tenure as a Partner with Ernst & Young's Telecommunications Consulting practice in Washington D.C., Mr. Trampush provided a wide range of financial and business advisory services in the areas of business planning, corporate strategy, financial forecasting, product profitability, service costing, and acquisitions. His diverse communications clientele included major domestic and international wireline, wireless and cable television companies such as Bell Canada, Bell Atlantic and Time-Warner Communications. Furthermore, Mr. Trampush has extensive experience working with the Federal Communications Commission and state regulatory agencies. He participated in the FCC's rewrite of the Uniform System of Accounts. He has presented expert testimony before the FCC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, various state regulatory commissions, and the federal courts. Profile
TWST: Can you give us a brief overview, and a little bit of the history

of GST, just to set the stage for the readers.

Mr. Trampush: GST was initially started back in 1994, and intended,