Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 3, 2003
RAY RUSSENBERGER is Chairman, President, Founder and Chief Executive
Officer of Network Telephone Corp. He founded the company in July 1998
after spending 13 years building a national paging company. Mr.
Russenberger opened Network Paging Corp. in 1985 in Lafayette,
Louisiana. In 1989, Mr. Russenberger relocated the corporate
headquarters to Pensacola, Florida, when he launched Network USA, Inc.
By 1995, Network USA had become the nation's largest network of
independent private paging operators. Between 1989 and 1995 the company
grew from 13 to more than 1,400 employees, and was twice named one of
Inc. magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America (1994,
1995). In October 1995, Mr. Russenberger merged Network USA with A+
Communications, which today is part of MetroCall, Inc., the second
largest paging company in the US After four years, Network Telephone
revenues topped $50 million. Network Telephone is licensed by the FCC to
provide service in nine southeastern US states. Profile
Corporation and a picture of things now?
Mr. Russenberger: We were founded in October 1997. We obviously watched
the
