Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 18, 1999

Christopher E. Edgecomb – Star Telecommunications (strx)

CHRISTOPHER E. EDGECOMB co-founded Star Telecommunications in September 1994 and has served as the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since January 1996. Mr. Edgecomb has been a Director of the Company since its inception. Prior to that time, Mr. Edgecomb was a founder and the Executive Vice President of West Coast Telecommunications ('WCT'), a nation-wide long distance carrier, from August 1989 to December 1994. Prior to founding WCT, Mr. Edgecomb was President of Telco Planning, a telecommunications consulting firm, from January 1986 to July 1989. Prior to that time, Mr. Edgecomb held sales and marketing positions with TMC Communications, American Network and Bay Area Teleport. Profile
TWST: Give us a background summary, enough information to put us into

context for what you see as your business and what you see as your

company?

Mr. Edgecomb: STAR Telecom is a four year