Winstar Names Frank J. Jules President and COO of U.S. Operations
August 10, 2000 06:02 AM Eastern Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2000--Winstar Communications, Inc. WCII , a leading broadband services company, today announced the appointment of Frank J. Jules as president and chief operating officer of Winstar's U.S. Operations. Jules, a twenty-year communications industry veteran, most recently served as president of SBC/Ameritech Business Communications Services.
As president and chief operating officer of Winstar's U.S. Operations, Jules will oversee Winstar's domestic business units for sales, marketing, network and systems services and building access rights, as well as the financial and human resources functions of each. Jules will report directly to Nathan Kantor, president and chief operating officer of Winstar, and will be based in Winstar's corporate headquarters in New York City.
"Frank Jules comes to Winstar with an enormous wealth of skills and experience, which will be critical to managing and maintaining the exponential growth of our domestic operations. He has both entrepreneurial and large company experience in the delivery of data, voice and Internet services," said Kantor. "The added depth that Frank brings to Winstar's senior management team will enhance our ability to build the most widely available broadband network and provide the services, applications, solutions and customer satisfaction that are necessary for our continued success and that make the network useful and important for our customers."
"I am ecstatic about the opportunity to join Winstar at this very exciting stage in the company's development," said Jules. "Winstar has put together an impressive pool of talent and an unrivaled portfolio of network and service assets, positioning it for unprecedented growth. I look forward to joining Winstar's exceptional senior management team as we make Winstar's broadband network and services a vital part of how businesses do business throughout the U.S. and abroad."
Jules was appointed president of SBC/Ameritech Business Communications Services in 1998. He guided the group, which provides data and voice services to more than one million small and medium-sized business customers, to $5 billion in annual revenue - a double-digit increase under his watch. From 1994 to 1998, Jules served in a number of executive posts at Ameritech. Prior to 1994, he held several senior-level sales and operations positions at Nortel and IBM. |
