Tom Buttermore

Mr. Buttermore is Vice President & GeneralManager, Global Carrier Solutions for Norte.
He has years of senior technology development and operations experience within the Multiple System Operator, Local Exchange Carrier, Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, and consumer software segments.
Prior to joining Nortel, he was Vice President of Data and Voice engineering and operations at Adelphia Communications Corporation, a position he held since May 2003.
He implemented mission-critical applications such as a complete security re-engineering effort to include Digital Signing capability, firmware and IP management software suites to prevent hacking of service levels, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant internal data security.
He also standardized product definitions, service definitions and rate codes for all Small and Medium Enterprise products.
He is an advisor to Stage 1 Ventures llc.
Before joining Adelphia, Mr. Buttermore was President and COO at Ucentric Systems.
He was also Founder, Chairman and CEO at BroadRiver Communications, Inc. where he was responsible for the strategic planning and day to day tactical operations of BroadRiver, a next generation CLEC.
Mr. Buttermore holds an M.B.A.
in general management from Georgia State University and a B.S.
in computer science from University of Georgia.