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Stephen Parker
Chairman of the Board,
President and Chief Executive Officer

Stephen T. Parker is Eftia's President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board. He is also Chairman of the Board of Eftia OSS Solutions India Limited and a member of the advisory board for Silicon Valley based Blacksmith Capital. Since joining Eftia in 2000 Parker has served as COO, CEO, and President in addition to his current capacity. Eftia is uniquely differentiated in the market for its revolutionary back office automation software and the industry's only publicly verifiable ROI. Parker joined Eftia from IBM where he was the Chief Solutions Executive responsible for IBM's global telecommunications software applications businesses portfolio. Since 1997 Mr. Parker created, transformed, and re-invented many IBM telecom, IP, and wireless software solution's businesses. Prior to managing the IBM's global telecomm software unit Parker held key positions managing IBM's wireless applications group and key marketing and sales positions. Mr. Parker was originally hired into IBM to lead the development of a joint IBM/Bellcore Intelligent Network architecture and high performance distributed call control transaction-processing system. This innovative design is the basis for many of today's enhanced services and Intelligent Networks.

Mr. Parker is a pioneer in modern telecommunications. As an industry leader in digital switching and wireless communications Mr. Parker help set the foundation benchmark for today's advanced digital and intelligent networks. In 1975 he was a design engineer for the US Defense Network in South Korea responsible for designing Arpanet circuits. Arpanet is the precursor to today's modern internet. In 1976 he was the lead engineer responsible for the network design and network plan, which implemented one of the worlds first digital exchange switching systems. At Satellite Business Systems (SBS) he was the executive responsible for implementing the first all digital nation-wide network. Under his leadership Nortel and SBS jointly developed Nortel's flagship DMS-250 switching system. He is the principal patent author for the first G2.5 Wireless Data (CDPD wireless data) control systems. In 1992 while inventing CDPD Mr. Parker conceptualized future packetized voice networks. At Continental Telephone he was a member of the engineering team that invented the very first in-field fiber optic splicing process. Here he also led the development of IT systems that automated the network engineering process and other operational support systems. Under his leadership SBS became the first non-Bell company to directly connect to the trunk side of the PSTN (ENFIA-D). His team successfully created the technical and business petition that persuaded the FCC to allow this historical "first" interconnection. In 1974 he was a member of the team that launched MCI's third ever office in Washington, DC. While managing IBM's Intelligent Networking business unit Mr. Parker was chosen by the computer suppliers as their industry spokesperson to deliver the keynote address in the now historically significant face-off between the legacy network element providers and the computer industry at the "Intelligent Network Multi-Vendor Interaction Forum". Today's modern distributed control and advanced VOIP networks can trace many of their roots to this forum's discoveries.

Prior to joining IBM he was responsible for Engineering at SBS where he managed all engineering, development, planning, facility construction engineering, ground segment engineering, and network implementation. In 1981 he led the design and build out of the SBS public switched network to create a 200 city North American wide all digital network within three years from the start of network planning through turn-up of revenue service. In his thirty year career he has worked for AT&T Communications, MCI Communications, Verizon (GTE-ConTel), SBS, IBM, and Eftia. He has authored a number of articles and spoken at many key industry events about planning and implementing next generation networks that provide financial and strategic advantage. He has managed global businesses for 20 years and has worked with a number of large accounts implementing world class solutions including NTT, Bharti, AT&T, Singapore Tel, MCI, BT, Hong Kong Tel, Telstra, Verizon, Bell Atlantic, Bell Canada, SBC, and the Russian Ministry of Communications to name a few.

  

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