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Ron Hooper Chief Executive Officer and Director YouMed |
Ron Hooper has over 30 years experience in building technology companies. He was formerly the Chief Strategy Officer and founding Board Director at Litescape Technologies an enhanced enterprise VoIP application provider for Cisco, WebEx, Avaya and others. He was CEO and cofounder of MagnetPoint, one of the first web services-based communication software company, where he initiated its strategic partnerships with HP and Sun Microsystems, with customers like Hitachi America, HP, Sun Microsystems, GM OnStar and Lucent/AT&T.
Hooper was CEO and founder of AVIRNEX Communications Group, an international long distance telephone service provider with customers in 80 countries and operating licenses in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.
He served as chairman, CEO and president until July 1997 and served as an advisor and member of its Board of Directors until it was acquired. Hooper was a co-founder of Biztel Communications; one of the first facilities-based telephone companies after AT&T’s initial divestiture. Biztel merged with DialNet Systems covering 17 states and was acquired by MCI WorldCom in 1992.