Ricardo Gonda

Current

• Owner & CEO at Comvoz Communication
• Owner & CEO at International Business Link

Past

• Owner COO & CTO at Fonbox
• Owner & CEO at Eldish Marketing

Education

• Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• USA, Florida IXC
• VoIP Platform

Ricardo Gonda’s Summary

International business executive, with 20 years of wide-range commercial and technical experience. His activities include the sales and marketing of software, services and telecommunications, the development of technology for Internet and telecommunication companies, and general management and business consultation. As an entrepreneur, he has accumulated extensive experience in international business, financial principles, and business performance. He has direct knowledge of the Latin-American idiosyncrasy and mentality, and has established good professional contacts in various Latin-American countries.

Ricardo Gonda’s Specialties:

Telecommunication, VoIP, Internet

Ricardo Gonda’s Experience

• Owner & CEO

  Comvoz Communication

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)

  ComVoz a company on the top of technology in the revolutionary world of telecommunications, with its own offices in Colombia, USA and Venezuela.Comvoz's mission consists in providing a huge set of telephony services for corporate, wholesale, call centers, and small business. With his proprietary platform provide services using a Voice over IP platform and in this way becoming in the ideal business partner for American and Latinoamerican market. Comvoz offers to its customers a solid technological platform for its international telephony service, which is integrated by the best and more reliable equipments.

• Owner & CEO

  International Business Link

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2000 — Present (8 years 5 months)

  Manage the technical operation of www.Comvoz.com, one of the most prestigious companies providing VoIP services to the Latin American market with local offices in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. Responsible of developing and fostering technical and strategic business operations between Latin American and the USA. IBL has several in-house developed products to provide complete solutions for e-commerce, billing systems and VoIP Cdr Analyzers.

• Owner COO & CTO

  Fonbox

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)

  lineabox.com, a Fonbox company a company dedicated in providing unified messages to Latin America and USA (Voice and Fax messaging switching network over IP). Responsibilities included technological design(Industrial computers, CTI, IVR, mail voice and fax servers, web design), development and integration of the major software components managing a multidisciplinary team located in Canada, India, and Venezuela. Finally responsible for the deployment of the operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and USA, installation of the equipment in all data centers (router, switch, and servers for voice, mail, database and IIS), selection of the provider and installation of the E1 and T1 lines, and definition and implementation of the IP network (all machines in all countries hosted in different ISP are in the same IP and NT network).The first round of financing (Nov-99) was oversold, and in the second round (Nov-00) Motorola joined the company.

• Owner & CEO

  Eldish Marketing

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 1993 — October 1999 (6 years 4 months)

  The third largest ISP in the country, and the first to provide this kind of service in Venezuela. The first with dual backbone link (BGP4, 1997), first data center and -business tools. All of these activities were done for Eldish between 1995-1999 and for IFX in Caracas in 1999. The main POP facility in Caracas was interconnecting to six other regional POPs in the major cities in Venezuela via an IP network over X-25 and Frame-Relay. This POP was also interconnected with six other major ISPs for local traffic interchange using BGP4. Eldish was the center of the Venezuelan national Internet backbone. The Internet access also provided dial up, dedicated, and wireless access to users. The services were provided to more than 4.000 users. The company was sold to IFX Corp. (USA, NASDAQ: FUTR), in April 99

Ricardo Gonda’s Education

• Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

  Computer Science 1978 — 1981

Additional Information

Ricardo Gonda’s Websites:

• USA, Florida IXC
• VoIP Platform

Ricardo Gonda’s Groups:

ISOC, Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member

•    Telecom Professionals
•    Latin America Telecom Specialists

Ricardo Gonda’s Contact Settings

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