What can TEMIA do for you?

Shahram Sharif is Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development for Anatole, a TEM solution provider headquartered in France.  Over the past 12 years in Telecommunication technology and business, Shahram has been in various roles as technical consultancy, product management, business development and sales. Designing and selling complex telecom solutions to large multi-national enterprises and help them optimize their telecom environment has been his key focus area.

Shahram is the co-founder of Lucid, delivering TEM Consulting Services to multi-national enterprises based in Europe. Lucid is now a subsidiary of Anatole, serving customers with a full service portfolio including TEM Software (SaaS), Managed Services (BPO), and Consulting Services.

Chris Mezzatesta, Senior Vice President of Sales for Tangoe Inc., brings 20 years of telecom and telecom expense management (“TEM”) experience to the company.  Chris spent the first twelve years of his career at TSR Wireless, which at the time, was the fourth largest paging carrier in the US, where he managed a sales force of 1,000 employees and was a member of a senior management team that increased company revenue from $30 million to $350 million in eight years.  He later joined Teldata Control (now CPS) where he again built a record breaking sales team which pioneered the TEM Industry while growing annual company revenues to $42 million.  Chris joined Tangoe in 2005 through the Traq/Tangoe merger and has lead Tangoe’s explosive growth from $12 million to $46 million in annual revenues in 3 years. Throughout his 8 year tenure in TEM, Chris has built industry leading sales teams which have closed over 650 TEM engagements including deals with more than 50% of the companies  in the Fortune 500.  In 2007, Chris was elected to the Board of TEMIA (the Telecom Expense Management Industry Association) and named PR Chairman of the Association. Chris received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Strategic Management from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University

John Perri is the founder and CEO of Comview. With more than 30 years experience as a telecommunications management entrepreneur, John is credited with having started three successful companies and for designing one of the first Call Accounting systems in 1973. He continues to remain at the forefront of innovation, having worked with literally thousands of customers, listening to their needs and creating solutions to solve them.

John was an active member of NATA (North American Telecommunications Association) one of the most successful telecom trade organizations and an early member of LISTNET (Long Island Software & Technology Network). He also served as Vice President of the Vendor Advisory Council of the STC (Society of Telecommunications Consultants). His board involvement with TEMIA is a natural extension of that history.

Joe Chopek is an entrepreneur who has successfully built and sold a number of companies into the public market or to larger entities who have then entered the public arena including Blue Ridge Telephone a long distance IXC which was sold to a publicly traded company and Telemanagement Services, a billing software company which was sold to public company in 1996. He was founder and managing partner of Net Results Inc . which later merged with Communication Advisors, Inc. (CAI), to form the Net Results Group. Net Results Group recently combined with Avalon Technology to form Avalon Global Solutions.  He is currently services as President of Avalon Global Solutions and is heavily involved in AGS’ growth strategies and other Mergers or Acquisitions.

Joe is a United States Naval Academy graduate, a medically retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, a Vietnam Era disabled veteran and he has a Masters in Business from George Washington University.