Alex Mashinsky, Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Architect
Alex Mashinsky is a successful serial entrepreneur in the communications industry and best known as the founder and former CEO of Arbinet-thexchange (www.thexchange.com). Arbinet-thexchange has emerged as the leading real-time exchange for the buying, selling and physical delivery of global telecommunications capacity. At Arbinet-thexchange, Mr. Mashinsky identified the trends of the commoditization of voice capacity and the growing importance of convergence of voice and data networks. He secured over 17 patents related to the real-time exchange of voice capacity and the protocol conversion necessary to transport voice between PSTN and IP-based data networks. Mr. Mashinsky is a recognized expert on dynamic bandwidth trading and has been a featured speaker at over 120 conferences worldwide. Today, over 200 of the world's leading carriers actively trade minutes through thexchange. The platform he envisioned and helped create is perhaps the most sophisticated back-office in the international telecommunications industry, having integrated real-time network QOS, pricing,contract, and risk management, and having successfully integrated over 20 leading vendors of OSS applications and hardware in order to enable real-time end-to-end trading of global voice capacity. In addition to founding the company and acting as CEO from inception in 1995 through December 1999, he helped to secure and make a successful transition to a senior, world-class management team including the former CEO of GE Information Services and the former COO of AT&T Broadband who serve as thexchange's Executive Chairman and CEO respectively. Mr. Mashinsky is also a co-founder of Comgates, a spinout of thexchange based in Herzeliya Israel, which is a leading provider of softswitch technology.

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