Dan Luis
Chief Executive Officer
GoAmerica CEO since January 2003, Previously GoAmerica President and COO
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Since becoming GoAmerica's CEO in 2003, Dan has led the team that put GoAmerica on the map as the nation's second largest provider of communications services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dan's service to the company dates to 1994, when he was one of the founding members of Wynd Communications. There he served as Vice President of Business Development and then became CEO in 1998. Wynd was acquired by GoAmerica in 2000 and in 2003 Dan became CEO of GoAmerica and led a strategic refocusing of the Company's primary business around serving the deaf and hard of hearing market. Recently, GoAmerica was successful in raising more than $125 million in capital which enabled it to execute a series of strategic transactions, including a Verizon asset purchase which closed simultaneously with a merger with Hands On Video Relay Services, broadening GoAmerica's leadership in its market. Dan holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Edmond Routhier
President and Vice Chairman of the Board
Previously President of Hands On, Managing Member of Caymus Investments
Previously CEO of Sports Universe and RNT, Inc.
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Edmond Routhier became President and Vice Chairman of the Board in January 2008. Mr. Routhier joined Hands On Video Relay Services, Inc. as its President on September 2006. Prior to joining Hands On, Mr. Routhier was Managing Member of Caymus Investment Group, LLC, which makes private equity and debt investments. Mr. Routhier served as the chief executive officer of Sportsuniverse, Inc., an application service provider for a patented channel management software solution, from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, Sportsuniverse, Inc. was acquired by Fogdog.com, which went public in December 1999. Prior to joining Sportsuniverse, Inc. and Fogdog.com, from 1992 to 1997, Mr. Routhier was founder and chief executive officer of Rock'N Tacos, Inc., the parent company of Rock'N Tacos, JuiceGym and Rojoz Restaurants. Rock'N Tacos, Inc. was sold in 1997.

John R. Ferron
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Previously CFO and COO of Celerity Inc.; CFO of Kinetics Holding Corp.
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Janet L. Bailey
Senior Vice President, Interpreter Relations
SLA co-founder, President/CEO since 1982
Past President of RID (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf)
Co-founder and past President of NAD-RID National Council on Interpreting
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Janet joined GoAmerica in July, 2008, after GoAmerica's acquisition of Sign Language Associates, the company Janet founded and where she held the position of President & CEO. Prior to founding SLA, the nation's oldest and largest private interpreting firm, Janet's work history included positions at the National Association of the Deaf and Gallaudet University. Janet was in private practice when she joined forces with other DC-area interpreters to help establish SLA. Janet is a pioneer in the field of performing arts interpreting, having earned her SC:PA in 1979. A certified member of RID since 1977, Janet served on the RID Board of Directors from 1990 – 95 (as Secretary, Treasurer and President), including two terms as President of RID. Janet continues to serve on the NAD/RID National Council on Interpreting, which has responded to the national interpreter shortage, supported the revision of the new joint Code of Professional Conduct, and developed and launched the new joint national interpreter certification (NIC). Janet also serves on the RID Professional Standards Committee, and was an active member of RID's ad hoc Video Interpreting Committee tasked with creating the first standard practice paper on VRS. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of Deaf REACH and sits on the advisory committees of several Interpreting Programs.

Michael J. Pendergast
General Counsel
Previously General Counsel of Pure Depth, Inc., Global English Corp., and Brøderbund Software
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Mr. Pendergast joined GoAmerica as General Counsel in April, 2008, and was appointed Secretary on May 2, 2008. From April 2007 until joining GoAmerica, Mr. Pendergast served as General Counsel to PureDepth, Inc., a publicly traded technology and licensing company. He held previous positions with GlobalEnglish Corporation, an e-learning company, serving as General Counsel, Vice President of Business Affairs, and Assistant-Secretary from February 1999 to April 2006, and,as a part time consultant from May 2006 to December 2006. Prior to that time, Mr. Pendergast served as General Counsel (from June 1998 to October 1998) and Associate General Counsel (from May 1996 to June 1998) to Brøderbund Software, a NASDAQ-listed software company, and before that as General Counsel of The Learning Company, another NASDAQ-listed software company.

Gordon Ellis
Senior Vice President, Operations
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Gordon Ellis is the Senior Vice President of Operations of GoAmerica, Inc. Mr. Ellis joined Hands On Video Relay Services as its VP of Corporate Development and Information Systems in May, 2007 and has served in a variety of leadership roles. Mr. Ellis has over 22 years of experience in building and managing high-performance sales, operations and delivery teams, growing revenue and profits at both startups and industry leader companies. Mr. Ellis possesses a diverse industry background with experience in telecom, financial services, healthcare, government, education and manufacturing. Prior to joining Hands On, Mr. Ellis was the Executive Vice President and served on the executive team for EcoTechnology, Inc. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Ellis was the General Manager/VP for Global Services at NEC, a global 100 company, where he was responsible for Professional and Managed Services in North America. Prior to his work at NEC, Mr. Ellis was the Director of Professional Services for Trintech, Inc, a leader in the e-payment industry, and he managed large international technology projects for Visa, MasterCard and other large processors, acquirers and issuers, from 2000 to 2002. From 1989 to 2000, Mr. Ellis was the President and Managing Partner for Youngblood Ellis Solutions, where he pioneered software solutions and methodology and provided consulting services for a variety of industries and large software companies such as PeopleSoft, Inc and SAP, Inc. From 1986 to 2000, Mr. Ellis served in a variety of roles at the University of Wyoming, a Research Division I Institution; his last position was the University Budget Officer.

George Sutcliffe
Vice President and General Manager, Video Relay Services
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Mr. Sutcliffe joined GoAmerica in May, 2007, as Director of Product Development, and was promoted to his current role in 2008. George brought with him over 15 years of experience in Product Management, Marketing, and Business Development in the communications industry. Prior to joining GoAmerica, George spent six years with Pac-West Telecomm. There, he worked as the Director of Product Marketing, Senior Director of Marketing, and finally the Senior Director of Business Development. George has made a positive impact on such companies as DCI; DIGI-CELL, Inc.; Logix Communications, Inc.; and NetStream, Inc. George graduated with an Executive Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University, San Francisco and received a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Ric Buskirk
Vice President and General Manager, Text Relay
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Prior to joining GoAmerica in April, 2008, Mr. Buskirk was VP of Sales and Marketing for Cosemi, a technology start-up, and COO of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, a security software company. Mr. Buskirk served over 19 years with AT&T and its various divisions, most recently as Area Vice President responsible for $200M in sales and service to corporate accounts. Prior to that, he served as General Manager for Global Business Services. In AT&T's Corporate Development group, Mr. Buskirk helped develop and execute AT&T's domestic wireless services strategy driving the $21B McCaw Cellular acquisition and was founding member of a new wireless services division (PCS). During this time, he helped guide venture discussions with 4 international companies, performing business plan and operations reviews for wireless technologies in 20+ countries. After AT&T, Mr. Buskirk was second in command for a venture-backed Internet security software company and later was CEO and Founder of a project management software company. Mr. Buskirk has served as Board Director for the Sundance Film Institute Advisory Board and was a member of AT&T's elite Leadership Succession Program. Ric brings over 20 years of operations, P&L, and business development experience in telecom and software companies to GoAmerica.

Brandon Arthur
Vice President and General Manager, Community Interpreting
Founder of Visual Language Interpreting (VLI)
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Ronald Obray
Senior advisor to Management and the Board of Directors
Founder of HandsOn sign language interpreting and VRS
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Kelby Brick
VP Reg. & Strategic Policy

Fran Cummings
VP VRS & Community Ops

Joe Karp
VP MarComm

Ron Montgomery
VP Outreach

Jana Owen
VP Professional Services

Jeff Stone
VP Marketing

Mark Bella
Sr. Director Spanish

Amir Rassouli
Sr. Director Outreach

Cary Barbin
Director Program Development

Kalen Beck
Director Global Community

Rita Beier
Director National Quality Assurance

Dushan Bilbija
Director Corporate Apps

Jennifer Ann Cook
Director Education & Large Accts

Kat Crotty
Director Facilities & Employee Health/Safety

Jason Edeliant
Director Business Expansion

Mike Gibson
Director Infrastructure & Network

Candice Kingrey
Director OMG

Kamille Malone
Director Community Scheduling

Jerry Nelson
Director Strategic Policy

Paul Prekeges
Director Test/QA (Acting)

David Rein
Director Development

Lawrence Rosenblatt
Director Business Development

David Routhier
Director Product Services

Paul Singleton
Director Government & Association Accts.

Jim Sleezer
Director IT Ops/PMO

Wing Butler
Regional Director - South West

Greg Camp
Regional Director - East

Sam Costner
Regional Director Outreach

Danelle Jansen
Denver Center Director

Billy Kendrick
Regional Director - Northeast

Andy Lange
Regional Director Outreach

Russ Stein
Regional Director - West