Darren R. Mass

Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer

Darren R. Mass serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of MASS Communications, and is responsible for the vision, leadership, and direction of the company. His vision and passion for the telecommunication industry emanated from his years of experience in various roles, including senior management, engineering and service backgrounds. Darren’s extensive knowledge of the industry has played a significant factor in determining the proper formula for quality, professionalism and support. With Customer Service, dedication and passion as his vision, Darren has been able to provide MASS Communications with the direction needed, to lead the industry to the next level.

Education
BS, Rochester Institute of Technology, Telecommunications Engineering

Certifications
Telecommunications Network Management, Voice Communications, Data Communications

Marc Gold

Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer

Marc Gold serves as Chief Operating Officer of MASS Communications, and is responsible for the daily operations associated with carrying out the vision of the company. Marc has served as President of OptiCom Solutions, Inc. for the past 5 years and was recognized as the 2006 Agent of the Year for PAETEC Communications. Marc has been a major contributor on the Agent Advisory Board for PAETEC, which brings an insiders perspective to sales and marketing in the Telecommunications industry.

Education
BS, State University of Albany, Marketing and Management
MBA, Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, Computer Information
Systems

Brian S. Mass

Director & Chief Financial Officer

Brian S. Mass serves as Chief Financial Officer, and as such, is responsible for maintaining and reporting the financial health of the company. Responsibilities also include overseeing such finance-related departments as Treasury, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Investor Relations, and Payroll. Mr. Mass comes to MASS Communications from Citigroup where he has served as a Director in the Global Technology Investment Banking division. Mr. Mass has over 10 years of experience including public and private financings; mergers and acquisitions; tax; regulatory compliance; systems; and management experience.

Education
BA, Northwestern University, Economics

Chris Bantoft

Director

Mr. Bantoft has played a key role in the Telecommunications industry for more than twenty years. His resume demonstrates multiple successes, including the development of several thriving Alternate Channel programs. Most recently Mr. Bantoft was at PAETEC as President of the Western Region and Executive Vice President of Agent Channel Sales. Chris was responsible for sales and field engineering  for 17 markets in 8 Western States, with 190 employees, plus  the national Channel sales organization, where he led 13 VP’s/ Directors and 60 Channel Managers. His total P&L responsibility exceeded $500 million. In 2006-7 Chris was President of Alternate Channels, which included PAETEC’s Wholesale and Reseller operations.

Prior to joining PAETEC in 2001, Chris founded a consulting and recruiting services firm and acted as its President and Chief Executive Officer. From April 1998 to May 2000, Mr. Bantoft served as President and Chief Operating Officer of WorldxChange Communications, where he managed the development of thirteen international subsidiaries.

From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Bantoft served as ACC Corp.'s Managing Director for Europe and was responsible for the initiation and development of ACC's businesses in the United Kingdom and Germany. Additionally, Chris participated in the sale of ACC to Teleport as well as its merger with AT&T. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Bantoft was with Alcatel Business Systems in the United Kingdom., serving as its Managing Director for 3 years.

John M. Faccibene

Director

For the past 40 years, John has been a well-known and influential force in the telecommunications industry. In 1994, he was voted one of the top twenty-five (25) most powerful people in the communications industry (Network World). Mr. Faccibene is an active and influential member of numerous internationally recognized financial and telecommunications industry organizations. He was a senior member of the Security Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Committee for the eighteen years, serving as its Chairman for two years. He was honored by the SIA for his contributions to that organization and the securities industry as a whole. John has also been a senior member of the Wall Street Telecommunications (WSTA) Executive Committee for the past twenty-three years, serving as President for three years. He previously served as the Chairman of the NYNEX Executive Forum and Newbridge Worldwide User Group.

In the 40 years, John has held positions in the following companies:

Dean Witter Reynolds where he held the position of Vice President Communications for 10 years. This position included both communications and data processing operations. From there, John worked for PaineWebber as Corporate Vice President of Communications for 10 years. There he managed a staff of 150 technology employees and a communications budget of $100 million. John also served as Senior Vice President of Technology for Garban, an Inter-Dealer broker with offices throughout the world. John held this position for 10 years before moving to Ixnet where he was a founding partner and served as Managing Director of Global Operations with a staff of 500 individuals.

Ira H. Krause

Director

Mr. Krause has, for the past 20 years, been a unique resource for privately held companies on a full range of operational and interpersonal issues. He has provided critical analysis and direction for companies that were: seeking to grow, seeking to manage growth already begun, resolve family and partnership issues, recruit key employees, improve financial systems, acquire assets, plan for the future, and/or resolve short term problems critical to the continued existence of the company.

In addition to his work with individual clients he has been a featured speaker at Crain’s annual business conference, a workshop leader for the NY Association of CPA, and other trade/professional organizations.

Prior to his work in consulting Mr. Krause was a senior field representative at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Charles Steinhardt

Director

Charles Steinhardt has over 20 years of experience in information technology systems and software architecture. Recognized as an IT department turnaround expert, Mr. Steinhardt specializes in architecting, integrating and managing scalable enterprise platforms for businesses of all sizes. Mr. Steinhardt is one of Microsoft’s first twenty Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and a .Net architecture authority.

Since 1990, Mr. Steinhardt has led Venture Architects IT (formerly Sienna Systems Group LLC), an IT consultancy that provides interim-CTO services, including architecture, programming, data and management systems integration. Clients have included Bank of America, Banco Santander Investment Bank, Citibank, Con Edison, Commerce Clearing House, Mutual of New York and Solomon Smith Barney.

Mr. Steinhardt was awarded MVP status by Microsoft for twelve consecutive years (1989-2001). As the author of a monthly column for Pinnacle Publishing’s VC++ Developer’s Journal for over four years (1998-2002), Mr. Steinhardt covered topics from ATL and COM to complex operating system level design and maintainable practical user interface solutions. He has also been invited to present and guest lecture at various conferences and speaker panels including Microsoft’s annual IT Forum.