Management Team

Anastasios "Takis" Kyriakides is the founder of netTALK.COM, INC. ("netTALK") and co-inventor of netTALK's flagship product, the netTALK DUO.

A lifetime serial entrepreneur, Mr. Kyriakides has spearheaded a number of successful businesses in a wide swath of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, travel, shipping, and banking.

Prior to starting netTALK, Mr. Kyriakides was the President and CEO of Interlink Global Corporation, a telecommunications services provider with networks throughout South America. His cruise ship career started with Carnival Cruise line out of the Port of Miami, and continued to a successful start up with Tropicana Cruises; one of the first gaming ships based out of the Port of Miami.

In 1994, Mr. Kyriakides became the Chairman of Montgomery Ward Travel, a provider of full travel services to eight million Montgomery Ward customers and credit card holders, serving in this capacity from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Kyriakides founded Seawind Cruise Line in 1990, later serving as Chairman, CEO, and Secretary until 1994.

In 1984 Mr. Kyriakides founded Regency Cruise Line, the world's first publicly-traded passenger shipping company, and served as its Chairman and Secretary until 1987.

In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides founded the Mylex Corporation to develop and produce the world's first hand-held optical scanner and VGA card for personal computers. As the President and Chairman, Mr. Kyriakides guided Mylex from its beginning as a private company to its becoming a public company traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the stock symbol MYLX until it was acquired and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM (NYSE: IBM).

In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides founded Tower Bank NA, a full service commercial bank, with three offices, headquartered in Dade County, Florida, and served as the bank's Chairman.

In 1980, Mr. Kyriakides, was the founder of Delcor Industries of Hollywood, Florida, an electronics manufacturing facility, assembling original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products for various electronics companies including IBM's mainframe and global divisions, employing over 150 skilled employees.

In 1979, Mr. Kyriakides founded and served as Chairman of Lexicon Corporation, to market the LK3000, the world's first hand-held electronic language translator that translated into 12 different languages. This company, publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol LEXI, was ultimately acquired by Nixdorf Computers of Germany.

From 1979 to the present, Mr. Kyriakides has also consulted for numerous companies in the areas of shipping, travel, banking, and electronics.

A lifetime inventor, Mr. Kyriakides has several patents to his name.

Mr. Kyriakides received a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Florida International University in 1975; in 1977, he received a degree in investment banking from the American Institute of Banking.

Mr. Kyriakides is fluent in Greek.

Mr. Kyriakides and his inventions have been featured by a variety of major media outlets, including an in-depth interview on "The Merv Griffin Show."

Various television clips of Mr. Kyriakides, including his appearance on the Merv Griffin show, are available via YouTube.

The Wikipedia page for Mr. Kyriakides is available here.

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Kenneth A. Hosfeld has been Executive Vice President of netTALK.com, Inc. since September 2008. Mr. Hosfeld is co-inventor of netTALK's voice-over-internet protocol ("VoIP") telephone adaptor, the TK6000, the predecessor product to today's best-selling, cutting-edge netTALK DUO VoIP adaptor. Mr. Hosfeld also serves as a member of the company's board of directors.

Mr. Hosfeld previously served as Executive Vice President at Interlink Global Corp. starting in April 2005, where he held a number of critical positions, including "Network Architect" for the company's nationwide microwave telephone and switching network in Venezuela, as well as leading the company's marketing and sales divisions. Mr. Hosfeld has over twenty-two years of international sales, marketing, business development, and management experience in the telecommunications industry.

Prior to joining Interlink, Mr. Hosfeld co-founded NetExpress, a technology company where he gained invaluable experience in the "Voice Over Internet Protocol" (VOIP) field. Prior to co-founding NetExpress, Mr. Hosfeld served as the Regional Director of Brazil, the Andinos, and the Caribbean for Tellabs, Inc., a global supplier to the telecommunications industry that designs, manufactures, markets and services, voice, data and video transportation tools and networks. At Tellabs, Mr. Hosfeld secured its first "turn-key" contract which involved a complete, fully-managed network deployment including all products and services, as well as project financing. He also opened Tellabs' offices in Brazil and regularly exceeded revenue targets. He was Vice President of Nera Latin America, a subsidiary of Nera Telecommunications (formerly ABB). At Nera Latin America, Mr. Hosfeld had full production, logistic, and sales responsibility for the Latin American region, including responsibilities for opening offices throughout Latin America, including such countries as Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. Mr. Hosfeld was also able to penetrate the Mexican and Chilean markets. Prior to joining Nera Latin, Mr. Hosfeld was responsible for similar product sales and service for the ABB Group (NYSE: ABB) in China and Africa.

Mr. Hosfeld is an avid sailor and scuba diver. A certified "USA Swimming" official is very active in his community, officiating at USA Swimming-sanctioned events throughout Florida. In addition to his many other talents, Mr. Hosfeld speaks six languages fluently, including Spanish and Portuguese.

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A certified public accountant, Bill Rodriguez was appointed to netTALK's board of directors in September 2008. Mr. Rodriguez earned his bachelor's degree with a major in accounting and business administration from the University of Miami, and he has extensive accounting and financial reporting experience in banking, real estate brokering, property management and the telecommunications industry.

Prior to joining netTALK in September 2008, Mr. Rodriguez worked for Interlink Global Corporation from 2005 until September 2008, and as controller and financial officer for Land Cellular Corporation from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Rodriguez served as controller and financial officer for Bremer Real Estate, CSW Associates and Consolidated Bank, N.A. Mr. Rodriguez also worked as an auditor and investigator for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

Mr. Rodriguez received his Masters of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. Mr. Rodriguez is fluent in Spanish.

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Mr. Paxinos brings upwards of 35 years of experience to netTALK in senior executive positions spanning full-system design and development, consumer electronics, television services, electrical engineering, and technology development.

Most recently, Mr. Paxinos was CTO of Axios Digital Solutions, LLC a media and technology consulting company. Through Axios Digital, Mr. Paxinos assisted several startup companies in the TV marketplace targeting competitive Cable and Satellite TV services.

Mr. Paxinos previously was Senior Vice President Engineering and Head of Technology at Sezmi, which was an early-stage, privately held company that addressed the need to simplify and unify the consumer home entertainment experience. The company developed products and services based on its innovative and breakthrough approach for digital entertainment management and distribution.

Previous to these endeavors, Mr. Paxinos was Senior Vice President and Chief Technologist at U.S. Digital Television, where he was responsible for the design, development and deployment of a pay television and entertainment service leveraging broadcast television stations. Mr. Paxinos has extensive design experience including leadership of the engineering team at Metro Link Inc., where he was co-founder, to design and implement software and systems for military and aerospace applications used on the Boeing 777, Army Land Warrior, AWACS, nuclear power station control systems and other mission critical applications.

Mr. Paxinos is actively involved on several international standards committees and conference program committees that help define DTV standards throughout the world. He has been chair of CEA R7.4, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s administrative committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Linux International. He has served as the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee as Treasurer and is a member of the USACM Public Policy Committee. He is a member of ACM, APS, IEEE and SMPTE.

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Mr. Manzewitsch has over eighteen years of experience in the telecommunications industry.

Before joining netTALK as a director and the Chief Technology Officer in September 2008, Mr. Mazewitsch held positions in sales support management with UT Starcom, a global leader in internet protocol television, IPTV solutions, IPTV products, VoIP, mobile internet and internet television. Mr. Manzewitsch has also held various positions at NEC Corporation, which provides IT network integrated solutions and semiconductor solutions, including new product engineer and manager of new product marketing. From 2000 until 2006, Mr. Manzewitsch served as the Marketing Manager for Tellabs International in their South American market. In 2006, Mr. Manzewitsch joined Interlink Global Corporation, where he served as the Chief Technology Officer until he joined netTALK in September 2008.

Mr. Manzewitsch received his Masters in Electronics Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1991 and a degree in mechanics from the Argentinean National School of Technical Education, Buenos Aires in 1981. Mr. Manzewitsch is fluent in Spanish.

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Randy Huffman has over 30 years of management experience in business development and retail. Mr. Huffman joined netTALK.COM, INC. in October 2010 as Vice President of Strategy, Sales and Marketing.

Mr. Huffman received a Bachelor's degree from Southern Arkansas University in 1976 with a major in Management and Finance.

Prior to joining netTALK Mr. Huffman was President of GBD360, LLC, a consulting firm, where his range of clients included mid-size to Fortune 50 Companies. His specialty is identifying companies, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and building a strategic executable plan that allows them to successfully compete in the retail space.

Prior to starting GBD360, Mr. Huffman spent 30 years in the retail industry, where he had the opportunity to hone his skills working for multiple retail formats including department stores, "dollar" stores, and discount and mass-merchandise outlets. He worked from 1999 to 2008 with a "Fortune 1" retailer, holding several key positions in the company's International division, overseeing, developing and implementing strategies for growth for the firm's operations in 15 countries.

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Mr. Kyriakides is responsible for crafting and spearheading netTALK's product strategy and overseeing customer operations. Mr. Kyriakides joined netTALK in 2008, and has held a variety of roles at the company over the years, most recently VP of Marketing. He received dual degrees in Finance and Multinational Business Operations from Florida State University and a Masters of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University. He is a long-time instructor at Miami Dade College School of Business, where he currently teaches the course, Customer Relations for Managers.

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Dali Kranzthor is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with several years of public accounting experience. He specializes in public and private company consulting and cross-industry audits and reviews, and has professional experience in a wide variety of fields, including the telecommunications, healthcare, construction, internet lead sales, alternative fuels, restaurant franchising, engineering, software development, fiber optics, 401K Plans and CIRA's industries. Mr. Kranzthor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida State University.

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