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Peter Bouchard
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Peter BouchardFounder & Vice President, Pioneer Telephone
Peter Bouchard graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Business Management in 1982.For the next seven years he held positions in sales with AT&T Hardware Sales and with Rochester Telephone and progressed to being the third highest producer out of 220 sales people.In 1989 he founded New England Payphone, which grew to have over 5% of the market share for operator services on all payphones in the United States.
In 1995 Peter founded Pioneer Telephone, one of the premier long distance carriers in Maine.Pioneer captured 34% of the market share of all business customers that had 2 to 25 business telephone lines in the state of Maine.By 1997 Pioneer had grown to a nationwide company, adding more than 5,000 new customers per month.
In the year 2000 Peter also founded PageMagic.com, a company that provided eCommerce web sites for small to medium customers.In 2005 Pioneer acquired the assets of Adelphia Communications.
Peter continues as Pioneer's Vice President, and has been married for 15 years and has two children, Casey and Paige.He is an active board member of the Christian Coalition and the Smokin' Joe Frazier foundation.He was honored by the US Congressional Committee as the 2005 Maine Business Man of the Year.
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