Phil Knudsen This is Me

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1. 1. Contact International

   www.contactintl.com/company.ht - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/5/2008   Last Visited: 6/5/2008

   Phil Knudsen, COOPhil is a founder and former COO of connectME, and an expert in this technology and the operations of the business.Phil has over 25 years of senior operational management experience in the cable and video business including with Time Warner Cable.

2. 2. Team

   www.heartlandfinancialcorp.com - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/10/2008   Last Visited: 5/10/2008

   Phil Knudsen
   
   Phil is highly experienced in both large corporate operational and business development settings as well as start up and small emerging technology companies.Phil began is career in operations in 1979 with ATC, a large cable operator, advancing to VP Operations for Time Warner Cable of Austin, TX and was instrumental in establishing the cable advertising business for both video ad insertion and print guide publishing as VP of Business Development during the 1980's.He then became President of Hospitality Network in Las Vegas, NV establishing the in room pay per view movies and interactive TV hotel services business prior to joining Guestserve Systems, Inc in Sausalito, CA in 1989.There, as COO, he led the transition from VCR racks in hotel basements to fiber optic network delivery services for license to the cable industry to market Video on Demand [VOD] and multilingual voice prompted interactive TV services to hotel operators in central cities.He conducted early market sales efforts to Time Warner in Manhattan, Hawaii, San Diego, Cox Cable in San Diego, as well as what is now Comcast Cable in Chicago and Buenes Aires, Argentina.Upon the sale of that business to SeaChange in 1998, Phil was a founder of connectME, Inc in 1999, established to develop consumer video conferencing and video mail solutions for use over digital set tops to enable an aging population to remain at home maintaining an independent life style as long as possible.Since, May 2003, he has been working to launch Contact International, LLC focused on delivering video conferencing solutions to target markets in the senior community arena as well as the funeral industry, and immigrants in the US, via cash transfer service provider locations, to communicate with their families in foreign countries, specifically Latin Americans.

3. 3. www.contactintl.com

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   Published on: 6/5/2008   Last Visited: 6/5/2008

   Phil Knudsen
   
   phil@contactintl.com