Management Team

Rapid Link's Management Team brings a wealth of entrepreneurial expertise and experience. Collectively, Rapid Link management represents a powerful team of professionals committed to delivering on the potential of wireless broadband data services, while maintaining a keen focus on customer satisfaction and shareholder value.

Chris Canfield, CEO, Director

Mr. Canfield has more than 15 years experience working in the telecommunications industry and has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Rapid Link since May 2006, adding the role of President in November 2006. Prior to Joining Rapid Link, Mr. Canfield served as the President and CEO of Telenational Communications, Inc. Telenational was ultimately acquired by Rapid Link in May 2006. Under Mr. Canfield's charge, Telenational served over 15,000 customers worldwide from its headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, and had been debt free and profitable for over 7 years.

Prior to joining Telenational in 1998, Mr. Canfield founded two companies, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICX), an FCC licensed 214 carrier that primarily served the telecommunications needs for over 10,000 US Military personnel overseas and Resource Communications, Inc. ICX was profitable and eventually acquired by a major public telecommunications company in 1998. Resource Communications was primarily an agent channel company which provided telecommunications management services for business and enterprise customers. Mr. Canfield grew Resource from inception to total customer revenues of over $20 million annually. Mr. Canfield earned his BS in Marketing and Business Administration at California State University in 1979.

Michael McGuane, CFO

Mr. McGuane is a Certified Public Accountant and has over 20 years of finance and accounting experience while working for some of the world's top accounting firms and publicly traded companies. Mr. McGuane began his business career in 1986 with the international accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick and continued in public accounting through 1995 with Deloitte Touche, LLP. Prior to joining Rapid Link, Mr. McGuane held top financial positions with Dole Foods Company, Aquila Energy Corporation, and Mutual of Omaha Insurance Companies. Mr. McGuane holds an Executive MBA and BSBA from the University of Nebraska and is a published author in the field of Corporate Governance.

Mike Prachar, COO

Mr. Prachar has been involved in the telecommunications industry since 1992 and has extensive experience in virtually all functions, including sales, marketing, general management, information technology, and equipment deployment. In 1997, while working for Intercontinental Exchange (ICX), Mr. Prachar pioneered and personally installed a dedicated voice connection between Japan and California using innovative packetized compression technology which matches conceptually with now popular VoIP systems. The resulting calling product enabled customers in Japan to call anywhere in the world for less than 50% of PTT (Postal Telephone and Telegraph) rates. Mr. Prachar oversees all of the operations of the company from billing and customer service to vendor and carrier relationships.

Matt Liotta, CTO

Mr. Liotta is the lead technologist behind the company's next-generation network. Mr. Liotta joined Rapid Link in 2008 with the acquisition of One Ring Networks, a company he founded in 2004. Mr. Liotta guided the hybrid fiber and fixed wireless carrier to become one of the leading alternative access providers in the country. Before founding One Ring, Mr. Liotta lead Montara Software, a content management and portal software company, which was purchased by private investors. Prior to that he was the portal engineering manager for DevX, which was acquired by Jupiter Media. Mr. Liotta has also served as a software architect for a variety of companies in San Francisco and Atlanta.