Scott Goodwin
President and CEO

Scott Goodwin brings 26 years of telecom experience to the Vinculum's management team, including the last ten in the carrier international market. Under his leadership, Vinculum has quickly become one of the fastest-growing international VoIP carriers in the world, thanks to his sales management, recruiting, strategic planning and network optimization expertise.

Prior to founding Vinculum in 2001, Goodwin spent 8 years as Senior Vice President with WorldxChange Communications and, at various times, managed their carrier, prepaid card and operator services divisions. He built the carrier group into a $250 million division as well as growing the prepaid card division by $180 million in annual sales in only two years. It was while managing the international carrier group with employees in sixteen countries that Goodwin developed a very extensive international contact list of both customers and suppliers that he continues to foster. Goodwin was Assistant Vice President of Sales and Marketing for One Call Communications from 1988 to 1993 and was instrumental in significant growth of their carrier and operator services products. From 1983 to 1988, Goodwin held sales positions with Allnet Communications, Virtual Network Services, and Consolidated Network Services respectively.

A graduate of Ball State University with a BS in Accounting, Goodwin resides in La Jolla, California with Angela, his wife of 22 years and his two daughters, Spenser and Halle.

Bryon Borgardt
Chief Financial Officer

Bryon Borgardt joined Vinculum in February 2007. Over the past 25 years, he has held the senior financial position in various manufacturing and distribution companies, both domestic and international. Industries include water purification, irrigation, building products, international contracting, semiconductor, and food distribution. While Borgardt's primary roles have been as the Chief Financial Officer, he has managed Internal Audit, HR, IT, Legal, Logistics, Contracts Administration, Strategic Planning, and served as the Chief Operating Officer for subsidiary operations. Borgardt has experience with public, private equity-backed, and entrepreneurial operations. He also has led the sale or purchase of over 20 companies, including the integration of acquisitions.

Borgardt has an MBA and has attended numerous financial and executive seminars, both domestic and international.

Kristan Thomas
Chief Operations Officer

Kristan Thomas has been responsible for planning and delivering Voice over IP (VoIP) projects involving network technologies from partners such as Cisco, Alcatel, Avaya and other third party solution providers since 1996. Additionally, she has implementation and integration experience with complementary next generation solutions and applications such as Call Centers, Video over IP, and Wireless LAN technologies. She has held several high profile positions within major companies. Prior to joining Vinculum Communications, Inc., Thomas worked with NexAira Inc. a leader in distribution and support of 3G mobile broadband solutions. As VP, Products and Services, she managed all engineering services, integration support and product integrity for the modules, broadband cards and routers portfolio. At Cognigen, Business Systems Thomas was instrumental in developing and implementing a converged next generation data and VoIP solution specifically catered toward the Quick Service Retail market. Further, she has held various positions at SAIC, working on next generation solutions, primarily focused on the Enterprise and Government vertical markets.

Thomas has a BS in Information Systems and has taken additional executive management courses to enrich her skill set.

Peter Llewellyn
Chief Technology Officer

Peter Llewellyn joined the Vinculum family on July 10th, 2006. He brings extensive experience of VoIP, network and telecom knowledge from the 16 plus years experience in the telecommunications industry. Most recently, Llewellyn was with Acceris Communications, where he was responsible for the Operations and Management of 11 switches (Class 4) located throughout the US . As Principal Engineer and Project Manager, he led Acceris through a successful launch of their retail VoIP product line. He was with Acceris (previously WorldxChange) for 6 years in the US and 3 years in the Australian subsidiary. Prior to that, Llewellyn worked for Telstra Australia at the Perth Inmarsat Satellite Ground Station and various other facilities (switching and transmission).

Llewellyn obtained an Associate Diploma in Electrical Engineering (major in Communications) at North Sydney in 1990.

Robert Koehler
President of Vincomm

Robert Koehler joined Vinculum in 2001 and has contributed significantly to making the company a successful telecommunications company. Koehler manages all carrier relations which involve dealing with approximately 200 customers and vendors around the world.

After graduating in 1993 from Texas Christian University, Koehler started his career with the largest worldwide international security provider (ADT). He quickly became a top sales consultant. Koehler helped grow strategic alliances with many national retailers and several of the largest real estate companies in the U.S. Promoted to a sales management position, Koehler increased the department's revenue by 20% and recruited, hired, trained, and motivated a productive sales force of 25-30 representatives.

Louis Destree
Vice President Carrier Network Operations

Louis Destree brings fifteen years of applied technical experience to Vinculum Communications. His career has focused on network engineering and systems administration for a variety of telecommunications, internet service providers, educational, and corporate entities.

Recently, Destree has focused on international Voice over IP technologies. He has acted as Senior Network Engineer for Vinculum Communications since 2002. Previously, he served as Manager of Technical Services for Advance Global Communications and Senior Network Engineer for IP operations. Prior to his involvement in VoIP, Destree was Senior Systems Engineer for COLO.COM, an international provider of co-location facilities. Other recent career highlights include responsibility for the core network of a 250,000 subscriber national ISP at FlashNet Communications and the technical start-up of two regional ISP's at PRIA Global Access and Pyramid.Net.

Destree majored in electrical engineering at the University of Nevada Reno.

Jim Comeaux
President Retail Sales and Service

Jim Comeaux possesses more than 20 years of experience in IT-Telecommunications, Internet sales, financial services, marketing, business development, and network design and deployment. Prior to joining Vinculum Communications, he was the co–founder of VIVID IP. In addition, Comeaux worked as the CEO, CTO and Executive Vice President of Strategy for VoloNet Technologies, Inc. (dba RedWire), one of Southern California's premier ISP/WISP/VoIP service providers for Small-Medium sized Businesses.

While at RedWire, Comeaux identified and negotiated all Rooftop/Cell Site Agreements, and engineered and built out broadband services to 500+ commercial office buildings and over 3,000 business customers throughout Southern California. Redwire's footprint also included over 90 wireless broadband cell sites and 75 microwave backhaul links. As co–founder of RedWire, Comeaux guided the Company's successful placement of more than $3.0 million in capital from institutional and private investors, and was principal to RedWire's October 2006 sale to Airband Communications, the largest fixed wireless provider for businesses in the U.S.

Before co-founding RedWire, Comeaux worked as a Regional Data Sales Specialist with Qwest Communications focused primarily on web hosting, colocation, and Internet access for the enterprise market. In addition, his experience includes development of the Strategic Wireless Applications Team ("SWAT") for BearCom, Motorola's largest dealer in the Land Mobile sector, as well as one of the largest Nextel providers in the U.S., focused on the Oil and Gas industry. Comeaux began his dedicated telecommunications experience at Motorola in its Wireless Infrastructure Group.

Comeaux received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Aaron Carter
Vice President Retail Sales

Aaron Carter joined Vinculum Communications, Inc., as Vice President of Retail Sales in January 2007. Carter is responsible for building, managing and leading a team of sales professionals for all North American retail products and services. He most recently held the position of Senior Sales Executive for a privately held telecommunications company marketing and selling VoIP and PBX telephone systems within the Southern California region.

Carter graduated from the University of Nevada with a B.A. in Journalism and a minor in Business Administration. He currently resides in San Diego, California with his wife Rachel.

Desiree Kates
Director of Human Resources