Todd Tanner is a co-founder and the President of CONXXNE. Todd was the principal and founder of the Tanner Group, an independent telecommunications consultancy with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado. For 24 years, he specialized in strategic telecommunications planning, owner representation, and feasibility analysis. Todd has presented highly rated seminars and published articles in the management of contact centers, telecommunications, applied technology, marketing, and high-speed network integration and design. He is a contributor to Business Communications Review and quoted in the Wall Street Journal among others. Todd is a certified Benchmarking Auditor and Bell Systems traffic engineer. He has a degree in Marketing from the University of Utah School of Business. Prior to entering the telecommunications consulting field, Mr. Tanner received national recognition and awards in marketing, consumer package design and medical equipment development.

Bill Risse is Executive Vice President of ConxxNE. Bill is an award-winning communications and technology professional with accomplishments in television production, government leadership, project management and telecommunications. Bill was armed with a liberal arts degree from the University of Scranton when he began a decade as a print journalist and photographer, television news videographer and independent television production director. Bill earned recognitions that included citations from the Associated Press, several Economic Development Associations and a technical Emmy Award for work with NBC on the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. He served for 20 years at a Cabinet level in Lackawanna County Government as primary media spokesman and as a leader on project teams that built a professional baseball stadium, purchased a Triple A Baseball franchise, restored an abandoned coal mine into a national award-winning historic attraction, developed a major outdoor performing arts center and hosted national and international sport events at the professional and amateur level.