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Ron Young
Chairman and Managing Director, Sage San
Francisco Ron Young is an award-winning business
pioneer with over 30 years' of innovative leadership at Yipes, Nokia,
AT&T, BofA, Electronic Arts, CVS and Levi's. He combines a high-tech
marketer's drive for product innovation, a packaged-goods marketer's
nose for branding and differentiation and a retail marketer's ability to
generate immediate sales.
Ron is the Founding Chairman of the Board of
the Metro Ethernet Forum, the world-wide standards body advancing the
fastest growing technology in telecom; Co-Founder of Yipes, the world's
first metro Ethernet service provider which grew from 1st sale in '00
to contracted revenue of $247 mil in '02 and Founder of Met-Net, a
pure-play, next-gen metro Ethernet service provider (both companies have
been repeated finalists in Service Provider of the Year Awards). Ron's
previous innovations include: the first commercial deployment of DSL
service in America, while the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at
Nokia High Speed Access Products (formerly Diamond Lane Communications)
- where revenues grew from 1st sale in '97 to $68 mil in '99 and $406
mil in '00; the first roll-out of data services (including the first
Cisco reseller program) by any RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company)
while working for SBC (formerly Pac Bell); the first roll-outs of
Transparent LAN Service (the precursor to metro Ethernet) and Frame
Relay by any RBOC while working for the !nterprise division of Qwest
(formerly US WEST) - where revenues grew from $1.6 mil in '91 to $750+
mil in '97; introduction of the first box-shaped software packaging (now
the industry standard) while SVP Marketing of Electronic Arts; the first
re-fillable plastic bottle in the US and the first unit-pricing in the
drug industry while at CVS Stores; the first Radio & TV advertising for
Levi's while at FCB Advertising.
Ron is the recipient of many product of the year and other industry
awards including: the World Communications Award for Best New Carrier,
the Interop Infrastructure Award for Best Competitive Local Exchange
Carrier (Twice), Network Magazine's Product of the Year Award and
similar honors from America's Network, Communications Engineering and
Design, ComNet, ComputerWorld, CRN, Enterprise Systems,
LocalBusiness.com, Network World, Red Herring, Tele.com, Telephony and
Upside. Ron has also won over 50 advertising awards, including ADDYs,
ANDY's and a Clio Award for advertising created for Levi's.
A sought-after industry spokesman, his many conference presentations
include COMDEX, COMNET, SuperComm, Networld + Interop, IEC NCF, Internet
World, NGN, SUPERnet, ISPCON and Opticon. Ron has been quoted
extensively in newspapers, TV shows and industry trade publications,
including America's Network, Business Communications Review, InfoWorld,
Network World, Red Herring, Telecommunications and Telephony.
A life-long sailor, Ron placed 2nd in the World Championships and was GM
of San Francisco's 1st Challenge for the America's Cup - which produced
the world's first bow-ruddered boat, broadly hailed as the most
innovative design in America's Cup history. Her technological
descendants are now the fastest displacement sailboats on earth and hold
the Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Pacific and 'Round the World records.
Ron is a member of the San Francisco, Transpac and St Francis Yacht Clubs, the
Commonwealth Club and Mensa.
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