Mr. Ogden is a talented, ambitious and seasoned entrepreneurial-minded individual. As a Senior IT executive with over 25 years in business development, account management and operations management, he has extensive experience in conceiving and establishing new businesses from birth to profitably across multiple technology-based domains. John joined Netsmartz in 2012 and has repeatedly proven his ability to deliver success in the areas of streamlining operations, managing P&L and devising as well as implementing competitive strategies to generate top and bottom line growth. As a business leader, his skills have been developed through hands on experience in: telecom-based mergers and acquisitions, turnaround management, sales and marketing, project transition and management, product management, diverse platform integration, software development architectural design and implementation, network infrastructure design management, and customer service improvements. In addition, his extensive experience has allowed him to gain the legal, emotional, business and social skills required to create successful long term client relationships across partnerships vital to the success of any organization. Those same skills provide him the ability to lead winning teams across cultural diversity and align their efforts towards organizational goals, ensuring customer centric and process orientation.His seasoned entrepreneurial experiences have empowered him with broad and unique bag of tricks. His bag of tricks, combined with his highly analytical mind he is able to see opportunity, road blocks and develop and implement creative solutions to achieve exponential business results.

PayQuicker is a pioneer in money movement services that enable global micro payments. PayQuicker’s industry-leading products include Free Member to Member transfers, multiple global Debit cards programs, Direct deposit, Electronic transfers globally and global paper check fulfillment. These products are supported by industry-leading risk management capabilities that leverage comprehensive, proprietary technology, helping institutions mitigate risk and decrease fraud exposure. The PayQuicker platform is perfect for any affiliate marketing network, MLM, sales organization, social media service provider required to make mass commission disbursements monthly or weekly. • Responsibilities include the management of strategic provider activities, partnerships and affiliations.• Vendor Relations management or marketing networks, • Development of the global payment network for the real time transfer of funds to thousands of global payees.

BlueFrog, Inc. is a facilities-based ecommerce Internet product and service provider. Responsibilities include the development, expansion and management of a reseller channel sales organization. • Responsibilities include the management of strategic mergers and acquisition activity of national Internet access providers into a larger unified access provider to take advantage of economies of scale.• Grow a wholesale suite of services to include browser/portal content services, broadband access services, VoIP telephony, Satellite TV, billing, call center services...• Develop a national broadband access footprint for transport of voice and data services to serve MTU/MDU Smart building deployments, Wi-Fi wireless towers and end users subscribers.

Xtelegent Networks, Inc. is a wholesale network provider for its proprietary domains, VISP affiliates and smart building deployments. Services range from a full VISP suite, co-location, WAN/LAN’s, MTU/MTU (Smart Building) Networks to national broadband and VoIP services.• Responsibilities included the development, expansion and management of a full service VISP back office platform for use by existing subscriber domains and the future service of merged or acquired regional Internet service providers.• Increase gross revenue from just over 2 million three fold to over 6 million in fewer than 18 months through acquisitions of competitive access and content providers. • Increased net revenue exponentially across the family of proprietary and acquired access customers through network integration, strategic use of outsourced services and efficient use of both existing human and technical resources. • Expanded a national voice and data network to include modem access, DSL footprint including branded VISP browser/portal content services, accelerators, Satellite TV telephony (VoIP) services.• Merged two national VISP platforms into a single optimized back office platform able to scale to services the wholesale VISP contracts with affinity groups such as: ESL Federal Credit Union, New York Cities Metropolitan Federal Credit Union, Alliance Bank and Summit Federal Credit Union.• Personally conducted mergers and acquisition activities of LinkNY.com, Froggernet.net, Wycol.com and i2eyenet.com four regional facility based Internet service providers resulting in a 62% increase in monthly revenue to a growing family of service providers. • Renegotiated and redesigned the legacy WAN/LAN and point to multipoint point wireless subscriber networks into a regional network to transport voice and data services to support sales of into MTU/MDU structures housing the standalone dedicated IP subscribers.

NetAccess, Inc. is a national Internet Service Provider. Services are offered on a wholesale and retail basis ranging from co-location, WAN/LAN, VOIP and Branded VISP Internet services to national affinity organizations.• Responsibilities include the development, expansion and management of the VISP program and reseller channel sales organization to include a multi carrier national dial-up and DSL footprint including branded affinity browser and portal content services.• Increased the VISP program by 200% in twenty-four months through wholesale contracts with national affinity groups such as: Triple A Baseball, Gannett News Papers, Hurst Publishing The Talking Phone Book and Marvel Comic’s. • Personally responsible for 43% of sales in relation to the total corporate monthly recurring revenue.• Established a MDU/MTU Smart Building approach for the sale of dedicated Internet access and VoIP services gaining exclusive contracts with some of Upstate New York’s largest property management firm including Uniland Properties and its over 10 million square feet of property.

PageNet was the world’s largest wireless messaging provider offering a full spectrum of wireless services from numeric pagers to advanced two-way email communication software and PDA efficiency devices.• Strategic Account Managers sold into and managed high revenue; advanced product oriented fortune 500 business accounts. Duties encompassed solution based selling, IT implementation, contract negotiation and management of the ongoing account maintenance team. • Sales Circle of Excellence- Top three percent in annual sales of the 1,500 national sales force. • Exceeded quotas for revenue, new unit sales, new account acquisition each month year in and year out during my ten year of employment.• Consistently, in the top percentile of regional sales force for sales volume and excelled in maximization of (ARPU) Average Revenue Per Unit.