David Achim Email & Phone Number

In his role as President and Chief Executive Officer of SkyFiber, Inc. Mr. Achim leverages over twenty-five years of proven sales, marketing and operational expertise in providing leadership and guidance throughout all aspects of the corporation. Before joining SKYFIBER™ in October of 2008, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer for ROME Corporation, a Houston-based company providing Enterprise Credit Risk Management software to the Energy and Financial Services business sectors. During his tenure with ROME Corporation, Mr. Achim and his team doubled company revenues every year from 2005 to 2007, resulting in ROME’s recognition in 2007 by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in North America. ROME Corporation was on track to again double revenue in 2008, when Mr. Achim successfully negotiated the sale of the corporation to TriplePoint Technology in June of 2008. Mr. Achim began his technology career at Burroughs in Houston, TX. He has held roles of increasing executive responsibility at Viewstar, Action Technologies and Gemplus, where he negotiated strategic, multi-million dollar relationships with Compaq, IBM and Microsoft. As Regional Vice President of Sales at Selectica, Mr. Achim developed numerous strategic partnerships and exceeded revenue delivery goals, both of which were instrumental to the company’s recognition of a successful public offering. In his role leading the Global Sales and Marketing division for portal software leader Epicentric, Mr. Achim was responsible for orchestrating a multi-million dollar OEM relationship with a global telecommunications leader, contributing to the successful sale of the company to Austin-based Vignette Corporation. Mr. Achim holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Listed skills include Telecommunications.

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  Ceo/President

  Skyfiber, Inc.

  1996 - Present

  SKYFIBER™ delivers high-capacity low-cost Optical Wireless Broadband (OWB) communications products that are changing the way we think about addressing the rapidly growing Broadband needs of enterprise business, mobility backhaul, last-mile connectivity, high-security data networks, and emergency response networks. With innovative technology breakthroughs, SKYFIBER has delivered 99.999% reliability even in fog, rain, and smog, and also holds the exclusive patent on Point-to-Multipoint mesh deployment of OWB. The global demand for economical, highly secure Broadband at Gigabit speeds is greater than ever, and SKYFIBER is ready to meet that demand by providing Optical Wireless Broadband to connect the world.