Ed Fantegrossi   + Chairman

Mr. Fantegrossi has a vision for GEO:
“Whatever we do, we do with honor as we quietly take pride in doing what is right for the project and for the customer.”

This conveys the ideals and the practicality that are inherent in Ed’s philosophy of doing business. His intuition and skills in listening and observing have brought together some of the best people to be part of GEO. Consequently, the values imbedded into GEO are there because of a common thread of honor and expertise.

Over the years, Ed has developed his philosophy in conjunction with his experience in real estate, data and telecom. His real estate background had its beginnings in residential and commercial development and expanded into innovative real estate solutions for businesses and complex developments. Building on his real estate development experience and being open to new ideas, Ed entered the telecom market with the founding of Voyager Networks, Inc., a domestic long distance reseller, data services, co-location and facilities management service provider that was later sold to Frontier Communications.

Ed has always believed in businesses that fill a market niche. As an example, he co-founded DEVNET and devised a program of large block property leasing to handle the invasion of CLECs into the newly deregulated Regional Bells’ core business. Prior to GEO, he founded and is Chairman of EDCO, LLC, an international telecommunications and switching company with multibillion-dollar telecom customers. Additionally, Ed serves as principle partner and co-founder of Axcess Technology Group, Inc. that was designed to provide telecom and co-location services for the emerging deregulated and privatized PTTs.

Having a passion for education since he was very young, Ed co-founded and is on the board of the Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF), a non-profit organization that encourages solutions to the “digital divide” by means of philanthropic donations of "telecommunications" assets to universities through the IEEAF’s Stewardship Initiatives.

In summary, with Ed Fantegrossi as Chairman, GEO has a solid and well-rounded foundation. Furthermore, the GEO employees take pride in knowing that excellence and integrity are the top rules of business at GEO.

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Mark P. Gerard   + President, Infrastructure Support Systems

Besides his own dynamic experience and self-motivation, Mr. Gerard contributes to GEO several engineering and architectural companies that he owns which fall under the name D.P. Facilities Group.

These companies specialize in turnkey solutions for data centers and telecommunication facilities. Solutions include design, construction, maintenance, and fire protection. With Mark’s oversight, GEO has the strength of the D.P. Facilities Group, which has designed and built many hundreds of facilities for major clients such as New York Clearing House, Republic National Bank and Rockefeller University.

Mark was a founder and served as Vice President of DEVNET and subsidiary companies. His innovation and foresight brought DEVNET into existence as telecom de-regulation was occurring. Today, DEVNET has a contract controlling access to real estate totaling 40,000,000 square feet of Tier 1 office properties in major cities throughout the United States.

Additionally, Mark was a founder and served as Vice President of Axcess Technology Group where he worked alongside Mr. Fantegrossi in developing a company that provides telecom collocation. The company has grown to have a multi-billion dollar Asian telecommunications carrier as a strategic partner.

Mark graduated with a degree in Accounting/CPA from Pace University and holds several Engineering certificates.

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Tom Durkin    + Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Durkin's experience brings to the GEO partnership the strength of a comprehensive career in telecom and data communications spanning 25 years.

Prior to GEO, he had developed his skills on a global scale as he held the positions of Senior Vice President and Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Pacific Gateway Exchange and WorldCom. In these positions, he had responsibility for domestic and international expansion for the company's switched services and associated network infrastructure in both the regulated and deregulated telecom environment. At Pacific Gateway, he directed their entry into the European market and was instrumental in building a profitable $75M business opportunity.

Tom also has extensive experience providing technical support to the financial and banking community. While at Recognition Equipment he specialized in data processing operations and connecting remote sites back to a central data center facility for inter-banking transactions and account settlements.

Furthermore, GEO has a valuable asset with Tom's bilateral negotiating skills and mediating expertise in the area of technical issues and business development.

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