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Alpine Access Appoints Stephen W. Schovee Chairman Of The Board
March 03 2009Denver, CO – Alpine Access, the premier provider of home-based customer care solutions for brand-conscious companies, announced today the appointment of Mr. Stephen W. Schovee as chairman of the board of directors.
"We are pleased to have someone of Stephen’s caliber leading our board," said Christopher Carrington, CEO of Alpine Access. "His extensive experience as a business leader and entrepreneur brings valuable leadership and vision to Alpine Access. We look forward to working with him as our board continues its ongoing efforts to enhance the company’s value."
Schovee is a recognized business leader whose 20-year career has included private equity managing partner, individual private equity investor and entrepreneurial CEO. More specifically, he has been a general partner in six venture capital funds. As a managing member of Telecom Partners, he and his partners built a nationally recognized telecommunications venture capital firm that was instrumental in the formation and growth of many companies including Verio and Inflow.
Schovee was also founder and CEO of OneComm Corporation, which he and his team grew through strategic acquisitions, eventually selling the company to Nextel for $650 million. His other executive positions have included vice president and general partner for Centennial Funds, and he has previously served on the boards of Allied Riser Communications, Gabriel Communications, Inflow, Verio, Optiglobe and VeloCom.
"No other company in the call center space has our unique combination of a strong brand, the industry's best talent base and innovative technologies; strengths we believe will help us take advantage of the opportunities we see ahead,” said Schovee. “I look forward to working together with Chris and the rest of our board to continue the progress we've made on our strategy to be the premier home-based contact center in the United States.”
About Alpine Access
Alpine Access pioneered a distinctive home-based employee contact center model in 1998 that provides greater customer connections and premium quality results by matching an elite workforce of agents to specific client needs. With this service, customers in the retail, travel, financial and public sectors, including Office Depot, Jeppesen, EDS - an HP company, and the Internal Revenue Service, experience improved operational efficiencies and increased financial success with higher one-call resolution, greater customer satisfaction scores and larger average order sizes.
Alpine Access employs distributed home-based agents in over a thousand cities and has been included on fastest-growing company lists such as the Inc. 500, Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 and the Denver Business Journal in each of the past several years. For more information, visit the Alpine Access website at www.alpineaccess.com or call 1-866-279-0585. Alpine Access – Advantage, yours.™