Mr. Menascé is the retired President of the Enterprise Solutions Group for Verizon Communications Inc. New York City New York. Prior to the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corporation which created Verizon Communications he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of CTI MOVIL S.A. (Argentina) a business unit of GTE Corporation from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Menascé has also held senior positions at CANTV in Venezuela and Wagner Lockheed and Alcatel in Brazil and from 1981 to 1992 served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GTE Lighting in France. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Catolica de Rio de Janeiro and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia University. Mr. Menascé currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Pitney Bowes Inc. a global provider of integrated mail and document management solutions John Wiley & Sons Inc. a developer publisher and seller of products in print and electronic media for educational professional scientific technical medical and consumer markets and KeyCorp one of the nation’s leading bank-based financial service companies. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of Adventis a leading management and strategy consultancy to the converging global information industries. |