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Prior to joining GoAmerica in April 2008 Mr. Buskirk was VP Sales and Marketing for Cosemi a technology start-up and COO of Vanguard Integrity Professionals a security software company. Mr. Buskirk has over 19 years with AT&T and its various divisions most recently as Area Vice President responsible for $200M in sales and service to corporate accounts. Prior to that he served as General Manager for Global Business Services. In AT&T’s Corporate Development group Mr. Buskirk helped develop and execute AT&T’s domestic wireless services strategy driving the $21B McCaw Cellular acquisition and was founding member of a new wireless services division (PCS). During this time he helped guide venture discussions with 4 international companies performing business plan and operations reviews for wireless technologies in 20+ countries. After AT&T Buskirk was second in command for a venture-backed Internet security software company and later was CEO and Founder of a project management software company. Mr. Buskirk has served as Board Director for the Sundance Film Institute Advisory Board and was a member of AT&T’s elite Leadership Succession Program. Ric brings over 20 years of operations P&L and business development experience in telecom and software companies to GoAmerica. | 