Management Team

Stephen G. Canton, Chairman, CEO

Mr. Canton is a nationally recognized expert in the telecommunications and data networking fields, having served in various senior management and director roles for the most respected companies in the industry, including Cable & Wireless PLC, Bell Atlanticom, Allnet Communications, Telco Communications and Excel Communications. During that time, he was instrumental in creating more than $2.3 Billion in enterprise value.

Mr. Canton served as Chairman of the Export Import Bank of the United States Advisory Board for an unprecedented two terms and served as a Director for three terms.

Under Mr. Canton’s leadership, iCore was recognized as an Ernst and Young 2009 EOY Finalist, by Washington SmartCEO Magazine as one of the Smart100 as well by the Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Technology Firms in metro D.C . iCore also received the Broadsoft award for Outstanding Growth & Innovation and VoIP Review.org’s Editor’s Choice Award. Talk to us directly>>

Bruce Simms, Executive Vice President of Operations

Bruce joined iCore in 2004 after an impressive track record of increasing department revenue. Prior to joining iCore, he was the Director of Professional Services at GE Capital IT Solutions where he exceeded revenue and operating margins by 28% on average. He served as Director of Client Services at Gelco Government Networks were he increased department revenue by 20%. He also held management positions at the US Department of Health & Human Services as well as the US Air Force and the Harris Corporation. He has led international engineering teams, supervised employees in 13 locations, spearheaded double digit revenue growth and received numerous awards for his work. Talk to us directly>>

Chris Harris, Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President

Chris Harris joined iCore in January 2006 with more than 14 years of progressive management responsibilities. Prior to joining iCore, he served over 8 years at Gray Hawk Systems and last position was the Vice President of Information Systems, where he assisted in the technical phase of the acquisition that was completed with ManTech in June 2005. Harris also served for the US Navy where he designed the shipboard network architecture and weapons systems, which was used fleet-wide on AEGIS class cruisers. Talk to us directly>>

Michael Bertamini, Vice President of Sales

Michael Bertamini joined iCore in 2005. Prior to joining iCore, he was the Business Sales Manager at T-Mobile, where he restructured an underperforming team to be ranked in the top ten nationally. During his tenure at iCore, he has led the sales efforts which has resulted in over 40M in contracted revenue, secured over 20,000 business subscribes and lead the efforts in doubling the companies revenue yearly. Talk to us directly>>

Michael Avis, Executive Vice President, Controller

Michael joined iCore in 2008 after an impressive track record as Vice President of Financial Operations and Administration at Global Telecom & Technology (GTT), where he helped grow the company from a private firm with $3 million in revenue to a $65 million public company in seven years. His telecommunications background is deep, having also worked for Winstar and MCI. Talk to us directly>>

Rob Ellison, Vice President of Client Services

Rob Ellison joined iCore in January 2010. Prior to joining iCore, he spent over 8 years at SAVVIS Communications in progressive management roles where he helped grow the company from an industry start-up to an $800 million IT infrastructure leader. He served as Vice President of Sales and Support with his final role as Vice President of Customer Retention. Ellison also spent 9 years in management positions at Sensormatic Electronics, where as part of the Customer Engineering group, he led field service operations in the Mid-Atlantic region. Talk to us directly>>