Executive Team

Brandon Chaney
Chief Executive Officer

Anthony Zabit
President and Chief Operating Officer

Bob Finley
Chief Financial Officer

Tom Swayze
Vice President of Technology

Larry Bani
Vice President of Sales

Brandon Chaney, Chief Executive Officer

Prior to Telekenex, Mr. Chaney was Chief Executive Officer of Enginex Networks, a professional services firm in the telecommunications and networking technology industry. He led Enginex Networks to achieve rapid growth and the firm was ranked third in the 2002 Fast Tech 50.

Prior to Enginex, Mr. Chaney was Chief Executive Officer of Networld Communications. Networld was a leading next generation voice and data equipment provider in the country. Networld made the Inc. 500 list as the 62nd fastest growing private company in the US.

Prior to Networld, Mr. Chaney held positions in financial management with General Electric and spent time in many GE business units including GE Nuclear Energy, GE Aircraft Engines and GE Financial Services.

Mr. Chaney graduated from the Indiana University School of Business in Finance.  

Anthony Zabit, President and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Zabit co-founded Telekenex and currently holds the positions of President and Chief Operating Officer.

With over a decade of experience in the telecommunications industry, Mr. Zabit has been instrumental in designing and building Telekenex’s robust IP network and IP solutions. In 2005, Telekenex's Hosted VoIP solution was awarded a market growth leadership award.

Prior to Telekenex, Mr. Zabit was Chief Financial Officer of Networld Communications. Networld was a leading next generation voice and data equipment provider in the country. Networld made the Inc. 500 list as the 62nd fastest growing private company in the US. Mr. Zabit successfully led Networld's second round of funding that enabled Networld to introduce its Hosted IP Telephony service, which was later spun off into a separate company, CallTower.

Prior to Networld, Mr. Zabit was Chief Financial Officer of Zabit & Associates Inc., a company that was launched in 1993 and sold in 1998 to Xceed (NASDAQ: XCED). Prior to Zabit & Associates, Mr. Zabit was with Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisers.

Mr. Zabit is also a member of the board of directors for the California Association of Competitive Telecommunications Companies, (www.CALTEL.org). CALTEL is a non-profit trade association working to advance the interests of fair and open competition and customer-focused service in California telecommunications.

Mr. Zabit graduated from the Indiana University School of Business in Finance.  

Bob Finley, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Finley is the Chief Financial Officer of Telekenex, overseeing Finance, Accounting and HR.

Bob brings 27 years of deep financial expertise to Telekenex. Most recently, he was CFO at Netli, where he scaled the organization from pre-launch to double-digit revenue, prior to its acquisition by Akamai. Before Netli, Bob served as CFO at several other venture-backed companies: Military.com (acquired by Monster), Optimal Networks (acquired by Compuware) and Whistle Communications (acquired by IBM).

Prior to his work in VC-backed companies, Bob worked in the broadband group at Pacific Bell (now AT&T) and Citigroup. He began his career at KPMG, where he earned his CPA and was an auditor and a management consultant.

Bob attended UC Berkeley where he received his B.S. and M.B.A. in Business Administration.

Bob is a private pilot and enjoys scuba diving, art, music and reading. He is married and has a 4-year old daughter.

Tom Swayze, Vice President of Technology

Mr. Swayze is truly a founding father of voice over technologies. He pioneered voice over frame and ATM technologies in the mid 90's. He deployed one of the first Selsius (Cisco Call Manager) solutions. Mr. Swayze was instrumental in one of the first 1000+ International Cisco IP telephony call center deployments. He has been recognized by Cisco as a leader in IP telephony implementations.

Larry Bani, Vice President of Sales

Prior to Telekenex, Mr. Bani was the Regional Sales Director for emerging markets at AT&T and grew the region's sales to $65 million in the first year. Mr. Bani was also Manager for Strategic Initiatives where he developed and oversaw the rollout of multiple projects for AT&T's western region sales teams.