DSSI, LLC maintains it's corporate headquarters in Orange Beach, Alabama. DSSI is the holding company of SmartTV and SMARTRESORT (soon to be re -branded as Beyond Communications). SmartTV is a System Integrator specializing in the IP Services Industry. Smart Resort is a Next Generations Service Provider using Ethernet and IP as its Platform and Protocol.

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Jeff Hathaway - President, Chief Executive Officer and Founder - DSSI
Angelo Cicchino - Vice President of Business Development - DSSI
Mike Neasbe - General Manager - SmartTV
Renee Curtis - President - Smart Resort

Angelo Cicchino – Vice President of Business Development – DSSI

Angelo Cicchino has been in sales and management for over 30 years. Starting his sales carrier with Home Life Insurance Company of New York and Chicago, Illinois. He was honored his first year as rookie of the year for the state of Illinois in life insurance sales. Five years later he started Cicchino Enterprises, consisting of seventeen agents producing five million dollars of life insurance premium in its first year. In 1974, Jackson National Life, realizing Angelo's sales and management skills, asked him to be their Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Gulf Coast region consisting of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. Starting out in a new territory in New Orleans with one agent and recruiting no less than a minimum of 28 new agents per week for ten years he was successful in booking life insurance premiums in the excess of of 40 billion dollars by the tenth year and one hundred twenty million dollars of annuity premium in one year. He has authored many how to articles in life insurance selling, personal selling power, etc. He also owns many new enterprises that have been national and global in scope. Angelo comes to use from California and is spear-heading our sales team effort.

Mike Neasbe – General Manager – SmartTV

Mike Neasbe is a 30-year veteran of the communications industry. His career began in the mid 70’s as a CATV design engineer for several Midwest CATV systems. As bi-directional CATV broadband networks began to emerge as the first standards based networks for industrial and factory floor communications, Mr. Neasbe joined Clover Communications, Inc in Detroit, Michigan.

Over the next several years, as Sr. Systems Engineer with Clover, Mr. Neasbe designed and implemented several hundred plant wide Broadband systems for major clients such as Ford, GM, Chrysler and McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

In an effort to expand their national presence, Mike moved to Dayton, Ohio to open the first of several regional offices for Clover Communications. As networking technologies evolved from coax-based broadband to UTP and Fiber, Mike continued to develop process and procedure that enabled Clover to become a national force in the roll out of Standards based networks.

Mike is a BICSI - Registered Communications Distribution Designer and also maintains credentials with SCTE, NSCA and IEEE.

Lester Boihem – Vice President of Engineering – DSSI

Lester started working for BellSouth Telephone Company in 1971. There he started out as an installer and worked his way through the ranks into an elite group called Special Services where they installed all special services for events. This group worked on data, and anything that was a priority for the telephone company. Lester transferred into the mobile radio and microwave division where BellSouth sent him to school on various microwave and radio products that were used within the company. After 12 years with BellSouth, Lester left BellSouth and opened his own company, Two-Way Communications Company. The first contract landed by Two-Way was BellSouth as an outsource contractor. For 3 years he maintained BellSouth’s two-way radios in their vehicles, all of their paging equipment, and radios for their security division. He also landed another large contract for Bergeron Shipyard where we maintained all the radios within the shipyard.

Lester worked out of his house for about two years then built his own building. At that time it was only Lester and five other employees. Today, the company has 30 employees with offices in New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana. He saw the need to build communications towers for his own use and built a company constructing and operating towers throughout the region; that was subsequently sold to Pinnacle Corporation. Then he opened up another company and started building towers for cellular companies along with towers he needed for himself; Total Towers was formed. In two years, Lester sold Total Towers to SBA; a national tower company traded on the stock exchange.

Lester opened up a Two-Way office in Orange Beach, AL. He built several towers and established a communications system in the Baldwin County area. In Alabama he met several developers and invested in condominiums and property in the area. Lester felt the need for technology in this area, met Jeff Hathaway and Dale Younce, and they formed Baldwin County Internet to deliver wireless Internet services. At that time, they decided not only to deliver wireless Internet, but also to become a CLEC telephone company, as well as acquiring a cable franchise. The partners are now delivering technology to condominiums along the Gulf Coast region.

Renee Curtis – President – Smart Resort

Before joining DSSI, Renee Curtis was the President of a Michigan based statewide ISP. In this capacity, she was responsible for the upholding the company’s strategic and financial goals by providing structured management and accounting procedures. Throughout her career she has consistently been involved with customer service management; developing and implementing unique customer promotions, call center procedures, and training lessons. Renee attended Michigan State University where her studies focused on business and accounting.