Ralph Widmar serves as the Chief Executive Officier of Network Intelligence.  He is a graduate of the University of Colorado with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Marketing. After graduation, his first industry experience was with Mountain Bell, which was a local operating company for AT&T. (Now Qwest) He was hired into a management development program that exposed him to many different facets of the telephone business at an accelerated rate. Within three years he was the Corporate Marketing and Product Manager for Public Communications, with responsibility over an eight-state region. In less than two years he took this division from annual revenues of $80 million to over $200 million. He was subsequently loaned to AT&T/Bell Laboratories to develop new products and services on a nationwide basis.

With the winds of deregulation building, Mr. Widmar left AT&T in 1982 to start his first company, Comlinc, which offered privately owned public telephones to major airports. Comlinc was absorbed by TMC Communications (an early WATS reseller) and Mr. Widmar became TMC’s Vice President of Operations, building an 82-city switched network in less than a year. When TMC was reorganized into individual markets, Mr. Widmar joined a California investor group and moved to Monterey, California where he established a TMC operation. He oversaw the transition from resold WATS to private networking facilities, and beta-tested and became the first commercial customer of the DSC Communications DEX200 tandem switch, which allowed TMC of Monterey Bay to dramatically expand its service portfolio to include Equal Access.

In early 1985 Mr. Widmar began to provide consulting services to other TMC affiliates around the country, and by late 1985 left TMC of Monterey Bay to pursue consulting on a full-time basis. TMC was subsequently sold and later became part of Worldcom/MCI.

Mr. Widmar and his firm initially advised smaller competitive long-distance service providers on how to improve margins and profitability through network optimization software that he wrote as well as leveraging regulatory inconsistencies. He subsequently began to be in demand with the legal and regulatory divisions of the Bell Operating Companies, and assisted them in tariff filings and regulatory issues that served to streamline service offerings for the competitive telecommunications industry. He has advised Wireless (Cellular) providers, State, Federal, and International regulatory agencies, and Internet Service providers He has also advised various early-stage software companies in the integration of new voice technologies into the existing telecommunications infrastructure, and has been used as an expert witness in various State and Federal regulatory proceedings as well as in matters of civil litigation pertaining to telecommunications hardware and software intellectual property issues.

Mr. Widmar is a talented speaker and has been the keynote speaker at a variety of industry conferences such as Comptel, VON, and the Computer Law Association. He is a member of the IEEE and is certified as an expert witness before the Public Utilities Commission of California and the Texas Public Service Commission.