A New Base of Tier 1 Carrier Support for Multi-Layered Enterprises
22 Cortlandt Street16th Floor
New York, NY 10007
A New Base of Tier 1 Carrier Support for Multi-Layered Enterprises
22 Cortlandt StreetArkaBase will work directly with the Verizon Rep that is currently assigned to your company. Together we will pool our resources with one common goal.
Our CEO, Raul, has accumulated extensive expertise over the past 20+ years managing and growing international cloud, hosting, data center and telecommunications service provider companies. ArkaBase is Raul’s first company where he can bring his wealth of experience to develop a team of consultants and advisors for the telecom industry without the inherent bias that comes from working directly for a service provider. Raul sets the tone and direction as CEO and is well on his way toward making ArkaBase a respected brand and trusted independent advisor to the largest consumers of telecommunications services on the planet.
Prior to joining ArkaBase, Raul was the Chief Executive Officer of Net Access, a datacenter and managed services business located in Northern New Jersey, USA that he bolstered and ultimately sold to Cologix in 2015. Raul has also built several other highly-successful ventures including his role as CEO of Voxel dot Net, Inc., a NYC-based managed hosting company that was acquired by Internap Network Services Corp. (NASDAQ: INAP) in January 2012. Prior to Voxel, he served as the CEO of Smart Telecom Co., a Dublin, Ireland based fiber carrier and President & CEO of InfoHighway Communications Corporation, a facilities based Northeast communications carrier acquired by Broadview Networks in May of 2007. Raul has also served in various executive roles, including Chief Operating Officer, of Eureka Networks from December 1994 to November 2003.
Sarah Benetti joined the ArkaBase team after a decade of Tier I carrier experience and a couple years consulting as a partner working on behalf of her own customers to advocate with a multitude of carriers and technology service providers. Sarah spent 4 years inside of Verizon, 6 years working with AT&T, and 1 year with CenturyLink focused on customer relationships and enhancing the provider-to-client sales and fulfillment cycle.
Sarah is a consummate professional who knows the telecommunications provider universe from both the inside vendor perspective and the customers’ agent perspective. She knows how to artfully navigate the bureaucracy of a large carrier to get things done and how to choose the right mix of providers to meet a client’s needs, timeframes and expectations. Sarah also understands how to negotiate deals with the carriers, having successfully negotiated and accumulated thousands of service contacts with over 100 separate providers. Her ability to enhance customer service experiences enables ArkaBase’s customer support teams to be highly effective in freeing up resources at our clients to focus on their technology development initiatives. Sarah proves consistently by her results that working with ArkaBase allows our customers to gain back valuable time in their schedules by leaving the maneuvering through carrier sales and customer service departments to us.
Daniel Chiaramonte is a co-founder & COO of ArkaBase. Dan (or “Danny” as we call him) is actively engaged with managing all operations and overseeing all business opportunities in the sales channel. Dan gives ArkaBase a competitive advantage over other industry consultants, by leveraging his relationships and contacts along with his experience as a Member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from 2001-2013 to advance the needs and negotiations on behalf of the firm’s customers with Tier I & Tier II providers.
Prior to founding ArkaBase, Dan spent many years on the floor of the exchange where he was tasked with numerous responsibilities in the management and operation of trading firms and floor brokers. As a mission critical component of doing business on the exchange, telecom was an area of expertise that he developed during his tenure. Dan served as the CTO and CCO of Global Direct Equities from 2006-2013, where he managed the firm’s telecom procurement and operations, including several private line migration projects, trading desk relocations, procurement, provisioning, and maintenance of countless circuits. Dan also consulted and provided assistance for other firms on the floor of the exchange. This experience has given Dan his ability and contacts to navigate efficiently through negotiations with major carriers such as Verizon and AT&T and to manage teams of people that must execute flawlessly on follow-up and customer service.
Jim McConville is a recent addition to the ArkaBase team, after spending nearly 13 years with Verizon Enterprise Systems. His main function at Verizon was assisting designated sales teams in the development and closure of complex deals for Fortune 1000 customers.
Jim has been in Telecommunications for over 30 years. He has held senior management positions in operations as well as project management in the financial services industry. Jim has hands on experience with voice and data systems, trading floor design and implementation in addition to large staff relocations. His expertise covers telecom from the perspectives of the customer, consultant and the carrier space. Jim’s technology and negotiating experience enables customers to procure and deploy solutions that position them to compete in an ever-changing marketplace.
Matthew Urenovich is the IT Director for ArkaBase. Serving as the technical liaison between the firm, its valued clients, and the carriers & service providers, Matt builds loyalty and respect through sharing technical knowledge, paying attention to details, unselfish interaction, and continuous improvement of the systems and services we provide. He also provides technical and administrative support to sales staff, project managers, consultants and advisors.
Prior to joining ArkaBase, Matt worked for Vision Creative Group and was responsible for managing the IT operations as well as the Digital Team. He was responsible for the IT infrastructure and making sure that the technology needs of the company were met each and every day.
Barry Tanner is a senior consultant for ArkaBase's project management team with over 30 years of experience in telecommunications and PBX systems. Barry oversees the all activities for many of the firm's largest and most complex projects.
Barry possesses a unique combination of client relationship, vendor management, technical understanding, cost containment and client communication skills enabling him to serve as the lead technical liaison assisting and directing complex connectivity solution teams. He has an extensive understanding of traditional voice and unified communications (IP telephony, convergence & hosted/cloud solutions) and has participated in projects for hospitals, financial trading floors (turrets, private wires, market data), law firms and many other types of business. He is a well-rounded technology consultant and has participated in projects for PBX implementation, call center design, LAN/WAN network design, data center design, and expense reduction. He is a tough, but fair, negotiator who understands vendor procurement and management including RFP preparation, bid leveling, contract negotiation and operational implementation coordination.
