Douglas J. Mello

President and Founder
DJM Advisory Services, Inc.
A telecommunication advisory services firm focused on assisting CEOs with execution of major decisions, with a particular focus on sales

Doug Mello is a Senior Advisor to Marcum Cronus Partners. Specializing in the telecommunications industry, he is a seasoned, accomplished business leader with an exceptional record of achievement in officer-level sales, marketing and operations positions in the industry’s largest, most important and most hotly contested markets. Mr. Mello is currently on the Boards of Directors of Warwick Telephone Company, Xstream Solutions, USA Datanet and Straitshot Communications.

A key member of the leadership teams of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic corporations, he successfully led major business sales organizations through a decade and a half of domestic growth and rapid change, including the breakup of the Bell system and formation of NYNEX, and more recently, NYNEX’s merger with Bell Atlantic.

Mr. Mello’s positions included: President, Large Business Sales, North at Bell Atlantic, where he was responsible for market and channel management, sales and service for Fortune 500 companies in New York and New England; Vice President, Sales at NYNEX, where he led a sales force of 10,000 and doubled revenues to $1 billion; Group Vice President, Manhattan at NYNEX; and Chairman, President and CEO of NYNEX Business Information Systems.

PRIOR AFFILIATIONS

Director of Nx Networks, E-Doctor, Ixnet, Paradigm4, Eyecast and Telexis (now March)

EDUCATION

Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Advanced Management Development program
Boston College, B.A.