Inteliquent Announces Appointment of Eric Carlson
September 21 2016 - 7:00AM
Inteliquent, Inc. (NASDAQ:IQNT), the nation’s premier voice and
messaging interconnection partner for communications service
providers of all types, announced today that its Board of Directors
has appointed Eric Carlson as its interim Principal Financial
Officer and interim Principal Accounting Officer effective on
September 24, 2016. Inteliquent is currently identifying a
candidate to serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer on a
permanent basis.
Mr. Carlson, 54, joined Inteliquent in May
2004 and has served as Controller since that time. In
addition, Mr. Carlson previously served as the company’s interim
Principal Financial Officer and interim Principal Accounting
Officer from August 2013 to January 2014.
Mr. Carlson holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from
Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Business Administration
in Finance from Northern Illinois University. Mr. Carlson is a
certified public accountant and a member of AICPA and the Illinois
CPA Society.
“Eric has played an integral role in leading and
strengthening our finance and accounting functions for more than a
decade,” said Matt Carter, Inteliquent’s President and Chief
Executive Officer. “He has previously served in this capacity as
the Inteliquent’s interim Principal Financial Officer and we are
supremely confident in his ability to maintain the positive
momentum to transform our business into the next-generation space
while we conduct our search.”
On September 19, 2016, Inteliquent announced the
resignation of Kurt J. Abkemeier as its Chief Financial Officer and
Executive Vice President.
About InteliquentInteliquent is a
premier interconnection partner for communication service providers
of all types. As the nation’s highest quality provider of
voice and messaging interconnection services, Inteliquent is used
by nearly all national and regional wireless carriers, cable
companies, and CLECs in the markets it serves, and its network
carries approximately 19 billion minutes of traffic per month. With
the recent launch of its Omni IQsm solution, Inteliquent is now
also fully dedicated to supporting the growing market of next
generation service providers. Please visit Inteliquent’s
website at WWW.INTELIQUENT.COM and follow us on Twitter
@Inteliquent.
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results or events could differ materially from the plans,
intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking
statements we make. Factors that might cause such differences
include, but are not limited to: our ability to identify and
successfully attract a highly qualified successor to our Chief
Financial Officer and his or her future performance; the length of
time required to complete an executive search; cooperation by key
parties during the Chief Financial Officer transition process; and
other important factors included in our reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly in the “Risk
Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period
ended December 31, 2015, as such Risk Factors have been
updated from time to time in subsequent reports. Furthermore, such
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release. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking
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Analyst Contact:
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