BULLSEYETELECOM.COM - Key Persons


Alex Valencia - Chief Compliance Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • Lingo 's VP and General Counsel
Alex Valencia serves as Lingo's VP and General Counsel and is a 20+ year veteran of the telecom industry. Alex oversees the Company's government and legal affairs, including corporate governance and directs all regulatory policies. Prior to joining Lingo, Alex served as VP of Regulatory Affairs for Impact Telecom. He holds an LLM in International and Comparative Law from Notre Dame Law School, a Juris Doctorate from Gonzaga University School of Law, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Latin America Studies from Southern Methodist University.

Ananth Veluppillai - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President
  • BullsEye 's President & CEO
Ananth Veluppillai serves as BullsEye's President & CEO in addition to being a member of its Board. Ananth also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of B. Riley Principal Investments (an owner of Lingo & BullsEye). Ananth has over 28 years of experience in telecommunications and held various leadership positions, including serving as the COO of Global Operations for Tech Mahindra's Network Services unit and COO of LCC International, Inc., that provided consulting services in Wireless and Wireline telecommunication networks around the world. Ananth holds B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Christine Tarrago - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer at BullsEye
Christine Tarrago is the Chief Financial Officer at BullsEye with more than +25 years of global financial executive leadership. Prior to joining BullsEye, Christine Tarrago served among others as CFO of private equity backed organizations. Before that, she had leadership positions at Siemens and Alstom. Originally from Europe, she graduated with a BA and MBA from the University of Augsburg, Germany, started her career in Europe where she worked in public accounting on large international publicly listed companies in Germany, France, and Spain. She is fluent in four languages and is a registered CPA in the State of Illinois.

Christopher Ramsey

Job Titles:
  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • BullsEye 's Chief Revenue Officer
Chris Ramsey serves as BullsEye's Chief Revenue Officer and is a 20+ year veteran of the communications services industry. He is responsible for managing and driving organic sales, sales operations, and marketing. Chris excels at managing multiple sales channels with an excellent track record of optimizing sales costs and ROI.

Dave Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Corporate Development
Dave is responsible for technology services product management, product development, business development and regulatory compliance for the company. He also oversees carrier management, including contracts as well as state and federal regulatory compliance. Dave has more than 34 years of industry experience and has served in a variety of executive and strategic leadership positions within the telecommunications industry for companies like MCI, Allnet Communications, Frontier and LDMI. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Wayne State University and an MMPT certification from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.

Patrick Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Carrier Services
  • VP of Carrier Services at Impact Telecom
Patrick Reilly serves as VP of Carrier Services at Impact Telecom, a Lingo Communications company, and is a 25+ year veteran of the telecom industry. Patrick has extensive senior-level experience managing Carrier sales, engineering and operational roles within the wireless and wireline space spanning domestic and international communications service offerings. Before joining the Lingo-Impact team, he held management and executive-level positions at Frontier Communications, Global Crossing, and ANI Networks.

Vilas Uchil - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer at BullsEye
  • Member of the Forb
Vilas Uchil is the Chief Operating Officer at BullsEye. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing innovation, technology, and operations for BullsEye. Vilas provides strategic and tactical leadership for the Technology and Operations teams, including Engineering, Software Development, IT Infrastructure, Billing, Service Fulfillment, Activation Engineering, Client Services, Field Support, and Account Management to support and promote the company's culture, mission, and values. Vilas is responsible for ensuring there is alignment from Technology and Operations to provide the highest Client (CX) and Partner (PX) experience by designing the best Employee experience (EX). Prior to joining BullsEye in 2014, Vilas worked in the telecommunications industry for 20 years. He was the head of engineering and operations at NovoLink Communications, and held positions at SPRINT-NEXTEL Corporation, General Electric Capital GCF (UK), and TATA-Nortel Technology Lab (India). He received a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Bombay University (India), and he holds two Master of Science degrees from Missouri University of Science and Technology (electrical engineering/computer engineering). Vilas has also successfully completed the Customer-Focused Innovation program, part of the executive education track at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Vilas is a member of the Forb es Technology Council, an invitation-only organization comprised of leading CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. He routinely provides firsthand insights on various issues pertaining to the telecommunications industry. Articles can be accessed by visiting his official Forbes page.