Chad Krantz Joins ANPI as National Channel Director

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. --(Business Wire)--

Chad Krantz (News - Alert) joins ANPI as national channel director where he will utilize his expertise in optimizing sales team development and assessing potential sales opportunities to effectively manage the company's new channel program. Mr. Krantz will direct a national team of channel managers as ANPI endeavors to address the broader needs of the business marketplace, including communications, collaboration, connectivity, business continuity and security.

About the new addition to the leadership team, Don Kinison, ANPI's vice president of business sales, shared, "It is my distinct pleasure to have Chad lead ANPI's team of channel managers. His 18 years of industry experience selling and managing channel teams is not only a tremendous asset to ANPI, but it benefits our channel managers, their partners and ultimately their business customers. Having Chad's leadership of the team affords ANPI the ability to immediately expand our channel team from a regional to a national footprint. His tenure and breadth of industry knowledge is a wonderful addition to the ANPI organization."

Mr. Krantz added, "I am so excited to have the opportunity to lead the ANPI channel team as we embark on a renewed mission and focus to build strong partnerhips within the channel. ANPI's dedicated channel team is committed to enhancing the channel partners' experience."

Throughout his accomplished sales management career Mr. Krantz has consistently exceeded sales goals and earlier positions include executive director of channel sales at Broadvox (News - Alert), director of sales for Carrier Services LLC and district sales director with NuVox Communications.

Mr. Krantz earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Emory and Henry College and holds an MBA from Lenoir-Rhyne College. Additionally Mr. Krantz holds current STCA, SSCA and SSMP certifications from The SIP School.

ANPI

ANPI is the premier provider of SIP, VoIP, and hosted IP communication and application services. It is committed to delivering powerful and reliable business solutions to serve the evolving needs of businesses through technology and service innovation. ANPI has developed an industry leading SIP Trunking offering and Unified Communications (News - Alert) (UC) platform to deliver communication and collaboration tools such as hosted PBX features as well as audio, web and video conferencing. The ANPI SIP Trunking and hosted UC solutions are available nationwide complemented by a range of broadband and connectivity options, business continuity and security. ANPI solutions support the variety of devices mandated by today's distributed and mobile workforce. To ensure the highest levels of service, the ANPI private IP network is proactively monitored by a Network Operations Center staffed 24x7 with highly experienced telephony engineers and technicians. Based In Springfield Illinois ANPI began serving rural telecom companies in 1996, and today nearly 800 CLECs, ILECs, IXCs and regional wireless carriers use ANPI for voice and data solutions. ANPI owns and operates a multi-service Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Packet Label Switching (MPLS) over Optical Transport Network (OTN) network that spans the Continental United States with switching and/or PoP facilities in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta and New York City. For more information on ANPI and its product offering, please visit www.anpi.com or call us at 877-366-2674.