Richard Dinh
Senior Vice President of Operations

Mr. Dinh is currently the Senior Vice President of Operations at Comtel Telcom Assets LP, a role which he has served since August 2005. He was a member of the group that purchased the Vartec assets out of bankruptcy, leading to the formation of Comtel. Currently, his primary responsibility is managing the customer experience and his Support Services Group includes the Billing, Customer Care, Vendor Management and Network Operations departments. Prior to his current role as head of the Support Services Group, he oversaw the migration from Excel’s legacy Nortel network to its current IP-based Veraz softswitch network.

Prior to Comtel, he previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Mercantel Communications LP, a facilities-based international carrier, and has been in the telecommunications space since 2000. Mr. Dinh also worked for software start-up Simplified Development where he helped secure investor funding and managed their customer accounts in Asia in the role of lead consultant.

Mr. Dinh was also one of the responsible parties involved in creating a wholesale voice division and platform for Dynegy, which led to the formation of Teleworks Wholesale Services, LP. Prior to his role with Simplified Development, Mr. Dinh was a financial analyst with a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs where he structured mezzanine finance deals that included, but were not limited to, real estate bond offerings from JP Morgan and the Bank of Tokyo in addition to managing the real estate debt portfolios for Goldman Sachs and the Archon Group.

Mr. Dinh graduated from Harvard University in 1998 with an honors degree in Psychology.