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Birch Communications has named Tony Tomae as its next president and CEO, succeeding Vincent Oddo, who will become president and CEO of Birch's sister company Birch Equity Partners.
A 25-year telecom industry veteran, Tomae comes to Birch from FairPoint Communications where he served as chief revenue officer and oversaw sales, marketing, and product management functions. He left FairPoint in January as part of a company-wide restructuring effort.
Prior to coming to FairPoint in 2012, Tomae served in a number of executive positions at Deltacom -- now EarthLink -- and WilTel Communications. Earlier, he held positions with AT&T (NYSE: T) and Broadwing Communications, now Level 3.
Tomae will be based at the Atlanta Operations Center, and plans to relocate...