Richard A. Hronicek

Richard A. Hronicek, Xevo's president and CEO, has over 20 years of experience in multiple facets of the network computing industry. He comes to Xevo from USinternetworking, a leading application service provider (ASP) specializing in ERP applications. As senior vice president and general manager of USinternetworking, Hronicek headed its highly successful Siebel business unit and, previously, helped build USi's west coast and Japan data centers. As a result, he knows first-hand the needs and goals of the ASP community. Hronicek has been a part of the Internet industry since its early, "pre-Mosiac" days. Capping an 18-year career with the Pacific Telesis (now SBC) organization, he founded Pacific Bell Internet Services, Inc. (PBI), in 1995 and served two years as its president and CEO. Under his direction, PBI launched its Internet service in 1996 and, as the fastest growing ISP in California, was named "ISP Start-up of the Year" by America's Network magazine. Previously, Hronicek led Pacific Bell's advanced service initiatives, developing marketing strategies for its online information and data communications services. In the process, he earned four industry awards for creating Pacific Bell's CalREN program to develop high-performance vertical applications, including video-on-demand. Hronicek also served as business development director of PacTel International (now Airtouch), focusing on the European mobile data communications market. Mr. Hronicek began his career developing network software for Bell Labs. Hronicek left Pacific Telesis in 1997 to become president and CEO of the Javelin Internet Group, which focused on the merge, acquisition and selling of Internet service providers. Hronicek earned his B.S. in computer science from Penn State University and his M.S. in computer science/computer engineering from Stanford University.