Tom Evslin is the founder and was Chair of NG Advantage LLC, the first company in the United States to truck

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to large users beyond the reach of natural gas pipelines. Evslin previously served as Chief Technology Officer for the State of Vermont. Before that he was Chief Recovery Officer responsible for coordinating the State's use of federal stimulus money under the

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(ARRA). He agreed to work for minimum wage and return that money to the State. Evslin was the co-founder (with his wife Mary), chairman, and CEO of ITXC Corp, a provider of

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. The company grew from a startup in 1997 to one of the world's largest carriers of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. In 2002

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named ITXC as the fastest growing technology company in North America. Tom was responsible for the conception, launch, and operation of

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's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. At

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, he was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange. Key assets of the Evslins' software company, Solutions, Inc., were sold to Microsoft. In 1981 and 1982 Evslin was Secretary of Transportation for the State of Vermont. Evslin's novel ''hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble'' was the fiction runner-up for the 2006

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. He is the son of author and playwright

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and author and teacher Dorothy Evslin.

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External links

Tom Evslin's bloghackoff.com Tom Evslin's blook (Creative Commons)freecheckip.com open source shareware by Tom Evslin
*Evslin source on github: https://github.com/tevslin Living people American telecommunications industry businesspeople State cabinet secretaries of Vermont American chief technology officers American technology company founders American chairpersons of corporations American technology chief executives Businesspeople from New Rochelle, New York Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-CEO-stub