Greg Nielsen

Greg Nielsen has participated as a founding member of several companies; all of them on the cutting edge of internet and technology, three have been sold to major corporations around the world. The original Founder and CEO of IP Telesis now Velocity Networks, Mr. Nielsen currently sits on the Board of Directors. Under his direction, Mr. Nielsen designed the network from the ground up becoming the backbone for some of the most well known providers in the industry. His company pioneered the next-generation managed service provider industry and the delivery of business communications in a Software-as-a-Service model (SaaS), Communications-as-a-Service ( CaaS) and Unified Communications (UC). Velocity is one of the nation’s most successful providers of these services and has marquee clients like Dun and Bradstreet, Motorola, NBA, LA Fitness, In-N-Out Burgers, Krispy Kreme and more. The company is also a leading provider of wholesale Voice over IP solutions around the world serving, CLEC’s, iLEC’s, and local Internet Service Providers and cable companies based in Europe, South America, Asia and the US. Mr. Nielsen’s prior experience involves other entrepreneurial ventures including during the height of the dot com era when he was Founder and President of Gadgets.com, a global on-line company specializing in extraordinary and unique products for better living, with product distribution in France, Italy, The Netherlands, England, and North America. He later orchestrated the sale of Gadgets.com to a competitor in the U.K in 2004 with a net return to shareholders of nearly 90% of their investment over a period of less than three years. Additionally, Mr. Greg Nielsen was Founding Partner of XILEC Communications, a communications consulting and engineering firm for the Fortune 500 and Private 400. He has held Senior Sales Executive roles at Oracle, Vice President of Go Strategy, a strategic planning and management consulting firm. Greg is the recipient of many awards, including the U.I.T.A Million Dollar Award, numerous Presidents Club honors and number 1 sales awards while working for companies like XO and Paetec where he was in Senior Sales Executive roles.