Description of the Parties
CTC is authorized to provide resold interLATA and intraLATA services in California pursuant to Decisions (D.) 95-11-038 and D.97-01-012.1 CTC is a
Massachusetts corporation qualified to do business in California2 and is wholly owned by CTC Communications Group, Inc. (CTC Group). CTC Group is a publicly held Delaware corporation with principal offices in Waltham, MA. CTC and CTC Group. have been operating under the protection of the United States Bankruptcy Code since October 2002.
CVB is a Washington limited liability company with principal offices in Vancouver, WA. CVB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CV Corp.), a Washington corporation located in Vancouver, WA. The owner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CV Corp. is Kenneth Peterson. Mr. Peterson is also the Manager and President of CVB.
Peterson is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the following telecommunications enterprises: Globalstar Australia, a provider of satellite telephony and data services in Australia; PocketiNet Communications, Inc., a provider of fixed wireless internet services in the Pacific Northwest; Og Vodafone, a publicly traded competitive telecommunications company in Iceland; and Hibernia Atlantic, which owns a fiber cable between North America and Europe. In addition, Peterson is the Manager of Fiberlink, LLC, which owns a dark fiber network in and between Spokane, WA, and Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Peterson also serves on the Board of Directors of American Capital Strategies, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company, and the Washington Policy Center, a non-profit think-tank supporting free-markets.
Prior to expanding into telecommunications, Peterson served as the CEO, President, or General Manager of businesses involved in the smelting, extrusion, finishing, and fabrication of aluminum, including: Columbia Aluminum Corp. (1987-1996); Columbia Pacific Aluminum Corp., City of Industry (1989-2000); Modesto (1989-2000); Watsonville (1993-2000); Columbia Aluminum Products, Inc. (1989-2000); and Columbia Extrusion Corp. (1988 - present). During 1997-1998, Peterson's firm, CV Corp., built Nordural hf, an aluminum smelter in Iceland. Peterson currently serves on the Board of Directors of Nordural hf and was the General Manager in 1998-1999 as the smelter was starting up.
1 CTC was formerly known as Computer Telephone Corp. 2 Documents demonstrating CTC's authority to transact business in California were filed at the Commission's Docket Office on November 13, 2003.
