Pervasip Corp (PVSP)

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PVSP CEO Paul H. Riss Bio

Mr. Paul H. Riss has been the Chairman of the Board of Pervasip Corp. since March 2005 and as its Chief Executive Officer since August 1999. Mr. Riss has been the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Pervasip Corp. (Formerly, eLEC Communications Corp.) since November 1996. He serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of VoX Communications Corp. He leads the business development activities and is accountable for strategic planning and management of all financial operations of Vox. He has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial business and management experience including the engineering of his own leveraged buyout in 1987 and the audit of numerous public companies at Ernst & Young. He has been Director of eLEC Communications Corp. since 1995 and serves on the board of four CLECs. He also serves on a local project committee for Habitat for Humanity and his local church council. Mr. Riss was the 2000 - 2001 recipient of the James P. Kelly Award for distinguished public service from the Westchester Chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He was also a finalist in 2001 for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award for companies in Southern Connecticut and New York's Hudson Valley. He is a CPA in New York State and earned an MBA with distinction from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a magna cum laude BA with distinction from Carleton College. He is a Member of the AICPA and the NYSSCPAs.