eDoorways International EVP - Richard Henderson
Rick Henderson is an accomplished business executive with over 40 years experience in the telecommunications and information systems industries. He has experience with Fortune 50 companies as well as start-up and early stage companies and he has taken three companies through initial public offerings in 1992, 1995 and 2010.
In addition to his role as Director and Executive Vice President for Business Development at eDoorways, he is President and Director of Renewable Fuel Corp, (IPO 2010), and a partner in White Buffalo Ventures LLC in Austin. He has been a Director at Global Touch Telecom in Los Angeles, CEO of InternationalTalk.com, and President of Bestline Communications in Austin and Chief Operating Officer for MIDCOM Communications (IPO 1995) and WCT Communications (IPO 1992). Rick was President of AT&E Corporation (AMEX) an international wireless venture with Seiko Corporation and President of Sprint’s $450M Midwest Division in Chicago from 1986 to 1989. Prior to that, Rick was Vice President of GTE’s $1.2B Sprint division in 1985 with over 2000 employees reporting to him and with Xerox Corp. in both the copier and office systems businesses for 14 years where he helped launch technology developed at Xerox PARC such as the Ethernet, the Mouse and the Macintosh computer. He is a regular speaker at industry forums and organizations, where he is recognized for his ability to explain away the confusion of the high tech industry in terms that all of us can understand.
Rick is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a BS degree in Marketing, and has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, the Northern Illinois University Foundation and the San Marcos TX Telephone Company. Rick and his wife Barbara reside in Austin and they have three grown children.
