BRCK’s leadership team has been instrumental in shaping the VoIP industry. The team, led by CEO Lance Condray and CTO T.R. Missner, has decades of experience in the telecommunications sector.
They offer deep expertise in making sure voice services are reliable and customized to each customer’s needs.
Lance has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and in senior executive roles in technology companies. Lance joined Bandwidth (Nasdaq: BAND) in 2001, shortly after its founding, and served as CFO until 2008 when he changed roles to become CEO of a subsidiary (BRCK CLEC). In this new role, he led the building of a nationwide network and the formation of an enterprise business unit. That business became one of the fastest growing businesses in the country and is now the largest VoIP provider in the United States.
After leaving Bandwidth, Lance followed a passion for developing connectivity solutions in challenging markets, particularly for rural and emerging countries. He led a group of Berkeley PHDs as CEO of Endaga, an Oakland-based startup that built an innovative hardware and software solution for rural cellular communications. Endaga caught the attention of Facebook and led to its acquisition and the formation of Facebook Connectivity. While at Facebook, Lance led multiple connectivity and infrastructure projects, including the notable OpenCellular project.
Looking for a new challenge, Lance formed Omninet, Inc with a long-time friend and cybersecurity expert to develop a SD-WAN and security solution with enterprise features for SMBs. While Covid slowed their path to market, the solution quickly found market acceptance via an acquisition with communications provider Cytracom. The product was rebranded ControlOne and is quickly gaining market share against more established brands like Cisco.
Lance’s role as CEO of BRCK brings together his experiences of the past two decades. He is combining BRCK’s international expertise in communication solutions for the harshest environments with the acquisition of BRCK’s SIP Trunking business and its more than one thousand business customers. The result is an exciting blend of robust, dependable solutions combined with cutting-edge technology that will have BRCK as a leader in this space for many years to come.
Lance graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Durham, NC with his wife Blake and five children. He loves UNC basketball and getting outside to ski or climb a mountain. He has two sweet dogs that aren’t very bright.
T.R. began his 30-year career within the telecommunications sector in 1994, commencing with a position at GTE and then US West. In 1999, he joined Level(3) Communications, where he was pivotal in the development of the industry’s first softswitch and is recognized on the patent for his contributions. This formative experience provided the foundation for his deep understanding of IP telecommunications infrastructure.
From 2006 to 2010, T.R. held various positions at Bandwidth ending his time there as Chief Technology Officer. During his tenure, he architected and implemented Bandwidth’s first VoIP platforms.He was then the technical lead of Bandwidths’s CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) network, solidifying their status as leaders in the emerging IP communications industry.
T.R. continued growing his expertise as he first helped found Plivo and then assumed the role of lead architect for Dialpad. Over a span of five years at Dialpad, he immersed himself in the intricacies of the Enterprise Telephony realm, adding to his core network background.
In a return to his passion for creating new products, T.R. has joined BRCK looking to build on the legacy he started at BRCK. He is excited to use his understanding of networks at the largest scale and the efficiency of small development teams to quickly solve customer problems and innovate in the VoIP space.
T.R. holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Florida, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder, Master’s program in Telecommunications. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps where he worked in Aviation Weather until the end of Operation Desert Storm.
In his free time T.R. spends his time with family. Hobbies include motorsports, boating and snowmobiling.