Tonia Graham: VP for Sales and Marketing

Tonia Graham joined Equator One in April 2003 as VP of Sales and Marketing, taking over the development of global channel strategies and expansion of Equator One’s global market presence.

Toni has 25 years of experience in the telecom management, networking, and computer industries. Before joining Equator One Toni spent 2 years with Vertel (VRTL) as a senior VP with GM responsibility for 2 business units contributing over 30% of the company’s revenue. Under her leadership both businesses delivered clear growth in a troubled market. Her aggressive marketing and sales efforts moved one business unit from a small player to the clear number two pushing the market leader.

Before Vertel, Toni was with Hewlett Packard for 23 years. She joined the company in 1978 in the telecom instruments business, and over the years held a series of positions of increasing responsibility primarily in networking and telecommunications. Key contributions have resulted in two HP journal articles covering her technical and management contributions. Most recently Toni was VP of Engineering for the HP Telecom Management Business, whose products and services included the OpenView Distributed Management and the OEMF product lines.

Toni holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University Pomona where she graduated cum laude and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from University of California Chico.

She has served on the TeleManagement Forum Board of Directors for over 6 years and has been an officer of the board for four of those years. Additionally, she has served on the Board of Directors for the OMG and holds a seat on the Advisory Board of a small network inventory product company.