Sherm Henderson

THEN: Sherm Henderson was founder and CEO of Charter Network Inc., a long-distance reseller operating in the Ameritech region. “In 1987, I was real happy to be a long-distance provider in five states,” he recalls.

NOW: Today, Henderson is CEO of Lightyear Network Solutions and chairman of COMPTEL. His company, formed in 1993 as UniDial, now offers a range of voice and data services through indirect sales channels. “Today, I think about beign a provider of everything from long-distance to data to Interent to TV to broadband worldwide,” he says. “That’s a big difference.”