Mr. Huesgen has over 20 years experience in executive management roles in telecommunications, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Pacific Telecom (PTI). In this role, he was responsible for finance, accounting, purchasing, business development, and information services for Pacific Telecom and all of its subsidiaries. As a representative of PTI's parent corporation, PacifiCorp, he was one of the principal negotiators of PTI's $2.2 billion sale to CenturyTel in 1997. In 1998, he negotiated financing and acquisition as a co-founder of Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), a local exchange, wireless, and Internet service provider with over 320,000 access lines, 70,000 cellular customers, and 26,000 long distance customers.