Tom Evslin

Tom Evslin is Chief Recovery Officer for the State of Vermont responsible for coordinating the state's use of federal stimulus funds and focusing them on the priorities of universal broadband penetration, a smart electrical grid, e-health, and e-education. His career has taken him from nerd to CEO to novelist and consultant with a brief stop as Vermont's Transportation Secretary in the early 1980s.

His novel hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble is available free online and for purchase from Amazon and other outlets. A short story "The Interpreter's Tale" can be downloaded as an Amazon Short. His personal blog Fractals of Change is at blog.tomevslin.com and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any part of Vermont government.

Evslin was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world'€™s leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired.

Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant.

At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange's predecessor Microsoft Mail.

Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc. (a software company he founded and he and Mary ran) were sold to Microsoft. In the 1970s Solutions developed the first commercial EFT software for banks. In the 1980s Solutions was the first developer of commercial communications software for the Macintosh.

Evslin is a vice chair of the Board of Directors of The Snelling Center for Government. In the private sector, he is a board member of FeedBlitz LLC.

For many years Evslin was Policy Chairman of the Voice on the Net Coalition and a member of the organization's Board of Directors.

Evslin is an inventor on eight granted US patents.

Family

• Wife Mary Evslin
  Worldclass marketeer and my partner and inspiration in business and real life.
• Son Jarah Evslin
  String theory Postdoc at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste seeking the cause of everything.
• Daughter Kelly Evans
  Doing great things to and with plants at the New York Botanical Garden.
• Daughter Katrina Morris
  A new mother, a jeweler, and author of the blog On Jewels: An Appreciation of the Art.
• Son-in-Law Hugh Morris
  A new father and a staff scientist at Onda Corporation specializing in therapeutic ultrasound.
• Father Bernard Evslin
  An author who made words sing.  He said "there is no such thing as a good idea poorly expressed".
• Mother Dorothy Evslin
  An author, teacher, and a profile in courage.

Tom Evslin is Chief Recovery Officer for the State of Vermont responsible for coordinating the state's use of federal stimulus funds and focusing them on the priorities of universal broadband penetration, a smart electrical grid, e-health, and e-education. His career has taken him from nerd to CEO to novelist and consultant with a brief stop as Vermont's Transportation Secretary in the early 1980s.

His novel hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble is available free online and for purchase from Amazon and other outlets. A short story "The Interpreter's Tale" can be downloaded as an Amazon Short. His personal blog Fractals of Change is at blog.tomevslin.com and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any part of Vermont government.

Evslin was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world'€™s leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired.

Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant.

At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange's predecessor Microsoft Mail.

Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc. (a software company he founded and he and Mary ran) were sold to Microsoft. In the 1970s Solutions developed the first commercial EFT software for banks. In the 1980s Solutions was the first developer of commercial communications software for the Macintosh.

Evslin is a vice chair of the Board of Directors of The Snelling Center for Government. In the private sector, he is a board member of FeedBlitz LLC.

For many years Evslin was Policy Chairman of the Voice on the Net Coalition and a member of the organization's Board of Directors.

Evslin is an inventor on eight granted US patents.