Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith is a founder of Proximiti and serves as its CEO. Smith co-founded Premiere Global Services Inc. in 1991 (still publicly traded) and then Z-Tel Technologies, Inc. that went public in 1996. His companies focus on adding intelligence to core communications services to add value for service providers and also for end users. Smith is the major shareholder and investor in Proximiti. His companies have raised over $200MM in public financing and over $100MM in private financings.

Prior to working in the communications industry, Smith was a banker for Chase and Bank of America in commercial lending positions. He also served as a financial consultant for technology companies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia (1981) and resides in Tampa, Florida.