Richard N. Koch, President and Chief Executive Officer

Together with co-founder Joy Tessier, Richard Koch established RNK in 1997. Under this leadership, RNK has grown from a small regional reseller to a full-service telecommunications provider with a global presence and the nationwide technology infrastructure to process billions of usage minutes annually.

Koch’s career as an entrepreneur and telecommunications innovator spans more than 25 years and includes a number of central leadership roles in businesses on the cutting edge of phone/computer convergence technologies. On the cusp of the Internet revolution, Koch became president of Boston CitiNet, a pioneering videotext company. During his tenure, the business grew into a national franchise, American CitiNet, with a roster of Fortune 500 clients such as NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and US West. Subsequently, Koch became president of Untraceable Phone Calls, a telecommunications privacy service, and of Safe Call, a joint venture between Shared Technologies and Cycomm Corporation. Koch then served as president of Cycomm’s Privacall division, a developer of cell phone security devices and services, before assuming leadership of RNK Communications. 

Koch’ entry into telecommunications was preceded by a 10-year career as a science and chemistry teacher in the Boston public school system. He has a B.A. in Chemistry from Boston University, and an M.S. in Education from Boston State College.