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KIRKLAND, Wash. - Business-to-business communications solutions provider

Prior to Conversa, Anastasi's 20-year career includes senior positions at US West, where he was vice president and general manager of the public access solutions and smart card division. At US West, he helped develop the "people in motion" initiative, which brought US West's public payphone business into today's world of a mobile workforce. As part of this program, Anastasi developed leading industry initiatives around delivering data to people on the move through public Internet kiosks, smart cards, data ports and prepaid wireless initiatives.

Anastasi was one of the original founders, as well as president and CEO, of the Global Chipcard Alliance (GCA), a global smart card consortium involving many of the world's major telecommunications companies, financial institutions and technology leaders.