More than 1,200 businesses of varying sizes throughout the borough took part in the Queens Chamber of Commerce’s Queens Business Expo and Breakfast at Citi Field last week....Panelists included Alan Levy, chairman and co-founder of Xchange Telecom, a telecommunications company;
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/21/businessexpo_2015_05_22_q.htmlRachel Haot, chief digital officer and deputy secretary for technology for New York State as part of Gov. Cuomo’s executive chamber; Erik Grimmelmann, president and CEO of the New York Technology Council; and Cyna Alderman, managing director of the Daily News Innovation Lab, an initiative that seeks to engage with the city’s startup community.
Levy, who attended PS 209 in Whitestone and grew up with Friedman, said his company, Xchange Telecom, is working on a broadband network in Queens and Brooklyn to bring internet to areas that desperately need it.
"Queens is like a digital desert ... a lot of businesses are struggling with getting good broadband connectivity and we’re solving these problems" Levy said.
