Darin Wayrynen Bio

Mr. Wayrynen has served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Deru Communications since it's inception in January of 2000. Deru Communications initially started as a Broadband Wireless Internet Service Provider focusing on providing broadband Internet communications to consumers in metropolitan and rural areas where no alternative Broadband Internet access is available.

Prior to founding Deru Communications, Wayrynen was Vice President of Engineering for WinStar Communications where he was responsible for engineering, planning, and operations of WinStar's nationwide IP, Frame Relay, and ATM networks that were acquired from GoodNet. Under Wayrynen's direction, annualized revenues from data related services grew from $7 million in January of 1998, to well over $100 million in January of 2000. In addition to his engineering responsibilities, he was instrumental in the due diligence process on acquisitions WinStar made, and various strategic transactions in which the company participated.

WinStar acquired GoodNet in January of 1998, where Wayrynen was Chief Technology Officer and a Board Member. As CTO, Wayrynen was responsible for the groups that designed, built, and maintained a nationwide hybrid IP, Frame Relay, and ATM network. Wayrynen negotiated over 100 peering relationships with other backbone Internet providers (GTE (Genuity), MCI, Cable & Wireless, Sprint, America Online, etc) effectively creating one of the first non-telecommunications company backed Tier 1 Internet Service Providers. Under Wayrynen's direction, the company grew to become the sixth largest backbone Internet provider in the United States based on traffic volume and customer base size.

Wayrynen developed many proprietary technologies that GoodNet deployed, including technologies that made GoodNet the first nationwide one hop Internet Protocol network, the first to implement cold potato routing on a nationwide basis, and the first to offer integrated communications (ATM/Frame-Relay/Internet Protocol) on a public network.

Prior to GoodNet, Wayrynen was President of NetZone Communications, one of the first Internet Service Providers in Phoenix, Arizona. He also was a consultant with PrimeNet, GetNet, and Internet Direct - three other startup ISPs in the Valley of the Sun.

darin@deru.net
(480) 998-7237