Jeff Raines Promoted to Strategic Account Executive
March 3, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – March 4, 2009 – Jeff Raines has been promoted by Spirit Telecom to strategic account executive for the retail, financial and healthcare industries in the upstate of South Carolina and Georgia and in North Carolina.
He joined Spirit Telecom in 2005 as the regional sales manager in its Greenville, S.C, office. Most recently he served as a national account executive working with customers in 28 states selling Internet services and telecommunication services.
Raines attended Western Carolina University and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in business. He started in the telecommunications industry in 1992 in Asheville, N.C. as an equipment salesman and became a regional sales manager in Raleigh, N.C.
He is originally from Black Mountain, N.C. and currently lives in Travelers Rest, S.C. with his wife, Kelli M. Belk. He is a member of the Cherokee Valley Country Club and Black Mountain Golf Association. He and Kelli enjoy travel and spending time with family and friends.
About Spirit Telecom
Spirit Telecom is a privately owned South Carolina company with corporate headquarters based in Columbia, South Carolina. The company is owned by thirteen (13) independent and cooperative telecommunications companies all with headquarters in South Carolina. Since 1993, it has been providing local voice, long-distance, Internet and data transmission to business and government agencies in the Southeast and has been operating its own secure and private network since 1994. Spirit Telecom also provides its services on a wholesale basis to customers in twenty-two states across the country.
