Brad Stuart Ellis
CEO & Founder
Chief Executive Officer & Founder | Premier Voice Networks
For more than twenty years, Brad Stuart Ellis has lived at the forefront of global telecommunications, reshaping it, scaling it and, in many cases, predicting its next leap forward. His career began at a moment when “voice over IP” still involved racks of clattering analog Cisco gateways and point-to-point copper links that strained under international traffic. While many saw awkward work-arounds, Brad saw an opportunity to fuse engineering precision with commercial creativity. That vision has become the bedrock of Premier Networking Inc, an operator-first, carrier-grade platform that now moves millions of minutes every day for enterprises on five continents.
20+
Years Experience
200MM+
Deals Negotiated
25+
Global Partners
A Foundation in Engineering Excellence
Brad’s entry point was the network itself. Straight out of university, he joined a boutique CLEC as a junior telecom engineer, mastering SS7 signaling, TDM switch provisioning and the nascent SIP standards that would soon disrupt everything. He rapidly progressed from hands-on cable splicing and router CLI work to designing resilient, multi-homed voice cores that delivered five-nines availability long before “cloud native” became common vocabulary.
Scalability: Under his direction, voice nodes were containerized and auto-scaled across private data centers in New Jersey, London and Singapore, delivering 300 % traffic growth with no downtime.
Network Architecture: Brad built some of the first hybrid soft-switch deployments in North America, layering emerging SBC technology atop legacy Class-4/5 environments to enable seamless IP interconnects.
Security & Compliance: He led early STIR/SHAKEN task-forces, giving Premier’s predecessor network a reputation for zero-tolerance on robocall traffic, years before regulators demanded it.
A Rolodex That Circles the Globe
Technical mastery opened doors, but Brad’s instinct for strategic alliances built the empire. Over two decades he has cultivated C-suite relationships that read like a who’s-who of telecom:
- KT (Korea Telecom): Helped negotiate Premier’s first East-Asia SIP-T trunk, shaving ~80 ms of latency off trans-Pacific routes.
- T-Mobile: Co-architected a roaming-handoff model that today underpins Premier’s high-volume A2P messaging.
- Telmex & América Móvil: Secured a cascade of Latin-American in-country DID and toll-free resources, giving Premier clients local ring-tone presence across 19 nations.
Brad’s relationship equity extends across Tier-1 banks, CDN providers and voice biometrics vendors—allowing Premier to bundle value-adds (fraud analytics, geo-redundancy, compliance tool-kits) that competitors still bolt on as up-charges.
Leadership Philosophy
Brad describes his management style in three verbs: Listen. Synthesize. Execute. He holds weekly “Signal Jams,” inviting junior engineers to whiteboard ideas next to senior architects, flattening hierarchy and accelerating innovation. He pairs with his right hand, the negotiator, Carter Morales, fomenting a culture with hard-metrics discipline: every project must articulate revenue impact, latency improvement or customer churn reduction before a single ticket is opened.
Brad Stuart Ellis: the engineer-architect who turned a passion for dial-tone into a global voice network and is already designing the next revolution.
