John S. "Josh" Henderson, Founder and President

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Josh started at Lightyear in 1997 and created a sales division called “Network Marketing Services.” This new sales division produced more than $100 million in revenue in fewer than two years. Network Marketing Services provided a residential long distance product and partnered with some of the largest network marketing companies in the U.S. and provided a co-branded service option they could sell to their sales associates.

In 1999, Josh was asked to create another sales division under the Lightyear umbrella called “Direct.” Direct hired salespeople who focused on selling small-to-mid-sized companies telecommunication solutions and had more than 28 sales offices across the country. Josh was in charge of hiring and managing more than 500 employees creating $100 million in revenue. Direct had customers such as Arby’s Restaurants, Capital One, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Monster.com, Red Robin Restaurants, and Motorola to name just a few.

In 2001, Lightyear planned to merge with another telecommunications company whose business model was much different than Lightyear’s, allowing them to complement each other greatly. That company was a 10-10 dial around company that had just bought a billion dollar network marketing telecommunications company. They asked Josh to move to Dallas, TX take the lead position in that company and run it on a daily basis. Josh obliged and headed West.

In 2002, Lightyear and the other company decided not to merge. Josh soon started two new companies, both with tremendous success. Although Josh was living a phenomenal lifestyle, something was missing. That something was his father. Deep down, Josh knew he was always meant to work along side his father and mentor, CEO and founder of Lightyear, Sherman Henderson. Josh wanted to finish what they started years before. He understood the power of network marketing and knew that he could create a dynamic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by creating his very own company within Lightyear. Josh happily returned to his hometown of Louisville, KY and began mapping his vision. It was upon his return to Louisville when he approached Ron Mattingly, then Director of Account Management at Lightyear, with his idea of creating Lightyear's very own direct selling company. "We have prepared for this moment. The launch of My Wireless Rep will revolutionize the Wireless and Direct Selling Industries."

Ron Mattingly, Vice President of Sales and Training

Ron started at Lightyear in 1999 as a Supervisor of Lightyear’s Customer Support Team who serviced Lightyear’s entire customer base. In 2001, Ron became Account Manager for several of Lightyear’s largest network marketing service clients and helped grow those companies to more than 100,000 customers nationwide. In 2002, Ron was promoted to Director over the entire Account Management division and stayed in that role until Josh approached him with the idea of joining him to help set up the infrastructure for Lightyear’s very own direct selling company. Since 2003, Josh and Ron have worked closely with the representatives of Lightyear and particularly close with the leaders in the field in order to create the most exciting and fastest growing entity within Lightyear.

Both men contribute their success to surrounding themselves with great people in Lightyear and also to strong representative base. They understand that consistent effort over a period of time will produce incredible results and they are committed to long-term success. With the launch of My Wireless Rep, Ron believes there will be millions who become part of our team. He feels strongly that to be successful in this industry, you must provide unique products and services on which people already spend money, and then give everyone an opportunity to get paid with the most dynamic compensation plan in the industry when they do so. What better product than wireless services to do that?

Sherman Henderson, Founder and CEO of the parent company, Lightyear Network Solutions

After spending more than 20 years in telecommunications and leading Comptel.org, the industry’s largest association for the past six years, Sherman Henderson has seen it all and his personal accomplishments are second to none. In 1996, Sherman was named Entrepreneur of the Year. In 1999, he led Lightyear to #19 in Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing companies and as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Lightyear, Sherman has just completed a contract that will allow Lightyear to offer wireless service nationwide.

"This wireless project is bigger than anyone can imagine. I have been in the telecommunications industry for 20 years and have watched consumers evolve from using a stationary, land line telephone to cutting the cord and going wireless. Wireless communications has become the number one choice for making phone calls and will soon become the way everyone accesses the Internet."

"Today, 84% of all consumers already have a cell phone. That means the big companies will be aggressively marketing to each other’s customers to gain more market share. We have the perfect vehicle to gather customers in that environment. Everyone we know has a mobile phone yet none of us currently get paid when someone else - a family member, friend, neighbor - pays their mobile phone bill. Now we will. With over 254 million customers using wireless today, if we just get 1% of those customers to choose Lightyear, that’s 2.5 million customers. With an average bill of $60 per month, we will be a $150M per-month or $1.8B per-year company. And that’s just with a 1% market share!"

"Every person with a pulse will be jumping at this opportunity. In 1993, Lightyear gave hundreds of people the same opportunity in the long distance industry, to get paid on everyone’s long distance bill. The average bill was $20 per month and many became extremely wealthy. Now, the average customer spends at least $60 per month on wireless bills and the business is a lot bigger than it was in 1993. Surely, there will be a lot of people making a ton of money!"

Julie Riggs, Market Development

In 1999, Julie joined the Lightyear Team and has proven to be an integral part of its daily operations. Not only does she bring a wealth of knowledge in communications, management, and support, she is also responsible for the major success of every Lightyear Wireless National Conference. She also works exclusively with our VIP Representatives to help build and strengthen their organizations. As part of the Lightyear Wireless Management Team, she is committed to excellence, integrity, and leadership.

Julie brings 9 years of telecommunications and relationship selling experience to the company.

Jamie Pike, Director of Operations

Jamie began his career at Lightyear in 1997 supporting customers in a supervisory role. Jamie has tremendous knowledge of Lightyear's network support systems and has extensive experience managing the Lightyear Customer Support Center.

Jamie has 10 years of telecommunications and Lightyear network support experience.

Rhonda Jurgenson, Marketing Director

Rhonda brings to the team more than 15 years of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations experience.

A former ad agency executive and award winning graphic designer, Rhonda makes sure the Lightyear brand and collateral materials stay consistent and in the consumers view. From coordinating press conferences to creating corporate campaigns, she is hands-on in nearly everything pertaining to the company that comes in contact with the public and our Representatives. Rhonda has been with Lightyear since 2003.