Peter Bouchard Maine

Telecommunications Executive

Technology / Software / Internet

Peter Bouchard is a native of Maine. He began a career working in the telecommunications industry after graduating from college, with tenures at AT&T and Sprint. He founded New England Payphone in 1988, and by 1993, his company owned 5% of all the payphones in the United States. After a trip to London, Mr. Bouchard saw cellphones and realized they were the way of the future. After a stint running a successful software company, Peter Bouchard reentered the telephone industry with a venture called Pioneer Telephone. Pioneer Telephone started as a regional telephone company in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. After four years, the company expanded nationwide.