Dr. Marshall E. Kavesh

Job: CEO Joined ECT in 1998
Place of birth: Vineland, NJ, USA
Hobbies: Opera, theater, classical music, folk music, literature, long walks with my Springer Spaniel, fishing and boating, playing cards, islands: Margate in the summer and Sylt in the winter.

In what language do you answer the telephone?
German.

What’s the best call you have ever received?
When I was a child, phone calls were still something special to me: I didn’t know how to use the phone myself and didn’t get any calls of my own. I therefore remember most vividly the first phone call I ever received. It was from my great aunt Olga. She was an elderly lady living alone in New York City but she really understood children. When my mother and father were in the maternity ward and I was at home with a babysitter, my aunt Olga called me – a four-year old –to say hello and tell me about the new baby.

What’s your favorite communications feature / aspect?
Listening.

If you could call anyone, real or imagined, dead or alive, whose number would you dial?
Alexander Graham Bell.

What music would you expect to hear for his/her ring back tone or music-on-hold?
Certainly not an at&t / Bell Telephone jingle.

What would you discuss when he/she answered?
I’d say “Alexander, come here! I need you!”

What televoting campaign would get you to vote?
A best-of-breed Springer Spaniel dog show.

Would you prefer to be in a hunting group, a pickup group or just roaming?
My roaming days have long since past. In the words of Hank Williams ,“I’ve paid the costs on the lost highway.”
We all know how costly roaming is, I wouldn’t mind hunting, but not as part of a group. The only alternative
left is the pickup group. Maybe then someone else would pick up some of my calls when I’m rolling down that lost
highway.

Press 1 for …?
“Weary Blues from Waiting”.

What is on your wish list?
I’d like to write a novel.