Dr. Thomas H. Vreeland, owner and founder of Tenacity, Inc. became interested in telephony
and communication in college. He was able to marry his love of medicine and
technology by becoming a physician, specializing in Radiology. He continued pursuing
his fascination with technology to help solve problems in radiology. This pursuit
of technology and innovation gave birth to an extremely successful and pioneering
teleradiology company, which was conceived in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1997. Over
the next seven years, Dr. Vreeland developed a team of excellence, which revolutionized
the nation’s manner in communicating preliminary radiology reports to hospitals
across the nation. In November 2004, Dr. Vreeland merged/sold this company with
another service provider, which is now the current leader in teleradiology in the
United States. Dr. Vreeland continues to practice radiology for this merged company,
which provides services to hundreds of hospitals throughout the United States.
The reasons for the success of his first company were founded in recognition of
the need in the medical community, in devising an efficient and excellent system
to address the need, and in the tenacity and drive to overcome all obstacles. Belief
in core values and the tenacity to stay the course were considered the most crucial
factors leading to the first company’s success. In recognition of these core values
and the company’s drive to succeed, Dr. Vreeland proposed that the new company be
named Tenacity.
Tenacity wanted to find a worthy need, utilize the skills of its employees to answer
this need, and start the process of developing a system to efficiently and completely
satisfy this need. After several months of searching, the new company realized that
current communications solutions were not accessible and usable by people with various disabilities and
that willing, qualified workers were therefore unable to function in the 21st Century
office environment as efficiently as their non-disabled peers. After some consideration, Tenacity’s management team agreed
that people with disabilities and functional limitations were being unfairly denied the opportunity
to experience and harness the full power of today’s communications technology, and Tenacity
became dedicated to solving the needs for functionally accessible communications.
It began developing functional accessibility software for VoIP / PBX telephony technology
as its first project. In less than 18 months, Tenacity has developed accessaphone™
– one of the most sophisticated, yet user friendly and powerful software applications
to assist end users with current VoIP products.
Although the initial purpose began by filling an unmet need, the passion to fulfill this
need within the employees and management at Tenacity has exploded. The need for
creating better software and more accessible products cannot be overemphasized.
The unemployment rate within the community of willing and qualified workers with
disabilities in estimated to be well above 50%. Yet, the relative percentage
workers with disabilities in the government or private industry has actually
declined in the past decade. As office technology becomes more and more
advanced, less attention is focused by manufacturers to develop Universal Design solutions that
are usable by everyone, making it even harder for those with disabilities to find
new employment or perform their current jobs functions.
Many current telephony companies have tried to address this growing problem, but
due to all the considerations of marketing and development, most companies tend to
provide only partial solutions. However, Tenacity has made functional accessibility
and usability our only business - our core business imperative. We will work with each and every telephony vendor
to develop more accessible communication products until all people can communicate
equally - anywhere, anytime, anyplace. We are working on comprehensive solutions to serious problems and will
continue to expand as needed, until our objective is achieved. We believe that society
wants accessible telephony and will stop at nothing less until each person can communicate
freely with anybody else, regardless of disability, functional limitation or barrier.
We are a small company and we plan to stay small in physical numbers; however, our
services will be exceedingly large. When you call Tenacity, you will readily be
able to communicate with real people. We listen. We implement good solutions and
strive to make those solutions functionally accessible and fully usable. We are young and will
always stay young at heart. We are maturing quickly in the telecommunication software
industry. We accomplished a great deal in our first 18 months… but it is just the beginning.
We are and will be tireless in our pursuit and have the talent, creativity and tenacity to
implement the necessary solutions to achieve our objectives, and exceed our customers' expectations. The strength of Tenacity
comes in its ability to listen, to plan, to implement, to modify, and to relentlessly
pursue improvements in accessibility and usability. Our best resource at Tenacity
is our team, our people. We believe America’s best resource is its people and the
freedoms that all deserve to enjoy, equally.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us.
 
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