SIP Trunking

Alan Percy is Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for North America at AudioCodes, a leading provider of Voice over IP networking products and enabling technology. In this role, Alan manages the planning and execution of the North American market communications, social media and community development for AudioCodes. Alan is also responsible for developing and managing a number of strategic industry, consultant and analyst relationships. Alan is a frequent industry speaker and contributes to a number of industry journals, podcasts, webcasts and blogs including NoJitter.com

Seamus Hourihan—who first coined the term “session border control”—leads the strategic planning process for Acme Packet, evaluating new markets and opportunities to expand the company’s business. He is a prolific speaker

on the conference and tradeshow circuit and is the author of several networking guidebooks and numerous articles. He has been recognized by Internet Telephony magazine as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications.” Seamus served as the company’s Senior Vice President of

Product Management and Marketing from 2001 to 2011.

He brings over 25 years of experience to Acme Packet in executive management, marketing, product management and business development roles at VoIP, IP networking, web infrastructure and computer companies. Seamus was VP of marketing for internetworking leader Wellfleet and, after its

merger with Synoptics, Bay Networks (now Nortel) for nearly seven years. During his tenure, annual revenue grew from $10 million to $2 billion and Inc. recognized Wellfleet as “America’s Fastest Growing Company” for two

consecutive years.

Steve is responsible for the design, development and management of XO’s VoIP, SIP trunking and Hosted PBX services and is based out of Herndon, VA. Steve led the launch of XO’s SIP trunking services and his efforts helped XO win 2007, 2009 and 2010 Internet Telephony Product-of-the- Year Awards for both XO’s SIP and Enterprise SIP solutions. XO was also awarded the 2010 NGN Leadership Award for Enterprise SIP and the Internet Telephony 2012 Product of the Year Award for Hosted PBX. Steve’s expertise includes over 20 years of Product Development and Management in Wireless, Data, Telecom, and IP services.
Steve Carter’s blog can be found on http://blog.xo.com/author/stevecarter/.

Laura McDonald, a partner at Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP (LB3), has practiced in the area of telecom and technology for over 20 years. Ms. McDonald represents large enterprise users in a variety of telecom matters focusing on the negotiation of custom and complicated network service agreements. She provides artful advice and counseling as enterprise users transition technologies, including moving from POTs to SIP Trunking.

Ms. McDonald works closely with all members of the enterprise client team—legal, procurement, engineering, and operations—to enable clients to create comprehensive solutions and contracts, assess their needs and risks, and help streamline the procurement of telecom and data services. On an ongoing basis, she works with clients to strengthen their procurement processes, maximize their contract leverage, and identify risks that can reduce savings. She helps enterprises navigate the complex regulatory structure surrounding their transactions, and frequently speaks on demystifying the myths customers encounter in negotiations. Ms. McDonald has been instrumental in assisting enterprises in resolving disputes with carriers and, when necessary, arbitrating and

mediating disputes before the FCC and other forums.

Tom Dalrymple is the director of Global Voice Services Product Management for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. In this role, he leads the product management and development team responsible for Verizon’s expansive portfolio of domestic US and global VoIP services, local voice services, and voice long distance services.

Mr. Dalrymple is a veteran telecommunications industry professional with significant experience in marketing, product management, and new product development. His background includes product management of voice, VoIP, and data network services, managed services, networking equipment, application packaging, and core services.

Mr. Dalrymple holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Bucknell University.

Mr. Vickroy is the Senior Product Manager responsible for the Cisco Uniform Border Element (CUBE), including the product strategy for Session Border Controllers. Mr. Vickroy has been with Cisco for over 12 years, working in a variety of Product Management and Marketing positions involving both collaboration and traditional switching technologies. In earlier roles, Mr. Vickroy lead the launch of a variety of some of Cisco’s first products focused on Metro Ethernet Services. Mr. Vickroy holds a B.S. degree from Missouri University of Science & Technology and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Rupesh Chokshi is responsible for bringing new technology, emerging services, and capabilities to the market place to meet Customer needs. He leads product management functions in AT&T’s Business Voice over IP (VoIP) Product Management organization. Business VoIP services offer economic benefits of network convergence by providing a fully managed Voice over IP communication solution that supports inbound and outbound calling, toll free, local, long distance, and international reach over integrated data networks.

Mr. Chokshi has held several leadership positions in key functional areas like Global Business, Customer Service, Enterprise Architecture, Network and Systems Development. He has a wealth of experience and background with SIP, VoIP, Voice, IP Data, VPN, Cloud, and Wireless Technologies. Mr. Chokshi began his career with AT&T Labs in 1997. Mr. Chokshi has published and presented at several leading industry conferences and events such as Enterprise Connect.

Mr. Chokshi holds a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina and B.S. in Engineering from S.P. University Gujarat, India.

Rushal Patel is a Product Manager in the SBC Business Unit at Sonus Networks, Inc. He manages the planning and execution of SBC product strategy and roadmap for the Sonus SBC 1000 and Sonus SBC 2000. He is also responsible for developing and managing a number of strategic technology alliances and partner/customer relationships. Prior to this role, Rushal served as a Product Marketing Specialist at Network Equipment Technologies (NET). Before flourishing in the marketing and management role, Rushal spent six years in product development for various Voice and Next Generation Networking products for companies like NET, Genesys Labs (an Alcatel Company) and Wipro Technologies where he gained experience and expertise with SIP, Voice over IP and Unified Communications technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computers.