Gary Audin has more than 40 years of computer, communications and security experience. He has planned, designed, specified, implemented and operated data, LAN and telephone networks. These have included local area, national and international networks as well as VoIP and IP convergent networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has advised domestic and international venture capital and investment bankers in communications, VoIP, and microprocessor technologies.

For more than 30 years, Gary has been an independent communications and security consultant. Beginning his career in the USAF as an R&D officer in military intelligence and data communications, Gary was decorated for his accomplishments in these areas. He has analyzed the US Navy’s future for IP transmission via satellite and prepared a VoIP feasibility study for a multinational firm. He has participated in VoIP procurement, RFP preparation and review for converged systems and networks for enterprises and state governments.

Mr. Audin has been published extensively in the Business Communications Review, ACUTA Journal, Computer Weekly, Telecom Reseller, Data Communications Magazine, Infosystems, Computerworld, Computer Business News and other magazines. He has been Keynote speaker at user conferences and delivered webcasts on VoIP and IP communications technologies. He is a founder of the ANSI X.9 committee, a senior member of the IEEE, and is on the steering committee for the VoiceCon conference. Most of his articles can be found on www.webtorials.com and www.acuta.org. He writes a weekly blog on communications subjects that can be found atwww.nojitter.com and publishes technical tips at www.searchinifiedcommunications.com.

He holds a BSEE from New Jersey Institute of Technology, with graduate work in Computer Science at Syracuse University. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Pace University and an instructor at Boston University.

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Chris Kemmerer is responsible for leading a team which focuses on Verizon’s strategy, marketing, and product management of Unified Communications and Mobility Solutions for Verizon’s enterprise, small/medium business, and government customers.

During his tenure with Verizon, Kemmerer has focused on business communication services and has held leadership positions in operations, sales, engineering, and marketing. Most recently, Kemmerer led Verizon Wireless’s Unified Communications and Collaboration Product Marketing team, where his organization focused on business transformation by extending communication and collaboration services to the mobile workforce.

Prior to joining Verizon, Kemmerer led an organization focused on designing and delivering Advanced Communication Services, such as next-generation optical, wireless, video, and other real-time communications solutions.

Kemmerer represents Verizon as a subject matter expert at various industry conferences and in industry trade publications on topics ranging from mobility, security, and unified communications and collaboration.

Anderholm currently serves as director of product line management?(MTS) for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise specializing in unified communications and visual collaboration.? Prior to Alcatel-Lucent, Anderholm held leadership roles in product management, product marketing, and business development with?startups PictureTel Corporation, VideoServer, Bizfon, and Engage Media.

Gopal Soora is a Global Program Director - UCC Networking Services., IBM Corporation. He was responsible for starting the Converged Communications (Unified Communications) business for IBM Global Services in 2001 as the original offering manager and has been integral to its continued growth. Mr. Soora works on the strategy, business plans, partner relationships, and enablement of the global converged communications sales and delivery organization.
His current responsibility includes creating service products to address the near and long-term growth opportunities in the integrated communications market for cloud and premise based solutions. His recent accomplishment is leading the development and announcement of IBM Converged Communications Services for Session Initiation Protocol. He is responsible for leading and driving the IBM Converged Communications Services business globally for both cloud and premise based deployment models.

Mr. Soora has over 30 years of experience in IBM with a unique varied career that spans all aspects of Services, Software and Hardware products, with both technical and business roles. He has been responsible for starting and nurturing many innovative business areas for IBM.

Mr. Soora holds a MS degree in Industrial Management, a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

Rick Johnson serves as Vice President of Information Technology for Hendrickson headquartered in Itasca, IL. He is responsible for Computer Applications and Operations, Networks and IT Infrastructure.

Johnson joined Hendrickson in 2005. Prior to coming to Hendrickson, he served as Vice President and CIO of Marconi, PLC, a London based Telecommunications firm from 2001 through 2005 and also served as Director of Information Technology - North America, for Motorola’s Cellular Handset Sector based in Libertyville, IL.

Hendrickson, a Boler company, is a premier global manufacturer and supplier of truck and tractor suspensions; trailer suspensions, controls and nonintegrated axles; truck and trailer lift axles; bumpers and trim components, and truck, tractor and trailer springs to the commercial transportation industry. Hendrickson continues to meet the needs of the transportation industry after more than 95 years.

Scott is the COO of Pacific Business Centers (PBC), a provider of on-demand offices with 14 locations in Northern California. He also serves as Chief Infrastructure Officer for CloudVO.com, a fast growing network of touchdown office space for mobile workers with 250 locations throughout North America.

Prior to co-founding PBC in 2003, Scott had 10 years of experience in the Serviced Office industry. Scott’s ability to master his organization’s operational efficiencies in an explosive growth environment is a big reason behind his companies’ success. In particular, Scott orchestrated the successful deployment of a cutting edge data and telephony network, including the ShoreTel VoIP technology platform, designed to scale and to provide UC and back office support services to thousands of mobile workers via the cloud.

He served as Board Member for the Global Workspace Association (GWA), the international trade association of Serviced Office Providers. Scott has a B.S. in Business Administration from The University of the Pacific.

Jerry Witowski is Vice President, Information Services Business Management and at Sealed Air Corporation, a new global leader in food safety and security, facility hygiene and product protection. With more than 30 years of IS experience, Jerry is focused on Global IS Finance, Sourcing, and Vendor Management. Prior to joining Sealed Air, Jerry held positions with WR Grace and PPG Industries. He holds a BA degree from Denison University in Economics and Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Baltimore.

JOSEPH A. STAPLES serves as chief marketing officer for Interactive Intelligence. He oversees the global marketing efforts of the company's award winning contact center and IP communication product lines. Mr. Staples brings 25+ years of experience in technology and marketing to Interactive Intelligence, including specific assignments in the areas of computer telephony, unified messaging, mobile wireless, computer networking, and computer-based education.

Prior to joining Interactive Intelligence, Mr. Staples was the principal of FirstLight Marketing, a successful marketing services company. For the six prior years, he was executive vice president of corporate marketing at Captaris, Inc., a provider of business communication solutions. Previously, Mr. Staples was the vice president of marketing for Callware Technologies, Inc., a provider of unified messaging software. Prior to his employment at CallWare, Mr. Staples spent five years with networking leader Novell Inc., in several management positions. While at Novell he is credited with playing a central role in developing the early stages of the computer telephony industry, including the launch and evangelism of TSAPI, a broadly adopted CTI development platform. Mr. Staples earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Phoenix with an emphasis in marketing. Mr. Staples is an accomplished presenter and has had a number of articles published in trade magazines on various communication subjects. He was named Novell employee of the year in 1990, was named a Star of the Industry by Computer Telephony Magazine in 1993, and was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award by Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine in 2006.

Frank Maylett is an integral part of both the company and culture at inContact. In his role as EVP of Sales and Global Alliances, he has built a thriving sales team that continues to set records and drive standards for the SaaS industry.

Since joining the company, Frank has regularly set records for bookings, increased the average deal size by 5 times and increased average bookings by 15 times. As a pioneer in the industry, Frank was one of the first to set industry standards for compensation for a SaaS company, and now is an instrumental asset in consulting with inContact partners. Frank has also grown and expanded the sales organization on an international level, opening the company’s offices in the Philippines and London.

Frank is a natural leader and mentors and guides his team with his philosophy of “I to the Power of Three – Intensity, Intelligence and Integrity”. He inspires his team through his vision that capturing each of the three pillars will result in success both professionally and personally. This mantra empowers his team to focus on the company vision and drive results.

Frank was a key driver in repositioning inContact from a telecommunications company to a provider of cloud-based contact center software. He selected the ticker symbol “SAAS” to illustrate our overall company shift and vision.

Prior to inContact, Frank spent five years at Brocade. The preceding three years, he was responsible for the worldwide IBM sales teams, which consistently exceeded revenue targets. Prior to Brocade, Frank served as the vice president of sales for Kabira Technologies and vice president of worldwide sales at ReleaseNow. Frank also served as the Business Unit Executive at IBM, where he was instrumental in growing the enterprise storage software revenue . Frank holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Phoenix and is fluent in Spanish.

Paul Adams is a Director, Product Management at BroadSoft, where he is focused on driving their Contact Center applications. With over 20 years in the industry, Paul has held multiple roles including product management, business development, field marketing, and sales. Prior to joining BroadSoft, Paul held positions at MetaSwitch, Cisco Systems, and Hughes Network Systems. He holds a BS degree from the University of Vermont where he studied Engineering and Geology.

Vincent Deschamps (Vin) is the CEO/Chairman of Echopass Corporation. Since 2000, Echopass has provided cloud-based contact center solutions for large enterprises in the financial, travel, technology, insurance, and on-line retailing industries. Echopass also serves Federal and State Government agencies.
Deschamps provides overall direction and operational leadership for Echopass, ensuring that the company delivers on the customer experience promise 100% of the time. Deschamps is a seasoned executive with rich sales and marketing experience, and has excelled at several of America’s leading telecommunications and hosted services companies as well as several successful start-ups over his career.
He has been CEO/Chairman of Echopass since 2003. Prior to Echopass he was Vice President & General Manager of Lucent Technologies/Avaya Unified Messaging Division. He was a sales/marketing executive with Octel Communications prior to it being acquired by Lucent, and the Chief Marketing Officer of VMX Corporation, a publicly traded company, prior to its acquisition by Octel. Vin has been a CEO multiple times in the IT and Communications sectors.

He grew up in New York; graduated from CW Post College, lived and worked in Manhattan and has been living in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and children for the past 20 years. Vin is an Eagle Scout.

Paul McMillan has over 20 years of experience in the design, implementation, and management of large scale voice, video, and IP networks. He brings extensive experience across Military, Government, and Commercial markets. He joined Siemens Communications in 1996 to assist in establishing the IP networking business in the North American. market. He has held subsequent positions in Network engineering, Engineering management, and new technology introduction. In his current role, Paul is tasked with developing the long term UC technical vision and strategy for Siemens Global customer base.

Craig has a global remit within the communications applications team, is responsible forfocusing on the medium and large enterprise solutions which encompass the data, voice, video and unified communications applications arenas. Prior to this current position, Craig was Head of Medium Enterprise, Ssolution management Management and has held several global director and senior management positions within Alcatel-Lucent.

Craig Walker has been with Alcatel-Lucent since the acquisition of Xylan Corporation in 2000, where he was Technical Director EMEA. Craig has more than 20 20 years of domestic and international experience at managerial levels of publicly-held telecommunication companies, start-up ventures and within the business partner environment.

Jay Krauser is Director, Core Solutions and Engineering for NEC Corporation of America. In this role, Jay works with other NEC divisions, subsidiaries and NEC partners to help build repeatable, commercially successful premise- and cloud-based solutions for our direct sales force and our dealers. Through Jay’s team, NEC broadens the solutions it can provide to the industry, assists channels with the distribution of these products, and supports NEC partners with the tools and services they need to be successful.

During his tenure, Jay has helped to bring to market NEC’s award-winning products and applications for the industry. He continues to work closely with customers and partners to gain insight that helps NEC develop innovative products and applications. Jay has held various engineering and product management positions within NEC, most recently as Assistant General Manager of Product Management and Product Marketing for the Marketing and Sales Support Division of NEC America’s Corporate Networks Group.

During his 18 years of industry experience, Mr. Krauser has held various telecommunications management positions as an end-user with large NEC call centers and has worked within large interconnect companies.

Bill oversees Level 3's enterprise voice product portfolio, which includes TDM and SIP based voice products ranging from local PRIs and SIP trunking to dedicated long distance, toll free and contact center solutions. While at the company, he has held numerous enterprise and wholesale voice related product management, product development and strategy roles. Bill also was involved in several entrepreneurial and consulting projects related to voice and wireless solutions before joining Level 3 and is a named inventor on four issued and pending voice patents.
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Steve Mifsud is a Manager of Telecom Automation for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). RBC provides banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate, investment banking and transaction processing services on a global basis. RBC employs approximately 77,000 employees who serve more than 18 million clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 53 other countries. Steve is responsible for managing a team of developers & support personnel to create automation to assist with work loads by increasing & optimizing productivity. During his tenure, at RBC, Steve has implemented the first phase of deliverables resulting in 30% automation to date. Steve enjoys Motorsports, and previously held the position of Canadian Motorsports Director. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada with his wife and two children.

John Dunne is the General Manager – Product Management for Integrated Research - developer of Prognosis performance monitoring software. He is an expert in systems monitoring and management with 15 years experience in the ICT industry, including seven years with Integrated Research.
John is responsible for the company’s global product strategy and alliances, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products aligned to customers’ strategic directions. His current focus includes development of enterprise-class IP telephony management and reporting solutions to deliver business insight to global organizations and service providers.

As AppNeta CTO, Matt is responsible for guiding technology and product vision and managing the advanced research, development, QA, customer support and information technology teams. Prior to joining AppNeta, Matt was the CTO of the Information and Event Management business unit of RSA, The Security Division of EMC. He joined EMC after the acquisition of Network Intelligence Corp. where Matt was a founder. In that role, he was also part of EMC's Office of the CTO, where he and his peer group had responsibility for EMC's overall strategic technology direction. Prior to NIC and RSA, Matt held senior technology and sales management positions with NetApp, Solbourne Computer and Harris Corporation.

Paul Barrett is responsible for the Netscout’s voice and video technology strategy. Paul was CTO at Psytechnics prior to its acquisition by NetScout and was responsible for all research, development and standards activities at Psytechnics. He joined Psytechnics shortly after its creation in 2001 and worked for ten years at BT Laboratories before that. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for most of that time. His standards work has encompassed many aspects of voice and video communications, including four generations of GSM and 3G codecs. Paul is currently a Vice Chairman of the ITU Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE". He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and IEEE, and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.

Cliff Cibelli is a group manager of product management and development for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, with responsibility for developing and deploying mobility solutions across Verizon enterprise channels. Mr. Cibelli’s portfolio includes Managed Mobility - a lifecycle wireless expense and device management service, Mobile Services Enablement Platform – for developing and deploying enterprise wide applications and Enterprise Mobility as a Service - a cloud based solution to help on-the-go workers quickly and securely access their corporate networks.

Mr. Cibelli previously served as the senior product manager of managed network services for MCI (now Verizon Enterprise Solutions), with responsibility for managed wide- and local-area networking and IP-VPN services. Before that, he served as the director for global solutions bid management. Mr. Cibelli has also held strategic planning and technical consulting and training positions.

A 30-year communications industry veteran, Mr. Cibelli has held a variety of technical and marketing positions and began his career at United Information Group. He holds certifications from the Foundations of IT Service Management and ITIL.

Mr. Cibelli holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He serves as the chief of the Paramus Auxiliary Police.

Mr. Cibelli is based on Parsippany, N.J.

John Cash is a Sr. Product Manager for the BlackBerry Enterprise Platform and is based in Dallas, TX. In his role, Mr. Cash, promotes the vision and value proposition behind BlackBerry’s award winning portfolio of Enterprise Mobility Solutions. Mr. Cash has over 19 years of product management, sales, and enterprise IT leadership experience spanning multiple industry segments including manufacturing, financial services and government/military. Prior to joining RIM in 2009, Mr. Cash worked for Nokia, overseeing early market sales of Nokia’s enterprise voice and mobility solution for the U.S. Other previous career assignments were with Capital One and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and the U.S. Army. Mr. Cash has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Liberty University.

David Lowe is the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile). In his current role, David is responsible for growth and management of an enterprise sales strategy and a team focused on selling Samsung mobility solutions to Fortune 1000 accounts.

Previously, David has held channel sales and business development positions at Research in Motion (RIM), Iperia and Nuance Communications.

At RIM, David directed all North American channel sales and strategy for BlackBerry's Business Solutions team, which encompasses BlackBerry's suite of enterprise products for Fixed Mobile Convergence, Collaboration and Messaging. At enterprise software company Iperia, David built and managed a channel distribution program for service providers and platform providers including: Verizon, Sprint, Siemens, Nortel, Sonus, Sylantro.

Overall, David has more than 25 years of global industry experience and success, including more than 15 years of sales and business development experience and more than 12 years experience in building and managing strategic third party relationships. Prior to Samsung, he held sales, development, and executive positions in at a number of key emerging markets, including VoIP networking technologies, IP telephony solutions, mobile applications, and fixed mobile convergence.

Based in Rochester, New York, David holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Saint Bonaventure University in St. Bonaventure, NY.

Karl Weintz has 20 years experience in high technology and engineering . He is currently Vice President of Business Development for Mobile Access at HID Global. Prior to this role he served as Senior Vice President of Sales & Operations for ActivIdentity Corporation. Mr. Weintz joined ActivIdentity in December 2009 through the acquisition of CoreStreet Ltd where he served as the Chief Operating Officer of CoreStreet, Ltd. Prior to CoreStreet, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Web Hosting Services at Genuity. He started his career as a Cryogenics and Propulsion Engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He holds a master of business administration degree from Harvard University, a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, as well as a bachelor of arts in anthropology from Stanford University.

Frank Wright is the Senior Supervisor of Telecommunications at Chick-fil-A, Inc, the second largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the United States, with over 1500 locations in 39 states and Washington, D.C. In his current role, Frank Wright oversees the telecommunications design and integration for all Chick-fil-A Staff and Restaurant Operators. Frank has also served as Supervisor of the Enterprise Operations Center where he and his team managed, maintained, and monitored over 1200 wide area network connections, as well as the local area network at the corporate headquarters.

Prior to Chick-fil-A, Frank worked at Compaq Computers/Hewlett-Packard as a network administrator and prior to that, served in the United States Marines for six years including Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.,Frank currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and four children and will complete his degree in Security Management this year.

Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices.

Robert Harris brings both intuitive technical knowledge and solid management skills to consulting projects. Recent projects have included multi-vendor computer telephony integration and voice/data convergence for both large enterprises and small/medium-sized businesses.

Robert Harris contributes several articles each year to NoJitter.com on subjects ranging from telemanagement to future technology trends and speaks on telemanagement at industry conferences. Robert Harris serves as Senoir Vice President on the Board of Directors of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants (STC).

As Manager of UC/Security, Information Technology for the City of Mesa Arizona, Pat O’Keefe is responsible for the city’s telephony infrastructure, mobile, messaging systems, unified communications, video conferencing technologies and Information Security. He oversees Mesa’s technology planning, implementations and policy development.

Pat has more than 20 years of IT management experience. Before joining the City of Mesa, he held positions with the Arizona State Retirement System, Interlink Technologies and the Arizona State Compensation Fund.
Pat holds a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University and has had advanced training in network storage, database management, middleware development, project methodology, content management, and business process re-engineering.

Keith Fancher is a lead Architect, and Program Manager in the architecture, design, and transformation of IBM’s telephony services. Keith has spent most of his 34 year career in the network and telecommunications environment, and the past 20 years transforming IBM'S global voice infrastructure.

Laura Bassett is the Director of Marketing for Avaya’s Emerging Products and Technology group. The group delivers innovative business solutions from Avaya Research Labs and Advanced Software Development. In this role Laura oversees the groups go-to-market including business planning and strategy, market awareness, marketing, and sales enablement and engagement for next generation solutions. She has established Avaya’s Market Driven Innovation Model and Early Adopter Program to support the efforts of Avaya to accelerate the commercialization of innovation. Additionally, Laura is a supporting author of Avaya’s Social Media in the Contact Center for Dummies. Laura has over 18 years experience in applications consulting, development and delivery. Prior to her current role, Laura led the Contact Center Solutions team responsible for delivering end to end customer service solutions. She has a BSBA in Computer Science and an Executive MBA from the University of Florida.

Sean McManus is the Director of Platform Advocacy in the Enterprise Business Unit of Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry® smartphone and PlayBook® tablet.

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Sean is responsible for articulating RIM's Platform and Collaboration Strategy to large global accounts. Sean has over 20 years’ experience selling and marketing advanced voice solutions, including call centres, unified messaging, IP Telephony and IVR.?

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Prior to joining RIM, Sean worked at IBM Global Services and a number of private firms in the voice and telecom industry.

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John Lamarque is the Director of Product Management for the IP Endpoint Business Unit with responsibility for Cisco’s wired and wireless phone portfolio. His responsibilities include new product definition, life cycle management, and go to market strategy. John has been employed with Cisco since April 2005.

Prior to joining Cisco, John spent more than 15 years at Nortel, where his last 4 years were spent driving Nortel’s IP Phone Business.

His domain experience in Enterprise communications spans 20 years with product design, development, and support. John earned his degree in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

John resides in the Dallas Texas area with his wife and two children.

Stuart Monks is responsible for the advanced technology development and architecture teams at Polycom. Previously he was responsible for the worldwide engineering activities of Polycom's Video Solutions Group. Stuart has over 20 years of experience working as a senior development manager and engineer in Silicon Valley in California and joined Polycom from Cisco Systems in July 2007. Stuart has previously held VP of Engineering positions at Procket Networks, Redback Networks, Merlin Systems, and Ascend Communications. Stuart has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Manchester, England, and an MBA from Santa Clara University, CA.

Skip Meyer is an Infrastructure Architect providing senior level direction to multiple teams within Burns & McDonnell in the architecting, implementing, and supporting of enterprise level systems to be used by Burns & McDonnell and its clients.

Skip is currently leading a fast track project to replace Burns & McDonnell’s aging heritage PBX infrastructure at their corporate headquarters, regional offices, and project sites in the United States with the latest in VOIP technology. From the signing of purchase requisitions in late June, the arrival of equipment in late July, and the rollout of production handsets in late September, Skip has been busy dealing with the pros and cons of IP telephony and unified communications.

Burns & McDonnell’s architecture includes Avaya Aura Communications Manager, Aura Session Manager, Aura Messaging, Aura Session Border Controller, and AT&T IP Flexible Reach. These systems are deployed in a clustered/redundant configuration in two offsite data centers to provide unified communications to the 3500 employee-owners of Burns & McDonnell.

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Arne Saustrup is Manager of Information Technology Operations for the Alamo Colleges in San Antonio, Texas.?? Under his leadership the ITS Operations Group is responsible for ongoing Data Center operations, Local and Metro Area Networks, Internet Operations, and VOIP telephony.

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Arne has over 25 years management experience in higher education Information Technologies.? Major experience areas include IP network architecture, storage management, data center design and operations, and IP telephony. ???

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The Alamo Colleges is the 7th largest Community College system in the U.S. with at credit enrollment exceeding 60,000 per semester.? The Alamo Colleges operate 5 major campuses and 18 additional facilities within an 8 county area of South Texas.? The Alamo Colleges are recognized leaders in Internet course delivery and distance education.? The Information Technology Services department supports a network of 22,000 IP nodes including approximately 4,000 VOIP nodes.??

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

Jim is responsible for enterprise product line management at Acme Packet.??? In this position, Jim is involved in the design of Acme Packet solutions for a wide range of IP telephony and unified communications applications for enterprise, contact center, and government customers.?

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Prior to Acme Packet, Jim served in a variety of systems engineering and product management roles at Covergence, Ciena, Lucent, Ascend Communications, and Cascade Communications.?????Jim's career began at GTE where he spent over 10 years working on the design and deployment of voice and packet switching systems for commercial and military applications.???Jim holds a BSEE from Northeastern University and a MBA from Babson College.?

Jason Rolleston is a Director of Product Management within the Services Routing Technology Group at Cisco and is responsible for the portfolio of Unified Communications technologies that reside on the ISR and ASR platforms.? This includes TDM gateway interfaces and DSP’s, CUBE Session Border Controller, Call Manager Express, Survivable Remote Site Telephony, and Unity Express products.

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Prior to joining Cisco, Jason was a Director of Product Management at Symantec within the Enterprise Security Group. He joined Symantec through the acquisition of Relicore, a startup focused on data center visibility and management, and held a number of roles including Director of Technical Product Management before joining the security group. Jason started out his career as a Network Security consultant.?

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Jason holds a B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics and an M.Eng. in Engineering Management from Cornell University, along with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

David Tipping is Vice President and General Manager of the SBC Business Unit at Sonus Networks Inc. He is responsible for driving market relevant innovation across Sonus' SBC product line, and ensuring timely, effective delivery of these products into Sonus' global markets. Prior to assuming this position, David was the Vice President of World Wide System Engineering for Sonus Networks. From 1996 to 2000 David was a Senior Systems Engineer at Enterasys/Cabletron Systems supporting customers in the Mid-West and New England areas.

Leon Benjamin is a social media practitioner and has managed a number of successful social software implementations with organisations counting British Airways, Microsoft & BT. He is currently Virgin Media’s Enterprise 2.0 Project Manager delivering ‘Facebook inside’ technologies that enable large organisations to transform the way they work.

Previously spent 20 years designing and delivering complex IT transformation programmes, managing business change and agile software development in financial services, telecommunications, retail and travel, for blue chip companies, counting Union Bank of Switzerland, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Barclays Capital, Andersen Consulting, Airtours, Opodo, BT, Tesco, Argos, Carphone Warehouse and Aviva.

Leon is the author of Winning by Sharing, a book about the impact of social media on the future of work first published in 2005 predicting the dominance of social media and its impact on the nature of work.

As Director, Architecture and Compliance for Rayonier, David Nettles holds responsibility for the architecture of the company’s data center operations, local- and wide-area network services, desktop computing, compliance activities, and budget. As a Member of the IT Governance Committee, he aids in technology planning, architecture, and standards. Mr. Nettles joined Rayonier in 2000.

David has more than 28 years of IT management experience in a variety of industries. Before joining Rayonier, he was Associate Vice-President of Systems and Technology for JM Family Enterprises, Inc.
Additionally, prior to JM Family, he held various IT leadership positions within Marconi Systems Technology, the Software Productivity Consortium and the US Air Force.

David holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, a Masters in Computer Science from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Webster University.

Laura Bassett is the Director of Marketing for Avaya’s Emerging Products and Technology group. The group delivers innovative business solutions from Avaya Research Labs and Advanced Software Development. In this role Laura oversees the groups go-to-market including business planning and strategy, market awareness, marketing, and sales enablement and engagement for next generation solutions. She has established Avaya’s Market Driven Innovation Model and Early Adopter Program to support the efforts of Avaya to accelerate the commercialization of innovation. Additionally, Laura is a supporting author of Avaya’s Social Media in the Contact Center for Dummies. Laura has over 18 years experience in applications consulting, development and delivery. Prior to her current role, Laura led the Contact Center Solutions team responsible for delivering end to end customer service solutions. She has a BSBA in Computer Science and an Executive MBA from the University of Florida.

With twenty five years of experience as a senior software marketing executive, Lisa Abbott has a long track record of successfully driving marketing strategies for products that harness the web and in particular social media, as a customer channel. Within her past experience, Lisa has worked with brands including Charles Schwab, Autodesk, Informix Software and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to drive migration to and investment of new web-based products and services, as well as increase collaboration across the organization.

As a Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Genesys, Lisa is currently responsible for defining the marketing strategy and execution of the Genesys eServices and Social Media products worldwide. Within this role she is constantly acting as a resource for organizations that are looking to stop bad customer service and evolve their customer interaction beyond voice, to a true cross channel strategy and has been recognized as an industry leader through speaking opportunities and forums at various industry events.

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Tod is a 15 year veteran of the contact center industry.? He joined Cisco in 1999 as part of the WebLine Communications acquisition shortly after the formation of the Cisco Customer Contact Business Unit.? Tod was part of the original product management team that introduced the industry's first IP Contact Center solution in 2001 and over his 10 year career at Cisco he has led numerous contact center releases as Cisco has implemented over 10,000 contact center systems.

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Tod currently leads the enterprise contact center product management team with global responsibility for the Cisco enterprise contact center business.

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Tod is an avid social media enthusiast and is driving the evolution of the Cisco contact center portfolio to incorporate social software.

Christine Viera serves as Vice President, Product Management for Contact Center Solutions at Avaya. Included in this flagship business unit are products including Contact Center Applications, Contact Center Solution, Analytics, Automated Contact Center Platforms and Applications, and core integration technologies. Christine brings more than a decade of experience in building enterprise and midmarket software at Siebel Systems, and Oracle. Christine brings a record of innovation and leadership in products including CRM Contact Center & Service, CRM Analytics, user interface and integration technologies for traditional and SaaS products. Christine holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business, and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

JOSEPH A. STAPLES serves as chief marketing officer for Interactive Intelligence. He oversees the global marketing efforts of the company's award winning contact center and IP communication product lines. Mr. Staples brings 25+ years of experience in technology and marketing to Interactive Intelligence, including specific assignments in the areas of computer telephony, unified messaging, mobile wireless, computer networking, and computer-based education.

Prior to joining Interactive Intelligence, Mr. Staples was the principal of FirstLight Marketing, a successful marketing services company. For the six prior years, he was executive vice president of corporate marketing at Captaris, Inc., a provider of business communication solutions. Previously, Mr. Staples was the vice president of marketing for Callware Technologies, Inc., a provider of unified messaging software. Prior to his employment at CallWare, Mr. Staples spent five years with networking leader Novell Inc., in several management positions. While at Novell he is credited with playing a central role in developing the early stages of the computer telephony industry, including the launch and evangelism of TSAPI, a broadly adopted CTI development platform. Mr. Staples earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Phoenix with an emphasis in marketing. Mr. Staples is an accomplished presenter and has had a number of articles published in trade magazines on various communication subjects. He was named Novell employee of the year in 1990, was named a Star of the Industry by Computer Telephony Magazine in 1993, and was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award by Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine in 2006.

With over 15 years of experience in software, telecommunications and the contact center industry, Serge Hyppolite is the Aspect Software Vice President of Product Management. In this role, Serge is responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for the products of Aspect Software.

Prior to joining Aspect, Serge served as Director of product management and marketing for CELLIT Technologies where he was responsible for introducing one of the first unified technologies in the contact center industry, ContactPro – the underlying product architecture in Aspect Unified IP.

During his career, Serge worked as technical marketing manager for Lucent Technologies, network performance engineer for AT&T Wireless Services and systems engineer at Nortel Networks.

Serge earned his Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami in 1996, serves on the University’s Engineering Advisory Board, and is earning an MBA at Nova Southeastern University.

Stuart Granger is vice president of strategic solutions for North America at Genesys Telecommunications. In this role, he is responsible for field related activity for many of the latest products being delivered by Genesys including solutions related to intelligent workload distribution, performance management, workforce optimization, SIP, social media and mobile customer care.

Prior to joining Genesys, Stuart was co-founder, president and chief operating officer of Informiam – a leading provider of real-time performance management software to the customer care market. Informiam pioneered many of the analytical concepts commonly found in today’s state-of-the-art performance management systems including semantic web architectures, meta-data business models and mobile real-time displays. The company worked with many of the largest Fortune 500 companies in North America as well as leading ISV’s. Genesys Telecommunications acquired Informiam in December, 2007.

Prior to founding Informiam, Stuart was EVP and CIO for S1 Corporation – the world’s leading provider of electronic and Internet banking platforms. Stuart held senior management roles for both their US Operations in Atlanta, GA and European Operations based outside London, England.

Stuart Holds a BBA in Information Systems for Georgia Southern University as well as an MBA from the Robison College of Business at Georgia State University.

As the COO for North America, Mike Storella is responsible for building and expanding the existing sales and support channels for snom’s family of IP telephony solutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He ensures that snom customers and partners receive the highest quality sales, customer service and support.

With more than 30 years of experience in the global technology sector, Storella has expertise in business development, channel operations, customer service, and strategic planning. Storella has held executive posts at RNK Telecom, Pingtel Corporation, Priority Call Management, IBM/Rolm Corp., Lightstream, Cisco Systems, New England Telephone and ITT-CS. His duties have ranged from P & L management and rapid market development, customer care and hardware installation to OEM support, quality metrics, training and tactical planning. Storella has consistently delivered bold deployments of emerging technology products coupled with customer-support initiatives.

Gary Mading is Senior Product Manager at Aastra USA, a leading provider of open-standards voice communications solutions for enterprises of all sizes. Gary manages the product strategy for Aastra USA’s IP-PBXs for enterprise customers. Gary has over 20 years of experience developing and marketing communication products, including carrier systems, transmission equipment, broadband access products and enterprise communication systems. Gary holds a B.S. Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Business Management from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Joe Reventas joined Polycom in September 2006 with a background replete with management experience among market leading technology companies and service providers. In his current role as Senior Business Development Manager he oversees the implementation of Polycom’s worldwide partner strategy and interoperability certification programs. Prior to joining Polycom, Joe had held senior sales and business development roles while participating in early stage technology ventures with providers such as eFusion and BroadSoft. Joe possesses an extensive telecom background with signaling and switching technologies and recently served as Vice-Chair of the UCI Forum Test & Certification Working Group.

Ed Ashley, Product Line Manager for NEC’s IP telephony and voice over IP solutions, has been with NEC since 1991. In his role, Ed manages all aspects of multiple IP product lines, including IP terminals, digital signage, mobile client, softphones and video conferencing.

Ed brings strong knowledge and management skills in IP communications and was integral in the launch of NEC’s first IP telephone, SP30 and SP350 softphone lines, which are now standard-issue with all of NEC’s IP enterprise telephony solutions. Most recently, Ed presented at the 2007 NEC Global Analyst Symposium for Enterprise Communications held in Dallas.

Ed joined NEC in 1991 upon receiving his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Capitol College.

Alan C. Levine, Chief Information Officer, The Kennedy Center:

Alan C. Levine specializes in the application of technology to arts management, marketing and fund-raising. Throughout his career, he has worked with non-profit organizations of all sizes to develop innovative, strategic uses of information technology. Alan serves as a leader, mentor, and educator. At the Kennedy Center, Alan oversees all information technology, web and telecommunications operations. Through the Kennedy Center Arts Management initiatives, Alan has taught arts managers around the world. Alan is a founder, current Board Member, and past Chairman of the Board of the Tessitura Network, Inc., which provides state-of-the-art software for customer relationship management, ticketing, and fundraising to performing arts organizations in six countries. Alan is a past President of CIO/Arts, and a founding member of the worldwide CIO Executive Council. Alan also serves on the Small Agency CIO Council of the US Federal Government.

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Thomas Kisner is the Unified Communications Architect for BNSF Railway. The last 10 of his 15+ years of experience in Information Technology has been working on Voice over IP and Unified Communications, and Tom is passionate about its ability to vastly improve productivity and communications in all organizations. He serves on the board of the DFW Unified Communications User Group, and holds numerous professional certifications including MCITP and MCSE.

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Tom is a proud graduate of the University of North Texas (BBA) and Texas A&M University Commerce (MBA).

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David Chavez is Avaya’s 45 year-old Chief Technical Officer with a background of Systems Architecture spanning 22 years of professional experience. His contribution has been recognized by 61 patent awards, with many more pending.? He successfully and consistently bridges technology innovation and practicality, the lab and the marketplace, technical colleagues and customers.?

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Farzin is a successful entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the enterprise software and services industry.

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Prior to NextPlane, Farzin was Director of Product Management at Cendura. At Cendura he was instrumental in positioning Cohesion as a leading Application Configuration Management solution. Cendura was acquired by CA in 2006.

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Previously, Farzin was Director of Product Management at Jareva. At Jareva Farzin managed OpForce, a pioneering Datacenter Automation solution. VERITAS acquired Jareva in 2003. At VERITAS (Now Symantec) Farzin grew OpForce from being a technology acquisition with zero revenue to a $15 million product line in less than two years.

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Farzin received a MBA from Drexel University, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder.

Arik Elberse is Director of Collaboration Solutions Architecture for Cisco’s global, market-leading Collaboration portfolio. Arik’s previous responsibilities have included Director of Product Management for Cisco’s global UC Video strategy and solutions and Director of Product Management for Cisco’s global Desktop Unified Communications portfolio.

Arik has more than 20 years experience in the ICT industry and prior to joining Cisco in early 2007, Arik held a variety of senior positions, incl. CTO for Multimedia Applications with Nortel (now Avaya), as well as establishing and running his own Irish-nationwide Business Consultancy service. He is also the inventor of several granted and pending patents in the ICT space.

Arik was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands and moved to Ireland with his parents at a young age. He now lives in Galway, Ireland where he is married with 2 wonderful boys and where they enjoy the wonderful surrounding nature, scenery and hill walking.

Allan is the Strategic Marketing Director for Applications & Emerging Technologies at Avaya.?? While?he resides in Canada, his effectiveness in his global role is a testament to the application of Unified Communications solutions.? His marketing, product management, and business development career has spanned 20+ years dealing with the planning and application of voice, data, and information systems to support the needs of business with particular focus on employee productivity and customer service.? His applications focus has included: unified communications, messaging, IVR, contact center, CTI, voice over IP, and remote data access.? Prior to joining Avaya (via Octel and Lucent) in 1998, Allan led marketing and business development teams at two midsized organizations entering new stages of growth, which followed his applications marketing tenure at Nortel.? Allan holds an MBA in Information Systems (McMaster University) and an Honors BA in Economics and Psychology (York University).

In his role as Director of the Collaboration Advanced Services Practice at Cisco, Himanshu Desai leads a team of consultants and engineers providing life cycle services around collaboration solution to Cisco’s enterprise customers. The services includes interoperability consulting and integration with other vendors.

Currently, Mr. Landry is Senior Vice President for NEC where he oversees the company’s product strategies, go-to-market activities and strategic alliances surrounding its Unified Communications and Collaboration portfolio. Prior to NEC, Mr. Landry held senior positions in companies that incuded Sphere Communications, 3Com’s CommWorks Corporation, and U.S. Robotics.where he led product management, marketing and business development. His career is founded on engineering in the tele and data communications sectors with experience in hardware systems and software applications.

Todd’s diverse background in engineering, marketing, and business, combined with his knowledge of software and system architectures and a strong customer emphasis create a unique foundation of knowledge, which he has utilized as a speaker in numerous forums, panels and keynotes. As an accomplished speaker, Mr. Landry has presented on many different topics ranging from market changes and impacts to business applications for technology. He has received numerous awards, including multiple new product achievement awards, product of the year awards, advertising achievement awards, and holds two patents in the area of communications and wireless systems.

Stuart Monks is responsible for the advanced technology development and architecture teams at Polycom. Previously he was responsible for the worldwide engineering activities of Polycom's Video Solutions Group. Stuart has over 20 years of experience working as a senior development manager and engineer in Silicon Valley in California and joined Polycom from Cisco Systems in July 2007. Stuart has previously held VP of Engineering positions at Procket Networks, Redback Networks, Merlin Systems, and Ascend Communications. Stuart has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Manchester, England, and an MBA from Santa Clara University, CA.

Darin Dunlap is a Senior Product Manager at Cisco and has worked in the collaboration and communications industry for over a decade. He is responsible for Web-based unified communications and interoperability initiatives.

Previously, Darin spent much of his career working on enterprise voice, video and web conferencing solutions at Cisco and Latitude, where his roles spanned product management, business development and product marketing.

Darin has an MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis. He is currently based in Reno, Nevada.

Jan Linden is a Senior Product Manager in the Google Chrome team. His focus is on bringing exceptional HTML5 audio and video experiences to the web platform. Before its acquisition by Google, Jan was the Vice President of Engineering of Global IP Solutions. He has been conducting research and development in signal processing and communications for more than twenty years. Prior to joining Global IP Solutions he was with the University of California, Santa Barbara and SignalCom, Inc.

Pierre Sergerie is responsible for the Consumer Electronics BU at ImmerVision. His primary goal is to bring ImmerVision’s 360° Technology into the consumer world with focus on Video Collaboration and gaming applications.

Capitalizing on his 20 years of International B2B business development experience, sales and marketing leadership in, Asia, Europe and North America in the Electronics, Technology, Web and Telecom industries in various senior management positions, he brings strong strategic thinking, vision and creativity to make ImmerVision a stronger and even more relevant leader in its field.

We are just around the corner from video collaboration “everywhere”, and ImmerVision takes the video experience to a new level. It is disruptive, fun, cost effective and easy to deploy.

In short, ImmerVision enables 360° Technology. We achieve that through IMV’s invented unique Panomorph Lens supported by its light and portable viewing software algorithm to enable panoramic and immersive functionalities.

Akhil Behl is a Senior Network Consultant with Cisco Advanced Services Team. He has 8+ years of experience in IT and has been associated with Cisco for past 7 years. Prior to his current role, he was working with Cisco TAC Security and Voice teams. He is leading Unified Communications and UC Security projects worldwide for Cisco AS customers and CPS portfolio as a Technical Lead. He is an active member of Unified Communications Security Tiger Team. He is ITIL, PMP and CCIE Voice and Security certified.

Greg Zweig is the Director of Corporate Marketing for VBrick Systems.? His primary role is to managing the company’s outreach to prospects, customers and Partners.? In addition, Greg enjoys keeping a direct hand in the technology by serving as the Product Manager for VBrick’s Distributed Media Engine.? Greg has over 20 years of experience in communications, starting his career at AT&T/Lucent technologies before working on IP-PBXs at NBX Corp and later 3Com, after they acquired NBX. ?Prior to VBrick, Greg spent several years in the carrier space focusing on hosted UC solutions. ?

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David Chavez is Avaya’s 45 year-old Chief Technical Officer with a background of Systems Architecture spanning 22 years of professional experience. His contribution has been recognized by 61 patent awards, with many more pending.? He successfully and consistently bridges technology innovation and practicality, the lab and the marketplace, technical colleagues and customers.?

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Jan Linden is a Senior Product Manager in the Google Chrome team. His focus is on bringing exceptional HTML5 audio and video experiences to the web platform. Before its acquisition by Google, Jan was the Vice President of Engineering of Global IP Solutions. He has been conducting research and development in signal processing and communications for more than twenty years. Prior to joining Global IP Solutions he was with the University of California, Santa Barbara and SignalCom, Inc.

Anatoli Levine
Sr. Director of Product Management - Americas, RADVISION

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Anatoli Levine is Sr. Director of Product Management - Americas at RADVISION, responsible for management of Technology Business Unit (TBU) product portfolio in the US as well as setting strategy and defining new directions for TBU products in Americas region. Prior to that, Anatoli lead technical team providing engineering services and support for RADVISION Technology products.

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Since 2006, Anatoli is a President of International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) – an organization facilitating interoperable implementations of multimedia communication technologies based on open standards.

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Anatoli is frequent speaker at various IP communication industry events and conferences, covering subjects of Video communications, standards and interoperability. He also contributes to the RADVISION and IMTC blogs.

Roy Skillicorn is the Senior Director, responsible for Enterprise Video Technologies and Solutions within Cisco’s Services Organization.

As the Global Video Services Line owner, Mr. Skillicorn is responsible for the services strategy and services portfolio, for Cisco’s Video solutions; TelePresence, Digital Media Systems, Video surveillance, emerging video technologies and network and video infrastructure (Medianet).

In his current role, Mr. Skillicorn is responsible for:
• Analyzing current and anticipating future video collaboration technology and market trends.
• Anticipating and building services and services capabilities to support business transformation and value with Cisco’s customers. .
• Building delivery and sales readiness for video applications and Technologies.

Recently, Mr. Skillicorn was executive responsible integrating Cisco and Tandberg’s services organizations and is responsible for the combined and integrated portfolio.

Mr. Skillicorn’s expertise and experience includes network and video application technologies, technology lifecycles, and the methodologies to achieve business transformation across an enterprise.

Prior to his current position as Cisco, Mr. Skillicorn has held senior positions in mergers and acquisitions, architecture, network high availability consulting, and manufacturing quality.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ?Mark Noble is the Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Vidyo where he brings over 18 years of experience in the telecommunications and visual collaboration spaces. Mark works closely with customers and partners to develop new opportunities to lower their business and operations costs, while improving productivity and results, via Vidyo solutions. In addition, Mark works closely with the Sales and Marketing teams on positioning, messaging and go to market programs. .

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Krish brings more than 20 years of successful leadership and innovation to Blue Jeans Network. A serial entrepreneur, Krish has been founder and CEO of several successful startup ventures. Prior to Blue Jeans, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Accel Partners, where he was exploring HD video technologies including the current idea behind Blue Jeans. Before that, Krish was the General Manager for the Server Virtualization business unit at Cisco Systems, responsible for architecting Cisco's datacenter and desktop virtualization solutions. Prior to his work at Cisco, Krish was the CEO of Topspin Communications. Under his stewardship, the company re-invented itself as a datacenter virtualization player and executed strategic partnerships with IBM, Dell, HP, and Sun.

Topspin was acquired by Cisco in 2005. Before joining Topspin, Krish was the vice president and general manager for the Content Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Under his leadership, Cisco developed many industry-leading products including the L4-L7 load balancers, content caches, CDN, and micro-webservers. Krish joined Cisco in 1995 when his first startup, Internet Junction, was acquired by them. Earlier in his career, Krish worked for NET, PeerLogic, Bell Labs, and Perkin-Elmer. He has an MSCS from Monmouth University and a BS (Physics) from Madras University, India.

Matt Collier is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development with a background that includes extensive experience in the telecommunications and high-tech industries. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Voice Application Services at Level 3 Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Level 3, Matt was founder and CEO of Telverse Communications, Inc., which offered the first nationally available IP Centrex service. Telverse was acquired by Level 3 in July 2003. Before founding Telverse, Matt was Vice President of Business Development and OEM Alliances at Polycom. In late 1997, Polycom acquired ViaVideo Communications, Inc., where Matt was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. Matt holds a B.A. from the University of Memphis, Tennessee.

Ned Semonite is the VP of Marketing and Product Management at VGo Communications. Mr. Semonite brings a wealth of experience as a seasoned product and marketing professional with over 25 years of experience in bringing innovative hi-tech products and services to enterprise and consumer markets.

Prior to VGo, Ned joined American Power Conversion to help define and build a new line of business - Management and Enterprise Software Solutions - a strategic initiative to deliver intelligent data center management software. The new business line was instrumental in extending APC’s value to over $6B in its acquisition by the French conglomerate, Schneider Electric.

Prior to APC, Mr. Semonite contributed significantly to the development of the videoconferencing industry. Joining PictureTel in 1991, Ned first worked to sign and develop telco channel partners, then rose through the organization in a series of management roles including VP of product management, VP of engineering and EVP of worldwide marketing. Mr. Semonite executed two acquisitions, an OEM partnership, and two significant joint development programs with Intel and Sharp which resulted in a new product line that set off a wave of award winning innovation throughout the industry. The new product line and customer base strengths led to the acquisition by Polycom where Ned took over product responsibility for Polycom’s entire videoconferencing portfolio.

Prior to PictureTel, Ned spent 8 years with ICL (International Computers Limited), where he held management and marketing positions in their network systems group. At ICL, he developed an audio/data software application for ISDN and LAN connected PCs which was the first desktop screen sharing application – a forerunner of today’s web conferencing solutions. He earned his engineering degree from Brown University.

Andy Howard is Managing Director of Howard & Associates, a leading consulting firm focused on helping clients “improve communications with video.” Mr. Howard has helped hundreds of large corporate, government, and educational customers architect and implement enterprise-wide video deployments. Mr. Howard is a highly regarded IP video expert, industry veteran, and a frequent speaker at leading industry events.

Prior to founding Howard & Associates, Mr. Howard was a key executive at VBrick Systems, and was instrumental building the company from startup to market leader. Frost & Sullivan named the company the Enterprise Video market leader in 2011.

While at VBrick, Mr. Howard performed multiple roles including Strategic Alliances, Business Development, and Product Strategy. Mr. Howard positioned VBrick as the “go to” partner for streaming video for companies such as Avaya, Microsoft, HP, and LifeSize. Mr. Howard also provided the product vision for the creation of two of VBrick’s most strategic products – its core media management software called theVBrick Enterprise Media System (VEMS) and its core video distribution appliance, the VBrick Distributed Media Engine (DME). The combination of these two products allows organizations to build scalable and highly reliable enterprise video distribution systems.

Mr. Howard has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Blue Coat) and Novell. Mr. Howard received a bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Brown is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), one of the largest and most active integrated telemedicine networks in the world.
Dr. Brown has won numerous awards for his work in telemedicine, including being chosen as one of twenty-five “Transformational Canadians” by the Globe and Mail, CTV and La Presse in December, 2010 He sits as a Director on the OntarioMD Board of Directors and as Vice-President on the American Telemedicine Association Board of Directors.

An emergency physician who studied mathematics and engineering before embarking on his medical career, Dr. Brown is a passionate advocate for the advancement of telemedicine as an important tool to improve access to care, quality of care and the sustainability of health care systems.

Krish brings more than 20 years of successful leadership and innovation to Blue Jeans Network. A serial entrepreneur, Krish has been founder and CEO of several successful startup ventures. Prior to Blue Jeans, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Accel Partners, where he was exploring HD video technologies including the current idea behind Blue Jeans. Before that, Krish was the General Manager for the Server Virtualization business unit at Cisco Systems, responsible for architecting Cisco's datacenter and desktop virtualization solutions. Prior to his work at Cisco, Krish was the CEO of Topspin Communications. Under his stewardship, the company re-invented itself as a datacenter virtualization player and executed strategic partnerships with IBM, Dell, HP, and Sun.

Topspin was acquired by Cisco in 2005. Before joining Topspin, Krish was the vice president and general manager for the Content Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Under his leadership, Cisco developed many industry-leading products including the L4-L7 load balancers, content caches, CDN, and micro-webservers. Krish joined Cisco in 1995 when his first startup, Internet Junction, was acquired by them. Earlier in his career, Krish worked for NET, PeerLogic, Bell Labs, and Perkin-Elmer. He has an MSCS from Monmouth University and a BS (Physics) from Madras University, India.

David Danto has over 30 years of experience providing problem solving leadership and innovation in media and unified communications technologies for various firms in the corporate, broadcasting and academic worlds. This includes:

 The building and managing of the world’s largest commercial Cisco TelePresence ecosystem (other than within Cisco) for JP Morgan Chase.
 The design, implementation and operation of global video and audio conferencing facilities, television and audio/visual facilities and digital signage solutions for Lehman Brothers.

 The design of television and radio facilities for Bloomberg, including the development of their revolutionary multi-screen TV format and the design and construction of studios for The Charlie Rose Show.
 The development of the Television and Media Services department for NYU, including the design and implementation of America's first urban, self contained, multi-building university cable TV system using microwave links to cross public rights of way.

 The design and management of multimedia and/or TV facilities for many organizations, including AT&T, Financial News Network, MTV, NBC, Rutgers University, and many others. He has also acted as Engineer in Charge for countless commercial and industrial television productions.

David's efforts have been recognized by the premiere industry organizations in media technology. In early 2007 he was elected (and still serves) as the Director of Emerging Technology for the non-profit Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance (www.imcca.org.) Additionally, InfoComm International has appointed him as Adjunct Faculty for their educational efforts every year since 2007. He has served as a National Association of Broadcasters conference “Pick-Hits” judge for Broadcast Engineering since 2001. In 2010 the CEA - the industry authority on consumer electronics – appointed him to be a judge for the Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.

David is a frequent contributor to industry publications and presenter at industry events. He is also the author of the popular “View From The Road” series of blogs. In addition, David has served on many manufacturer council and advisory boards for firms including Polycom, Plantronics, AVI-SPL and BlueJeansNet.

David has recently joined Dimension Data, a global ICT services and solutions provider, to focus on Multimedia and Collaboration Technology Architecture consulting services in the US.

William Moore is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for long term direction setting of CareCore National's information technology platforms. Additionally, Mr. Moore directs strategic software and systems development and manages CareCore's core vendor and development relationships. Mr. Moore has more than 18 years of industry experience including 10 years of product consulting on AT&T core networks. His experiencing in managing large scale complex networks enables CareCore National to integrate CareCore's evidence based medicine solutions into client and industry wide environments by mobilizing novel software, analytic and communications infrastructure. He holds degrees in Finance, Economics and Information Systems from Xavier University.

Bill is responsible for creating Avaya’s messaging and marketing for the Avaya Flare™ Experience and the products that deliver that expereince. He has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry ranging from Bell Laboratories, to Lucent Technologies, several startups and most recently Avaya.

Bill has served Lucent Technologies as General Manager of Long Haul Optical Networking where he led the team in marketing and R&D of DWDM optical networking products. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Amedia Networks, a fiber to the home startup, Bill was one of the three founding members that built a company focused on designing, manufacturing, marketing and selling Ethernet based electronic switching equipment for sales to telecommunications carriers. Bill created the new brand, developed the market presence and secured sales/distribution agreements with over 12 channel partners. Bill was widely published in FTTP industry journals and secured Amedia’s first major contract valued at over $9 million.

Speaker Bio Michael Helmbrecht is Vice President of Product Marketing for LifeSize Communications. His responsibilities include product marketing, product lifecycle management, public relations and analyst relations. Prior to LifeSize he spent nine years with Dell, Inc. where he was Director of Marketing. Michael held a number of key marketing roles at Dell, most recently leading product line management for data storage and networking in the Americas. Michael holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA in Political Science from Colgate University.