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Kerry Garrison, VP Strategy
Kerry Garrison has been in the IT industry for over 20 years and first got into the new IP PBX platforms in 2004 and eventually was installing systems as a primary function of his IT business. Kerry has written two books on the open-source IP PBX project, trixbox CE and worked at Fonality as the trixbox Community Director and trixbox CE project manager for several years.
In March of 2009, Kerry went to work as the VP of Strategic Initiatives at 888VoipStore where he creates product overviews, tutorials, and articles to help IP PBX resellers to be more successful and profitable.
In March of 2009, Kerry went to work as the VP of Strategic Initiatives at 888VoipStore where he creates product overviews, tutorials, and articles to help IP PBX resellers to be more successful and profitable.
Robert Keller, Senior VoIP Engineer
Robert has been very active in Voice over Internet Protocol sector for
over 4 years and is a respected and recognized leader in the
communities and forums that surround this great technology and is
frequent speaker at major VoIP related conferences and trade shows.
Robert has worked with traditional telephony, networking and computer
and computer training industries since the late 90's and was often
involved in pioneering emerging technologies.
Prior to this period Robert worked in a variety of industries from the
investigative technology side of law enforcement to video
entertainment productions and has been involved with the Internet
since its birth around 1990.
Robert graduated from Western Washington University, Fairhaven College in 1993 with a BA in Liberal Arts.
Robert graduated from Western Washington University, Fairhaven College in 1993 with a BA in Liberal Arts.
Blake Cornell, Application Security Engineer
Blake Cornell has been an IT innovator and developer with over a decade of experience within software and security. He has consulted Fortune 500 companies and various law enforcement agencies with hopes of enacting solutions to ease every day issues. He currently has vested interests within network and application security with as well VoIP technology. He is a proud member and supporter of InfraGard, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector, and OWASP, the premier application security consortium.
He has spoken at or is scheduled to speak at Briarcliffe College (Bethpage, NY), Astricon 2007 (Pheonix, AZ), The Last Hope (New York, NY), ICCS 2009/2010 (New York, NY), HIMSS Virtual Conference, regional OWASP events, FRHack, Fordham University, LIPHP, Rutgers University and Astricon 2010.
He has been mentioned or quoted from organizations such as CNet News, Communications News, Security Focus, Fierce VoIP, NIST NVD, Security Vulns, Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine, milw0rm, Packet Storm, BNet, Security Reason, Exotic Liability Podcast
He has spoken at or is scheduled to speak at Briarcliffe College (Bethpage, NY), Astricon 2007 (Pheonix, AZ), The Last Hope (New York, NY), ICCS 2009/2010 (New York, NY), HIMSS Virtual Conference, regional OWASP events, FRHack, Fordham University, LIPHP, Rutgers University and Astricon 2010.
He has been mentioned or quoted from organizations such as CNet News, Communications News, Security Focus, Fierce VoIP, NIST NVD, Security Vulns, Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine, milw0rm, Packet Storm, BNet, Security Reason, Exotic Liability Podcast
Xavier Carcelle, Lead Hardware Engineer Manager
Xavier Carcelle is the lead hardware engineer manager for avencall (french VoIP company developing the software and hardware XiVO solution) leading the development of IPBX solution. He is a telecommunications and networks expert and had been working on numerous technologies (PLC, 802.11, 802.15.4) at the group EDF - largest utility in Europe - prior to join Avencall. He is the author of several books in telecommunications and hardware developments for network appliances. Xavier Carcelle holds a MSc in EE from Ecole Normale Supérieure (France) and MSc in EE from Texas A&M University.
Jeff Robinson, President
Praveen Kumar, Senior Advisor
Praveen Kumar is Senior Advisor at BroadSoft. He joined BroadSoft in 2009 as part of the acquisition of PacketIsland, where he was founder and CEO.
At BroadSoft, Praveen helps evangelize service assurance techniques and methodologies to the VoIP industry.
Praveen has a long history with network management and service assurance technologies, having started his career as an engineer at HP, where he worked on the HP Openview product portfolio. As architect for several of HP's largest messaging service deployments, he also has deep experience in building and managing cloud-based services. At Packet Island, Praveen led the development of the PacketSmart service quality assurance product portfolio for service providers and VoIP resellers.
Praveen holds an MS CS from the University of California, Riverside, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
At BroadSoft, Praveen helps evangelize service assurance techniques and methodologies to the VoIP industry.
Praveen has a long history with network management and service assurance technologies, having started his career as an engineer at HP, where he worked on the HP Openview product portfolio. As architect for several of HP's largest messaging service deployments, he also has deep experience in building and managing cloud-based services. At Packet Island, Praveen led the development of the PacketSmart service quality assurance product portfolio for service providers and VoIP resellers.
Praveen holds an MS CS from the University of California, Riverside, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Marc Fribush, Director, Vice President
Marc Fribush is the VP of Cloud PBX Operations at Cbeyond in Atlanta, GA. Marc was the co-founder and President of Aretta Communications, a leading provider of Hosted Virtual Asterisk solutions which Cbeyond acquired in October 2010. Prior to starting Aretta, Marc was the co-founder and COO of Encounter Technologies, a provider of social media telephony technologies that was acquired by Ancestry.com in April 2006. Prior to starting Encounter, Marc held Product Management and Sales Management positions at Yahoo!, Intellivoice, Genesys and Dialogic, where he started his career in computer telephony in 1995.
Antony Martin, Director, Director of Open Source Engineering
Antony has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years. He joined Dialogic in February 2009 having held roles as CEO, CTO in previous employment. As a developer Antony's experience ranges from PBX hardware and embedded software, to IVR, Call Center, Media Server and Unified Messaging software and systems. He also co-created and was a key contributor to a number of open source projects including the Dialogic sponsored DiaStar® project. Antony is a graduate of DeMontfort University,
Leicester UK.
Leicester UK.
Tristan Barnum, Director of Product Marketing
Tristan is the Director of Product Marketing for Switchvox at Digium. She co-founded Switchvox, previously known as Four Loop Technologies, in 2003. In late 2007, Switchvox was acquired by Digium, the Asterisk company, to serve the rapidly growing SMB market for VoIP phone systems. Prior to Switchvox, Tristan pioneered development into emerging markets for media delivery at Vivendi Universal Net USA / MP3.com. Her work included the design of new web services, handheld mp3 players, webpads and interactive TV. During her career at Vivendi, she was awarded a patent for a system of providing access to electronic works over a network.
Paul Belanger, Software Developer
Kevin Fleming, Director of Software Tehcnologies
Kevin P. Fleming has 20+ years of programming experience, with every major programming language. Most recently, Kevin has been applying his software design and architecture skills to the open source unified communications arena. Kevin's primary skill is producing solutions that use resources effectively through problem analysis and solution design.
A member of the worldwide open source community for over five years, Kevin has contributed to many open source projects in a wide variety of applications. He fervently believes that open source is the 'right' way to do things and uses open source solutions whenever possible. Kevin joined Digium in 2005.
A member of the worldwide open source community for over five years, Kevin has contributed to many open source projects in a wide variety of applications. He fervently believes that open source is the 'right' way to do things and uses open source solutions whenever possible. Kevin joined Digium in 2005.
Bryan Johns, Community Director
Bryan Johns is the Community Director for Digium, the Asterisk company. In this role, Bryan works globally to foster growth and adoption of these technologies amongst developers, partners and commercial entities. Bryan manages a community around Asterisk and its associated technologies that numbers greater than 75,000 members.
Prior to joining Digium, Bryan spent nearly 20 years in and around the businesses of technology and telecommunications. He has started, grown and sold a handful of web application development and VoIP technology businesses and in 2004, found a home in the disruptive world of open standards and open source telecommunications platforms.
Bryan is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he works when he's not out and about evangelizing open source communications.
Prior to joining Digium, Bryan spent nearly 20 years in and around the businesses of technology and telecommunications. He has started, grown and sold a handful of web application development and VoIP technology businesses and in 2004, found a home in the disruptive world of open standards and open source telecommunications platforms.
Bryan is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he works when he's not out and about evangelizing open source communications.
Leif Madsen, Bug Marshal
Leif Madsen has been an Asterisk consultant since 2004 and has been working with Asterisk since September, 2002. He is also co-author of the O'Reilly Media published books, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony 1st and 2nd editions, Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (3rd edition), and the Asterisk Cookbook.
As an active member of the Asterisk community, Leif is the primary issue marshal on the Asterisk issue tracker, in addition to the Asterisk release manager.
As an active member of the Asterisk community, Leif is the primary issue marshal on the Asterisk issue tracker, in addition to the Asterisk release manager.
Jason Parker, Software Developer
Shaun Ruffell, Linux Kernel Developer
Shaun Ruffell is currently a Linux Kernel Developer at Digium where he helps
maintain the Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface (DAHDI) kernel modules.
Prior to joining Digium, Shaun worked for over 10 years at a variety of
high-tech manufacturing companies where he specialized in writing Linux and
Windows device drivers and supporting board bring up for a wide range of PCI
and PCI express devices and embedded platforms.
Shaun studied Operations Research at the United States Coast Guard Academy and attended the United States Military Academy for a semester his junior (2/c) year on exchange. Shaun also studied Computer Science at California Lutheran University.
Shaun studied Operations Research at the United States Coast Guard Academy and attended the United States Military Academy for a semester his junior (2/c) year on exchange. Shaun also studied Computer Science at California Lutheran University.
Gaston Draque, R+D Director
Gaston Draque is the Director of Research and Development at EUS Networks. He has been working with company's information systems for the last 18 years, and has been working with open source solutions for the last 10. He started by working with databases in both desktop and client-server scenarios in the 90's, then moved to web based applications development and got introduced into Asterisk in 2005 and has been under that spell ever since. Combining web, database and software engineering best practices with the vast business possibilities that Asterisk provides, has been a perfect mix for this business oriented professional.
Gaston holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is also an Associate Professor of "IT Resources Administration" at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Gaston holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is also an Associate Professor of "IT Resources Administration" at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Jeronimo Romero, CTO
Phillippe Lindheimer, Project Leader/Open Source Community Director
Philippe Lindheimer is the Project Leader and primary Developer of
FreePBX and the Open Source Community Director for Bandwidth.com.
Philippe's interest in telecom began in the early 1990s when he
worked at Hewlett Packard's European Headquarters helping leading
telephone companies re-architect their Business Support Systems. For
more than two decades he has worked in the Engineering industry in a
range of technical consulting roles with Fortune 500 Companies. He
has been involved in creating and presenting numerous technical
training events on a worldwide basis and has spoken at past Astricon
developer conferences and Asterisk World. He is co-founder of the
popular Open Telephony Training Seminar series focused on real word
Asterisk/FreePBX technical and marketing/sales training.
Nir Simionovich, CEO
Open Source Evangelist, Asterisk Guru, Author and VoIP Security Fanatic. Nir has been involved with the Asterisk Open Source community since 2002, serving as the Israeli community focal point and maintainer since 2003. Since 2009, Nir had become increasingly involved in the VoIP Security scene, specifically with Call Analytics and Fraud Analysis. Nir is currently the CEO of Greenfield Technologies, and the Chief Architect of the Humbug Project - both located
in Israel.
Owen DeLong, IPv6 Evangelist
Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist and Director of Professional Services at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience. He is an active member of the systems administration, operations, and IP Policy communities. In the past, Owen has worked at Tellme Networks (Senior Network Engineer), Exodus Communications (Senior Backbone Engineer) where he was part of the team that took Exodus from a pre-IPO start up with 2 data centers to a major global provider of hosting services, Netcom Online (Network Engineer) where he worked on a team that moved the internet from an expensive R&E tool to a widely available public access system accessible to anyone with a computer, Sun Microsystems (Senior Systems Administrator), and more. He can be reached as owend at he dot net.
Siamak Farah, CEO
Siamak Farah is the founder and CEO of InfoStreet, a leading provider of IT & Productivity Software as a Service (SaaS). Active in its day-to-day management, Siamak has assembled and leads a seasoned team of industry professionals at InfoStreet. By employing a business philosophy that focuses first on solving business problems and second on applying appropriate technologies to those solutions, he has enabled flourishing businesses for both InfoStreet and its clients.
As president of a small publicly listed software development firm and the chief operating officer of another, Siamak has extensive small business management knowledge. This, combined with years of experience starting his career as a software developer, places him in the unique position of having hands-on knowledge of technical, marketing and management issues; the very combination required for the creation of successful online suite of business software.
Prior to founding InfoStreet in 1994, Siamak worked at NeXT Computer side-by-side industry visionaries the likes of Steve Jobs. During his six years at NeXT, his responsibilities grew from technical sales and marketing to district sales management. Before joining NeXT, Siamak was the Chief Operating Officer of Microstat Development Corporation. During his two years at Microstat, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of this publicly listed R&D firm. Siamak began his career at Vertigo Systems International. During his time at Vertigo, he was instrumental in its growth from a startup with just six people to a full-fledged business employing over 70 individuals.
Having been in the industry for more than 20 years Siamak has striven to include a cutting edge technological vision in his work. As evidence, Siamak has been and continues to be active in the envisioning and creation of forefront technology. 3D-animation, Internet technology, and object-oriented programming, and Software as a Service are just a few leading edge technologies to which Siamak has actively contributed. A member of the Society of Industry Leaders, Siamak is a frequent speaker at conferences that focus on the Internet and SaaS such as ISPCON, INBOX: The Messaging Industry Event, the Layered Technologies Pact conference, SoftLetter's marketing and SaaS seminar and more.
As president of a small publicly listed software development firm and the chief operating officer of another, Siamak has extensive small business management knowledge. This, combined with years of experience starting his career as a software developer, places him in the unique position of having hands-on knowledge of technical, marketing and management issues; the very combination required for the creation of successful online suite of business software.
Prior to founding InfoStreet in 1994, Siamak worked at NeXT Computer side-by-side industry visionaries the likes of Steve Jobs. During his six years at NeXT, his responsibilities grew from technical sales and marketing to district sales management. Before joining NeXT, Siamak was the Chief Operating Officer of Microstat Development Corporation. During his two years at Microstat, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of this publicly listed R&D firm. Siamak began his career at Vertigo Systems International. During his time at Vertigo, he was instrumental in its growth from a startup with just six people to a full-fledged business employing over 70 individuals.
Having been in the industry for more than 20 years Siamak has striven to include a cutting edge technological vision in his work. As evidence, Siamak has been and continues to be active in the envisioning and creation of forefront technology. 3D-animation, Internet technology, and object-oriented programming, and Software as a Service are just a few leading edge technologies to which Siamak has actively contributed. A member of the Society of Industry Leaders, Siamak is a frequent speaker at conferences that focus on the Internet and SaaS such as ISPCON, INBOX: The Messaging Industry Event, the Layered Technologies Pact conference, SoftLetter's marketing and SaaS seminar and more.
Corey McFadden, Managing Partner
Corey McFadden is a founder and Managing Partner of Infradapt LLC, a leading managed services and communications firm. He brings over fifteen years of industry experience to Infradapt with a unique background that includes experience in field-consulting, call center operations, IP telephony, and software development. Mr. McFadden has been a featured lecturer at numerous business conferences, published articles on business and technology, and been the subject of a television program profiling visionary businesspeople in Pennsylvania.
Daniel Krahenbuhl, CEO
Dr. Daniel Krahenbuhl has a wide knowledge of Linux, and business with Open-Source solutions, wireless solutions, mobile business solutions, and information security products. After his PhD in Computer Science in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT - USA), Dr Daniel incorporated Scout24, in Europe, and found two strong investors for it in Metro Group and BHS (large trading organizations). Scout24 was founded in 1998; today Scout24 is Europe's largest online market place with as many as 100 million visits per year. Scout24 was sold out to T-Online (German Telekom). Since 2008, Dr Daniel is serving as CEO and co-founder of Intuittech Sdn Bhd, a successful start-up company in Malaysia which is fully focused on selling Asterisk- and Nagios-based solutions and services, globally.
With 300% sales growth over 2009, and the prestigious Digium Innovation "Big Biz" Award as proof factor of the reliability of Intuit services, Dr Daniel and Intuit are setting up the standards in Open-Source business. Having gained impeccable reputation in Malaysia, Intuitech started its expansion into China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States, world largest Asterisk company with over 700 employees in Asia. With the recent partnership with Strateq (formerly Kompakar), it will be the region's largest Asterisk telephony solutions provider.
With 300% sales growth over 2009, and the prestigious Digium Innovation "Big Biz" Award as proof factor of the reliability of Intuit services, Dr Daniel and Intuit are setting up the standards in Open-Source business. Having gained impeccable reputation in Malaysia, Intuitech started its expansion into China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States, world largest Asterisk company with over 700 employees in Asia. With the recent partnership with Strateq (formerly Kompakar), it will be the region's largest Asterisk telephony solutions provider.
Klaus Darilion, System Engineer
Klaus Darilion is an expert in networking (TCP/IP) and in the fields of SIP based communications. He
studied electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, where he wrote a Doctor thesis
about SIP based voice communication for public safety applications.
Klaus Darilion is now employed with nic.at, the Austrian domain registry, where he is working in the fields of voice over IP and DNS infrastructure. Klaus Darilion is active contributor in various VoIP Open Source projects like Asterisk and Kamailio/Openser. Further, Klaus Darilion performs SIP security audits against VoIP installation of Internet telephony providers. Klaus Darilion is Digium certified Asterisk professional (dCAP) and teaches VoIP and SIP, especially SIP security and Asterisk.
Klaus Darilion is now employed with nic.at, the Austrian domain registry, where he is working in the fields of voice over IP and DNS infrastructure. Klaus Darilion is active contributor in various VoIP Open Source projects like Asterisk and Kamailio/Openser. Further, Klaus Darilion performs SIP security audits against VoIP installation of Internet telephony providers. Klaus Darilion is Digium certified Asterisk professional (dCAP) and teaches VoIP and SIP, especially SIP security and Asterisk.
Jim Kaiser, President & CEO
James (Jim) A. Kaiser is President and Chief Executive Officer. He is currently responsible for the company's overall strategic direction and general business management. Jim is a serial entrepreneur and recognized corporate leader with proven success. He is experienced in driving results for nearly 20 years in start-ups and capital ventures as well as contributing to the success of a Fortune 100 market leader.
Jim is considered a valuable expert in the areas of sales, strategy, executive leadership, private equity funding, business development, operations, turnarounds and change management.
Before launching into his entrepreneurial efforts, Jim was one of MCI WorldCom's (now Verizon) initial employees and became an executive director of the company during his 12-year tenure with responsibility for the profit and loss of nearly $500M in revenue. Jim was also co-founder of a tele-services firm, where he took the organization from start-up to profitability including leveraging the company sale within three years.
Jim is frequently requested as a guest speaker at events, panels and universities. He often is asked to provide his expertise on business topics including sales strategies, executive leadership and change management. Jim earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from ASU in Marketing and Organizational Communications and currently serves on several board of directors including; Rio Salado College, Arizona State University Dean Board of Excellence, Camp Soaring Eagle, and Little League International.
Ben Klang, Principal
Ben Klang is the leader of the Adhearsion project, a Ruby-based framework for creating telephony applications. He has been working with Asterisk since 2002, running it on a second-hand PC for a startup in his father-in-law's basement. With twelve years' experience in a variety of technical fields such as system administration, VoIP services and application development, Klang started Mojo Lingo to bring agile development practices and the beauty of the Ruby language to the telephony world.
Pascal Deschênes, Co-Founder, Technical Lead
Pascal Deschênes is one of Nu Echo co-founders and Director, Product Development with over 10 years of extensive experience in speech technologies, applications, standards, telephony, and platforms. Pascal currently leads the NuBot IVR Testing Platform and Mirador IVR Monitoring Service development. Prior to co-founding Nu Echo, he was a speech technologies analyst for InfoSpace Speech Solutions, where he was also responsible for the evaluation and implementation of industry standards. Earlier, as technical team leader for Locus Dialogue, he was a key contributor to the development of one of the first commercially deployed VoiceXML gateways on the market.
Tim Panton, Co-Founder, Technical Lead
Tim Panton has been a software developer for more than 25 years, working on a diverse range of projects, from chemical plant simulation to tourism web sites. He is also a contributor to open source projects, in particular GJTAPI a framework for implementing JTAPI (The Java Telephony API) and Westhawk's Java SNMP stack. In recent years Tim has been predominantly involved in Asterisk development and implementation, working closely with key industry players he has been championing innovative integration of voice technologies in interesting places.
Michael Seto, Vice President of Product Management
Michael Seto is Vice President of Product Management for Personal Products and Market Segment Solutions for Polycom. Mr. Seto brings with him more than 28 years of marketing and product management experience within the communications industry. Mr. Seto oversees product strategy and management for Polycom Personal Products including VoIP Desktop, Executive Video Desktop, Mobility, SMB, and Global Alliance Solutions. He also held vice president positions at Brooktrout Technology, Lucent Technologies, Voysys Corp. Earlier in his career, Seto held senior marketing and product management positions in computer and data networking companies.
Srinivas Mantripragada, CTO & VP, Products
Dr. Srinivas is responsible for the overall product direction, technology and architecture at RedShift Networks. Srinivas comes with 16 plus years of experience in building and delivering cutting edge solutions in Systems, Networking, Security, Communications and Infrastructure. Prior to that Srinivas was VP, Technologies at Phoenix Technologies leading their cloud infrastructure efforts, CTO-office roles at NetContinuum (leader in Web Application Firewall category; acquired by Barracuda Networks) and Determina (leader in Host Intrusion Security; acquired by VMware). Srinivas was also at MIPS Technologies (acquired by SGI) and HP-Labs. Srinivas is a frequent speaker in leading conferences, driving numerous standards and authored more than 40+ technical and product publications with 8 patents. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine.
Zac Wolfe, CTO
Zac began his professional life as a software developer at Acacia International, an inbound call center located in Eugene, OR. There he developed a number of back-end and customer facing telephony applications that were integral to the success of that company while also acting as the company's primary IT manager. He later created an outbound dialer and CRM system for US Bank that continues to be a critical piece of that company's collection process. Zac went on to become a Sr Software Developer at Kaibridge Inc where he helped develop a video game called "Save The Dinos" (publisher: Aspyr). He is now lead architect and developer of the SafiServer and SafiWorkshop products for Safi Systems LLC.
John Mertic, Community Manager
John Mertic serves as the Community Manager for SugarCRM, having several years of experience with PHP web applications and open source communities. A frequent conference speaker and an avid writer, he has been published in php|architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connection, and is the author of the book 'The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications'. He has also contributed to many open source projects, most notably the PHP project where is the creator and maintainer of the PHP Windows Installer.
Dave Duffett, Principal Consultant
David is a Chartered Engineer and has been in telecoms for more than 20 years. With experience that includes Air Traffic Control communications, Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Networks, Computer Telephony, Voice over IP and Asterisk, David set up TeleSpeak in 2006 to specialise in Asterisk training and select consultancy assignments.
Today TeleSpeak is proud to have the only permanent Asterisk training facility in Europe (co-located with TeleSpeak HQ near Oxford, UK) and, through a network of employees and associates, is involved in Asterisk and SwitchVox deployments with a number of major corporations.
In addition to the Asterisk training delivered in the UK, TeleSpeak also runs regular classes in Belgium and the Netherland in addition to occassional classes in Malaysia and many other parts of the world.
David has been called the UKs Chief Asterisk Enthusiast - when he is not consulting on Asterisk or delivering training on Asterisk, he's probably doing something else with Asterisk... including creating a phone-in time table tester for one of his daughters!
Today TeleSpeak is proud to have the only permanent Asterisk training facility in Europe (co-located with TeleSpeak HQ near Oxford, UK) and, through a network of employees and associates, is involved in Asterisk and SwitchVox deployments with a number of major corporations.
In addition to the Asterisk training delivered in the UK, TeleSpeak also runs regular classes in Belgium and the Netherland in addition to occassional classes in Malaysia and many other parts of the world.
David has been called the UKs Chief Asterisk Enthusiast - when he is not consulting on Asterisk or delivering training on Asterisk, he's probably doing something else with Asterisk... including creating a phone-in time table tester for one of his daughters!
Allison Smith, CEO
Allison Smith is an internationally-recognized professional voice talent, specializing in voicing telephone systems. If you've maneuvered through telephone prompts while calling a Fortune 500 company; participated in a telephone customer satisfaction survey; signed onto a conference call, listened to the public airwaves, took an online training module, or even received an automated call notifying you of an upcoming medical or dental appointment - chances are, you've heard Allison. One of most prevalent and widespread telephone voices working today, Allison has voiced platforms for Vonage, Bell Canada, Sprint, Cingular, Verizon, Qwest, Twitterfone - as well as being the voice of the Open Source PBX Asterisk. Clients include Marriot Hotels, 3M, Pfizer, Toyota, Victoria's Secret, Bank of America and EBay among many others. Her website is www.theivrvoice.com.
Cassius Smith, Senior Project Consultant
Cassius Smith has been with TWR since June 2010 as a second career missionary along with his wife, Valerie. He retired in 2009 after working 32 years as a software developer and project manager in the aerospace industry. His industry background includes development of real time device drivers for spacecraft telemetry and commanding, data base management systems and graphical analysis systems for government customers. He is also experienced in project management of various products, most recently a real time missile communications system. Working remotely from his home in Madison, Alabama, Cassius works with the IT department in TWR's Cary, NC office. As the "Staff dCAP" he is responsible for deployment and maintenance of the worldwide network of Asterisk systems in support of TWR's regional offices. He also serves as a project management consultant for TWR's LinguaDMS and Guam Transmitter Replacement projects.
Matt Riddell, Managing Director
Matt Riddell has been writing software since the age of six and working with telephony software since around 1996. He started working with Asterisk in late 2003 and started the Daily Asterisk News in 2004.
The Daily Asterisk News has since had over 2600 articles on various topics in the Asterisk community.
He has previously spoken at Astricon in Madrid and Astricon in Paris as well as providing an Asterisk based presentation at Cebit in Sydney, Australia.
He is the founder of VentureVoIP, a company that provides custom telephony solutions to businesses worldwide as well as consulting on various projects.
The Daily Asterisk News has since had over 2600 articles on various topics in the Asterisk community.
He has previously spoken at Astricon in Madrid and Astricon in Paris as well as providing an Asterisk based presentation at Cebit in Sydney, Australia.
He is the founder of VentureVoIP, a company that provides custom telephony solutions to businesses worldwide as well as consulting on various projects.
Matt Florell, President
Matt Florell has over twelve years experience in building and managing corporate IT systems specializing in Call Center systems, IP telephony, Customer Relationship Management(CRM) systems, databases, scalable applications and system optimization. Matt is currently the President of the ViciDial Group in St. Petersburg, Florida and is the creator and maintainer of the Open Source ViciDial Call Center Suite, which is in use at thousands of companies in over 100 countries around the world.
Chris Hall, CEO
Chris Hall is the founder of Vitelity, an 8 year old multi-million dollar VoIP company built on Asterisk. Vitelity has tens of thousands of customers worldwide and over forty thousand Asterisk registrations to date. Not only is the number of Asterisk registrations increasing each month, Vitelity's current number is higher than any of its competitors.
Through Chris's leadership and knowledge, Vitelity:
* Successfully filters five hundred thousand plus intrusion attacks per day
* Has virtually a 100% execution rate on deferring hacking attempts
* Has not had any successful infiltrations of its network in over 5 years
* Creates portal based safety protocols for customers
* Is amongst the fastest growing companies in the country
* Successfully filters five hundred thousand plus intrusion attacks per day
* Has virtually a 100% execution rate on deferring hacking attempts
* Has not had any successful infiltrations of its network in over 5 years
* Creates portal based safety protocols for customers
* Is amongst the fastest growing companies in the country
Michael Metcalf, Chairman and CEO
As chairman and CEO of Voice Assist, Michael Metcalf brings over 26 years experience in the telecom and speech recognition industries.
Mr. Metcalf is a serial entrepreneur, having previously founded and managed a number of successful companies. He was founder, CEO and chairman of SpeechPhone, LLC, a cloud-based unified communications service provider. He also founded and was CEO and chairman of Sound Advantage LLC, provider of on-site speech recognition based messaging platforms and earlier in his career he founded and managed Telwest Inc, an interconnect and systems integrator.
Products conceived and developed by Mr. Metcalf have won over 25 of the top telecom and speech recognition industry awards including four Product of the Year awards. Mr. Metcalf has the unique ability to recognize opportunities and then conceive and develop commercial grade technology to meet the need.
Mr. Metcalf is a visionary leader. His previous board positions include Safe Harbor International, a 501c3 disaster relief and missions outreach to the Sudan, as well as director at Coastland Christian Bible College and University.
A frequent speaker at conferences, Mr. Metcalf most recently spoke during a lunch-time learning series at the Andy Seybold Wireless University at CTIA Wireless 2011.
Mr. Metcalf is a serial entrepreneur, having previously founded and managed a number of successful companies. He was founder, CEO and chairman of SpeechPhone, LLC, a cloud-based unified communications service provider. He also founded and was CEO and chairman of Sound Advantage LLC, provider of on-site speech recognition based messaging platforms and earlier in his career he founded and managed Telwest Inc, an interconnect and systems integrator.
Products conceived and developed by Mr. Metcalf have won over 25 of the top telecom and speech recognition industry awards including four Product of the Year awards. Mr. Metcalf has the unique ability to recognize opportunities and then conceive and develop commercial grade technology to meet the need.
Mr. Metcalf is a visionary leader. His previous board positions include Safe Harbor International, a 501c3 disaster relief and missions outreach to the Sudan, as well as director at Coastland Christian Bible College and University.
A frequent speaker at conferences, Mr. Metcalf most recently spoke during a lunch-time learning series at the Andy Seybold Wireless University at CTIA Wireless 2011.
Jose de Castro, Chief Architect
Jose de Castro is the Chief Architect at Voxeo Labs where he drives the vision and thought leadership behind Voxeo's next generation communications technologies, including Tropo, Phono, PRISM and Rayo. Prior to joining Voxeo Labs, Jose was Chief Architect at VoiceReady, a graphical design and reporting management tool for building telephony applications, which was acquired by Voxeo in 2006. Jose has held the title Application Architect and Lead Developer at companies including Spherion, NetbyTel and elQ2.
Chris Matthieu, Director, Business Development
Chris Matthieu is the Director of Business Development for Voxeo Labs. He has over a decade of speech and telephony experience. Since joining Voxeo through the acquisition of his startup, Teleku, he has been extensively involved in Voxeo's next generation cloud communications platform, Tropo, and is the Product Manager for Voxeo's new browser-based, open source web phone project called Phono.
Jason Park, Principal
Jason Park is the founder and President of Warrior Hill, a cloud-based PBX provider and open source consulting practice. Prior to founding Warrior Hill, Jason held leadership positions with leading web hosting companies CommuniTech.Net and Blue Virtual. Jason discovered Asterisk in 2003 ad hasn't stopped playing since. As a leading provider of custom hosted PBX solutions, Warrior Hill provides a scalable and reliable internet telephony platform to meet any client's needs. The expertise that has been gained developing this platform has led to numerous consulting engagements with clients around the world.
Ruth Bridger, Principal
Ruth Bridger joined Xorcom, a manufacturer of Asterisk-based modular and scalable VoIP to PSTN hardware telephony solutions for commercial installations, as VP Marketing in mid-2008. For four years prior to that, Ruth was Marketing Manager at Surf Communication Solutions, a developer of infrastructure platforms enabling the convergence of Voice + Video + Data across wireline and wireless networks. Beforehand, Ruth served for over six years as Marketing Manager at B.O.S. - Better On-line Solutions, yet another pioneering high tech company in the telecommunications industry. Ruth has an M.A. degree in Communications from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a B.A. degree from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
Bradley J. Pitt, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Mr. Pitt currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at 888VoIP. He brings more than 25 years of executive management experience to 888VoIP as well as a track record of success evolving early stage technology companies into world class, highly profitable companies. His leadership has been the catalyst for year over year growth of over 30% while driving business transformation to a pure distribution model.
Prior to 888VoIP, Brad managed the channel sales and business development teams at Fonality where he also supervised the Dell Computers account. Brad has held leadership positions at webMethods, Choice Hotels International, Inter-Tel, Lucent Technologies, Delrina, Borland and Ashton-Tate. He is known throughout the industry as an inspirational leader, mentor and coach, employing solution and strategic selling methodologies with an acute knowledge of vertical domains. He is a critical member of the executive team providing vision into customer trends and market needs. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
Prior to 888VoIP, Brad managed the channel sales and business development teams at Fonality where he also supervised the Dell Computers account. Brad has held leadership positions at webMethods, Choice Hotels International, Inter-Tel, Lucent Technologies, Delrina, Borland and Ashton-Tate. He is known throughout the industry as an inspirational leader, mentor and coach, employing solution and strategic selling methodologies with an acute knowledge of vertical domains. He is a critical member of the executive team providing vision into customer trends and market needs. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
