Brian Adams - Award Winning Speaker, Endless Possibilities

Brian Adams is a published author and award-winning speaker. Born and raised in rural North Carolina, Brian did not just endure but purposely overcame his poverty stricken and abusive upbringing. He decided at a very young age that he was not going to be a casualty of his environment but instead an example of the human strength and willingness needed to succeed. He learned early on that we can be, do or have anything we want, no matter what we experience in life.

Through the years, he has mastered several styles of martial arts and became a 6th degree black belt. He has presented numerous training seminars for the Los Angeles Police Department as well as Women’s only self defense/rape awareness seminars, and the list goes on.  

Brian is now best known for is program “Mental Martial Arts, Defend yourself against your toughest opponent…YOU!” Where he will teach you how to breakthrough all barriers and negative habits holding you hostage!

Through his new company—Endless Possibilities—Brian Enhances the Lives of others with Motivation and Inspiration through the use of a lot of Humor and personal stories that bring across his belief that you can be, do or have anything you want, if you know what you want and take action!

Stephane Angelot – VP Strategic Solutions and Alliances, Aastra Telecom
With more than 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications, Stephane Angelot is the Vice President Strategic Solutions and Alliances for Aastra Telecom. He manages strategic partnerships to develop Aastra Telecom endpoints sales. Prior to this position, Angelot was the Vice President of Product Development at EADS TELECOM North America and was responsible for product management of large PBX, mission critical call centers and network management for the PointSpan and Centergy line of products. Angelot holds a Master of Science degree in computer science and telecommunications from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.

Mark Bresler – VP of Channel Sales, Broadvox
Mr. Bresler provides Broadvox with 20 years of experience in Senior Management, nine of which spent working directly in the Telecommunications Sector. Mr. Bresler is responsible for the overall direction and performance of the company’s Indirect Channel Throughout his 25 year career in Sales & Marketing, Mr. Bresler has particularly thrived in both start-up and turn-around business environments. 

Prior to joining Infotelis, Mr. Bresler was the Director of Strategic Planning, Ohio for Talk America. Previous to the acquisition of LDMI by Talk America, Mr. Bresler held the position of Director of Sales, Ohio at LDMI. He also spent two years at Focal Communications driving sales into Fortune 100 & 500 accounts.

Sam Chon – Voice Technology Solutions Professional, Microsoft

Jim Christie – VP of Worldwide Sales, Exinda Networks
Jim Christie was named Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Exinda Networks in January 2007. Jim has over 20 years of experience in enterprise level software sales and management of organizations producing enterprise level hardware and software. As Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Jim is responsible for maintaining relationships with existing clients, attracting new clients and building the channel of distributors, partners and resellers throughout the world.
Prior to Exinda, Jim worked for Aprisma Management Technologies as Managing Director of Asia Pacific. Jim previously worked for EMC, as Division Manager for their Open Systems division; Sanyo, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for UNIX Systems and Network Storage and MAI Basic Four, where he held a number of positions including Director of Product Marketing, National Sales Manager for Large Systems and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing.
Jim holds a Ph.D. from Kansas State University, MBA from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwestern College.

Jeff Crilley – Emmy Award Winning Reporter, MC

Alex Epshteyn - Founder & CTO, Thirdlane

Alexander Feldt – Senior Telecom Engineer, Support Team, snom
Alexander Feldt is the Senior Telecom Engineer for the Support Department at snom, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones. Feldt has a broad range of experience in both the telecom and Internet industries, as an engineer in various roles including support, implementation and development.

Prior to joining snom in 2006, Feldt was a freelancer in Cali, Columbia, focusing on VoIP consulting and implementations for small businesses and SOHOs. His work in Germany includes serving as an engineer for SIEMENS AG and as a development engineer for Abgasprüfstelle Berlin GmbH.

Feldt studied information technology at Technische Hochschule (Technical University) in Wismar, Germany for three years before completing his communications engineering studies at Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) in Karlsruhe, Germany in July of 1995.

Rex Harris – Director of Product Marketing, CPE Business Line, AudioCodes
Rex Harris is Director of Product Marketing, CPE Business Line for AudioCodes, the leading provider of innovative, reliable and cost-effective analog and digital VoIP gateways. He has over 20 years of telephony experience with the last 10 years focused on VoIP.  Previously, as Director of Product Management and Marketing, he was one of the founding contributors to VocalData, a VoIP Hosted PBX Feature Server developer.  Most recently, he was Director of Partner Management for Tekelec.

Joe Hoffmann – Sales and Marketing Manager ,CyberData
Mr. Hoffmann joined CyberData Corporation in 2006 to provide overall direction to position the VoIP product line in its focus markets. He has accumulated over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in the telecommunications industry, holding prior positions with various companies in the Silicon Valley. Prior to joining CyberData, Mr. Hoffmann worked for 10 years for Stratex Networks in San Jose as Applications Engineer and Product Manager for digital microwave radio product lines.

Tim Kataras – Director of Business Development, Altai Technologies
Mr. Tim Kataras is the Director of Business Development for the Americas for Altai Technologies.  He is responsible for the business development in North and South America.

Tim brings over 30 years of wireless and telecom experience to Altai.  During his career, he has lead successful business development efforts with major US and international companies.  He has worked with industry leaders such as Motorola, NEC, Uniden, General Electric and Mattel as well as start-ups and entrepreneurial companies around the world.

In 2002 as Senior Director of Business Development for BarPoint.com, Tim developed and managed partnerships with all five of the Top 5 US cellular carriers.  He was the founder and CEO of Global Access Telephone and Technology Inc. and the principal architect of its acquisition by Inter-Continental Services Corp.

Fabrizio Minelli - Director, Business Development, Pirelli
In Pirelli Broadband Solution, Fabrizio currently drives the Business Development group, active world wide in the exciting activity of bringing advanced and innovative paradigms to the new communication market. Fabrizio has been at Pirelli since 2001. He has contributed to the growth of PBS since its inception, in Sales Development roles as well as Key Account for major customers. Before joining Pirelli he had covered different management roles in Marketing & Sales in Philips Consumer Electronics and in STMicroelectronics.

Fred Palacios - Director of Sales, ITS Telecom

Wolfgang Ritter – Director of Sales North/South Americas, Mobotix

Mark Spencer - Founder and CTO, Digium
Mark Spencer founded Digium®, Inc., in 1999 as Linux Support Systems while still a computer engineering student at Auburn University. When faced with the high cost of buying a PBX for the company, Spencer simply used his Linux PC and knowledge of C code to develop his own PBX. This was the beginning of the worldwide open source phenomenon known as Asterisk®. As Asterisk gained in popularity, Spencer shifted his business focus from Linux support to supporting Asterisk and opening up the telecom market. Mark renamed the company Digium and transformed the fledgling upstart into the leading open source telecommunication provider in the world today. As the Chairman and CTO of Digium, Mark Spencer continues to drive the strategic vision and technology direction of the company as well as focus on the development and growth of the Asterisk Community at large.

Mike Storella – Director of US Business Development, snom
Michael (Mike) Storella is Director of US Business Development for snom, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones. In this role, Storella is responsible for expanding snom’s channel distribution program through a wide range of new and existing partners and resellers. His work includes exploring interoperability and OEM relationships with service providers and product companies that provide additional market opportunities for snom.

Storella brings more than 30 years of proven abilities in global technology and telecommunications businesses. Prior to joining snom, Storella worked with RNK Telecom as Director of Business Development where he was responsible for building the company’s channel program in a very short timeframe. Previously, Storella was the Vice President of Customer Services for Whaleback Systems Corp., a start-up IPPBX company. At Whaleback, he built an operational plan for installation services and a 24/7 TAC center.

James T. Walsh – Co-founder, TacticalTeam LLC (Hitachi-Cable)
Mr. Walsh is co-founder of Tactical Team LLC, an innovative company providing sales, technical support, and practical marketing services to technology-based companies.  Tactical Team specializes in moving companies from the technology development phase of business to full commercial operations by bringing leading-edge products to the decision makers of the best potential customers.  Some of TacticalTeam's current clients include Arcwave Networks, Arris Telewire, Avanex, CompOptics, EduTek, and Skystream Networks. 

Mr. Walsh has over 30 years of experience in traditional telephony, data, wireless, optical, and cable, including a broad background in, emerging organizations, start-up ventures, and Fortune 100 companies.  He has worked at Motorola, Northern Telecom, General Electric, California Microwave, NovAtel Cellular Networks, and General Telephone and Electronics (GTE).

Mr. Walsh's experience extends beyond sales and marketing to domestic and international distribution, product management, and customer service.  Mr. Walsh holds a BA from Upper Iowa University and an MBA from the University of South Florida.

Rich Tehrani - President & Founder, Internet Telephony & TMCnet