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Below are the IP Sizzles 2008 speakers.
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Sally Baskey - Professional Speaker, Sally has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and taught at the Actors Workshop in Dallas before starting a 25-year career with a major oil company where she made an impact on marketing, customer service, human resources, telecommunications, public relations, and employee communications. With a strength in managing technical areas as a non-technical person, Sally keeps it simple! Her presentations entertain, educate, and influence audiences by showing how humor can help diffuse difficult situations within an organization as well as in life. |
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Mark Child - Director of Product Marketing, ClearOne Mark G. Child is the Director of Product Marketing — Telephony, at ClearOne in Salt Lake City, UT, and is responsible for marketing all of their Tabletop and Personal conferencing products. Mark comes to ClearOne with over 20 years of experience managing and developing marketing programs for companies of various sizes and industries. He has served in various management roles for firms in Utah, his home state, as well as in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. Prior to joining ClearOne, Mark was the Marketing Director for a VoIP startup in Silicon Valley where he successfully launched scores of new telephony products into markets worldwide. Mark obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah and did his graduate work in New York City. |
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David Byrd - Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Broadvox Mr. Byrd is responsible for the Broadvox marketing and channel sales programs to SMBs, enterprises and carriers as well as defining the product offering. Prior to joining Broadvox, David was the Vice President of Channels and Alliances for Eftia and Telcordia. As Director of eBusiness Development with i2 Technologies, he developed major partnerships with many of the leaders in Internet eCommerce and supply chain management. As CEO of Planet Hollywood Online he was a pioneer in using early internet technologies to build a branded entertainment and eCommerce website company partnered with Planet Hollywood. Having over twenty years of Telecom sales and marketing experience, he has held executive positions with Hewlett-Packard, Sprint and Ericsson. |
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John Drolet - Vice President of Sales, U.S., Aastra Telecom Aastra is a multi national corporation selling products within the communications industry. Aastra is a public company traded in Canada (AAH:TO). Mr. Drolet has over 24 years experience in the Telecommunications industry. As Aastra's VP of Sales in the U.S. he is leading the sales effort for Aastra’s Telecom division which is focusing on distributing Aastra’s Legacy Centrex and Analog Products as well as a full compliment of SIP based IP Telephones to Service Providers and Value Added Resellers of all kinds.Mr. Drolet worked 10 years running sales for USTeleCenters a $23 million dollar regional VAR and one of Verizon’s largest sales agents. He has spent the last 14 years leading several IP Telephony companies; helping to build channel and marketing strategies world wide. These companies include; NBX Corporation purchased by 3com, Citel Technologies and Ascendent Systems purchased by RIM. |
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Alex Epshteyn - Founder & CTO, Thirdlane Alex Epshteyn is the Chief Technology Officer and founder of Third Lane Technologies, LLC, a California company offering management and end user software tools for open source telephony based solutions to SMB/SME and ITSP customers. Alex is the author of the family of Thirdlane PBX Manager products – web based GUIs for managing Asterisk based on-premises and virtual hosted PBXs. With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, Alex has been instrumental in leveraging open source software to deliver effective business solutions. Prior to "getting VoIP" and founding Third Lane, Alex served as Chief Technical Architect at Razorfish, Vice President of Engineering at Lifespire and Director of Engineering at TransactPlus. |
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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. |
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Dave Kurlan - Founder & CEO, Objective Management Group, Inc. & CEO of David Kurlan & Associates Dave Kurlan is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. He possesses 30 plus years of experience in all facets of sales training, sales management and consulting. A regularly featured Conference attraction, Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing theCompany, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. Internationally known for his ground breaking work in evaluating sales people, he is the developer of The Dave Kurlan Sales Force Profile, a tool for evaluating sales forces, and the co-developer of several software and web application that help sales managers coach and hold their salespeople accountable. He has been featured on radio, television and in print, including a segment on World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, and features in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog. He is featured on Inc. Magazine's video How to Increase Sales and Profits by 1000% and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2. |
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Suranjan Ray - Director of Marketing & Business Development, ISSCCTV Suranjan Ray, Director of Marketing and Business Development at ISS, has worked within the security and IT industry for 12 years, in business development, project management, security systems engineering and public & government outreach. Suranjan works closely with consultants, engineers, and systems integrators to define the needs of ISS systems and strategies to deploy and manage integrated systems centered on the ISS framework. He is a graduate of Rutgers College, Rutgers University. |
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Wolfgang Ritter – Director of Sales North/South Americas, Mobotix Wolfgang Ritter is the Director of Sales North/South Americas of Mobotix Corp. New York. He is one of the most recommended specialists for IP Video Solutions and is well known in the Security Industry in Europe and the USA. |
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Steven Rogers - Director of Technical Marketing, Overland Storage (formerly Adaptec) A veteran of more than 25 years in the IT industry, Steve Rogers has held key technical marketing, product marketing, engineering and service positions with such leading companies as Sun Microsystems, Quantum, and Snap Appliance and Adaptec, now Overland. Steve helped pioneer the Network-Attached Storage industry by delivering award-winning hardware & software solutions; he was also a key contributor in developing RAS strategies for servers and network storage, and helped define and introduce many of Sun's Server, Fibre Channel, and SCSI storage solutions into the market place.Steve has a personal interest in video surveillance and has been following this surveillance market for the past two years. |
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Scott A. Sereboff - CEO, Veracity USA, Inc. A graduate of the University of Texas, Mr. Sereboff began his career in the security/surveillance world in access control, working with clients as diverse as Hershey Schools as well as integrators around the Eastern and Central US. Prior to this,10 years of experience running small telecommunications companies prepared Scott for the launch of Veracity USA (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Veracity Group) in 2006. |
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Gregg Shapiro - Associate Publisher, Security Systems News Gregg Shapiro is the Associate Publisher of Security Systems News, Security Director News and Security Systems News Europe. In his current role, Gregg has witnessed a hardware driven industry's move to a software, Web-based realm. As a result, he and the SSN team, have aided companies' in developing strategies to accommodate and leverage these changes. Prior to his current position, Gregg served, for four years, as account manager for the Western territories with Security Systems News, on the heels of a 15 year career in the advertising and marketing industry. |
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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. |
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Rich Tehrani - President & Founder, Internet Telephony & TMCnet RichTehrani is an IP Communications industry expert, visionary, author and columnist. He founded the first magazine focused on VoIP in 1998 and, as President of TMC, is the owner of the registered trademark for the term Internet Telephony. In 1999, Tehrani launched Internet Telephony Conference & Expo and has watched it grow into the best attended VoIP show in the world. Tehrani is also the founder of TMCnet, the most popular communications/technology portal in the world. More recently he launched TMC's newest title, IMS Magazine. Rich will be giving the first Keynote of the IP Sizzles on Tuesday morning. |
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Steve Weltner - Director of Product Development, Excel Telecommunications At Excel Telecommunications he has developed the company’s VoIP commercial strategy for delivering VoIP and Data services for small and medium business customers. Steve has broad experience in building shareholder value through the implementation of marketing, sales and distribution strategies in early stage technology companies. Steve devised and implemented the service provider go-to-market strategy at NET.com a manufacturer of voice and data network infrastructure products. He spearheaded NET.com’s service provider initiative by successfully defining the company’s value proposition for a carrier segment and managing the partnerships that drove $20 million in first year revenues. At Nortel Networks he was involved in emerging markets and successfully directed the company’s first international voice over packet network (VoIP). |
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