Leading Experts in VOIP Experts (North America)

Afarin Bellisario is the Founder and President of Transtrategy, Inc., a company specializing in commercializing technology in telecom and semiconductor industries. Dr. Bellisario has over 24 years of professional experience in engineering and marketing, including holding executive positions at Intel,...

Howard Bergman is a Vice President at Derive Technologies, a value added reseller. Derive is a Hewlett Packard Gold Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Citrix Platinum Partner, Symantec Enterprise Partner, VMWare, RedHat “Linux Elite”, RSA Platinum Partner, Cisco, IBM, and Apple Enterprise Partner. He...

Ahmad Beyranvand is a Partner and Senior Telecom Consultant at Beyran Corporation, a company providing consulting services to the telecom sector. He has over 18 years of industry experience, and specializes in the design, development and management of wired and wireless network – 3G, PCS, cellular,...

Lee Brickman is an Adjunct Professor, Telecommunications Marketing at Centenary College in New Jersey. He has over 24 years of experience in the wireless and wireline sector. He is experienced in marketing and product strategy, smart phones, cell phones, wireless carriers, regional carriers, long distance...

Hugh Cathey is the Interim President of Interhack Title Management LC, an IT outsourcing company. He is experienced in directing transactions, piloting start-ups, corporate reorganizations, business development, and sourcing potential investors. Previously, he was the President- Broadband Division at...

Zhisheng Chen, Ph.D., is a member of technical staff at Sprint, a wireless carrier. He is responsible for support of the Sprint network evolution plan, and formulating network architecture and tech ecosystems framework to support Sprint tech development. He was responsible for development of the ecosystems...

Isaac Elliott is the Founder and the President of Practiq, a company providing consulting services to the telecom and technology sectors, where he has worked since September 2003. Mr. Elliott has over 18 years of experience in the telecom sector. He founded the International Softswitch Consortium. Previously,...

Mark Frye is the Vice President of Sales at Venture Technologies, a company providing systems integration services. He is experienced in managing partner relationships with Check Point, Nokia, Packeteer, Websense, Cisco, F5, Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Cisco, Aruba, VMware, Juniper, Nortel, Computer Associates,...

Michael Gazier is a Senior Director in the Office of the CTO at Ciena, a company specializing in data, voice, cell/4G, video transport, and networking equipment for telecom, MSO, government, and enterprises. He works on business development, network architecture, and M&A activities. He also contributes...

William Gewirtz, Ph.D., is the Lead Partner of Communications and Networking at the Market Strategy Group, a management consultancy. He is also the Principal of WLG Consulting, a company providing consulting services to operating and investment entities in the enterprise networking and the telecom sector.

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Sam Greenholtz is the Co-Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, Inc., a consulting and market research company specializing in the telecom market. He has expertise inc FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, ethernet and wireless technologies including WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and EV-DO. Prior to joining the consulting...

Nick Hamilton-Piercy is a recently retired Senior Technology Advisor at Rogers Communications Inc., a cellular wireless and cable provider/ MSO. He is responsible for advising the corporation on broadband and video related technology directions and programs. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer...

Joseph Holop is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Telscape Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier employing 600. He is responsible for engineering, network, switching, field operations, IT development and IT infrastructure. Mr. Holop is a member of the executive...

Michael Horsch Fizz is the Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. He specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Vendors include but are not limited to Avaya,...

Larry Karagheusian is the Principal at LGK Consulting. He has had deep technical and sales management positions in high technology over the past three decades and in video and audio conferencing industry since 1994. His most recent position was Executive Vice-President- Sales at GBH Communications...

Jon Kenton is the Founder and the Principal Consultant of JRDR Marketing. He has extensive experience in technology markets. Jon’s focus covers the breadth of both analytical and practical aspects of managing and marketing a business. Capabilities include; Advertising, PR, promotions, marketing/business...

Bill LaPerch is the President and Chief Executive Officer of AboveNet, Inc., a provider of fiber optical connectivity solutions for business and carriers. He has successfully guided AboveNet through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and has extensive experience with SOX compliance issues. He has initiated a major...

Jacob Larsen is the Vice President Merger Integration for the Carrier Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the consolidation of Alcatel’s and Lucent’s activities in broadband access, optical networking, carrier routing, wireless networking (CDMA, GSM, 3G UMTS, WiMax, and LTE) and NG networking....

Paul Massie is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Genesis Microchip, a fabless semiconductor firm with 1,200 employees. He is responsible for all IT functions at a growing US$ 300MM company based in multiple countries. Previously, Mr. Massie was the Director of IT Infrastructure at Openwave...

Dave Metcalf is the President and Chief Executive Officer of JCN Group, a systems integration firm providing solutions to commercial and federal government clients. He has more than 18 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries. His firm provides solutions from...