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VIPeering Conference: February 2, 2011

Collocated with ITEXPO: Exhibits & Conference: February 2-4, 2011

Steve Collins
Acme Packet
VP of Marketing

Traversing Borders

Stephen Collins has three decades experience successfully bringing to market innovative, technology-driven products, including extensive experience in early stage company environments, delivering leading edge products into rapidly growing, emerging markets.He began his career in 1981 as a member of technical staff at pre-divestiture AT&T Bell Labs, then worked with early Internet routers at BBN Communications and in 1986 was a founding engineer at Wellfleet Communications, where he served in technical and business positions of increasing responsibility for almost ten years.In 1998 Stephen co-founded Spring Tide Networks, where he served as vice president of marketing and business development until the companys acquisition by Lucent Technologies. He has held executive marketing and business development roles with other communications infrastructure companies including StarBurst Communications, Sonus Networks, ThinkEngine Networks and Tatara Systems. Stephen has also served as an advisor and consultant to a number of early stage companies and their investors. Stephen holds an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He serves on the advisory board for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, and is a director of the UMass Foundation

Anatoli Levine
Avaya
Director, Product Management, Americas

New Market Peering Opportunities: HD Voice and Video?

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.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.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.

Ashish Jain
GENBAND
Director, Product Marketing

Traversing Borders

Ashish is a Director, Product Marketing at GENBAND for the SBC (Session Border Controller) product line. With over 9 years of experience in the IP telecom industry and a balanced blend of technical, management, and marketing skills, Ashish has played multi-faceted roles in the areas of product management, product marketing, project management, and software development.

Prior to GENBAND, Ashish was responsible for marketing and product management of SBC for NexTone Communications (aka NextPoint Networks). He also took leadership roles in various sales and marketing positions at EAI Technologies, where he drove growth strategies for a multi-million dollar company operating in the domain of social media applications.

Ashish had been at the forefront of many strategic marketing programs during his nine year tenure with NexTone Communications, NextPoint Networks, GENBAND, and EAI Technologies. His diverse experience in technology spans the areas of Voice over IP, IP-IP Interconnects, hosted and managed IP services, Internet/ e-commerce, and enterprise social media applications.

Ashish has a Masters in Computer Science, with specialization in networks and communication, from University of Texas; and a certificate in management and entrepreneurship from Boston University.

John Butz
Neutral Tandem
Senior Director New Product Development

New Market Peering Opportunities: HD Voice and Video?

John Butz has 20 years of leadership experience defining, building and delivering cutting-edge communications products. At Neutral Tandem, he leads the hosted-application business where he is creating innovative wholesale telecommunications applications that can enable carriers to rapidly launch new revenue producing end-user services without large capital outlay. Prior to Neutral Tandem, Butz pioneered the unification of Comcast’s voice and data products, known as the Digital Voice Center. He also was the product champion for digital identity, authentication and third party federation. Earlier in his career, Butz was a vice president and member of the founding team of Vonage. He began his career as a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs.

Glen Gerhard
Sansay
VP Product Management

Traversing Borders

Glen has a background in both carrier and vendor corporations and brings issues into the focus and context. As a speaker at many conferences and author of technical whitepapers his experience provides an objective view of the challenges facing VoIP carriers. He worked for Network Equipment Technologies as a System Engineer and later Product Manager. Glen later moved to San Diego to join Nuera Communications and was a Product Manager and later VP Business Development, overseeing the introduction of their first SIP gateways and SS7 softswitches. He is now the VP of Product Management at Sansay and instrumental in their corporate strategies. He graduated in 1982 from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Richard Shockey
SIP Forum
Chairman

Number Portability; It’s Global

Richard Shockey is an internationally recognized expert on Data Communications, Voice over IP [VoIP] Technology, VoIP Interconnection, Signaling and the principal of Shockey Consulting a private firm advising telecommunications companies and the investment community on any number of issues related to Next Generation Networks.

Mr. Shockey is also Chairman of the Board of Directors and Technical Working Group Chair of the SIP Forum, an industry organization with members from over 40 leading IP communications companies with a mission to advance the adoption of products and services based on SIP [RFC 3761]. SIP is THE means by which global carriers are deploying real-time communications over IP networks. Mr. Shockey is also chairing the SIP Forum SIP Connect task group that has produced a new comprehensive specification of how SIP based IP-PBX’s can interconnect with Service Providers. http://www.sipforum.org/.

Mr. Shockey has spoken countless times at industry events on SIP, ENUM and Next Generation Networks and led the architecture and design of several commercial products based on ENUM. ENUM [ RFC3761 ] has been frequently mentioned in the media as a key enabler in the convergence of the PSTN and VoIP and the principal technology service provider’s are considering for VoIP Network to Network Interconnection, VoIP peering and SS7 avoidance.

Mr. Shockey is a founder and is still Co Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force ENUM Work Group and is an author of several IETF RFC’s Active in IETF affairs since 1998 he also participated in numerous other IETF WG including FAX, SIP, SIPPING, SPEERMINT, SIMPLE and its management nominating committee NOMCOM. He has also been the co-chair of the IETF working group DRINKS on the provisioning of data for VoIP Peering Federations. Among his current interests are White Space Databases.

Payam Maveddat
Taqua
EVP, Product Management

New Market Peering Opportunities: HD Voice and Video?

Payam Maveddat is responsible for Taqua’s product line management organization and all of Taqua’s convergence switching and RF backhaul products. Payam has considerable expertise in wireless, IMS standards and architectures. He is a technologist, pioneer, and veteran of mobile communications industry, with expertise in product management, strategic planning, technology development, network planning, and systems engineering. Previously, Payam held executive positions in product management, systems engineering and marketing at Mavenir, Tekelec, Nortel, and AT&T Bell Labs. He specializes in mobile Internet, FMC and IMS, Voice & Messaging over LTE/4G, and soft-switching. Payam has been granted eight (8) US patents in mobile networking. He has BSEE from University of Iowa, MSEE from Georgia Tech, and MBA from University of Texas.

Sridhar Ramachandran
Telcordia
Chief Technologist

Number Portability; It’s Global


Josh Snowhorn
Terremark Worldwide, a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon
Vice President

Brokers and Peers


Jim Dalton
TransNexus, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer

Brokers and Peers RoundTable


Hugh Goldstein
Voxbone
VP, Business Development

Brokers and Peers RoundTable

Hugh Goldstein serves as VP, Business Development for North America at Voxbone, the leading wholesale provider of International telephone numbers with a VoIP network and service area covering 50 countries and 4000 area codes. Prior to his current role, Mr. Goldstein lead Voxbones iNum Initiative to create a global numbering system for IP Communications and worked as an independent consultant. Mr. Goldstein has extensive professional experience in the VoIP and Telecommunications industry, including roles with XConnect, Arbinet, VocalTec, Surf&Call Solutions, and Belgacom North America.

Hugh Goldstein
Voxbone
VP, Business Development

Number Portability; It’s Global

Hugh Goldstein serves as VP, Business Development for North America at Voxbone, the leading wholesale provider of International telephone numbers with a VoIP network and service area covering 50 countries and 4000 area codes. Prior to his current role, Mr. Goldstein lead Voxbones iNum Initiative to create a global numbering system for IP Communications and worked as an independent consultant. Mr. Goldstein has extensive professional experience in the VoIP and Telecommunications industry, including roles with XConnect, Arbinet, VocalTec, Surf&Call Solutions, and Belgacom North America.

Andy Cooper
Xconnect
Head of Technical Solutions

Brokers and Peers RoundTable

Andy Cooper has more than 25 years experience in the engineering and operation of telephony networks and services.

For three years, he has been Head of Technical Solutions for XConnect – a role that sits between XConnect’s sales and technical teams. Cooper has been instrumental in defining, delivering, presenting and selling XConnect’s range of next-generation interconnect and registry services.

Before joining XConnect, he held engineering, operational and sales positions with a number of telecommunications companies, including Cable &Wireless, Level 3 and Interoute.

Andy Cooper
Xconnect
Head of Technical Solutions

New Market Peering Opportunities: HD Voice and Video?

Andy Cooper has more than 25 years experience in the engineering and operation of telephony networks and services.

For three years, he has been Head of Technical Solutions for XConnect – a role that sits between XConnect’s sales and technical teams. Cooper has been instrumental in defining, delivering, presenting and selling XConnect’s range of next-generation interconnect and registry services.

Before joining XConnect, he held engineering, operational and sales positions with a number of telecommunications companies, including Cable &Wireless, Level 3 and Interoute.

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