Keynote Speakers

Bryan R. Martin is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), provider of the Packet8 VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and videophone communications services. A seasoned 8x8 executive, Mr. Martin has served the company in a variety of corporate and engineering capacities including President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering Operations. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2001.

Mr. Martin holds 31 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications. In addition to his technical knowledge and expertise, Mr. Martin is well versed in industry and business affairs and has spoken before numerous trade, financial and regulatory organizations including the FCC, California Public Utilities Commission, California State Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee, IEEE, National Emergency Number Association, Association of Police Communication Officials, Technet, Needham & Company, Supercomm, VON, United States Telecom Association and NGN. He is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi and received a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Michael Tessler brings over 20 years of business strategy and technology experience to his role as co-founder, CEO and president of BroadSoft, focused on bringing advanced carrier-grade communications systems to service providers worldwide. At Alcatel USA, where he was Vice President of Engineering in the Celcore organization, Tessler was responsible for all product development activities for several product lines. As a member of the senior staff, Tessler participated in the business strategy, helped manage the business day-to-day activities, and led the business development activities in China. Prior to Alcatel, Tessler held numerous senior management roles at Nortel and founded and led a services development business unit that helped local exchange carriers build and deploy advanced services on their digital networks. Tessler has two patents in the area of local switching, AIN, and advanced call management services and was a recent winner in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award program. Tessler received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

As Skype's Chief Product Strategist, Rodrigo Madanes works with the senior management team to orchestrate the company's product vision and strategy for the upcoming 2-3 year period.

Previously, Rodrigo was General Manager, Product Design, where he was responsible for designing all of Skype's easy-to-use software products and the cool features that make it compelling. This ranges from the User Interface (UI) design of the well-known Skype for Windows, which has been downloaded more than 250 million times, to emerging products such as Wi-Fi phones and the 3 Skypephone.

Rodrigo joined Skype in June 2005. Prior to this, his career has included roles as CTO of Certant, researcher at Apple and software developer at Oracle.

He enjoys thinking about mental models, affordances, activity theory, metaphors, social cognition, ethnography, usability and user-centered design.

Rodrigo holds a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from UC Berkeley - where he was a Spencer Fellow - as well as a B.S. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).