As the principal at KelCor and as a partner at Wainhouse Research,  Dr. Brent Kelly has been the primary author of all of Wainhouse Research's unified communications reports and forecasts, and he has almost singlehandedly built Wainhouse Research into one of the premier unified communications analyst firms in the world. He has researched and written about hundreds of vendors; created numerous research notes; published articles for BCR Magazine, NoJItter.com, and the Wainhouse Research Bulletin; produced UC market forecasts, and compiled research reports on every aspect of unified communications, focusing most recently on the emerging cloud-based unified communications solutions market.

Dr. Kelly is a regular presenter at Enterprise Connect (formerly VoiceCon), the communications industry trade show where his well respected half-day tutorials have covered topics such as hosted and managed unified communications services, Microsoft Office Communications Server technical deep dives, and IBM Lotus Sametime architectural reviews. He has also taught seminars in North America, Europe, Australia, and South America.

Walter Kenrich has nearly 20 years of domestic and international product management and marketing experience with session border controllers, IP telephony solutions and contact center applications. At Sonus, Kenrich oversees the product management and roadmap for Sonus’ session border controller portfolio. Before joining Sonus, Kenrich was employed by Empirix, where he was responsible for the strategic product direction of all enterprise-based monitoring and end-to-end applications. Prior to Empirix, Kenrich was vice president of product management and marketing at KnoahSoft where he led the company’s Quality Assurance and Workforce Optimization (WFO) application development that served contact centers. In addition, Kenrich was vice president of product marketing at Vertical Communications, focusing on the strategic direction of the company’s IP-PBX product lines and contact center applications for small and medium sized businesses. Kenrich has also held senior product management and marketing roles at Cisco Systems, Webline, GTE Internetworking and EDS. Kenrich holds a masters' degree in international business from George Mason University and a bachelor's degree from Tulane University in political science.

Rachel Ramsey is a TMCnet Web Editor, contributing news items and feature articles on a variety of communications and technology topics. Rachel has previously worked in PR and communications at The Wriglesworth Consultancy, an award-winning London PR firm. She has also contributed to the creative services department at CBS 3 and The CW Philly in Philadelphia.

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