Rich Tehrani President and Group Editor-in-Chief About Rich Tehrani: Rich Tehrani is a VoIP industry expert, visionary, author and columnist. He founded the leading magazine focused on IP telephony in 1998 and, in his role as president of TMC, is the owner of the registered trademark for the term Internet Telephony. Rich is also the founder and chairman of INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO, THE leading conference focused on VoIP since its launch in 1999. Rich Has Been The VoIP Industry’s Voice Since 1998 As the founder and group editor-in-chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, Rich’s columns have appeared in each and every issue since the first issue was published in 1998. In 2006, Rich also launched two new publications, IMS Magazine and SIP Magazine. As founder and chairman of INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO, Rich has keynoted each of the ten conferences held since the first show in October, 1999. Rich has also given speeches at numerous other VoIP events. The Founder of TMCnet reaching 1 Million Unique Visitors Monthly Rich Tehrani founded TMCnet.com, the leading communications and technology Web site in the world as ranked by Alexa.com, an amazon.com company that ranks web traffic. TMCnet has as many as one million unique visitors monthly and ranks among the top one percent of all Web sites in the world. In addition, Rich is the author of a widely read and popular blog covering primarily VoIP as well as other communications technologies, http://voip-blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/. Expert and Analyst in Major Media Rich has been interviewed and quoted by many major media including The Economist, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, WABC Radio New York, Business Week, USA Today and The LA Times. Author of IP Telephony Dictionary Rich is the author of “Tehrani’s IP Telephony Dictionary”, a 300+ page guide to over 10,000 VoIP terms, acronyms, products and services. First published in 2002, Tehrani's IP Telephony Dictionary is now in its second edition. Steve Loudermilk of Lucent Technologies on Rich “Rich Tehrani is one of the most knowledgeable experts in the IP telephony industry. Rich's technical acumen, knowledge of the industry and vision about the future of IP telephony is unparalleled in the media. He also possesses the ability to insightfully look at up-and-coming trends in the market and provide expert commentary and analysis.” |
