TalkingHeadz Podcast
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis podcast features the movers and shakers of enterprise communications. We also have great guests. In each episode Dave Michels and Evan Kirstel speak (similar to messaging, but verbal) with various guests about enterprise communications.
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Five Video Cameras Walked into a Bar...
April 10, 2023 22:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBTalkingHeadz is a series of interviews with the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Brad Hintze, EVP Marketing at Crestron. Brad beleives that the foundation for marketing success is contingent on the combined strength of one's ability to: a) build (and ship) fantastic products, b) clearly communicate why one's product is excellent, and c) create the right tools to win more customers. While that may sound interes...
David Petts On Mitel, ShoreTel, and Unify
February 13, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with David Petts, SVP Cloud to Cloud Business Group at Mitel. Our podcast was recorded just a few days after Mitel announced its acquisition of Atos Unify. We do discuss it, but there's more unknowns than knowns. David Petts is a seasoned sales and customer success executive with a proven track record of driving revenue growth...
Low Code Conversation with Michael Beckley of Appian
January 13, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Michael Beckley, Founder and CTO of Appian. Appian is the unified platform for change. It promises to accelerate businesses by discovering, designing, and automating important processes. The Appian Low-Code Automation Platform unifies key capabilities needed to accelerate workflow. As CTO, Michael drives the technical vis...
Low Code Conversation with Michael Bentley of Appian
January 13, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Michael Beckley, Founder and CTO of Appian. Appian is the unified platform for change. It promises to accelerate businesses by discovering, designing, and automating important processes. The Appian Low-Code Automation Platform unifies key capabilities needed to accelerate workflow. As CTO, Michael drives the technical vis...
How to Use Chrome to Give Contact Centers a Shine
January 06, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Raluca Monet of Google's Chrome Enterprise Recommended (CER) Team. Chrome is a very popular internet browser, but there's more to than many realize. Chrome Enterprise offers organizations a number of advanced features. Chrome Enterprise Recommended recognizes solutions that leverage Chromebooks, Chrome Desks, and ChromeOS. ...
CPaaS Alone Doesn't Organize Customer Data with Jeff Lawson
December 11, 2022 18:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBThe 2022 Season Finale of TalkingHeadz features Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-Founder of Twilio. Jeff is always clear, articulate, and friendly. I'm proud to say Twilio was born during my shift as a telecom analyst, and it's been exciting to watch it grow and transform. Jeff presented to analysts before the recent Twilio Signal Conference. He claimed that Twilio is always ahead of the industry. That's a bold (fighting words) statement, but he backed it up with a common sense observation. Twil...
Amazon's CPaaS: Sid Rao talks about the Chime SDK
November 26, 2022 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Sid Rao, the GM of Amazon Chime SDK. I fondly remember Biba, a WebRTC video/messaging startup . There was a lot of excitement over WebRTC about ten years ago. Biba was acquired by Amazon and relaunched as the Amazon Chime app in 2017. Chime was a lot like Webex and Zoom, but worked entirely in a browser. Both Vonage and ...
October Insider Report
November 09, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBMost TalkingHeadz episodes are interviews, but in this episode we Dave and Evan cover current events. TalkingPointz Insider Reports publish the first week of every month and cover the enterprise news that mattered the prior month. In this podcast, Dave and Evan discuss the most recent Insider Report covering the news of October 2022. The October 2022 Insider Report was published on Nov 2. Most Insider Reports are about 10 pages long, but designed for easy skimming. This podcasts only co...
TalkingHeadz with Einat, CMO of NICE Ltd
October 31, 2022 18:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we chat with the CMO of NICE Ltd, Einat Weiss. Einat has over 24 years of experience spearheading messaging, digital transformations, marketing strategies, and brand recognition. She joined team NICE in 2018, and has held the CMO position for over four years. The same four years that NICE has blossomed into a comprehensive provider ...
Alan Masarek on Righting Avaya
September 27, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with the new CEO at Avaya: Alan Masarek. Many people in the industry met Alan while he was the CEO of Vonage. Alan was one of the more accessible of the comms CEOs to customers and analysts. It's not clear if his experience at Vonage or his bicycle ride across the US was better preparation for his new job. Some migh...
Alan Masarek on Righting Avaya
September 27, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with the new CEO at Avaya: Alan Masarek. Many people in the industry met Alan while he was the CEO of Vonage. Alan was one of the more accessible of the comms CEOs to customers and analysts. It's not clear if his experience at Vonage or his bicycle ride across the US was better preparation for his new job. Some migh...
A Global Perspective on UCaaS and CCaaS from Ram Menghani of NEC
August 23, 2022 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan realize that NEC is one of the largest companies in enterprise communications, and when it comes to the NEC family of UNIVERGE products, there's a good chance Ram Menghani is involved. Ram has broad experience in all aspects of product and business development. He's been with NEC for over 21 years. We suspect he has wor...
Chatting and Branding with Jamie, the GoTo CMO
August 12, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the rebranding and differentiation of GoTo UCaaS with its CMO Jamie Domenici. In 2016, LogMeIn acquired the GoTo Family of Products from Citrix. Both are strong brands and there must of been some struggle about branding. That ended earlier this year with the relaunch of GoTo UCaaS -- spearheaded by Jamie. Jam...
Joe Manuele on TalkingHeadz UNCENSORED #NoFilter
July 27, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the contact center, video, UCaaS, and life as an entrepreneur with Joe Manuele, CEO and Founder of No Filter. Prior to No Filter, Joe served as SVP Corporate and Business Development at Dialpad, where he landed after Dialpad acquired Highfive. How Joe ended up running Highfive is covered in this podcast, but he starte...
Zooming into Agent Performance with Janelle Raney at Pathlight
July 19, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss how contact center can better see the path, or light the path with Janelle Raney, CMO of Pathlight. Prior to her arrival at Pathlight, Raney served as Head of Product and Industry Marketing at Zoom Video Communications where she built and led the product marketing, market intelligence, analyst relations, and vertical ...
Not Doug from Crexendo
June 25, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBDave and Evan discuss how Crexendo is providing new options for enterprises and service providers with Jon Brinton, CRO of Crexendo. Jon triumphantly stepped in after a last minute scheduling change. That was probably for the best. Evan and I have known Jon for a long time, and those conversations always go a little smoother. Turns out he knows a few things about Crexendo too. Not to mention he shed some light on Mitel and Intertel history too. Crexendo Inc., is a full-service cloud com...
Not Doug from Crexendo
June 25, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBDave and Evan discuss how Crexendo is providing new options for enterprises and service providers with Jon Brinton, CRO of Crexendo. Jon triumphantly stepped in after a last minute scheduling change. That was probably for the best. Evan and I have known Jon for a long time, and those conversations always go a little smoother. Turns out he knows a few things about Crexendo too. Not to mention he shed some light on Mitel and Intertel history too. Crexendo Inc., is a full-service cloud com...
Coaching Tips from Marc Bernstein at Balto
June 14, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBDave and Evan discuss how Balto can improve CX with automated coaching with Founder and CEO Marc Bernstein. Marc Bernstein is the Founder and CEO of Balto, which offers real-time automated guidance for contact center agents. Like most founders, Marc has made his share of mistakes. In particular, he noticed as a technology sales rep, that many of his mistakes were preventable - not to mention costly. Marc thought there should be a better way, that tech maybe tech can help. That’s when M...
Coaching Tips from Marc Bernstein at Balto
June 14, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBDave and Evan discuss how Balto can improve CX with automated coaching with Founder and CEO Marc Bernstein. Marc Bernstein is the Founder and CEO of Balto, which offers real-time automated guidance for contact center agents. Like most founders, Marc has made his share of mistakes. In particular, he noticed as a technology sales rep, that many of his mistakes were preventable - not to mention costly. Marc thought there should be a better way, that tech maybe tech can help. That’s when M...
David Sipes Answers the Call at 8x8
May 24, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBDave and Evan discuss life in the UCaaS driver's seat with Dave Sipes, the CEO of 8x8. We cover XCaaS, the economy, Teams, stadiums, and much more. Many of us met Dave during his 12 year stint at RingCentral, ending with the role of Chief Operating Officer. It was an extraordinary period for RingCentral. Dave led innovation, engineering, global sales, marketing, customer care, international operations, corporate development, and business development. Dave left RingCentral in June of 2020...
Talking DRaaS with Dawn-Marie Elder of SIPPIO
May 14, 2022 23:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss how carrier services can improve services such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom with Dawn-Marie Elder, GM and COO of SIPPIO. SIPPIO offers a single platform and automation for DRaaS (Direct Routing as a Service), Operator Connect, and Zoom Cloud Peering, These are all cloud-native services on Azure. In this podcast we lea...
Gideon Wants to Give Employees a Workvivo Voice
April 26, 2022 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss employee engagement with Gideon Pridor, CMO and Chief Storyteller of Workvivo. Gideon drives marketing strategy and execution for technology start-ups with a penchant for international business development. Before Workvivo (and a well-deserved sabbatical) Gideon was VP Marketing at TravelPerk, One of the world’s fast...
The Brand Behind the UCaaS Brand, Brian Beutler CEO of Alianza
April 14, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the lack of creativity of sports in El Salvador with Brian Beutler, CEO and Co-Founder of Alianza. Brian claims to enjoy creating innovative solutions to big problems, so opted to start Alianza in 2009. In 2020, Alianza acquired Counterpath and Message Hopper, giving it a fairly broad portfolio to offer its service p...
We Volley a Barrage of Questions at Josh Little
March 29, 2022 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.5 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan toss questions back and forth with Josh Little of VolleyApp. Josh is a serial entrepreneur. "I am a maker who is prolific at creating original works that I am proud of and are worthy of remark." He has started and exited several companies, and he loves to make things happen. Asynchronous communications are all the rage. SMS...
We Grilled Gregg Johnson of Invoca
March 15, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan grill Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca, about AI. As a seasoned digital marketing and SaaS leader with over fifteen years of extensive experience bringing products to market in emerging categories, Gregg's led large teams and worked with the world's best enterprise brands. Most recently, Gregg led Salesforce Marketing Cloud's social mar...
Enterprise-wide Social with Ujjwal at Workplace From Meta
February 23, 2022 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan hangout with Ujjwal Singh, Head of Workplace from Meta. Ujjwal Singh is a product and engineering leader with a focus in enterprise and SaaS technologies. He is the Head of Workplace, Meta’s business communication platform. Ujjwal is responsible for Workplace’s tech, engineering, design and research teams, as well as partnering wi...
Conversational Intelligence and Dan Miller
February 15, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too! In this episode Dave and Evan discuss trends and possibilities of conversational AI platforms with Dan Miller of Opus research. Dan Miller founded Opus Research in 1986 and helped define Conversational Commerce.Dan held management positions at Atari, Warner Communications and Pacific Telesis Group (now part of AT&T). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of The...
Michael Gold Thinks Your Brand Should be on the UCaaS Menu
January 25, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBTalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast that features the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the importance of brand with Michael Gold, the CEO of Intermedia. Michael Gold joined Intermedia in 2011 which may have something to do with its revenues increasing five fold since. The provider also transitioned from an email and web hosting services to a channel-first UCC provider (voice, video, chat, contact cente...
Video gets personal with Michael Litt of Vidyard
January 12, 2022 01:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBTalkingHeadz is an ongoing interview podcast that features the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too. In this audio-only episode Dave and Evan discuss the importance of video with Michael Litt. Michael Litt is CEO and co-founder of Vidyard, a global video creation, hosting and analytics platform for businesses.
Cullen Improves the TalkingHeadz Standard
December 14, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this TalkingHeadz podcast Dave and Evan Go deep, well beyond the app layer, with Cullen Jennings of Cisco. This is the final episode of 2021. Cullen Jennings is the CTO for Security and Collaboration Business at Cisco. How do you become the technology leader at a technology leader? Practice! Cullen is Cisco Fellow (1 out of 19) with over 30 years of experience across startups, large organizations, and Internet standards. He has a thing for disruptive, real-time technologies. Cullen ho...
Alex(a) What is Advanced Communications?
November 18, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this TalkingHeadz podcast Dave and Evan have One Talk with Alex Doyle of Verizon. Alex is the Executive Director, Advanced Communications Products at Verizon. If you thought 5G was advanced, you are missing out on all the great solutions Big V has for collaboration, call centers, and UCaaS -- including its own mobile-first One Talk. The products and solutions delivered by Alex and his team support Verizon’s small to global business customers and governments. Prior to Verizon, Alex wa...
Intelligent Conversation with Philipp Heltewig of Cognigy
November 09, 2021 23:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBDave and Evan meet with Philipp Heltewig, Co-Founder and CEO of Cognigy. Philipp is a German-Australian entrepreneur with profound technology experience working for companies in Europe, APAC and North America. He had the foresight to start up a conversational AI technology company in 2016. Long before anyone was talking about conversational AI. Since its founding in 2016, Heltewig has been the CEO of Cognigy. The company focuses on the automation of customer and employee services through...
Say BRB with Feeling with Yac
October 28, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBDave and Evan meet with Justin Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Yac. Sometimes voicemail can convey a message better than text, but voicemail isn't really a conversational tool. The answer is conversational voicemail. Yac provides conversational voicemail, and if you don't know what this, listen to this podcast. The reason enterprise chat has become so popular (and why email remains so popular) is because people really like async communications. Orlando based Yac brings back to async comms...
A Storm in the Redwoods with Martin Taylor of Content Guru
October 11, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBDave and Evan meet with Martin Taylor, a Co-Founder of Content Guru. Content Guru is a leader in cloud-delivered customer engagement. Its Storm CCaaS solution is well known in Europe and expanding in North America. That's one of the topics we cover in this podcast. We also get Martin to explain the brands in his life: Redwood Technologies, Content Guru, and Storm. Martin Taylor has been tinkering with technology since he was a child. “I was writing computer games when I was 10,” he says....
Mike Tessler on Building A UCaaS Empire Before UCaaS Existed
October 01, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBDave and Evan meet with Michael Tessler, Managing Partner of True North Advisory, but better known as Co-Founder and CEO of BroadSoft. Mike has a mystical fun yet wise vibe going for him. BroadSoft is a pretty impressive name to have on your resume, and a lot of people have it. MIke actually created and built it. I consider BroadSoft to be the most influential company regarding VoIP and cloud communications. When Mike and Scott started, VoIP really didn't even work. There was no UCaaS or...
Is that a Blockchain in your Pocket? Hugo Feiler on TalkingHeadz
September 10, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBDave and Evan meet with Hugo Feiler the CEO and co-founder of Minima. A base layer protocol that brings blockchains to smartphones. Minima is the world’s first truly decentralized blockchain protocol that runs in full on mobile phones. Minima has created an ultra-lean blockchain protocol that fits on a mobile or IoT device, allowing every user to run a full constructing and validating node. It creates the possibility of operating a network that is decentralized, scalable, and inclusive, wh...
To boldly go where no #voip #video #collaboration company has gone before: Mo of Subspace on TalkingHeadz BONUS
August 30, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBIt's not all fun and games when the net is down. Dave and Evan meet with Mo Nezarati, President of Voice at Subspace. A funny thing happened to the folks at Subspace when they set out to improve gaming, they discovered how to upgrade the entire internet. Subspace harnesses the power of games to improve real-time apps. Latency and other network issues deprive us all from the online experience we deserve and expect. The obvious solution is to build a high performance, global platform tha...
TalkingHeadz with Ray Pasquale CEO Unified Office
August 26, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBDave and Evan meet with Ray Pasquale, CEO and Founder of Unified Office. Unified Office is a next-generation IT managed services provider focused on the Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) market. Unified Office was built from the ground up focused on delivering business class communications services on the latest mobile devices. We take the latest in communications technologies and make them readily accessible by integrating them into an easy-to-use, scalable, virtualized service that ...
TalkingHeadz with Brett Shockley of Journey.AI
August 20, 2021 21:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBDave and Evan meet with Brett Shockley, CEO and Co-Founder of Journey.ai. Brett's journey, prior to Journey, included being the CTO role at Avaya. He was responsible for Avaya's mergers, acquisitions, major partnerships, corporate strategy, and emerging products including Avaya Labs. Before Avaya, Brett was the VP & GM Customer Contact Business Unit at Cisco. He has extensive experience with the contact center industry, and is a tireless customer advocate. Brett also founded Spanlink Co...
TalkingHeadz with Darren Schreiber of 2600Hz
July 27, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBDave and Evan meet with Darren Schreiber, the co-Founder and CEO of 2600Hz. With nearly two decades of telecom experience under his belt, Darren’s core focus is on distributed computing and communications technologies. His contributions to the open source telecom community are immense, including co-authoring the FreeSWITCH books and mentoring at universities and workshops. He previously ran a large managed services operation, and he worked at one Bandwidth.com. You may or may not be fam...
TalkingHeadz Bonus Episode with Davide and Laura of Avaya OneCloud CPaaS
July 20, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBDave and Evan host their first TalkingHeadz foursome. In this episode we meet with Davide Petramala and Laura Faughtenberry of Avaya OneCloud CPaaS. Avaya is best known for its powerful enterprise contact centers which can now do even more with OneCloud CPaaS. In this podcast we find out more about how/when Avaya got into the CPaaS business, and how customers are using it to customize even faster and better services. Avaya OneCloud CPaaS is an Avaya public cloud service that offers APIs a...
TalkingHeadz with Aurangzeb Khan from Jabra
July 10, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBDave and Evan meet with Aurangzeb Khan, SVP GN Jabra. Aurangzeb was co-founder & CEO of Altia Systems which Jabra (GN Netcom) acquired in 2019. Currently, Aurangzeb is the SVP of Intelligent Vision Systems at Jabra, best known for its Panacast products. The PanaCast products use multiple cameras, or a cam-array to create real-time, immersive video. Earlier, Aurangzeb was President & CEO at Everspin Technologies. He was co-founder, President & CEO at Altius Solutions and, immediately foll...
TalkingHeadz with Kira Makagon of RingCentral
June 24, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBDave and Evan meet with Kira Makagon, Chief Innovation Officer, RingCentral. Kira is a serial entrepreneur that landed at RingCentral in 2012. In her current role as Chief Innovation Officer she leads product strategy, product management and design, engineering and R&D. She has had a tremendous impact on RingCentral. Before RingCentral she co-founded several technology companies, including Octane (acquired by E.piphany NASDAQ: EPNY) for $3.2 billion, and RedAril (acquired by Hearst). Lea...
TalkingHeadz Bonus with Evan Macmillan at Gridspace
June 12, 2021 19:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBDave and Evan meet with Evan MacMillan, CEO and Co-Founder of Gridspace. We had to pull Evan out of the garage to record this podcast. Gridspace is a collaboration between SRI Speech Labs and some fellow Stanford engineers. It is pioneering real-time speech infrastructure for contact centers and developers. Gridspace was formed in 2012 as a collaboration between SRI Speech Lab, the lab behind Siri and Nuance, and a team of Stanford designers and engineers. Today, the company's software sc...
TalkingHeadz with Salesforce VP and Author Karen Mangia
May 25, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBEvan and Dave chat with Karen Mangia, VP Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce. Karen Mangia focuses on strategies for personal and professional success, and she regularly works with executives, managers and future leaders at companies of all sizes globally. She published two books in 2020: Listen Up! How to Tune In To Customers, And Turn Down the Noise and Working From Home: Making the New Normal Work For You - both from Wiley. We cover a lot of topics, especially work from ho...
TalkingHeadz with John Saw, EVP at T-Mobile
May 11, 2021 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBEvan and Dave chat with John Saw, the CTO of T-Mobile. John Saw is the EVP of Advanced and Emerging Technologies at T-Mobile, and is responsible for constantly evaluating ways to disrupt wireless communications. John was previously the CTO at Sprint and came to T-Mobile as a result of the companies merging. John was also the CTO at Clearwire before the company was acquired by Sprint in 2013. John earned a Doctorate, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from McMaster ...
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Bill Wignall, CEO of Sangoma
April 27, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBEvan and Dave chat with Bill Wignall, the CEO of Sangoma Communications. You may not be that familiar with Bill or Sangoma, but both are industry giants that have outperformed their peers and the broader industry. Bill has guided Sangoma through tremendous growth and transformation, largely through acquisitions. Sangoma is known for its plug-and-play, enterprise grade solutions. The company is the primary producer of Asterisk and FreePBX, the two largest open source communications proj...
TalkingHeadz with OJ and Simen of Neat
April 06, 2021 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBEvan and Dave chat with OJ Winge and Simen Teigre, the founders of Neat. Neat came out of stealth at Zoomtopia 2019. The company is new, but on day one had extensive expertise in both video and video hardware. OJ and Simen were part of Tandberg which is arguably the most innovative source of video technologies (both before and after its 2010 acquisition by Cisco). Both OJ and Simen went to Cisco, both left and became involved in two separate video startups: OJ with Acano and Simen with P...
TalkingHeadz with Karl Hantho, President Americas, Pexip
March 21, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBEvan and Dave chat with Karl Hantho of Pexip. Pexip is the result of a 2019 merger between Pexip and Videxio -- both started by a group of visionary industry veterans, both offshoots of Tandberg. They set out to break down the barriers which were making enterprise video conferencing expensive, and difficult to use, manage and scale. Pexip provides interoperability with Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and other video services, and also offers a complete end-to-end meeting and calling solution...
Talkingheadz with Chris MacFarland, CEO of Masergy
March 12, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBEvan and Dave chat with Chris MacFarland, Chairman and CEO of Masergy. Masergy Communications is a software defined networking services company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Plano TX. Its offerings include advanced networking services such as Managed SD-WAN, UCaaS, CCaaS, and Managed Security. Chris MacFarland joined Masergy as COO in 2008 and was promoted to CEO and Executive Chairman. Prior to Masergy, he has served in various senior executive positions at BroadSoft, McLeodUS...