Team

Shai Berger

Before co-founding Fonolo, Shai was at Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), where he led the team responsible for Streaming Perspective, the industry standard for streaming performance measurement.

Shai led the Streamcheck team as co-founder and president. By selling hosted services to companies like Microsoft, AOL, Akamai, Viacom and BBC, he got the company to profitability while defying the high-tech slump of 2001. Along the way, Streamcheck established the industry standard for measuring of streaming media, used to this day by Microsoft to certify its hosting partners.

Shai has been involved in start-ups since the late 90's and presents frequently at industry events. In 2000, he was named one of the "Most Influential People in Streaming" by Streaming Media magazine. His writing appears in several books including the "Streaming Media Bible".

Shai has a degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University and a Master's degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto.

• Blog: www.shaiberger.com
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Jason Bigue

Jason was co-founder and Vice President of Operations at Streamcheck where he led the effort to build a global network for real-time measurement of streaming media (the first of its kind).

After Streamcheck was acquired by Keynote Systems, Jason coordinated the technical integration with Keynote's network of 2400 measurement computers in 160 cities. He took over management of the streaming group in 2005 and oversaw 30% revenue growth over the subsequent year.

Jason was a founding member and consultant for the ISIS Technology Research Center (part of the Canadian "Centres of Excellence"), where he oversaw the commercialization of several research projects in the field of fiber optics. Subsequently, he worked on some of the earliest optical networking devices at ElectroPhotonics (acquired by JDS Uniphase).

Jason has a degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University and a Master's degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto.

Mike Pultz

Prior to joining Fonolo, Mike spent several years as Director of Network Operations at Uniserve Communications Corp (TSX: USS), one of Canada's largest ISPs with over 120,000 subscribers. He led the design and management of their consumer ADSL, Dial-up, Web Hosting, Co-Location, and VoIP products. His vast experience and knowledge in web technologies, telephony, network and database design, drove the company forward through dozens of acquisitions and new product launches, resulting in a near doubling of their consumer base.

Mike was a technology advisor for the Uganda FreeMAN project, which, in co-operation with the Uganda Investment Authority, aimed to provide free public wifi access to major centers in Uganda.

Mike holds certifications from Cisco (CCNP), Oracle (OCP) and Microsoft (MCSE). He is a contributing member of several open source communities including PostgreSQL, PHP, MySQL and FreeBSD.

Larry Lisser

Larry Lisser is a seasoned startup leader with almost 20 years of senior sales, marketing and business development leadership experience in voice services. Larry’s recent engagements include leading a business model turn-around at Mobile VoIP innovator Mobivox (sold to Sabse Technologies) and playing a key role in the fund raising and go-to-market activities at small business voice services leader Ifbyphone. Larry is a native of Montreal, Canada, but has been based in the San Francisco, Bay Area for almost 15 years.

Board of Directors

Shai Berger (See above)

Jason Bigue (See above)

Paul Russo

Dr. Russo was the founder of Genesis Microchip (NASDAQ: GNSS) and served as CEO, Director and Chairman. Under his leadership, Genesis grew to become a leading fabless semiconductor supplier, eventually being acquired by ST Micro (Europe's largest semiconductor manufacturer).

Before Genesis, Dr. Russo served as General Manager of GE's Microelectronics Center. He served as a director of several private companies including RocketChips (acquired by Xilinx), Sensium Technologies (acquired by AVNA) and ATMOS Corporation (acquired by MOSY). He served as an outside director of ATI Technologies until its acquisition by AMD in 2006.

Dr. Russo has a degree in Engineering Physics from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from U C Berkeley. He holds six U.S. patents, is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received numerous industry awards, including the IEEE Centennial Medal.

Terry Libin

Mr. Libin is an active board member of Absolute Software (TSX: ABT) which is the leader in Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking solutions. With over two million subscriptions currently under contract, Absolute Software provides individuals and organizations of all types and sizes with solutions to manage regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. Mr. Libin is also the founder and president of Highfield Development, a Canadian real estate development company.

Advisors

Andy Abramson

Mr. Abramson is CEO of Comunicano, an advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Del Mar, California. Comunicano represents clients from around the globe in the emerging consumer and business communications and technology sectors. Of companies it has represented in the past, more than a dozen have been acquired by Cisco, IBM, Yahoo, Google, eBay, Nokia, Logitech, Citrix Online and other leading companies. Mr. Abramson is also an influential and widely-read blogger, posting his thoughts regularly at VoipWatch.com.

Antony Brydon

Mr. Brydon was CEO of Visible Path Corporation, a corporate social networking company funded by Kleiner Perkins and acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2008. Prior to Visible Path, he was vice president and general manager at eMusic, acquired by Vivendi-Universal in 2001. Prior to eMusic, he was CEO of IUMA, a digital music company acquired by publicly-traded eMusic in 1998. Mr. Brydon received a BA in psychology and philosophy from Yale University, where he was the founder of the Habitat Bicycle Challenge, a non-profit cycling group.

Bruce Simpson

Mr. Simpson is a partner at SwitchGear, a consulting services company focused on helping contact centers solve problems at the operational / execution level. SwitchGear untangles the challenges that companies face as they ask their contact centers to do more complex knowledge-based work with less expense, and still provide an exceptional customer experience. Mr. Simpson co-founded North Direct Response, which was sold to Onex and has now morphed into ClientLogic / Sitel; the 2nd largest third-party call center company in the world. Mr. Simpson was formerly COO for Inslogic, a virtual insurance brokerage, and the largest home healthcare company in the country.

Richard Reiner

Mr. Reiner is currently the CEO of Enomaly, a leader in the cloud computing space. Formerly, he was the founder, CEO and CTO of IT security start-up Assurent, which was acquired in 2006 by Telus. He served as Chief Security and Technology Officer for Telus until recently. He has fifteen years of executive management experience in IT services and holds multiple patents in IT security. He is frequently quoted by the business and technology press (CBS, USA Today, CIO Magazine, etc.) on a broad range of information security topics.

Alfonso Licata

Mr. Licata was recently co-founder and Executive VP of Echoworx, a leading provider of Security as a Service for the Consumer, SMB and Enterprise markets. Echoworx is currently distributed through AT&T, British Telecom, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Telus, Tiscali, Verizon and others. Prior to that role, Mr. Licata was Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for CertaPay, a payment services company focused in the Financial Services and Telecoms markets. Before CertaPay, Mr. Licata was VP of Marketing and Business Development of ATI Technologies.

Jon Arnold

Mr. Arnold is an independent analyst/consultant focused on the IP communications sector. His widely read blog covers the field of "voice 2.0", VoIP and enterprise communication. Jon was previously the VoIP Program Leader at industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan for 4 years. Prior to that, he ran a market research firm called Research Solutions for 15 years, specializing in business-to-business (B2B) marketing research. Mr. Arnold speaks frequently at VoIP industry events such as VON, Telephony Expo and Emerging Communications.

Dr. Masoud Vakili

Dr. Vakili oversees the Fonolo patent strategy. In addition to his deep knowledge of the patent process, Dr. Vakili also brings to bear a personal rapport with USPTO patent examiners which he gained through invited lectures at the US Patent Office and numerous interviews there. Dr. Vakili was previously Lead Scientist and IP Specialist at Resonance Photonics. He earned a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cincinnati in conjunction with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, United States Department of Energy.