IP PBX vs. Centrex
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 9:00am - 10:15am
The Internet represents a network of shared work resources interworking. IP Centrex represents a common network of voice solutions being offered to the enterprise. This panel looks at the advantages of this fast-moving rapid development alternative to buying PBXs and managing them yourself.
Carl Ford, Vice President, Community & Content, pulver.com
At pulver.com, Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulver.com conferences and is a highly interactive program moderator. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. Mr. Ford's professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.
Bernard Gutnick, VP, Product Marketing, Sylantro Systems
Bernard brings to Sylantro more than 15 years of experience in the communications industry, and is responsible for product management and marketing. Prior to joining Sylantro, he was responsible for product management at GoBeam, a leading VoIP-based hosted service provider in California recently acquired by Covad Communications. He has held senior management positions at Aspect Communications, Nortel and Octel Communications, and account sales positions at the Manitoba Telephone System. Bernard holds an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and undergraduate degree in business from the University of Manitoba.
Scott Hoffpauir, CTO, BroadSoft
As Chief Technology Officer, Scott is responsible for guiding the technical vision and direction for BroadSoft as well as promoting continuous product innovation. Prior to co-founding BroadSoft and serving as Vice President, Engineering since 1998, Scott was Director of GSM Development at Celcore (DSC/Alcatel USA). In this role, Scott was responsible for all product development on the GSM switching product, including system architecture, product requirements, software development, hardware development, system test/integration and product/customer support. Before Celcore, Scott was senior architect for Nortel's GSM and Inter-Exchange Carrier switching systems. He is widely published, holds 13 approved patents and 11 pending patents in the GSM and switching areas.
Dan Hoffman, President and CEO, M5 Networks
Dan is redefining the phone system market by replacing traditional phone systems and phone company arrangements with an outsourced solution businesses trust. Before joining M5 in 2001, Dan co-founded Global Internet Group, serving as President before selling the company to Asia Online, a Hong Kong-based ISP holding company. As Executive Vice President of Operations, Dan grew Asia Online to a major pan-Asian Internet services firm with 1000 employees. Previously, Dan advised management teams at several service providers, including Interport Communications, and ran operations at Education Loan Services, Inc. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Masters of International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
