Bringing Voice to the broadband consumer has generated a tremendous interest in the marketplace. Has the goal of alternatives services been achieved? Are the services like for like or something different? What should we expect from these providers in the future?

Alan Duric is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Telio AS, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider.

Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP and brings almost a decade of experience in VoIP and active contribution through his development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards). Beside his standardization work, as a developer and senior systems architect at Ericsson, Alan was involved in the early deployment and development of some of the worlds largest VoIP networks such as deltathree.

At Global IP Sound (suppliers of voice components for Skype), Duric worked as Senior Systems Architect, where he steered standardization efforts and was responsible for iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec), an IETF and CableLabs standard codec for VoIP.

Lee currently heads IP Telephony Consulting (www.ConsultLee.com) and is a frequent VON speaker and moderator. Recently, Lee was the "Voice over IP" industry expert and project lead within Qwest / U S WEST Advanced Technologies where he led teams in new product development, customer application trials and deployment, forward-looking technologies, and merging core public telephony networks with Internet facilities for Mass Markets and Business applications. Lee also contributed to sales for strategic large customers and managed new product trials and customer product evaluations around the nation. He previously held positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Amdahl Open Systems. Lee earned his Ph.D degree at the University of Notre Dame.

Bryan R. Martin is Chairman & CEO of 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) and has served as CEO and as a director since February 2002. From February 2001 to February 2002 he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. He served as 8x8’s Chief Technical Officer from August 1995 to August 2000. In addition, Mr. Martin served in various technical roles for 8x8 from April 1990 to August 1995. Mr. Martin is an inventor on 31 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Ravi Sakaria is a veteran technologist with over 15 years experience in the Information Technology field. An expert in the area of network engineering, his vision that Voice over IP is the catalyst for a revolution in the telecommunications industry drives VoicePulse's every day thinking. Prior to co-founding VoicePulse, Sakaria headed a successful IT consulting company, The Aiko Group. The Aiko Group focused on network engineering, Voice over IP quality of service engineering, and network security. Before heading The Aiko Group, Sakaria was Manager of Network Engineering for First Union National Bank.

Sakaria's management background, engineering education, and extensive experience in IT service organizations drives VoicePulse's focus on delivering powerful technology to consumers in an easy-to-use format.

Ray Solnik is Strategic Markets Vice President in the AT&T Consumer Marketing and Sales organization. He has marketing responsibility for a portfolio of businesses including Voice over IP (VoIP), AT&T Internet and Consumer Broadband Services.

Prior to AT&T, from 1999 to 2001, he was Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development at NorthPoint Communications – a national DSL service provider. At NorthPoint he led initiatives, strategies, and negotiations in many areas including the sale of NorthPoint’s assets to AT&T.

Ray is on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Morris County. He has a BA in economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Bryan Wiener has full responsibility for sales, marketing, business development and P&L management of all business units. Mr. Wiener was General Manager of Net2Phone's International division from November 2001 until July 2003, increasing Net2Phone's core growth business by over 30% in revenue and operating margin. Before assuming leadership of ICS, Mr. Wiener managed the company's value-added product offerings, including: voice hosting, voice activated dialing and the company's flagship PC-to-phone service. Before joining Net2Phone in early 2000, Mr. Wiener held management positions at Standard and Poor's and theglobe.com. Mr. Wiener holds an M.B.A. from Stern School of Business at NYU and a B.A. in History from Syracuse University in finance.

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