Speakers

Doug is Vice President of Sales for Sangoma Technologies, the premium provider of PC-based telephony hardware and software products for proprietary and open source based networking and telephony solutions. In this role he is responsible for leading Sangoma's sales and business development strategies to embrace open source and closed sourced communication projects around the world. During his tenure, revenue has grown over 400%, the customer base has expanded to every continent around the world, and Sangoma has become a global supplier to several major PBX manufacturers.

Prior to joining Sangoma, Doug's most notable stints were in sales and marketing roles at Eicon Networks, now Dialogic, as well as 10 years in pre-sales technical and sales roles at NEC and Compaq.

Doug's technical background allows him to bridge the gap between sales and engineering. Doug is a graduate of Seneca College Electronic Engineering in Toronto and an Honors Graduate of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Doug spends his free time with his wife and four busy children. They share his passion for skiing, hockey, and power boating at his cottage in Muskoka.

Nenad Corbic is the Chief Software Engineer of Sangoma Technologies Inc., the premium provider of PC-based telephony hardware and software products for proprietary and open source based networking and telephony solutions. In this role, Nenad plays an instrumental part in developing and designing the new line of Sangoma drivers, WAN and TDM protocol stacks, and APIs.

As an active Linux kernel maintainer of Linux WAN/WANPIPE drivers, Nenad has frequently submitted patches into the Linux source. He is currently managing and developing numerous open source telephony projects targeted to bridge the gap between OS projects and products. His latest projects include optimizing and expanding TDM architectures and developing high-availability Open Source VoIP/TDM switches.

Nenad is a pioneer in connectivity hardware and software products for telephony, Wide Area Networks, and the Internet.

Previously, Nenad was a software engineer in the telephony division of Nortel Networks, working on DMS and XA-Core switches.

Nenad holds an Honours degree in Computer Engineering from Ryerson University, Toronto.

Michael Feldman is the Chief Hardware Engineer for Sangoma Technologies Inc., the premium provider of PC-based telephony hardware and software products for proprietary and open source based networking and telephony solutions. In this role, Michael is responsible for leading the hardware group to maintain its high standards of quality and innovation, such as the development of Sangoma's award-winning design Advanced Flexible Telecommunications Product Line.

He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in electronics and computer hardware design. Michael has been awarded 8 patents and has 5 publications.

Michael received a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering and Computers from the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automatics in Russia.

Frederic Dickey is General Manager for UK operations and in charge of Product Management at Sangoma. Prior to Sangoma, he was at Paraxip – acquired by Sangoma in July 2008 – to lead Marketing and Business Development efforts.

Prior to joining Paraxip, Frederic was General Manager at Kallastra Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Octasic Semiconductors. In his role at Kallastra, Frederic gained significant experience in worldwide Sales and Marketing (including Europe and Asia) while managing operations.

Prior to Kallastra, Frederic spent 4 years at NMS Communications as a Product Management Director with responsibility for product lines generating significant revenues annually. Before NMS Communications, Frederic held several Sales Engineering and Project Management roles at both Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks. Frederic brings, with its 20+ years of experience in the telecommunications industry, a comprehensive technical and business background to Sangoma Technologies.

Frederic holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Honours) from McGill University in Montreal.

Jeff Dworkin joins Sangoma as Director of Marketing. He most recently came from Dialogic, where, as Enterprise Marketing Manager he was responsible for creating and managing market strategy for Dialogic's Open Source, Fax, Fax-Over-IP and IVVR Markets. Prior to Dialogic, Jeff held the positions of VP Products and Director of Business Development at other technology firms.

Jeff has an exceptionally strong track record of delivering growth in a variety of environments, using both traditional and social marketing techniques. He will contribute significantly to the Sangoma customer and channel partner success, and he will help drive the continued growth of Sangoma as the newest member of the revitalized management team.

Jeff is a strong marketing leader for technical products, a highly respected voice in the industry, and one of the few people who really understands both proprietary technologies as well as Open Source.

Moisés Silva holds a Bachelor of Electronics and Communications degree from the Universidad de Guadalajara. He has been the maintainer of the chan_unicall driver for Asterisk 1.4 and is the author of the MFC/R2 signaling library OpenR2. He is currently pushing to support MFC/R2 signaling in chan_zap. He also has made several contributions to Asterisk^®, such as Asynchronous AGI and context tracing for channels.