Vikram Rangnekar, Community Lead for Druid Open Source Unified Communications Project
Vikram is the core developer of Druid, the most advanced open source unified communications platform that unifies plug and play IP telephony, Instant Messaging, mobile phone, faxing and other communications media in an easy to deploy and useful platform. Vikram explores the many different technical avenues which the Druid project encompasses he's worked extensively with Asterisk, SIP and XMPP. He's also dabbles in using web technologies such as Json, Comet, SOAP to simplify development of light weight rich web applications.
 
Navin Kumar, CTO of Voiceroute
Navin Kumar is the Chief Technical Officer of Voiceroute, the leading open source unified communications provider and the chief corporate sponsor of the Druid project. Druid is the world’s leading Open Source Unified IP Communications platform that unifies plug and play IP telephony, Instant Messaging, mobile phone, faxing and other communications media in an easy to deploy and useful platform. Navin explores the many different technical avenues which the Druid project encompasses, and develops on the project in his spare time as well. He has degrees from both Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University.
 
Cheryl Farmer, Pika Technologies
I have been working in the Telecom Industry for Pika as Senior Account Mgr. for 8 Years.Prior to this, I was a Commercial Manager for Monsanto in the Chemical industry managing multimillion dollar accounts and contracts. I started with Pika responsible for the East Coast and now increased my responsibility to include all of Latin America. I have been selling to computer telephony developers in the IVR, PC/IP PBX, logging, ACD, and Predictive Dialer space primarily with DSP based boards until the event of HMP. With the evolution of HMP brings choices in form factors for the Customers I serve. In this ever changing world, I have stayed on top of technology and done my part to drive features through to fruition for my Customers. With the best sales record in Pika history, I strive to deliver the best support and advice for my Customers, and do my part to help lead Pika to the top.
 
 
Benjamin Davis, Emergency Network Services
With over 15 years experience in computer networking, Founded Emergency Network Services in 2006 to address the growing need of small to medium sized businesses with little or no IT staffing. Specializing in Linux based migration and integration, Emergency Network Services started offering digital phone services to clients based on asterisk and OpenSER in October 2006.
 
 
David Shauger - Vice President of Sollos Technologies
David Shauger is Vice President of Sollos Technology Solutions, a technology consulting firm in Atlanta. David has provided workflow solutions for clients in the Graphic Arts and related industries since 1989. Beginning in 2003 Sollos began building their client solutions on Enterprise Open Source Software including SugarCRM and Joomla!, choosing Druid UCS for a unified voice, messaging, and fax communication server that can integrate tightly with key business information and communication systems.
 
Jorge Zerpa - Teletec Group
Jorge Zerpa is a Telecommunications Consultant specializing in Voice, Data and Business Continuity applications. With over twenty one years in the industry, Mr. Zerpa brings a wealth of hands on experience in the sales and integration of Telecom Networks, Software and Equipment. He has acquired his multi-discipline skill set from the following companies; Advance Systems, AT&T, Bellsouth, Teleport Communications, Adtran, Samsung, Nortel, Picaso, Lucent, Internap, Cingular, Qwest, Covad, Global Crossing, Comcast, Sprint, Teletec, ACP.