Board Of Advisors
  • Jordan Cohen, Technology Supervision, Advisory Board. Jordan brings deep experience in the commercialization of speech recognition applications. Most notably as CTO of Voice Signal Technologies, Jordan developed the robust technology and engineering to a point where the company was sold to Nuance for over $290 million. He has also served as a Senior Scientist for SRI, leading that company’s DARPA program. Jordan currently acts a consultant to such high profile companies as Cisco.
     
  • Steve Blaz, Advisory Board. Steve is an acknowledged leader in the field services industry. As head of Cisco’s Global Services he grew revenue from $4M to over $1B.Steve is on the advisory boards of Aberdeen and Worldwide Business Research, the two leading field service research organizations.
     
  • Alex Rudnicky, Advisory Board. Alex, professor at CMU, PhD CMU is one of the world’s leading minds in field of speech recognition and human computer interaction. Director of the CMU Speech Consortium which connects CMU to industry.
     
  • Richard Stern, Advisory Board. Richard, professor at CMU, PhD MIT, is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of managing noise for optimal speech recognition performance consulting for some of the world’s leading electronics companies including Sony, Samsung, and Apple.
     
  • Mark Hill, Advisory Board. Mark is an EVP with Bain Capital. Prior to Bain Mark ran the Secure Identity Management global business team at Novell Mark was employed with Novell where he led the Secure Identity Management global business team. Other experience includes general management positions at Vitria and Xerox. Mark earned an AB in Molecular Biology at Harvard College. He received an MBA at Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.