Management Team

 

Ray Pasquale, CEO & Founder

Ray has spent the last 20+ years as an entrepreneurial technology professional, he has extensive sales and customer engineering experience along with proven management team leadership in dynamic, emerging technology companies. Recently Ray played a key leadership role in professional and customer services, business development, pre-sales and technical marketing while at Sonus Networks, a market leader in Voice over IP technologies.

Ray was a founding member of Sonus’s services organization, recruiting many of its most senior members. From 1996 until 1999 Ray was a key technical leader and sales consultant for Cascade Communications’ worldwide sales organization. During his tenure Cascade was purchased by Ascend Communications. Ascend, a leader in remote access technologies for the Internet market, was subsequently absorbed by Lucent in a merger. Prior to 1996, Ray’s tenure with Digital Equipment Company included positions as Senior Consultant for Worldwide Network Operations, and Technical Leader and Senior Consultant for the Network Products Group.

Ray’s commitments to excellence and ideas were recognized by Digital. Mr. Pasquale received a Customer Satisfaction Award, Storage Systems Excellence Award, and Delta Ideas Recognition Award. He attended the University of Maine.

 


Tom Phelan, CTO & VP of Technology

Tom has nearly 24 years experience developing embedded systems and network management products for the data and telecommunications industries. He has held leadership roles in several companies, including VP of Engineering, CTO, VP of Marketing and VP of Advanced Development. Tom has also held leadership positions in the general industry, including co-chair of the DCCP working group at the IETF, the lead developer of Proxy Admission Control at the MPLS Forum, and has made significant contributions to security standards for VoIP networks and emergency telecommunications for ATIS. For the past 10 years Tom has been Principal Architect at Sonus Networks, working in the Office of the CTO and other groups to architect VoIP products for the telecommunications carriers.

 

Doug Corrigan Director, Solutions and Services

Doug has dedicated over 20 years of his career in delivering high-quality, market-focused products and services for the telecommunications, information technology, and aerospace/defense industries. Previously as head of Sonus Networks Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA) program, Doug was responsible for developing and managing a portfolio of strategic OEM partnerships. Prior to Sonus, Doug was Senior Product Manager at venture-backed SnowShore Networks (now Dialogic), and responsible for lifecycle management of their VoIP media server product line. Earlier, Doug held various product management, marketing, and engineering positions with increasing levels of responsibility, focusing primarily on emerging technologies including broadband, enterprise storage, and local area networks.  As a project lead at Cabletron Systems, Doug assembled a firmware development team and delivered a successful LAN product line, later transitioning into the product line management role. Doug holds an MBA from Rivier College, and a BSEE from Rochester Institute of Technology.