Peter Diedrich has over 20 years of operations experience in technology and telecommunications, management consulting and venture capital. Peter has played key leadership roles at a number of notable firms, including Bell-Northern Research, Nortel Networks, McKinsey & Company, Bell Canada Enterprises, RBC Royal Bank Financial Group, and Skypoint Capital. From 2006 to 2008, Peter was President and CEO of TBayTel, the largest independently owned full service telecommunications carrier in Canada, where he developed a new strategic growth blueprint and led financial and operational performance turnarounds. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University and a Master of Science in Management from the MIT Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. He is a graduate of the Directors Education Program (DEP) at the Institute of Corporate Directors (www.ICD.ca). Peter is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) and also a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and holds the internationally recognized ICD.D designation.
Eric Reiher has spent the last 15 years contributing his vision to several leading-edge Research and Development projects. Since 2002, he has devoted himself to the development of MOBIVOX core technology. Prior to that, Eric acquired in-depth telecom and automatic speech recognition experience at Locus Dialogue, a fast-growing high-tech company that was ultimately acquired by Scansoft. Eric started his career at the Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal (CRIM), where he rapidly became a project leader and led various projects to completion, including an advanced image analysis mandate. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal, which he obtained in 1990 after earning a BA in Computer Science, with a minor in mathematics, from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1988.
Nina Silverstone has over 10 years of management, accounting and finance experience. Nina began her career at Ernst & Young LLP in the communications and technology group. Since 2001, Nina has held senior finance positions in private equity, seed stage and venture backed companies including Hexago. Nina has experience in implementing financial infrastructure, reporting to both public and private stakeholders and raising debt and equity capital. Nina is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Concordia University.
Larry Lisser brings more than 15 years of senior sales, marketing and business development leadership experience in communications technology and services. From a range of employment and long-term strategic consulting engagements in the emerging telephony field, Larry adds a deep understanding of partner-facing sales and marketing strategies, market-relevant product packaging and team leadership to the Mobivox team. Leadership roles in first-mover companies include Ifbyphone, GotVMail and LocusDialog. Larry is a native of Montreal, Canada but has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 10 years.
Vish Raju has over 20 years of leadership experience in product management, business development and product development capacities in telecom, Internet and mobile communications companies. Most recently, Vish was VP Product Management at FirstHand Technologies, a leader in enterprise fixed/mobile unified communications, which was acquired by Counterpath. Prior to that, Vish co-founded e-academy - a profitable software distribution and license management solution for the global higher education market. Before that, Vish has managed profitable product lines at Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent) and Mitel Corporation. He also served for many years on the board of TM Forum, a global industry association for managing telecommunications networks and services, as Vice Chair for North America. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and has attended the executive management program at Queens University.
Jérôme has extensive international experience in the fields of products hosting, operations management, and voice response. Most recently, Jérôme was director of R&D for the North American subsidiary of Prosodie, Prosodie Interactive, which develops and hosts telecom solutions, such as interactive voice response (IVR), alerting, mass dialing and E-commerce applications. Prior to this position, Jérôme was operations, security and continuity manager for Orange Business Services, the France-Télécom subsidiary that specializes in developing and hosting IVR and new media applications. His accomplishments include the design and implementation of a TDM/VoIP hybrid IVR platform integrating multiple speech recognition engines as well as a mass dialer used by AT&T, Pfizer and other large U.S. corporations to perform automated customer surveys. Jérôme holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Limoges/France as well as a degree in software engineering from the University of Bordeaux/France. He has been a writer for the French magazine “Programmez!” and has participated in several books (as a writer, technical advisor or translator) including Linux Network Server, Linux Administration, Hacking Exposed, and others.