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Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral's cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems. Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments. Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola. Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.

Dr. Bami Bastani is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile & Wireless Infrastructure Strategic Business Unit Bastani has more than 35 years of industry experience in the semiconductor industry, including component to system-level RF technologies. Prior to joining GF, he was president, CEO and board member of Meru Networks, a global enterprise-grade Wi-Fi networks solution provider. During his time with the company, Bastani transformed Meru Networks from a hardware company to a solution provider, delivering a portfolio of software, software-defined networks (2015 SDN Excellence Award) and subscription cloud offerings (WaaS). Dr. Bastani has also held positions of president, CEO and board member in the mobility, consumer and broadband markets, including president and CEO of Trident Microsystems, Inc. and ANADIGICS, Inc. In addition, he has served in executive positions at Fujitsu Microelectronics, National Semiconductor and Intel Corporation. Dr. Bastani holds a Ph.D. & MSEE in Microelectronics from Ohio State University.

An experienced telecommunications management executive (CTO/COO), with responsibility for all technical and operational activities in a service provider networking company, including the network design, fiber construction, engineering, field operations, provisioning, maintenance, and monitoring involved in the delivery of customer-facing voice, data, internet and managed services. Ownership of the creation of overall strategic vision and architecture for network and IT systems technologies. Specialties: Optical fiber technologies; metro optical networking; Ethernet services; IP networks; long haul optical networking; network architecture, design and construction; technology assessment and product evaluation; large-scale project management; field service operations, IT development, systems support, and leadership of a technology organization.