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Dave Sipes serves as 8x8’s Chief Executive Officer. Sipes has an extensive twelve-year history in business management at RingCentral, most recently he was Chief Operating Officer where he led innovation, engineering, global sales, marketing, customer care, international operations, corporate development, and business development. Prior to that he oversaw a variety of key functions, including Chief Revenue Officer and, prior to that, Vice President of Corporate Development. Before joining RingCentral, Sipes was co-founder and COO of Branders.com, the nation’s largest online B2B seller of promotional items. Prior to that, Sipes worked in brand management at PepsiCo and was a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton in their marketing intensive group, providing strategic guidance to marketing and media companies such as Heinz Company, Callaway Golf, and Universal Pictures. Sipes also serves on the board of directors of PandaDoc, an all-in-one document automation company that streamlines the process of creating, approving, and eSigning proposals, quotes, and contracts. Sipes holds a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in marketing from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

ATX President and CEO Dan Whalen is responsible for the company’s overall strategic vision, global operations and growth. Whalen’s 20 years of senior management experience in the broadband and content industries includes a variety of leadership roles that stretch across multiple technology disciplines. With a background that spans sales, product and operational roles, Whalen has the proven expertise, vision and versatility to help customers expand and excel in an era of unprecedented disruption. Prior to joining ATX, Whalen was Chief Product Officer at ADTRAN, responsible for products from concept to delivery. Before ADTRAN, he held multiple leadership positions at ARRIS, including Senior Vice President of Sales, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Services, and President, Network & Cloud. In this role he was responsible for oversight of the development and delivery of the company’s portfolio of broadband and video network infrastructure technologies, cloud-based software solutions, and Global Services business. Whalen’s work history also includes key positions at Cisco Systems, Comdisco, KPMG and Bell Atlantic. Whalen holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Tom Tisko is an Executive Vice President at BullsEye Telecom, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer at BullsEye Telecom, Inc. and is based in Southfield, Michigan. He has worked as General Manager at AdVal Communications; Exec VP:Operations at BullsEye Telecom, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer at BullsEye Telecom, Inc.. Tom attended Michigan Technological University and Golden Gate University between 1990 and 1992.