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Kailash Ambwani

Kailash Ambwani


President and Chief Executive Officer

Kailash Ambwani is a successful entrepreneur and senior executive with more than 18 years in the consumer and enterprise software and services industries.

Prior to joining FaceTime, Ambwani was Chief Operating Officer of Genesys Conferencing S.A., the leading global provider of audio, video and web conferencing and collaboration services with 2002 revenues of $210M. As COO, Ambwani was responsible for all Front Office operations worldwide including sales, marketing, service, and regional P&L.

Before his tenure at Genesys, Ambwani co-founded Astound Incorporated, a leading venture backed player in the emerging web conferencing and collaboration market, and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by Genesys Conferencing. Preceding Astound, Ambwani founded and ran several software companies in the consumer and business productivity area including Gold Disk Inc., a leading, venture backed provider of video editing and multimedia authoring tools for the Windows PC.

Mr. Ambwani is a graduate of McMaster University where he received a Master of Science in Theoretical Astrophysics and a Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Physics, graduating Summa Cum Laude.


Frank Cabri

Frank Cabri


Vice President of Marketing and Product Management

Frank Cabri is vice president of marketing and product management at FaceTime and has more than 15 years of marketing and product management experience in the networking, security and telecommunications industries.

Prior to joining FaceTime, Mr. Cabri held the position of senior director of Marketing at web security company Blue Coat Systems, where he managed corporate and channel marketing initiatives. Cabri was instrumental in the repositioning of content caching vendor CacheFlow to Blue Coat Systems, where the re-launched company achieved over 300% growth in market valuation and profitability for the first time within 18 months. Prior to Blue Coat, Mr. Cabri worked as director of Product Management at Novell where he was responsible for a $125m portfolio of Internet security and network management products. Prior to Novell, he held several product marketing and product management positions with MCI.

Mr. Cabri holds a Master of Business Administration from the Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, and Bachelor of Science in International Business from California State University, San Jose.


Scott Case


Chief Financial Officer

Scott Case brings over 17 years of finance, strategy and executive management experience to the role of Chief Financial Officer for FaceTime.

Case was most recently CFO of GO Networks, a smart antenna/WiFi company with international operations in Israel and China (recently sold to NextWave Telecom). Prior to GO Networks, Case was CEO and President of Silicon Motion, a fabless chip manufacturer; he successfully restructured and sold the company where it was subsequently taken public. He has held a number of interim-executive roles for Bay Area companies including Netro, Caymas, OnStation, and Litescape.

Case's background also includes extensive venture capital and investment banking experience. As a partner for venture capital firm @Ventures, Case helped create and manage a $1billion technology fund focused on early-stage investments. Case also launched the San Francisco Bay Area office for GE Equity and ran the Infrastructure Venture Capital investing group in both Stamford, Connecticut and San Francisco where his investments realized a 4.4x return and 144% IRR. Prior to GE Equity, Case worked in investment banking at JP Morgan, and as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

Case has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wake Forest University, and holds a MBA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.


Herb Joiner

Herb Joiner


Vice President of Engineering

Herb Joiner brings over 25 years of executive management and architecture engineering experience in the software industry to his role as Vice President of Engineering for FaceTime.

During Joiner's career his work has spanned the entire spectrum of the engineering development life-cycle, from R&D to O&M in both domestic and international environments. Prior to FaceTime, Joiner held senior executive management and architect positions in engineering with companies such as Voyence, Sniffer Technologies (Network Associates), i2 Technologies, Raytheon and E-Systems.

In Joiner's previous assignment as Vice President of Engineering for start-up Voyence he grew the engineering team to five times it's size to scale for growth and deliver on an aggressive product development timeline. Before Voyence, Joiner was Vice President for Sniffer Technologies where he led the development of over twenty products including the flagship distributed and portable products. He was also responsible for leading the Sniffer Next Generation efforts and personally authored and submitted eleven patents within the network arena during his time with the company. Joiner also spent 18 years with E-Systems and Raytheon designing and implementing complex high-end systems and performed in various roles including architect and development management.

Joiner has six networking patents in his name with an additional five in submission with the US patent office. Joiner holds both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii.


Deric Moilliet

Deric Moilliet


Vice President of Sales - Americas

As Vice President of Sales - Americas, Deric Moilliet leads the worldwide business development efforts for FaceTime, as well as the company's sales and systems engineering organizations in North America, South/Latin America, and Asia/Pacific regions.

Moilliet brings 23 years of sales and information technology experience to FaceTime and most recently served as Senior Vice President, Sales for Maplesoft, a leading developer of advanced mathematical and analytical software. Moilliet led the company's international expansion resulting in a 160% growth in revenue year over year.

Prior to Maplesoft, Moilliet was Vice President of Global Accounts for Genesys Conferencing, the leading global provider of audio, video and web conferencing and collaboration services. Moilliet managed an international sales team in New York, London and Paris and was responsible for Genesys Conferencing's largest accounts. Moilliet has held VP of sales positions with several venture-backed start-ups and began his career as the first financial sales representative for Sun Microsystems and Sybase, where he went on to manage sales for Canada.

Moilliet has a Bachelors of Commerce from Queen's University at Kingston and an MBA in Finance from University of Toronto's Rotman School of Business.


Nick Sears

Nick Sears


Vice President, EMEA

As Vice President for FaceTime, Nick Sears is responsible for operations, sales and customer implementation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Nick brings over 15 years of experience in IT security and technology markets and most recently was head of US operations at Web and spyware security firm, Finjan Software. During his five year tenure, he was responsible for direct and indirect sales operations in Europe and the USA. Prior to Finjan, Nick spent seven years at European networking distributor, Azlan. During this time, he held several director level positions including UK sales director, responsible for a $200m sales operation and building markets for companies including Checkpoint, Cisco and Netscape.


Sridhar Vutukuri

Sridhar Vutukuri


Vice President and Country Head, India

Sridhar Vutukuri is responsible for product development, operations, information technology, and engineering support services in FaceTime's India location. He has 18 years of product development and services experience, having held numerous engineering management roles across a variety of industries, including software, finance, banking, security, defense and aerospace.

Prior to joining FaceTime, Vutukuri was most recently head of Tumbleweed Communications' subsidiary in India where he successfully built and established a key engineering division for the company from the ground up. Before Tumbleweed Vutukuri was Vice President of Engineering for CyberCash India Pvt. Ltd. In that role Vutukuri served as the head of India operations and was responsible for technical direction, R&D, recruitment and external company communications. For nearly 6 years, Vutukuri worked for Tata Consultancy Services, the largest IT consulting firm in India, managing high-end consulting engagements, offshore development projects and complex system development for Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Vutukuri holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from SVU College of Engineering in Tirupati, India.


 
 
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