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Chris Lyman CEO/CTO
Fonality is Chris' third startup. Prior to Fonality, he founded and led Virtualis, a top-ten Web Hosting company. Chris bootstrapped Virtualis for 3 profitable years until raising $8 million in venture capital, and eventually growing the firm to over $7 million in recurring revenue. Keys to Virtualis' growth were its Web-based control panel and its 44,000 member online reseller channel. Chris sold Virtualis to Allegiance Telecom (NASDAQ: ALGX) in late 2000, re-branded it to hosting.com, and joined the Allegiance management team as Vice President of Web Hosting Services. There he led the acquisition and roll-up of additional hosting firms. In 1994, before Virtualis, Chris founded a media-focused systems integration firm in Los Angeles. Chris is a licensed SCCA-Pro driver and owns a motor sports racing team.
Arnold Waldstein Senior Vice President of Marketing
Arnold, serving as an executive in three public companies, brings more than 20 years of strategic marketing and business development leadership to Fonality. Starting in the computer gaming and multimedia entertainment space, he was a member of the "new" Atari, publishing hundreds of games on a variety of platforms and taking the company public. As one of the original executives for Creative Labs, he built the Sound Blaster brand over four years from $5M in sales to $1.2B, developed it into a household name, sold 80 million units, and executed an extremely successful public offering. For the last 10 years, Arnold has worked with startups and public companies in the consumer and business-to-business sectors, raising funds, building brands and executing upon distribution strategies.
Kami Kotobi Senior Vice President of Operations
Kami brings over 15 years of strategic leadership in global customer service operations to Fonality. Having a broad experience in both public and startup companies, he has assembled strategies and business models that have promoted paradigm shifts in leadership, client relationship and market direction. Mr. Kotobi was previously Director of Americas Retail Managed Services at NCR Corporation; where he played a pivotal role in establishment, growth and success of this highly strategic line of business within NCR's Worldwide Customer Services division with an impressive portfolio that includes some of the largest financial institutions and retailers in the world. Kami graduated at the top of his class from Pepperdine University with a BS in Business Management. He enjoys painting and sculpting, and is an avid scuba diver.
Chris Vuillaume VP of Bus Dev & Channel
Chris was previously Vice President for the IP Telephony Product Marketing Group at Alcatel (NYSE: ALA). At Alcatel, Chris was responsible for all marketing and business development for their North American IP Telephony practice including the creation of their distribution channels. Mr. Vuillaume's also has a rich entrepreneurial history, notably co-founding Santa Clara-based NetManSys. At NetManSys, Chris served as VP of Marketing, growing the company from inception to 80 employees and ultimately selling it to a private acquirer. Chris is an avid power-glider and can be seen precipitously arcing from a random cliff-top in Southern California on your typical Sunday. Chris holds his MBA from Berkeley.
Dan Rosenthal Vice President of Finance
Prior to Fonality, Dan was a partner at MMC Capital, an $80M corporate venture capital fund focused on communications-enabling technologies, where he led investments in communications and semiconductor companies. Prior to MMC, Dan was a Vice President with Mercer Management Consulting's Communications and Information Group; ran StrongLight Advisors, a management consulting firm; and was a senior product engineer with National Semiconductor Corporation. Dan holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Wharton.
David Eads Vice President of Sales
David Eads is responsible for the strategy and overall revenue growth for Fonality PBXtra. David was a Regional Director of Sales for Wayport Inc.; an Austin, TX based Wireless Internet Provider. He was responsible for signing enterprise clients such as Intel, Sony, Microsoft, SBC, and University of Phoenix. Under David's Leadership, the Wayport Western Region increased sales revenue by 380%. Previously David was the National Association Manager for Net-tel Corporation, a Torrance, CA based CLEC. David designed and initiated their National Association Program (Partner/Reseller Program). David earned his BA degree, cum laude from Amherst College in Amherst, MA.
Marc Englaro Vice President, Fonality Australia
Marc Englaro is the co-founder and CEO of Insightful Solutions. When Fonality acquired Insightful in September 2007, Marc joined the Fonality management team and is responsible for Fonality’s Australia division. Previously, Marc was a Director and Principal Consultant at Si2, a project management consultancy firm, where he gained over 10 years experience with the implementation of complex information systems and led the Open Source consulting practice. Marc is passionate about Open Source technologies and is the Director of Australia's national industry body for open source. Marc has an MBA from Macquarie University and an Honors degree in Engineering from the University of Sydney.
Rick Bushell VP of Engineering, Fonality Australia
Rick Bushell is co-founder and CTO of Insightful Solutions. Rick joined the Fonality management team with the acquisition of Insightful in September 2007 and implements, customizes, enhances, and integrates SugarCRM systems every day. Rick is an internationally recognized expert in SugarCRM, and regularly delivers technical training to developers in Australia as well as to clients in New Zealand, Singapore and the US. Previously, Rick worked as software and product development manager for Billback systems, and has over 15 years experience in software architecture design and software development management. Rick has an Honors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

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