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March 23, 2006
Jon Arnold / Erik Lagerway
On this week's edition of the Canadian IP Thought Leaders series, Jon Arnold spoke with Erik Lagerway, who recently joined fast-growing Shift Networks as their CTO. Both are fresh back from Spring VON, and did a wrapup of the conference on the podcast. Erik talked about his impressions from meeting many vendors as well as what stood out from the exhibit hall. Jon and Erik talked about the show highlights and directions they'd like to see VON take for next time.
Erik Lagerway, CTO, Shift Networks, Inc.
Erik Lagerway is a serial VoIP entrepreneur and has been in the business for more than 12 years. He is currently the CTO for Shift Networks. Erik is responsible for identifying, sourcing and delivering next generation SMB communications applications. Essentially Erik owns the R&D department at Shift. Before coming to Shift he Co-founded Xten (now Counterpath) and served as the President and COO for nearly 3 years. Erik designed Xten's business class softphone products and go-to-market strategies for company. He was instrumental in growing Xten from 3 to 40+ people and bringing the company from conception/zero revenue to more than 3 Million in sales on award-winning product in less than 2 years. Xten customers acquired during Erik's stay include Yahoo!, Vonage, Deutsche Telekom and numerous other carriers, OEMs, and Portals. Erik's understanding of the VoIP industry and his ability to uncover opportunities in the market provided Xten with the perceived lead in the industry for SIP softphones and contributed greatly to Xten winning 6 industry awards.
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Posted at March 23, 2006 04:25 PM
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