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July 17, 2007
Ram Fish, Trolltech, with Carl Ford
A conversation between Ram Fish, until recently the CEO and founder of FONAV and now Trolltech's General Manager of VoIP Products, and Pulvermedia's own Carl Ford about Trolltech's recent acquisition of FONAV and the resulting synergy.
FONAV was founded in January 2006 by Ram Fish and Dilip Kenchammana and was acquired by Trolltech in June 2007.
Since its inception, FONAV has focused its efforts on providing the best unified communications experience for Wi-Fi/WiMAX connected devices. Built with Qtopia, FONAV applications offer consumers a unified live inbox – bringing together voice communication with visual voice messaging, email, instant messaging, and text messaging in a presence-enabled mobile environment. Consumers are able to seamlessly move through each of these modes. The solution moves VoIP beyond just inexpensive voice to inexpensive smart and rich communications.
Trolltech has seen tremendous success in the VoIP market with more than 40 VoIP/WiFi devices in the market today. FONAV’s offerings deepen Trolltech’s product expertise in this arena and widens the product capabilities of emerging consumer connected devices space. For device manufacturers, the combination of FONAV technology with Trolltech’s Qtopia ensures quick time to market and cost efficiencies for creating innovative connected devices and services.
Ram Fish was recently appointed the General Manager of VoIP Products for Trolltech after Trolltech acquired his company, FONAV. Ram led FONAV as its CEO and founder.
His previous roles include Vice President, Software Product Marketing at IXI Mobile (creator of AT&T OGO) and Chief Product Strategist for the Client Group at Openwave Systems. He started his career as a product marketing manager at PCSI, where he worked on the world's first mobile phone with Internet access.
He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his MBA from Yale University.
His blog is at pelp.wordpress.com.
Posted at July 17, 2007 01:48 PM
