Speaker Bios

As chief marketing officer David Byrd leads marketing and product development. Prior to joining ANPI ZONE, David was chief marketing officer and executive vice president of sales at Broadvox where he built a nationally recognized channel partner program and award winning SIP product offering.

Chad Krantz is the National Channel Director for ANPI. Chad has extensive knowledge within Hosted voice/SIP applications and has held leadership positions with NewSouth Communications, NuVox Communications, Carrier Services, Inc., and Broadvox. Chad holds a bachelor's degree from Emory & Henry College and a Master's in Business Administration from Lenoir Rhyne University. In addition, he possesses the SSMP and SSCA SIP technical certifications endorsed by TIA. Chad can be reached at ckrantz@anpisolutions.com He resides in Charlotte, NC.

Gary Audin has more than 40 years of computer, communications and security experience. He has planned, designed, specified, implemented and operated data, LAN and telephone networks. These have included local area, national and international networks as well as VoIP and IP convergent networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has advised domestic and international venture capital and investment bankers in communications, VoIP, and microprocessor technologies. For more than 30 years, Gary has been an independent communications and security consultant. Beginning his career in the USAF as an R&D officer in military intelligence and data communications, Gary was decorated for his accomplishments in these areas. He has analyzed the US Navy's future for IP transmission via satellite and prepared a VoIP feasibility study for a multinational firm. He has participated in VoIP procurement, RFP preparation and review for converged systems and networks for enterprises and state governments.

Mr. Schroeder has over 20 years of experience in the fax messaging, managed services and telecommunications industries. In his current position, Max manages the solutions marketing, product positioning, strategy and planning for the FaxCore portfolio of products. Max Schroeder has been in the fax server industry almost since its conception and has been active in many telecommunications and fax industry associations. He was a founding member and past president of the International Computer Fax Association which was instrumental in promoting the fax server industry and the T.37 and T.38 ITU fax standards. Mr. Schroeder continues supporting the fax server industry as the Task Group Whip for the SIP Forum FoIP Interoperability Task Group. Max is a TMC Contributing Editor and has been a frequent industry speaker at domestic and international conferences including many ITEXPO events.

Scott Beer is Ingate's Director of Product Support. Mr. Beer boasts more than 16 years of technical experience in emerging technologies within communications and computing businesses. Within Ingate, he has worked in the emerging SIP Trunking and SIP Security technologies sector, making SIP deployments easy and secure. Mr. Beer's previously held positions at Objectworld (now Adtran) and Mitel.

Steve Johnson is President of Ingate Systems. He has 15 years' senior management experience with Sanders Associates, Telco Systems, and Lockheed Martin. Most recently he served as CEO of Abrena, Inc, a business development consulting firm focused on assistingEuropean and North American firms to expand in the United States. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Transcept Inc, a telecommunications infrastructure company. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Board of Directors for the SIP Forum, an industry organization with members from the leading SIP technology companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master's in Business Administration from Boston University.