OOMA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Audit Committee
Andrew H. Galligan has served on our board of directors since December 2014. Mr. Galligan held the top financial executive position at several medical device companies including, Nevro Corp., a medical devices company, where he has worked as its Chief Financial Officer from May 2010 through July 2020. Previously, he served as Ooma's Chief Financial Officer from February 2009 to May 2010, and as a consultant for Ooma from September 2010 to December 2014. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Galligan served as CFO of Reliant Technologies, Inc., a medical device company (later acquired by Solta Medical, Inc.). Mr. Galligan has also held top financial executive position at several other medical device companies and began his career in various financial positions at KPMG and Raychem Corp. Mr. Galligan was previously a director of diaDexus, Inc., which develops and commercializes diagnostic products for cardiovascular diseases, from 2010 through 2015. Mr. Galligan received a B.B.S. in Business and Finance from Trinity College, Dublin University (Ireland) and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
Our board of directors believes that Mr. Galligan's financial expertise, including his several years of experience as chief financial officer and financial consultant of publicly traded and privately held companies, brings financial and accounting knowledge to our board and qualifies him to serve as the chairperson of our Audit Committee and as one of our directors.
Chair of the Audit Committee
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Human Resources
- VP Human Resources
Cameron Gibson is Vice President of Human Resources, responsible for Ooma's employee experience and people operations. Prior to Ooma, Cameron led the global HR Business Partners and HR Programs departments at Intercom. Earlier in her career, she held leadership and program management positions in both boutique and multinational companies across multiple industries including software, biotechnology and professional services. Cameron holds a bachelor's degree in global economic studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Job Titles:
- SVP of Corporate Development
Chris Burgy is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and driving Ooma's strategy for enterprise unified communications as a service (UCaaS). He brings diverse experience ranging from information technology, sales, channel business models, corporate development and strategy. Prior to joining Ooma, Chris was Vice President of Corporate Strategy at ShoreTel and was a leading contributor to the successful transformation of ShoreTel into a cloud company.
He holds Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science degrees from California State University, Bakersfield.
Dayton Turner leads Ooma Labs, which is responsible for developing new technologies and capabilities to extend Ooma's offerings to customers. Previously, he was the founder of Voxter, a company providing end-to-end solutions for business communications primarily as white-label hosted PBX, which was acquired by Ooma in early 2018.
Dayton has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and technologist. He was co-founder of Prolexic Technologies, a security company focused on mitigating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, before it was acquired by Akamai in 2014. He has worked with a diverse range of companies, often as an early stage employee, ranging from wireless ISPs, managed services providers, data center operators, and gaming software companies.
Job Titles:
- SVP Product Management
- Vice President of Product Management and Technical Advisory Board Member
Dennis is the vice president of product management and technical advisory board member of Ooma and is responsible for creating an intuitive, compelling user experience.
Prior to joining Ooma, Dennis worked at Cisco Systems for 11 years where he began his career as a customer support engineer. He later joined the Escalation Team where he focused on fixing the most technically challenging problems, as well as supporting the design, rollout and operations of the largest remote access and broadband aggregation networks worldwide. He was honored with the title of Distinguished Support Engineer because of his expertise in networking protocols, isolating and fixing highly complex issues, and leadership among his peers.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Eric B. Stang has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since January 2009 and as Chairman of our board of directors since December 2014. He is currently also a member of the Board of Directors of Rambus Inc., a publicly traded technology licensing company. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of private companies from time to time. Mr. Stang was previously a director of InvenSense, Inc., a publicly traded MEMS semiconductor company, from 2014 to 2017, and Solta Medical, Inc., a publicly traded medical aesthetics company, from 2008 to 2014. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Stang was President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Reliant Technologies, a privately held developer of medical technologies for aesthetic applications. From 2001 to 2006, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Lexar Media, Inc., a publicly traded solid-state memory products company, which is now a subsidiary of Micron Technology. Mr. Stang also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lexar Media from 2004 to 2006. Mr. Stang holds an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
Our board of directors believes that Mr. Stang is qualified to serve as a director because of his operational and historical expertise gained from serving as our President and Chief Executive Officer, his extensive public and private company board experience, and his experience as an executive in the technology industry. Our board of directors also believes that he brings continuity to the board of directors.
Job Titles:
- SVP General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Jenny Yeh oversees all legal and regulatory affairs of the Company. Jenny brings over 20 years of general corporate and transactional experience to the Company, including serving as SVP & General Counsel at Sphere 3D Corp., and a tenure at General Electric, where she was a member of the senior legal advisory team to GE Corporate's business development group and led multi-billion dollar transactions spanning multiple business units. Prior to GE, Jenny was a partner at Baker & McKenzie, where she specialized in complex cross-border M&A transactions in addition to advising clients on general corporate matters. Jenny spent the early part of her legal career at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she represented a wide range of technology and emerging growth companies on securities laws, corporate governance, venture financings, securities offerings, public reporting, M&A and IPOs.
Jenny received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center, and holds Bachelor of Arts degrees from UC Berkeley.
Jim Gustke is a marketing and Internet veteran with a wealth of experience at the intersection of consumer and technology marketing. As Vice President of Marketing for Intuit, he helped lead the reinvention of Quicken and launch the first SaaS version of the popular personal finance software. Prior to Intuit, Mr. Gustke was responsible for business unit management, global branding and product marketing at Lexar Media, helping grow the flash memory company to over $850 million before its acquisition by Micron Technology. He also served as the founding Vice President of Marketing for Ofoto, an online photography service, acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2001. A pioneer in Internet marketing, he joined America Online in 1996 as the marketing leader for GNN, the company's first Internet Service Provider, and in 1995 as a marketing manager at Polaroid Corporation he led the team that launched the company's first corporate web site.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of TTEC Holdings
Judi Hand is executive vice president and chief revenue officer of TTEC Holdings in Englewood, Colorado, a global customer experience technology and services company serving many of the world's most iconic and disruptive brands, with 48,700 employees on six continents. With more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience, she has held senior positions at telecom industry leaders including AT&T, Northwestern Bell, US West and Qwest.
From 2014 to 2017, Judi was an independent board member at Manitoba Telecom Services / Allstream. She holds an M.S. degree in management from Stanford University and a B.A. in communications and marketing from the University of Nebraska.
Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
Job Titles:
- Director of IR and Corporate Development
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- General Partner of Worldview Technology Partners, Inc
- Member of the Audit Committee / Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
Peter J. Goettner has served on our Board of Directors since March 2013. Mr. Goettner has been the General Partner of Worldview Technology Partners, Inc., a venture capital firm, since June 2004. He has been the Founder and Chairman of Crosschq, Inc., an IT security company, since November 2017. Mr. Goettner was previously Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DigitalThink, Inc., an enterprise e-learning solutions company, for seven years. Mr. Goettner holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Our board of directors believes that Mr. Goettner brings to our board of directors extensive experience in the technology industry and his service on a number of boards provides an important perspective on operations and corporate governance matters, and qualifies him to serve as one of our directors.
Robert Ferrer is responsible for all Ooma Business sales. He has over 20 years of senior sales leadership in building, growing and scaling enterprise and SMB sales teams for SaaS and UCaaS companies including Cisco/Webex, Siemens and Shoretel. Rob has built and led multiple $200 million organizations and has extensive experience building rapid growth field and inside sales teams, channel sales organizations, opening and deploying new routes to market, integrating acquisitions, and expanding into new geographic markets.
Job Titles:
- SVP Customer Service
- Vice President of Customer Care
Roy Calvo is Vice President of Customer Care at Ooma, responsible for customer support across all business and residential product lines, as well as inbound residential sales, partnership implementation and customer onboarding. Calvo has more than 25 years of leadership experience in customer service at telecommunications and technology companies. Prior to Ooma, he led worldwide customer support, training and customer satisfaction for Yahoo!. Calvo previously headed customer escalation for DirecTV and was operations manager for customer support at NorthPoint Communications.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee / Member of the Compensation Committee
Russ Mann has served on our Board of Directors since September 2009. Since January 2019, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a board member of WineBid, an online auction market for vintage wine. He has also been investor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Demandstar, a B2B marketplace, since June 2018. From January 2017 until acquisition in November 2017 by Deltek, a Roper company, Mr. Mann was CEO of Onvia, then a publicly traded company providing B2G commerce intelligence and database information services to businesses. From May 2016 until January 2017, he was Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Outerwall's EcoATM kiosk network as well as General Manager of Gazelle.com, a leader in the purchase and sale of used cell phones and electronics, until Outerwall's acquisition by Apollo Management Group. He was CMO of Nintex USA LLC, a privately held mid-market workflow software and services company from November 2014 to November 2015. Mr. Mann was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Covario, Inc., advertising technology and digital marketing agency from January 2006 to May 2014. Covario specialized in the online marketing of consumer electronics and financial services and was acquired by Dentsu. Mr. Mann holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Treasurer
- Vice President
Shig Hamamatsu is Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Ooma, responsible for managing the company's finances, capital structure and financial reporting. Hamamatsu previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Accuray, a publicly traded provider of medical devices. Earlier in his career, he held senior financial roles at companies including Cepheid, Cypress Semiconductor, RPX and NetLogic Microsystems. Hamamatsu is a certified public accountant in the state of California (inactive) and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and accounting from the University of Washington.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Role of Global Tech Director for Ketchum
Most recently recognized by the Holmes Report as one of the top 16 people from the marketing communications and PR worlds who are poised to make waves in 2016, Susan Butenhoff has almost 30 years of public relations experience. Following an eight-year tenure at Ketchum Public Relations, Susan founded Access Communications in 1991. In 2008 she sold Access to Ketchum, one of the world's largest public relations consultancy and a member of Omnicom. Susan has assisted major national companies as they have navigated challenging corporate reputation issues and brand building opportunities. She has worked with C-level executives with such leading technology companies as Google, Apple, Sun Microsystems, PayPal, Intuit, and Toshiba and consumer product power brands including Mattel, California Closets, Peet's and Safeway. In addition, Susan leads a proprietary media training program, OnMessage, and in this capacity has trained celebrities, public officials and corporate executives.
In 2014, in addition to being CEO of Access, Susan was promoted to the role of Global Tech Director for Ketchum where she is responsible for expanding Ketchum's technology practice while also looking for opportunities to integrate Ketchum brand and corporate renowned expertise with Access' technology pedigree to provide a stronger offering to clients worldwide.
In January 2016, Susan led the integration of Access Communications with Emanate Public Relations, combining both agencies' expertise in technology and innovation, consumer brands and corporate reputation management. Access Emanate, an integrated communications firm, now has approximately 175 employees and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and London.
Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee
Tim Sullivan brings extensive experience in retail sales, channel development and marketing and has held senior executive positions at Seagate, Lexar Media and TDK. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Seagate's Branded Group, Mr. Sullivan was responsible for consumer focused data-backup solutions in multiple channels. As ESVP Worldwide Sales for Lexar Media he was responsible for guiding the company's sales growth to over $850 million from retail, e-tail, and OEM sales channels worldwide. Mr. Sullivan also served as Vice President of Sales at Onechannel.net, an Internet start-up focused on e-commerce metrics. Prior to Onechannel.net, Mr. Sullivan was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TDK Electronics Corp responsible for an over $400 million business which included the launch of such categories as the Recordable CD and DVD.
Job Titles:
- SVP Engineering and Operations
- Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Ooma and Oversees All of Ooma
Toby is the vice president of engineering and operations of Ooma and oversees all of Ooma's technical development, manufacturing and engineering.
Toby has spent over 20 years creating high-tech products, from personal computers (at Apple for 10 years) and video game consoles (3DO), to satellite networking systems (founder and CEO of BroadLogic) and home broadband media centers (Moxi Digital and Digeo).
Toby holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee
William D. Pearce has served on our Board of Directors since March 2013, and as our Lead Non-Management Director since June 2017. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of RichRelevance, Inc., a personalized shopping experience firm, a director of SpendGo, Inc., a marketing solutions company for restaurants and retailers, and Marketing Faculty at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Pearce was Partner and Marketing Practice Director at The Partnering Group, a global consumer products and retail management consulting firm. From 2008 to 2011, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Del Monte Foods, Inc., a food production and distribution company. Mr. Pearce previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Foresight Medical Technology LLC, medical devices company, from 2007 to 2008; Chief Marketing Officer at Taco Bell Corp., a fast food restaurant company and subsidiary of the firm Yum! Brands, Inc., from 2004 to 2007; and Vice President Marketing at Campbell Soup Company, traded food manufacturer, from 2003 to 2004. Mr. Pearce holds a B.A. in Economics from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
Our board of directors believes that Mr. Pearce is qualified to serve as a director based on his prior experience as an executive at several publicly-traded companies and his considerable experience as a board member of several privately-held companies.
Chair of the Compensation Committee