DIALPAD - Key Persons


Brian Peterson - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • Chief Technology Officer - Founder
Brian is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Dialpad. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Google, building the front end of Google Voice.

CARLI HOOTEN

Job Titles:
  • Customer Experience Manager at Tecovas

Corey Burke

Job Titles:
  • VP of Telephony Engineering
Corey is the VP of Telephony Engineering at Dialpad. Prior to joining as our first engineer, he worked for over a decade as a manager and architect on embedded operating systems at Microsoft.

Craig Walker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Chief Executive Officer - Founder
Craig is the Founder and CEO at Dialpad. Previously, he was Founder and CEO of GrandCentral Communications (now Google Voice) and prior to that, ran Yahoo! Voice as the Senior Director of VoIP at Yahoo!

Dan O'Connell - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Member of the Board
Dan is the Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. Previously, he was the CEO of TalkIQ, a real-time speech recognition and natural language processing start-up that Dialpad acquired in May of 2018. Prior to TalkIQ, he held various sales leadership positions at AdRoll and Google.

Jason Yang - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
Jason is the COO at Dialpad. He held prior roles leading the Marketing and Operations team at Dialpad and external leadership roles leading Demand Generation at Five9 and Digital Marketing at Charles Schwab.

Jen Grant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Jen Grant currently leads Appify as CEO. Previously, Grant led Looker's marketing, led the rebrand of Elastic, grew Box to an industry-leading enterprise content company, and spent years leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. She holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Princeton.

John Kim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
John is a Managing Partner at Amasia. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President at Mercuria Energy Group, Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, and Portfolio Manager at Korean National Investments.

Lily Toy - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
Lily is the General Counsel at Dialpad. Previously, she served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Telenav. Prior to that, she was a corporate attorney at K&L Gates, Fenwick & West and Shearman & Sterling.

Lisa Banks

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Vice President of Strategic Finance
Lisa Banks is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Finance responsible for Financial Planning & Analysis, Investor Relations and Operational Excellence at ServiceNow. She brings more than 20 years of accounting and Finance experience at Cisco, Marketwatch.com and Ernst & Young. Lisa is a CPA and graduated from Santa Clara University.

Marc Andreessen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Mark Shulgan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Managing Director & Head of OMERS Growth Equity
Mark Shulgan is Managing Director & Head of OMERS Growth Equity and serves on Dialpad's board. Mark led the Thematic Investing team at CPP Investments, served as the Chair of its Investment Committee, and was a VP at Fortress Investment Group. Mark graduated from Western University and University of Windsor.

Mike Kourey - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Mike Kourey is the Chief Financial Officer at Dialpad. He brings more than 25 years of financial and strategic leadership experience, most recently serving as CFO of Okta after five years as board member and audit committee chair. Previously, Kourey served as the CFO of both Vlocity and Medallia. Before that, Kourey served as a partner at Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm. In addition to leading the significant revenue growth and scale of public and private companies, Kourey has been deeply involved in five successful IPOs as CFO, venture partner or audit chair.

Morgan Norman - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Morgan is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Dialpad. Prior to Dialpad, he was the Global Vice President of Corporate, Brand, Growth Marketing at RingCentral. Morgan is returning to Dialpad where he led go-to-market and global marketing as CMO from 2015 to 2017. Prior to Dialpad, he held Marketing Executive roles at Copper, Zuora, NetSuite, and Microsoft.

Prashanti Aduma - CIO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Leader
Prashanti Aduma is Chief Information Officer at Dialpad. Aduma is a transformative leader with more than 20 years of demonstrated leadership and project management experience at high-growth startups and enterprises. She brings deep experience in building world-class IT organizations to Dialpad, driving global strategic initiatives to enable next-generation technologies.

Rich Miner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Rich is a Director at Google focused on education-related technology. He has spent more than 30 years building and investing in innovative startups. Previously, he was a General Partner at Google Ventures and a co-founder of Android.

Steve LaCommare - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • SVP
  • SVP of Finance
Steve is the SVP of Finance at Dialpad. Previously, he ran Finance for security software start-up Nok Nok Labs, and prior to that was Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis for Saba Software during their IPO and growth phase.

Tasha Liniger - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Human Resources Officer
Prior to Dialpad, Liniger was a part of the founding team at BlueJeans as the Vice President of People where she helped expand the team globally and managed the company's 100% year-over-year headcount growth.

Vincent Paquet

Job Titles:
  • Chief Product Officer
Vincent is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Dialpad. Previously, he was PM for Google Voice, co-founder and COO of GrandCentral, and Director of Business Development at Yahoo!.

Will Griffith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Founding Partner at Iconiq Strategic Partners
Mr. William J. G. Griffith, IV, also known as Will, is a Founding Partner at Iconiq Strategic Partners. Mr. Griffith has been a Partner of ICONIQ Capital since 2013 and co-leading its merchant bank including its technology and direct investment efforts.