John Hibel

February 2001: Business Advantages of VoiceXML

John Hibel is Director of Business Development for VoiceGenie Technologies, Inc., where he is responsible for growing business through a number of customer-centric initiatives. John honed his business analysis skills at General Electric's Corporate Audit Staff, and for the last ten years has focused on market adoption of emerging technologies and business models in telecommunications. He previously held marketing and product management positions in Ericsson's wireless division and at Lucent Speech Solutions, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Engineering with a minor in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. John has been involved in VoiceXML since late 1998.

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Jeff Kunins

January 2001: Speak & Listen
February 2001: Speak & Listen

Jeff Kunins manages Tellme Studio, the premier open community and toolset for VoiceXML developers, and in addition helps define and articulate Tellme's strategic direction for meeting the needs of Enterprise customers. Previously during a four-year tenure at Microsoft, Jeff led a diverse set of platform and consumer efforts including Passport and Cinemania. He is a co-inventor of patent pending technologies for distributed Web authentication and key management, and also actively worked on Microsoft's acquisitions of Hotmail and Firefly Networks. Jeff is currently the co-chair of the Software Developers Forum Voice SIG, and writes WirelessDevNet.com's "Ask the Expert" column on voice technologies. Outside of technology, Jeff is an acclaimed composer and sound designer for live theater.

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Rob Marchand

January 2001: First Words
February 2001: First Words

Rob Marchand is Director of Products and Services Development for VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. Rob has been with VoiceGenie Technologies since 1999, and has worked in advanced computing and telecommunications since 1985. At VoiceGenie, Rob is responsible for the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com), and new products and services development. Rob is a member of the VoiceXML Education Committee, and of USENIX and SAGE, and a regular contributor to SANS. VoiceGenie is a Promoter Member of the VoiceXML Forum.

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William A. Meisel

February 2001: Voice Web: Commercial Implications of VoiceXML

William Meisel () is president of TMA Associates (, www.tmaa.com), a speech industry consulting firm; publisher and editor of Speech Recognition Update newsletter; and creator of the annual Telephony Voice User Conference. He holds an annual conference on the Voice Web, the Telephony Voice User Interface Conference. Meisel holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, wrote the first textbook on computer speech recognition, and ran a speech recognition company for 10 years.

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