talking headz

Dave and Evan chat with Mark Strassman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications and Collaboration at LogMeIn. 

Mark serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager for LogMeIn’s Unified Communications & Collaboration business unit overseeing market-leading UCC products GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, Jive, Grasshopper and more. Mark joins LogMeIn from BlueJeans Networks, where he served as the video collaboration company’s Chief Product Officer. Prior to BlueJeans, he was Senior Vice President of Products at Blackboard, Inc, a leading provider of video and collaboration technologies for the education industry. He’s also held various leadership positions at Autodesk, Inc., including managing Autodesk’s core products, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and at Adobe and Macromedia where he built and led the Web publishing and Flash businesses.

Mark holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the Walter A. Haas School of Business- University of California, Berkeley.

Dave and Evan meet with Ilya Bukshteyn, the Partner Director over Teams Devices at Microsoft. We discuss how Microsoft is changing, new types of devices, and of course Tesla cars. 

Ilya was there when real-time communications started at Microsoft. Actually, he was there when most things started at Microsoft as he's been there for about 25 years. He made the transition from SfB to Teams and wants to make sure you can too, so works to make sure that you have an ecosystem of high quality, certified devices for desktops and rooms. 

Dave and Evan meet with Bryan Martin to discuss the history of VoIP, UCaaS, video,  the cloud, and 8x8.

Bryan Martin is 8x8’s technological visionary, leading the company’s drive to patent a range of disruptive and innovative technologies. With an excellent sense of how cloud communications transform enterprise communications and customer service, Bryan led 8x8 as CEO from its early days as a VoIP pioneer. Before becoming CEO in 2002, he held the positions of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering Operations.

Martin holds 64 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones, and communications. Internet Telephony magazine named Bryan one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications.” Bryan also served on the California Broadband Task Force for the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, and later became Chair of the task force’s Emerging Technologies and New Applications Working Group.

Bryan is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.