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Dave and Evan chat with Quentin Gallivan, CEO of BlueJeans Network. 

Quentin was named the CEO of BlueJeans in August 2017. He brought to the company extensive experience in growth. As a founding executive at Verisign he grew the company to $1.5B in revenue (and took it through an IPO). He also grew cloud-based security market leader Postini to more than 35,000 customers (and over 10M users) before its acquisition by Google. 

He's well regarded as a numbers man, but comes across fairly well-rounded in this  interview. The takes Dave and Evan through some of the recent changes and announcements at BlueJeans. 

BlueJeans provides a meetings platform for the modern workplace that connects desktops, mobile devices and room systems. Thousands of organizations from growing businesses to Fortune 500s use BlueJeans for video meetings and large interactive events.

Dave and Evan chat with Milton Chen, founder and CEO VSee. 

Milton is a video pioneer that has built VSee into a powerful telemedicine platform. 

Telemedicine is no longer a fringe idea, in fact, some insist on dropping the "tele" part because it's just medicine now. It can save lives, and improve healthcare, and reduce costs. VSee serves over 1000 companies including Walgreens, MDLIVE, Trinity, DaVita, HCA, Seton, McKesson-US Oncology, and others. 

VSee was founded in 2008 by two Stanford PhD students, Milton and Erika Chuang. The original VSee platform was coded by Milton who did his PhD research on the psychology of video communications. Milton has deployed VSee for former President Obama’s Inauguration, for the Navy Seals, for Hillary Clinton, and Angelina Jolie in their refugee work. He is a genius at video, but needs to improve his skills around podcast audio. 

Nidal Abou Ltaif is known for his desire to help his customers use technology to make a difference in people’s lives. 

Nidal joined Avaya as the sales leader for the Middle East in 2003. In early 2014, was selected to lead the newly formed Global Growth Markets theater that includes MEA, Turkey, Russia, India, and China. In August 2015, he was named President of Avaya International with responsibilities for Europe, Middle East and Africa & Asia Pacific

Nidal has responsibilities for sales, services, engineering, and vertical solutions. He has been instrumental in Avaya’s transformation from niche voice/IP telephony player to its leadership position for UC and CC. 

He is known for his ability to foster long lasting relationships with customers and employees. Many of the associates Nidal has mentored went on to have successful careers in technology across the Middle East and Africa. What sets him apart is sincere concern for others. 

Devoted to the principles of customer-centricity, leaders without titles, and accountability at the workplace, Nidal has fostered an environment that makes innovation everyone’s business – whether they’re an Avaya employee or customer. Prior to Avaya, Nidal works at NCR and AT&T. 

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Dave and Evan chat with Amy Barzdukas about her fascinating year of launches as the CMO of Poly. We learn that friends don't let friends conference with earbuds, her Spartan approach to glamping, and the world needed the Poly Studio. 

Amy Barzdukas is an EVP and CMO at Poly. She is responsible for Poly’s global marketing strategy and execution. Barzdukas has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. She joined Polycom in 2015 as Vice President of Global Solutions Marketing and was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer in 2017. She retained the CMO role after Plantronics and Polycom merged into the new Poly. 

Prior to joining Polycom, Barzdukas served as VP WW Marketing for HP’s Business Personal Systems group and had a successful 16-year career at Microsoft with multiple leadership and GM roles.

Dave and Evan meet with Rowan Trollope, the CEO of cloud contact center provider Five9. 

Rowan has a billion things on his mind, yet found time to share some of the recent organizational changes at Five9, what comes next for the contact center after the cloud, how is background helps him at Five9, and he also confirmed he doesn't ski with OJ Simpson. 

Rowan Mehail Trollope was named the CEO of Five9 in May 2018. Previously, he headed the Collaboration group at Cisco. Rowan also held several leadership positions over 20 years at Symantec, where he helped grow it to the global leader in consumer security.

Rowan has completed the Executive Institute at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the Stanford Directors College at Stanford Law School.

In this TalkingHeadz, Evan and Dave ask the legendary Jonathan Rosenberg if SIP was a mistake. We also manage to discuss WebRTC, robocalls, Facebook, and fine dining.

JR was joined Cisco in 2013 where he a chief architect of what Webex Teams.

About Jonathan Rosenberg
Jonathan Rosenberg is the outgoing VP, CTO, and very fine Fellow of Cisco Collaboration. Having worked in IP communication and collaboration for 18 years he has some hang-ups on disconnects. He has authored many of the Internet standards that define modern telecoms, including SIP, SIMPLE (SIP for presence and IM), and ICE. He has held numerous leadership positions in the IETF, is the fourth most prolific author of Internet standards of all time (with 70 RFCs), holds 52 granted US patents, has served on advisory boards of numerous startups, given nearly a hundred industry talks, and has received several industry awards, including being named to the Technology Review TR100 in 2002 – the 100 most innovative young technologists in the world.

Prior to Cisco he was Chief Technology Strategist for Skype.

In 2002 JR was named one of the most innovative young technologists in the world by Technology Review magazine. He also was named a "Top Supergeek" by CRN and won a Pulver Von Pioneer award for contributions to the VoIP industry. In 2015 he was presented with the Ohio University Strowger Award for transformational innovation in the telecommunications industry.

Rosenberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from MIT and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Columbia University.

Cross posted at https://TalkingPointz.com/th-jr