Management Team
Allworx - Product Division
The majority of Allworx engineers – and the company's principals - have a proven history of developing products that are better, faster, and less expensive than anything currently on the market.
Allworx founders George E. Daddis, Jr., PhD and Jeff Szczepanski are seasoned engineering executives from Eastman Kodak Company and Xerox Corporation. They have world-class engineering credentials and directly-related experience, and have worked together as an effective, award-winning team since 1993. Prior to forming Allworx, they were often recognized for bringing high quality products to market with speed and success. But even with these achievements, they felt constrained working within large companies. The development of our original product, the Allworx 10x, has allowed them to stretch their talents and technology expertise to their fullest.
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Senior Management Team:Daddis Jr., George E., PhD. Elliott, J. Thomas Evans, Bill Gault, Sandra M. Grinde, Tom Hasenauer, Chris Plakosh, David Szczepanski, Jeffrey
George has extensive experience in leading people in delivering digital products to the marketplace. His business management skills are complemented by his ability to establish a market-focused vision, build highly capable organizations, and manage quick and efficient product commercialization. George has over 20 years of experience in software and digital hardware technologies with a focus in communications and networking, embedded systems, and imaging technologies. Prior to founding Allworx, he served as an Engineering Manager in the software and systems division of Xerox Engineering Systems. There he established and managed a multi-functional platform engineering team to create and develop the ground breaking AccXES client/server architecture for the XES family of printers and scanners. This platform earned wide industry recognition, and its development set benchmarks within Xerox in time-to-market, cost, and performance. Previously, George worked at Eastman Kodak where he managed and rapidly expanded a PostScript and raster printer controller platform that powered such award-winning Kodak desktop color printers as the XLS 8600 PS and DCP 9000. George received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University in Computer Engineering. He has published academic papers in communication/data convergence and super scalar computer architecture. He is active in several entrepreneurial organizations and community groups.
Mr. Evans brings 18 years of telecom customer service and technical support management experience to the company, including executive-level roles leading support services for VoIP, PBX and Hosted PBX technologies. Mr. Evans came to Allworx from Telepacific Communications (formerly Mpower Communications), where he served as Director, Call Center/CTSC ( Customer Technical Support Center ). During his ten year tenure, Evans was responsible for Field Services and providing 24 X 7 call center technical support for VoIP, IP Hosted PBX, PRI/HiCAP/CAS, NxT1, DS3, SDSL, Private Line (Point to Point) and POTS product offerings. Evans also facilitated integrating a national call center and developed a Voice/Data group to streamline troubleshooting for various products. Prior to Telepacific Communications, Evans was the principle/owner of a contracted Key System/PBX installation company and also was with Volt Telecom where he was responsible for Field Services and Customer Care best practice process development and knowledge management. Mr. Evans Business Studies and advanced Telecommunications and Telephony O&M (Operations & Management) courses came from Sheffield College and TechCom in Sheffield , England . Evans also holds many PBX, T1, DSL and Networking certifications including the Nortel DMS SuperNode.
Ms. Gault has over 15 years of experience in Fortune 500, venture capital and startup organizations as a senior-level management executive with broad-based experience in product management, marketing and sales. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Gault was responsible for driving high growth opportunities across several startups to mid-size companies from 1999 through mid 2003. She was Vice President of Marketing for Performaworks and ViaPeople. Across these organizations, revenue grew from $1 million to $22 million in less than 3 years while managing 20+ employees. In addition, she consulted with several other venture capital portfolio companies to establish and implement market driven strategies. Ms. Gault was employed at Eastman Kodak from 1989 to 1999. During her last four years at Kodak, Ms. Gault was General Manager for the Output Group within the Digital & Applied Imaging Division. In this role, Ms. Gault grew a $6 million inkjet imaging business to a $55 million business initiative. Previously, Ms. Gault was worldwide marketing of the thermal printer and workstation product portfolio for business-to-business markets representing $70 million annually. Finally, Ms. Gault had sales management experience with IBM Corporation during the original launch and deployment of the IBM PC product family. Ms. Gault received her B.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology and her MBA from the University of Rochester Simon Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Grinde has over 25 years experience in the telecom industry in both the manufacturing and VAR sectors. Mr. Grinde has a variety of telecom experiences, from manufacturing sales through Supply House and direct channels to an interconnect owner, that uniquely qualifies him to lead the development of Allworx sales channel. He brings a structured approach to the sales organization with an accent on customer support and knowledge based selling. Prior to joining Allworx, Mr Grinde was VP, Sales for Tadiran America, the North American Division where he was responsible for managing the Sprint OEM contract and the Dealer Relationships. During his 4 years at Tadiran America he orchestrated the development of the current Partner Program and was instrumental in the launch of numerous Coral products and the Emerald ICE Key System. Prior to joining Tadiran, Mr. Grinde was the founder and C.E.O of a multi-office interconnect which he ran for 12 years prior to its sale in 2001. Mr Grinde was with Comdial for 12 years and held numerous positions from Production to ultimately becoming Director of Sales. He helped Comdial grow to $125M in sales in the late 80’s. Mr. Grinde holds a B.S. degree in Business Management from Virginia Tech and an M.B.A. from The College of William & Mary. He the 2001 past Chairman of the Board of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Chris Hasenauer brings more than 15 years of financial and telecommunications management experience to Allworx. Prior to joining Allworx, Chris served as Vice President of Finance at PAETEC Communications, which is a provider of voice, video, and data solutions. During his seven years with PAETEC, Chris had direct responsibility over the company’s treasury and fundraising efforts, which helped PAETEC grow from $150 thousand to more than $500 million in annual revenue. Chris played a prominent role in seven PAETEC mergers & acquisitions. He helped raise more than $134 million of private equity. Chris played a significant role in PAETEC’s recent recapitalization transaction, helping to raise $400 million in debt financing, and he significantly streamlined PAETEC's corporate governance structure. During PAETEC’s start-up phase, Chris was instrumental in setting up the company’s treasury and public reporting systems. Prior to PAETEC, Chris worked for Deloitte & Touche, from 1992 – 1999. Here, he held numerous training positions, responsible for teaching the firm’s U.S. employees, as well as their European staff in Deloitte’s training center in Crete. Chris also served as an audit manager, serving Deloitte’s clients in the manufacturing, not-for-profit and cable industries. A certified public accountant and a member of the AICPA, Chris received his B.A from the State University of New York at Geneseo and his M.B.A from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
David has twenty years of experience in architecting, managing, and constructing successful digital products. He has been a key contributor and leader in all phases of product development from requirements definition, product definition, system design, implementation, and continuing engineering. David’s expertise includes embedded control system, software design and development, systems engineering, project management, and program management. Prior to joining Allworx, David spent fourteen years with Xerox Corporation. He was a leader and key contributor in the development of the image path software for the highly successful Xerox DocuSP front end to the DocuTech Production Publisher. David holds six patents, which were the backbone to the success of the DocuSP system. Following this, David joined Xerox Engineering Systems where he was a System Architect, Project Manager, and Technical Program Manager for development of the AccXES color controller platform and the commercialization of a wide format color inkjet printing system. David was responsible for all program requirements and engineering deliverables. He sold the program to senior management by: defining the market need and vision for both this product and follow on products, and providing a competitive benchmark demonstration and study of the AccXES controller and client software. David received a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology graduating with a 4.0 GPA.
Jeff is an expert in Digital Systems design with over 20 years experience in digital hardware and software development and has been a leader and key contributor in all phases of product development. His contributions cover all areas of product development including market needs analysis, concept refinement, product definition, system design and all implementation activities from product inception through to product launch. A founder of the company, Jeff’s primary focus at InSciTek is defining and leading all technical development activities associated with the Allworx Product Line. Prior to founding Allworx, Jeff was a Senior System Architect at Xerox’s wide format printing business. At Xerox, Jeff led design and development of a new printer product platform that became the cornerstone of Xerox's wide-format printing business. This work was a clean slate platform design starting with customer requirements analysis and concluded with a highly successful series of products that leapfrogged the competition and reestablished Xerox's leadership position in the marketplace. Prior to moving to Xerox, Jeff started his professional career at Eastman Kodak Company working as a key contributor on several innovative digital photographic products including the very successful kiosk based photographic print enlargement systems. Jeff is an active alumnus of the Rochester Institute of Technology graduating with highest honors with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
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