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Marc Trachtenberg
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Martyn Lewis
CBE, EU Chairman and Co-Founder

Steve Gage
Executive Vice President & Co-Founder

Jim Kaufold
Executive Vice President, Operations

Tony Smith
Executive Vice President, Global Sales

Jim Oldham
Vice President, North American Sales

Rick Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Jamie Thomson (1953-2008)
Managing Director & Co-Founder Emeritus


back to topMarc Trachtenberg
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Marc is a co-founder and CEO of Teliris and is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company. He has over 25 years of experience in helping customers benefit from the deployment of leading-edge technologies in the areas of visual communications, collaboration, data infrastructure, and transport systems. Under his leadership, Teliris has acquired more paying customers, delivered superior operating performance, and grown its business faster than any of its competitors. As a result, Teliris has grown to be the leading innovative provider of telepresence solutions - with a sixth generation suite of solutions in a second generation industry. Marc is a recognized telepresence visionary and was instrumental in developing and launching the first virtual meeting solution over a decade ago. Prior to Teliris, Marc was CEO of Mycroft, a leading technology consulting firm focusing on network security and infrastructure. Marc also served as the CTO for NETLAN, a large network integrator. Marc began his career directly after university, when he founded and served as President of the IDS Computer Center.


back to topMartyn Lewis
CBE, EU Chairman and Co-Founder

Martyn is a co-founder and EU Chairman of Teliris. Previously, over three decades in TV journalism, he became one of the UK's best known and respected TV anchormen. He is Founder and Chairman of YouthNet, an award-winning Internet-based charity that provides help and information to over half a million young people every month and has also developed the UK's national volunteering database. Other charity involvement includes: President of United Response, helping people with learning disabilities, Vice-President of the UK's three main hospice charities, a Trustee of the Windsor Leadership Trust, developing the leaders of tomorrow, and Chairman of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service Committee. He was awarded a CBE in the Prime Minister's Honours list of 1997.


back to topSteve Gage
Executive Vice President & Co-Founder

Steve is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Teliris currently leading Teliris' Research and Development organization with overall technical responsibility for Teliris' VirtuaLive product and services offerings. Steve's organization incorporates System Design, Software Systems, InfiNET Design, and Teliris Research Labs. The R&D organization is focused on product development activities as well as defining and building the future of telepresence. Steve formerly acted as Chief Operating Officer of Teliris and was responsible for the day-to-day management of all Teliris' operations in North America and Europe. He has been involved in the networking and data communications industries for more than 20 years. Steve began his career in 1989 at NETLAN, a large network integrator, as a senior sales representative. In 1993, he left to join Trachtenberg, one of Teliris' founders, at Mycroft Inc., a network security and infrastructure consulting firm. As Managing Director of Mycroft's United Kingdom operations, he was responsible for the growth and profitability of this operating unit. Steve studied mechanical engineering at Columbia University and graduated from Baruch College in New York with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Systems.


back to topRick Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Rick Glickman is the Chief Financial Officer for Teliris and leads the company in financial and legal affairs. Rick brings more than 25 years of experience in expanding high-growth companies, with significant expertise in revenue growth, budgeting/forecasting, tax and audit issues as well as international management. He came to Teliris in 2009 from EYP Mission Critical Facilities, where he served as Chief Financial Officer during a period of strong domestic and international growth that led EYP to an eventual sale to Hewlett Packard. Prior to joining EYP, Rick held the position as Chief Financial Officer for Thrupoint, an IT consulting firm for major financial institutions, service providers, and Fortune 500 companies, during which time the company experienced significant revenue growth and market expansion throughout the US and Europe. Rick began his career with KPMG in public accounting and subsequently joined the advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson Company before joining DMR Consulting Group, a global IT consulting firm where he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the U.S. Division. Rick holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Delaware.


back to topJim Kaufold
Executive Vice President - Operations

Jim joined Teliris in October 2007 as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and moved into the role of Executive Vice President, Operations in July 2010. He has overall leadership responsibility for building and executing the next stage of the company's operational capabilities and processes. Jim has over 19 years of sales leadership and general management experience - developing and leading global sales organizations to deliver corporate sales, revenue, and profit margin objectives. He has demonstrated success creating and executing sales strategies designed to increase market share and improve sales productivity via both direct and indirect sales channels in global, regional, and vertical markets. Prior to joining Teliris, Jim held several senior executive positions in Orange Business Services - Americas in which he was responsible for channel strategy, planning, sales operations, and the sales leadership of both Canada and the Global Large Account Program. He was also the sales vice president at Gateway Computers, where he led the direct and indirect sales channels for their education and business market segments. Jim spent the first 15 years of his career in telecommunications industry leading various sales organizations serving multi-national corporate clients for AT&T, Sprint, Infonet and KPNQwest.


back to topTony Smith
Executive Vice President - Global Sales

Tony has more than 16 years experience of creating and developing high performance sales teams in Europe for global technology companies. He joined Teliris in October 2007 to set up and lead a new distributed European sales business designed to promote the Teliris solution to a wider range of prospects in their local language. Tony moved into the role of Executive Vice President, Global Sales in July 2010 and is responsible for the global sales organization including 'high touch' direct sales teams and the development of a limited number of highly focused channel relationships. Tony's previous sales leadership positions have involved the sale of complex high tech solutions and managed services in the areas of communications, visualization, collaboration and High Performance Computing. Prior to Teliris, Tony spent four years at Polycom Inc where he delivered significant growth by creating a new European sales organisation. Before Polycom, Tony spent almost six years leading sales teams for Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) selling its portfolio of managed services and consulting. Earlier in his career, Tony held a variety of sales leadership roles with other technology and services companies including one of the UK's largest technology VARs (SCC) and Misys PLC.


back to topJim Oldham
Vice President - North American Sales

Jim joined Teliris in June 2006 where he is responsible for North American sales. Jim has held senior sales positions at companies ranging from Fortune 500 to aggressive start ups. Prior to Teliris, Jim was a Senior Solutions Partner at Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc., a provider of infrastructure solutions, where he successfully developed a new solutions selling model for the company. Prior to Forsythe Solutions, Jim undertook a series of engagements designed to help clients restructure their sales operations in order to identify and leverage new growth opportunities. These engagements included building sales organizations and key global customer relationships at Nextera Ent., eForce, and Covasoft. He led each organization to millions of dollars in revenue generation. Jim began his career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where he earned steadily increasing levels of responsibility over the course of 13 years - culminating in the management of 100 people and $80 million in revenue while serving as Vice President/Account Manager of key accounts for the New Media Division.




back to topJamie Thomson (1953-2008)
Managing Director & Co-Founder Emeritus

Jamie Thomson, 1953-2008, was a co-founder and managing director of Teliris, where he was responsible for the corporate finance and for the European operations of Teliris. He was instrumental in the establishment of Teliris from its beginnings. Prior to 1999, Jamie was a senior management and communications consultant, principally with Andersen Consulting. These included interactive satellite television communications, videoconferencing, and business integration methodologies. Jamie began his career as a professional stage and film actor in the UK and Hollywood, from which he moved into film and TV studio production.