VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and IP PBXs and Call Centers have become increasingly popular to enable larger businesses to gain many of the long-promised advantages of Internet Telephony. Until now, however, there has been no cost-effective way to virtualize VoIP services so they can be hosted, and delivered by managed service providers in the increasingly prevalent Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) and emerging Cloud Computing models. What’s more, VoIP’s questionable quality and reliability combined with “techno speak” from the vendor community have slowed adoption by mainstream businesses and their solutions providers. Now, Ring Carrier has emerged as “Your NEW Phone Company” to lead the VoIP movement by bringing to businesses of every size and type Hosted Virtual VoIP with the Quality of Telephony™ formerly associated with conventional telephony, TDM PBXes and the legacy PSTN.

Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, Ring Carrier is led by a top-flight management team with decades of experience in VoIP, emerging technologies and new ventures.

Gary Johnson, CEO
Gary has more than 25 years experience as an executive in the Silicon Valley high technology industry. He is a highly respected senior executive, who has held positions as CEO and president,  and numerous other senior management sales, marketing and operational roles. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Procera Networks (AMX PKT) a pioneering developer of network traffic management appliances. He was also president and CEO of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi), where he pioneered the Internet server category,  leading to its acquisition by Wind River Systems Inc. and President of Click Software Inc. (NASDAQ CKSW) an enterprise CRM software provider, developing their presence in North America,  and positioning them for their NASDAQ IPO. He has also held executive positions at a number Silicon Valley successes where he was influential before during and after their IPOs. They include SCO (The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO), Convergent Technologies, now (Unisys), and Tandem Computers, now (HP). He was also employed by Fairchild Semiconductor, and Measurex Corporation early in his career. Gary holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University.

Paul Mahler, CTO
Paul is respected worldwide as an Asterisk PBX guru and author of a book that has become the global standard for VoIP engineers.  He holds an undergraduate degree at honors in Philosophy of Science and Computer science from U.C. Berkeley and completed graduate studies in the Ph.D. program of Biophysics at Berkeley and Medical Information Sciences at U.C. San Francisco. Paul’s first job was with NASA Ames, where he worked as a rocket scientist using super computers to model trans-sonic fluid flows through rocket nozzles with the Navier-Stokes equations. For the last decade, Paul has been building open source based VoIP systems, and is an expert in creating systems that solve business problems.

 Rick Green EVP of WW Sales

Rick Green is currently the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Ring Carrier and is responsible for all aspects of Sales including Agents, Technology Partners, Inside and Outside direct Sales. He is additionally responsible for collaboration with the Marketing and Product development teams to assist with company growth.

Prior to joining Ring Carrier, Rick was the Vice President of Sales and General Manager for several VAR companies including Vigilar and Solunet Inc where he led extensive business development and Marketing Initiatives along with his Sales Management Responsibilities. Rick was directly responsible for increasing the firm's sales revenues by over 50% by expanding the partnership with several key vendors such as Juniper Networks, Foundry and MRV.

Rick has been involved in the network communications industry since 1981, and has held sales management and marketing positions in companies such as Nortel Networks, N.E.T. and General Electric. He has a proven track record of being able to execute within the manufacturing industry as well as the reseller community. He has consistently been a top performer and has received numerous awards for Sales performance throughout his Sales / Sales Management career.

Rick Green Graduated from Heald College, in 1984 at the Top of his class where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering.  During the first 15 years of his career Mr. Green held engineering positions related to Network Operations and Control, Systems Engineering, New Product Roll Out along with Business Development.

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