Management Team
Management Team and Board Members:
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.
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Senior Management Team:
Plakosh, David Szczepanski, Jeffrey Hasenauer, Chris
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 InSciTek, 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.
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.
Scott Murphy is currently a principal at Advantage Capital. He is an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur whose background includes public service. His primary responsibilities include sourcing and closing investments in New York and managing Advantage Capital's New York portfolio. He joined the company in 2001. Before joining Advantage capital, Mr. Murphy founded three different Internet-related businesses: Small World Sports, a pioneer in providing fantasy sports games that was sold to Vulcan Ventures/The Sporting News and is now the Sporting News? fantasy sports division; Small World Software, a web consultancy that was sold to IXL, taken public and later merged with Scient; and Baazee.com, the leading online auction site in India, that was sold to eBay. Mr. Murphy earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. |
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