Greg Smitherman
CEO
Greg Smitherman joins Global Conference Partners as CEO, bringing a deep background in telecommunications and twenty years experience working with early to mid-sized companies in a range of industries. He has returned over $1.3 billion in profits to his investors in the networking, telecommunications, wireless, data center, storage, and Internet industries. Mr. Smitherman has made successful investments in hardware, software, service and manufacturing companies as a principal at American Capital, a partner at Advent International, and as a senior director at Ameritech.
Mr. Smitherman has been involved in four IPO’s and has served on over 25 boards including Topspin Communications (Acquired by Cisco), Broadvision (NASDAQ:BVSN), Advanced Radio Telecom (NASDAQ:ARTT), Applied Digital Access Inc., (NASDAQ:ADAX), Connexn (Acquired by Azure Solutions), XIOtech (Acquired by Seagate) and Level One Communications (NASDAQ: LEVL, Acquired by Intel). He has been involved in over 100 transactions from venture investments, IPOs, and multi-billion dollar acquisitions. Mr. Smitherman received a BS in aerospace engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Cliff Kaylin
CTO
Cliff Kaylin has been the principal architect of the software and hardware systems at Global Conference Partners over the last eighteen years. He is a pioneer in the architecture and development of software, network infrastructure and enabling technologies in CTI (Computer/Telephone Integration) Mr. Kaylin has overseen and actively coded large-scale technology projects for both telecommunications and Internet applications for over eighteen years. He holds a master's degree from UCLA and BA degrees from UC Berkeley.
Nancy King
VP Marketing
Nancy King is a senior level marketing executive with over twenty years experience in a variety of different industries including food, toys, software, mobile phone entertainment, voice technology, and the Internet. She has worked for Fortune 100 companies such as Nestle, Coca Cola Foods, Pillsbury, Heinz Pet Products and Mattel. She has held the position of Vice President of Marketing at Mattel Toys, Voiceweb Inc. and Youbet.com.
Ms. King formed and managed her own marketing company from 1998 until 2006. Some of her clients included: Toyota Scion, Sea Country Homes, Disney Interactive, Sennari Games and Matchmaker.com. In 2003, Ms. King taught advanced marketing at the University of Montana School of Business Administration. Ms. King holds a BSBA in marketing and finance from Boston University and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Joe Iuliano
VP Sales
Mr. Iuliano began his career in the financial industry in the Private Client Services department of BT Alex Brown. His love of technology and his entrepreneurial spirit inspired him to take a start-up position as Vice President of Business Development and Sales with MP3.com where he grew revenues from nominal to over $120 million annually in just two years, helping fuel one of the largest technology IPO's of its time. Once MP3.com was acquired by Vivendi Universal, he remained within the organization as VP of Business Development and packaged Vivendi Universal's vast array of online media, label, studio, games and theme park properties to partners. He then started his own consulting practice assisting numerous new media companies formulate revenue streams and drive sales prior to joining Global Conference Partners in 2006.
Dennis Pascual
VP Strategic Partners
Dennis Pascual is leading efforts to build partnerships with telephone carriers globally. He joins from j2 Global Communications, Inc. (www.j2global.com, www.efax.com) where he spent the last six and a half years building the telecommunications and network infrastructure for a company that grew from a market cap of less than $100 million to over one billion. He also managed the growth of the company's network from 500 cities in thirteen countries to over 2,500 cities in thirty-five countries during his tenure.
Prior to j2 Global, Mr. Pascual was responsible for the Telecommunications infrastructure for Protection One Alarm Monitoring Company, Inc. and its parent company, Western Resources. He also helped build the Information Technology department for Trust Company of the West as a Vice President, Information Technology.
He graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in Information Systems and from Claremont Graduate University with an MS in Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications.