He is also the co-founder of the Internet Gaming Zone, which was sold to Microsoft and is now the cornerstone of its online gaming strategy. Ted received a degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

A founding editor of IEEE Software magazine, Jeff is an active member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Applications Working Group of the International Softswitch Consortium, as well as an experienced international public speaker. He holds a B.A. degree in Communications from Brown University and an M.A. in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sohail brings to Syndeo a brilliant understanding of redundant architecture, fault-tolerance, and distributed systems. He is extremely well versed in a variety of operating systems, programming languages, networks, networking protocols, and telecommunication protocols. With experience that is both broad and deep, he is well placed to control the overall direction of Syndeo's engineering efforts. Sohail received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Houston.

Ron Abelmann, a successful 35-year veteran of the high technology industry, is the Chairman, President and CEO of CyberStateU.com, the first company to deliver technical certification training via the Web.

CyberStateU.com is the leading interactive e-learning company, having delivered more than 50,000 distance learning courses to IT professionals and computer telephony specialists worldwide. 

Previously, Ron was President and CEO of Wind River Systems, Inc., the leading provider of real-time operating systems, integrated software development tools and engineering services for embedded applications. At Wind River, Ron was one of the key architects behind the company's success and is credited with boosting earnings by an annual average of over 40%. During his five-year tenure, revenue grew from approximately $20M to over $150M and operating profits grew from breakeven to over 20%.

Prior to joining Wind River Systems, Ron was President and CEO of Vantage Analysis Systems, the first and leading supplier of VHDL simulation tools for electronic design of systems and silicon. Ron grew this company from inception to $15M in highly profitable revenues and very successfully sold the company to a growing public EDA company. Ron also serves as a member of the board of directors of Mobilsys Inc., Antrim Design Systems Inc. and Wind River Systems Inc. He holds a master's degree in applied physics from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.

Dick Liebhaber is a Consulting Managing Director at Veronis, Suhler & Associates, the New York Media Merchant Banking firm. He serves on the Board of Directors of KPN/Qwest, Advanced Radio Telecommunications, AVICI Systems, Internet Communications Corporation, Rare Medium Group and Alcatel USA, and serves on the Advisory Board of Corning.

Over the past 5 years Dick has served as a director on a number of technology development companies including Transmedia Communications, which was recently acquired by Cisco, Objective Communications and Promatory Communications, recently acquired by NORTEL.

In addition to Syndeo Corporation, Dick serves as an advisor and Board member of a number of technology and networking efforts including Corvia, Telera, Sylantro Systems, Linguateq and serves as a member of the Advisory Boards to Telesoft Partners and Polaris Venture Capital Partners.

Dick has served as a consultant to The Anschutz Company in Denver, Colorado in formulating the Qwest Telecommunications Network model and served on the Board of Qwest Communications from the inception of the company.

Prior to his position with Veronis, Suhler & Associates, he was employed by MCI as Executive Vice President. Dick was given the responsibility to architect, engineer, construct and maintain MCI's network and its operational and management information infrastructure. In addition, he was responsible for business development and strategy management for the company. Dick served on the MCI Board of Directors from 1992 to his retirement in 1995.

Dick began his career as an engineering trainee at IBM, where he subsequently became IBM's Director of Business Policy and Development. Among his accomplishments in that position, Liebhaber represented IBM in the establishment of a joint venture that became Prodigy.

Pillar is a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Brown University. He is an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization and the Council on Foreign Relations and is a founding member of the State of New York's Governor's Task Force on New Media and the Internet. In addition to representing CBS on the Boards of SportsLine, MarketWatch, and Switchboard, among other portfolio investments, he serves on the boards of a number of emerging technology companies.

John received a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Technical Advisory Board

Syndeo Corporation drives itself relentlessly to deliver bulletproof IP telephony services to its carrier customers. In addition to obtaining ISO 9001 certification prior to even demonstrating its products, Syndeo has put together an extraordinarily strong technical advisory board. This group of carrier and equipment provider veterans has the charter to make certain that all of Syndeo's products and services not only meet the feature/benefit demands of the global service provider marketplace, but also meet the reliability and scalability standards required for this demanding customer base.

Currently, Syndeo's Technical Advisory Board comprises industry veterans from CLECs, DSL providers, such as Covad, equipment manufacturers, including Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies, and major industry analysts and luminaries.