Speakers

Eric B. Stang has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board of Directors member since January 2009. He has been Chairman of our board of directors since December 2014. Mr. Stang is also a member of the Board of Directors of Rambus Inc., a publicly traded company providing industry-leading chips, silicon IP, and technology licensing, where he serves as the Chair of its Compensation and Human Resources Committee and a member of its Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee. Mr. Stang was previously a Director of InvenSense, Inc., a publicly traded MEMS semiconductor company, and Solta Medical, Inc., a publicly traded medical aesthetics company. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Stang was President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Reliant Technologies, a privately held developer of medical technologies for aesthetic applications. Previously, he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lexar Media, Inc., a publicly traded solid-state memory products company, now a subsidiary of Micron Technology. He occasionally serves on the boards of private companies. Mr. Stang holds an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Our Board believes that Mr. Stang is qualified to serve as a director because of his operational and historical expertise gained from serving as our President and Chief Executive Officer, extensive public and private company board experience, and experience as an executive in the technology industry. Our board also believes he brings strong continuity to the board.

Shig Hamamatsu is Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Ooma, responsible for managing the company’s finances, capital structure and financial reporting. Hamamatsu previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Accuray, a publicly traded provider of medical devices. Earlier in his career, he held senior financial roles at companies including Cepheid, Cypress Semiconductor, RPX and NetLogic Microsystems. Hamamatsu is a certified public accountant in the state of California (inactive) and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from the University of Washington.

Chris Burgy is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and driving Ooma’s strategy for enterprise unified communications as a service (UCaaS). He brings diverse experience ranging from information technology, sales, channel business models, corporate development and strategy. Prior to joining Ooma, Chris was Vice President of Corporate Strategy at ShoreTel and was a leading contributor to the successful transformation of ShoreTel into a cloud company.

He holds Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science degrees from California State University, Bakersfield.

Robert Ferrer is responsible for all Ooma Business sales. He has over 20 years of senior sales leadership in building, growing and scaling enterprise and SMB sales teams for SaaS and UCaaS companies including Cisco/Webex, Siemens and Shoretel. Rob has built and led multiple $200 million organizations and has extensive experience building rapid growth field and inside sales teams, channel sales organizations, opening and deploying new routes to market, integrating acquisitions, and expanding into new geographic markets.

Jim Gustke is a marketing and Internet veteran with a wealth of experience at the intersection of consumer and technology marketing. As Vice President of Marketing for Intuit, he helped lead the reinvention of Quicken and launch the first SaaS version of the popular personal finance software. Prior to Intuit, Mr. Gustke was responsible for business unit management, global branding and product marketing at Lexar Media, helping grow the flash memory company to over $850 million before its acquisition by Micron Technology. He also served as the founding Vice President of Marketing for Ofoto, an online photography service, acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2001. A pioneer in Internet marketing, he joined America Online in 1996 as the marketing leader for GNN, the company’s first Internet Service Provider, and in 1995 as a marketing manager at Polaroid Corporation he led the team that launched the company’s first corporate web site.

Dennis is the vice president of product management and technical advisory board member of Ooma and is responsible for creating an intuitive, compelling user experience.

Prior to joining Ooma, Dennis worked at Cisco Systems for 11 years where he began his career as a customer support engineer. He later joined the Escalation Team where he focused on fixing the most technically challenging problems, as well as supporting the design, rollout and operations of the largest remote access and broadband aggregation networks worldwide. He was honored with the title of Distinguished Support Engineer because of his expertise in networking protocols, isolating and fixing highly complex issues, and leadership among his peers.

Dennis holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Elka has 25 years of market analysis and strategic consulting experience with a focus on enterprise communications and next-generation technologies, including the establishment of the industry-leading Frost & Sullivan UCaaS practice. Her focus includes market and competitive intelligence, market forecasting and trend analysis, as well as strategy development and client growth consulting.

Thad is the Vice President of Product Management at Ooma, responsible for driving great user experiences across Ooma’s portfolio of hardware devices, mobile apps, and services. Thad has more than 20 years of experience building and managing consumer tech products at leading tech companies including Yahoo!, BlackBerry, and 3jam (acquired by Skype). He has worked on messaging and communications products used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Thad holds a BA from Rice University in cognitive science and linguistics.