Dave Grannan Dave is President & CEO of vlingo. He joined vlingo in 2007 from Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, where he was a General Manager and responsible for leading Nokia's entry into the mobile email market.

Grannan has extensive experience in the mobile and software industries and a proven track record for launching and growing new businesses. Prior to Nokia, Grannan held various executive positions in the wireless and software industries. Early in his career Grannan was part of the communications industry group at Accenture, where he advised new entrants in the PCS market on market entry strategies, and from there he joined Sprint PCS as a General Manager to help launch what became the fastest growing US wireless carrier. Later, Grannan served as President and CEO of Geoworks, a global wireless data software company. Prior to joining Nokia, he was vice president of partners at Openwave.

Grannan started his career in the US Marine Corps where he led a unit responsible for the deployment of spread spectrum wireless position location systems in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq. Dave holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mike Phillips Mike is Co-Founder and CTO of vlingo. Mike has been active in the speech technology world for over twenty years. He started his career as a researcher first at Carnegie Mellon University and then at the Spoken Language Systems group at MIT working on core technology for automatic speech recognition. In 1994, he founded SpeechWorks based on technology that he and others had developed at MIT.

Over the next ten years, Mike and team grew SpeechWorks from a small startup in a new market into the market leader in the now established market for speech enabled call center solutions. SpeechWorks was responsible for many of key innovations in use today in the speech recognition systems deployed throughout the world.

In 2003, SpeechWorks was acquired by ScanSoft (now named Nuance). Mike joined ScanSoft as CTO and oversaw technology integration and development across the product groups. In 2005, Mike left ScanSoft to spend a year as a visiting scientist at MIT before starting vlingo in the summer of 2006.

John Nguyen John is Co-Founder and VP of Engineering of vlingo. Prior to vlingo, he was at Groove Mobile, a leading mobile music platform provider, where he was VP of Engineering. At Groove Mobile, he recruited the technical team and managed all research, development and operations of the critically-acclaimed music application for many mobile operators, including services with Sprint, Bell Canada, Orange, and 3. In addition, he initiated Groove Mobile's key innovations in mobile content search, superdistribution, and recommendations.

Prior to Groove Mobile, Nguyen was Senior Director of Network Speech Products at ScanSoft (now Nuance) where he joined as a result of the SpeechWorks acquisition. At ScanSoft, he managed research and development on all network speech recognition products, including the core speech-recognition engine and application modules for enterprise, auto-attendant, and directory assistance. Prior to ScanSoft, he was Director of Speech Products for SpeechWorks where he managed research and development on the speech recognition engine and platform.

Nguyen holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from MIT and B.S. degrees in Math and Computer Science from MIT.

John Elliott John joined vlingo as the Vice President of Sales in 2007 from Nuance Communications, the world's largest speech recognition software provider for call center automation applications. While at Nuance, John served as Director of Service Provider Sales.

John's sales career involves extensive experience within the carrier space, with a focus on establishing new markets for a variety of industry-leading telecommunications technologies. In particular, his 10 years of experience in the Speech Recognition Technology market has traversed many industry benchmarks, including the first automated Directory Assistance and Advertiser-sponsored Directory Assistance applications, as well as numerous first-time deployments for various carrier and enterprise customers. John's earlier career accomplishments include the co-founding of an early-stage business incubator in Dallas, TX in 2000 and the distinction of being one of the first employees of McCaw Cellular/ATT Wireless' National Accounts Program.

John graduated from The University of Tulsa in 1989 with a BA in Communications and Marketing.

Charlie Rutledge Charlie is vice president of operations and customer services for vlingo. He joined the company in November of 2007, bringing deep expertise in speech recognition from his role at SpeechWorks International (now Nuance) as vice president of professional services where he led the professional services and sales engineering organizations.

At SpeechWorks, Charlie grew professional services revenues six fold over five years and grew the team from 15 people to more than 120 across 12 offices worldwide. Prior to SpeechWorks, he was a senior manager at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in its Financial Services practice. He also held various engineering, analysis and marketing positions with Intel Corporation, Exxon Chemical Americas and Marathon Oil.

Charlie earned an SM in Management from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in applied science from Miami University. He currently resides in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Jon Wilcox As vice president of finance for vlingo, Jon oversees the company’s financial operations. He brings extensive finance expertise, previously serving as executive director of finance for Cynosure, Inc., where he ensured adherence to financial targets for the business, oversaw operation of the worldwide treasury function and was responsible for Cynosure’s planning and forecasting. Jon also led the financial reporting effort in Cynosure’s initial public offering as well as ongoing compliance with all SEC reporting requirements.

Prior to Cynosure, Jon was the director of finance for Forrester Research, Inc. where he was responsible for integrating the financial function of Forrester’s acquisition of Giga Information Group, while coordinating the treasury function and providing quarterly updates to the Audit Committee of Board of Directors on the operating results.

Jon is a CPA who began his career in Arthur Andersen’s Enterprise Group, where he worked with a number of technology companies ranging from start-ups to large multinationals. He earned an MBA/MS in accounting from Northeastern University and a BA in history and government from Centre College.