Al Brisard is vice-president of marketing at Pingtel Corp. where he oversees product development, strategy, and marketing programs. Prior to Pingtel, Al led the development and execution of MCK's product strategy, expanding the development of its remote voice products over broadband networks. He was also director of marketing and business development at 3Com's Personal Communications Division. He has an MBA from Boston College Carroll School of Management and a BS in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
In a small or medium-sized business, the cost of telephone equipment, phone
lines, and long distance calls can easily reach tens to hundreds of thousands
of dollars. A chief executive officer or operations manager, looking for ways
to lower costs, finds there's few ways to do it. Equipment prices are high;
management fees are steep; proprietary software locks a company into a
particular vendor's solution, and that's not all. Phone equipment vendors,
which become virtual monopolies after insinuating themselves into a business,
expect companies to pay for costly upgrades on their time schedule, not their
customers'.
Although attempts to solve business problems with innovative voice-over-IP
(VoIP) solutions exist, the final product simply replicates the vendor
lock-in mod... (more)
Al Brisard is vice-president of marketing at Pingtel Corp. where he oversees product development, strategy, and marketing programs. Prior to Pingtel, Al led the development and execution of MCK's product strategy, expanding the development of its remote voice products over broadband networks. He was also director of marketing and business development at 3Com's Personal Communications Division. He has an MBA from Boston College Carroll School of Management and a BS in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
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