Frank Grillo, Cypress Communication’s executive vice president of marketing, is the winner of the voip-biz.news’ Person of the Year award.
In nominating him for the title, the telecoms professional was described as a "visionary executive" and "innovative thinker" with "technical acumen".
Grillo joined Cypress Communications in August of 2005 and was responsible for taking C4 IP, Cypress’ hosted VoIP and hosted unified communications solution, from inception to launch.
Praising Grillo’s handling of the process, a voter said: "C4 IP is a technically challenging configuration and took Frank Grillo’s visionary leadership, technical acumen and foresight to launch.
"It is the only integration of two traditionally disparate platforms: the carrier class softswitch, Nortel CS 2000, with the powerful multimedia server, MCS 5200.
"With the successful integration of these platforms, Cypress became the only company in the USA, and only one of three in the world, to accomplish this feat.
"To date, the C4 IP solution has won 10 awards for product innovation, and under Grillo’s leadership, C4 IP now has over 6,000 installed seats and is credited with the largest hosted VoIP/unified communications installation in the US."
Prior to joining Cypress, Grillo was senior vice president of business services for Z-Tel and senior vice president of global business markets for MCI WorldCom.
From 1995 to 2000 he was vice-president of marketing for LDDS.
Voip-biz.news would like to thank everyone who took the effort to nominate a product and to cast a vote.
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