iHello Team

Board of Directors

Jay Goldberg
Senior Managing Director, Hudson Ventures
Jay Goldberg has been the Senior Managing Director of Hudson Ventures since 1996. He is the Founder of OPCENTER, LLC, a privately held company that provides help desk and computer operations services, and the Founder and Chairman of Lexstra PLC, a London based consulting company. From 1990 through 1994, Jay served as Chairman and CEO of Image Business Systems Corp. a company that provided document management and workflow software. In 1989, he founded Zeitech, Inc., a professional services company that was sold in January 1996 to Career Horizons, Inc. In 1986, Jay purchased Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS), a provider of software and services to banks and broker-dealers, which was sold in 1989 to Sungard Inc. From 1968 to 1985, Jay was Chairman and CEO of Software Design Associates, a systems development firm that grew to 600 people, which was sold to AGS Computers Inc.

Abbott ‘Abby’ Stillman
Managing Partner, The Stillman Group
The Stillman Group engages in real estate development, investment and asset management, as well as venture investing. Among the real estate projects that have been created by the company are Three Lincoln Center (a 1,000,000 square foot mixed-use development in New York City), 1110 Vermont Avenue (a 360,000 square foot office building in Washington, D.C.), and 401 North Broad Street (a 1,200,000 square foot office and technology center in Philadelphia). The Stillman Group has invested in more than a dozen companies since 1992, usually at an early stage in the company's life. Abby Stillman has served as a Director of, among others, Toolz, Ltd., D2M Inc., eCreative (now a part of Fast Channel Networks), and SCB International, Inc. Abby graduated with a Masters Degree in Architecture and Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bachelor’s Degree from Union College (Schenectady, NY).

Lee An
iHello Co-Founder
Lee An brings to iHello extensive experience designing and building highly scalable Internet commerce and communications technologies. Lee is an expert in building and deploying enterprise class voice applications. Prior to founding iHello, Lee was a co-founder, the Vice President of Technology, and Chief Architect at Release Software Corporation, a pioneer in e-commerce and Electronic Software Distribution. Before forming Release Software, Lee was a software engineer at Intel Corporation, where he developed one of the company’s first Intranets. He earned a Masters Degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a BS degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Lee also holds numerous patents in the areas of telecommunications and e-commerce.

Advisory Board

Charles A. Lynch
Chairman, Market Value Partners Company
Charlie Lynch is Chairman of Market Value Partners Company. In addition he is Chairman of Fresh Choice, Inc. and Age Wave LLC as well as a board member or advisor to a number of start-up companies. Other Boards that he is affiliated with are SRI International, Madge Networks, Shari's Management Corporation, and Spectrum Organic Products. He also is an advisor to Bain & Company and Gordon Brothers. Charlie has also been Chairman of Saga Corporation, Greyhound Lines, DHL Airways, La Salsa Holding Co., Bojangles, Dakin, and Authentic Specialty Foods, as well as being a Board Member of 21 major corporations such as Pacific Mutual Holding Company, Nordstrom, Southern Pacific Transportation, W.R. Grace & Co., Syntex Corporation, Crocker National Corporation and Bank and Kaiser Aluminum.

Charlie is currently a community leader and involved with the UC Berkeley Haas Business School, United Way of the Bay Area and is the Chairman of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He is a member of the Conference Board and a former Chairman of the California Business Roundtable, United Way of the Bay Area, and a former member of the National YMCA and Advisory Council, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Barry Trailer
President, Sales Mastery Inc.
Barry Trailer is a nationally recognized expert in Sales Force Automation and CRM and is a frequent speaker at national conferences. Most recently, Barry was president of the GoldMine Division of FrontRange Solutions. Prior to that, he held other senior positions at FrontRange Solutions including Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Vice President of North American Sales for GoldMine Software Corporation (prior to corporate name change to FrontRange Solutions). Barry has presented to more than 10,000 sales reps and executives at over a hundred companies, including HP, Sun Microsystems, Conner Peripherals, and Hitachi Data Systems.

Laurent Pacalin
Vice President & General Manager, Siebel Systems
Laurent Pacalin has many years of executive experience in marketing, business development, product management at major software companies including Oracle, Blue Martini Software, and Corio. Laurent spent five years in executive roles at Oracle Corporation, including vice president, Americas Marketing where he led a team that re-tooled Oracle for e-business, and vice president, Business Development for Enterprise Applications where he executed Oracle's vertical markets strategy for the U.S. mid-market. Prior to that he held executive positions at Novell, Inc. and Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group in Paris. Laurent has a MS in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne.

E. David Barton
Founder and CEO, AcuVoice Inc.
Under David Barton’s leadership, AcuVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) system became recognized industry-wide as the most advanced TTS system available in the market. AcuVoice Inc. was acquired by Fonix Corporation in 1998, and the AcuVoice TTS system became fully integrated into Fonix’s product line. David has made numerous inventions, including underlying algorithm behind the AcuVoice TTS system. David has many years of experience as a senior manager, as a linguistics instructor, and as an international business executive. David studied Phonology and Semantics for an M.S. in Linguistics from the University of New York, Buffalo, and has an M.S. and B.S. from Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Bill Lane
Director, Call Center Product Services, WorldCom
Bill Lane is responsible for one of the top two worldwide centers for outsourced intelligent call routing and interactive voice response (IVR) services with approximately 10 billion annual call minutes and capacity for over 200,000 simultaneous phone calls. Bill has over 12 years of senior management experience in the telecom industry. Prior to WorldCom, Bill was the VP of Customer Implementation at Telecom USA. Bill has a BS Summa Cum Laude in Operations Management from NY Institute of Technology.