Brad Fink Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

It's been a great 35+ years ride in tech but I'm happy to say I'm retired. Really enjoyed the opportunity to experience a lot of cool changes and work with many great people over the years. The very early days in datacom at startups that don't exist anymore, a great wireless run with Nortel, video mobile apps with MobiTV and wrapping up in speech tech and AI with Nuance and Microsoft, but now onto the next phase (and no more PowerPoints!).

Redmond, Washington, United States

Nuance Communications was officially acquired by Microsoft in 2022. I'm now part of the broader Microsoft team focused on North American telco communications providers.

Redmond, Wa

Responsible for Sales and Business Development with Communication Service Providers in North America for Nuance Communications.Nuance provides speech recognition, natural language understanding and AI core technology to create and deploy customer care solutions for Fortune 100 enterprises including most global Communications Service Providers. Deployed a wide range of solutions including voice and digital Virtual Assistants (VA), digital messaging services and AI powered real time Agent productivity tools. Also focus on authentication and fraud prevention solutions based on voice and other consumer biometrics.

Redmond, Wa

• Direct responsibility for MobiTV’s overall video business with both AT&T and T-Mobile.• Manage mobile TV subscriber activation, marketing, churn management, margin, mobile OEM preloads, video content strategy and technical roadmaps for both AT&T and T-Mobile.• Broad and trusted relationships with many AT&T and T-Mobile teams including product realization, marketing, network engineering and CTO groups up to SVP levels.

Redmond, Wa

• Initiated a corporate Business Development role to create a strategic business relationship between Nortel and Microsoft. • Instrumental in two very significant results with Microsoft: broad Patent Cross License agreement and the Innovative Communications Alliance ($1B revenue impact over four years).• Directly responsible for expanding and executing incremental Microsoft collaboration into the Service Provider market and delivered two end-to-end Carrier Hosted Unified Communications business solutions.

Redmond, Wa

• Created and managed local technical Sales Support group (10 person team) to support AT&T and T-Mobile and associated Nortel account teams. • Exceeded targets in all years with total revenue in excess of $500M per year.• Won 100% of the data and voice core networks at AT&T and a significant portion of RAN at T-Mobile.• Delivered ongoing network evolution consultation, technical integrations, pre-Sales product support and identified and negotiated incremental product enhancements.

Dallas, Tx

• Led the Product Management team for the TDMA and CDMA wireless data and SMS messaging services portfolios. • Successfully delivered incremental services and revenue to the majority of Nortel’s wireless customers globally.• Helped create early wireless data ecosystem and use cases (IoT, POS, etc.) to deliver incremental carrier revenue and Nortel margin.• Created and led a cross functional team driving overall program strategy, roadmap, product requirements, development, P&L and Go-To-Market to deliver a GPRS/EDGE wireless data solution. This was one of two trial “core team” organizational initiatives within Nortel at the time.

Calgary, Ab

System Engineer for wireless networks.