Jerry Knight Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Vancouver, Washington, Us

Operated and realized a suite of cloud-based corporate video services winning various accolades from such marquee accounts as Providence Health, FIS, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, the FAA and many others. Intercepted major gaps in Microsoft's Lync UC product related to larger collaborative sessions, event moderation and event management. Developed a close technical relationship with Microsoft (through their TAP program) and brought a fully cloud-based Lync add-on to market addressing these gaps with an estimated potential revenue opportunity of $400M over three years.

Public since November 2007.AccessLine Communications Corporation was founded in April 1998 as the first CASP business model conceived by Jerry Knight, Ian Widger and Bill Savage.First service launched December 1998; first major account won in 1999 (Peoplesoft). Multiple marquee fortune 1000 business accounts including IBM (2000), Sun (2000), Amex, HP, Proctor & Gamble, Standard Register, and many more.In 2001 developed mass retail channel with Costco and then subsequently Office Depot. In 2005 AccessLine released its business dialtone solution (DPS) leading to its current ranking in the top tier of next-generation service providers for the business market and winning Costco’s “Service of the Month” in July 2008 and Internet Telephony Magazine’s “Product of the Year” awards for 2005, 2006 and 2009. Jerry developed a series of key strategic relationships including Savvis and Intercall/Mitel and ultimately took the company public through a merger with Telanetix.By building and operating a new telecommunications network that eliminated old business models associated with expensive private branch exchanges and voicemail systems, Jerry opened up a host of opportunities for the development of new cutting-edge technologies and the realization of a suite of valuable multi-media services.

ACT purchased the "Intracell" patent developed by Jerry Knight and Ian Widger at ECT. ACT also purchased Sourcecom, a pioneering DSLAM inventor/manufacturer (Ali Saleh and Michael Zadikian) who were too early for the DSL market. ACT's strategy was to combine Jerry's IP with Sourcecom's platform to create the worlds first combined "Telco-in-a-box" multi-protocol packet-voice gateway and session border controller. Jerry was commissioned to help the Sourcecom team complete that development. The result was the SX-10 device that achieved general availability in August 1998. Jerry built the first iteration of AccessLine's network using the SX-10 technology.

Jerry co-founded, with Ian Widger, Enhanced Communication and Technology, Inc. in order to design and develop a revolutionary new IP multimedia technology (now commonly known as “Session Border Controllers”) to support multimedia communications management across multiple dissimilar networks. Pending patents associated with this area of research were filed by ECT in June 1997. This technology (then known as “Intracell”) was later sold to ACT Networks in line with ECT initial operating objectives.

Jerry founded NTC while continuing to work at Infonet. Infonet was the major source of financial backing for NTC. At NTC Jerry designed and developed a new technical architecture for the delivery of public, high-quality, “open”, voice services using the Internet as a service access mechanism. NTC was the first consumer-oriented Internet public telephony service (very similar to Skype today). Through technology partnerships with Netspeak of Boca Raton for the client interface and ACT technologies for the unique iBridge technology NTC brought public internet telephone services to the residential marketplace in 1997.

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Jerry redesigned and optimized Infonet’s international TDM backbone, improving its revenue-bearing capacity by 150%. Jerry was the first to purchase and install Nortel’s Passport cell-switched networking technology. Infonet’s CFO and General Counsel at the time, Ernie Gambaro, declared this the best run project in the history of the company.Jerry developed a new approach to packetized voice services (an interrupting hybrid frame-cell technology that became Nortel’s “Multi-Media Traffic Class”). This formed the basis of Infonet’s international Business voice VPN service “IMS”, which was declared the first of its kind and awarded “Hot Product of the year” by DataCommunications magazine for 1996.Jerry was responsible for bringing IMS to production in 31 countries, in the areas of software design and production, hardware design, systems management, provisioning, accounting and customer support.Jerry also developed and negotiated a number of strategic initiatives on Infonet’s behalf. These included their relationships with Unisource (who they ultimately purchased), WorldPartners, ACASIA and AT&T.

Responsible for design and implementation of the UK element of one of the world’s largest voice and data networks, the JP Morgan Transport Network. The daily value of transactions supported on JPM's network at that time could exceed a trillion dollars.Overall technical marketing responsibility for all Infonet network services products in the UK. Fulfilling a key consulting role to the sales department in the technical design, presentation and commercial aspects of all large and complex proposals. Major relationships included JP Morgan, Glaxo, Shell and Johnson & Johnson.Development of business strategies for the sustained growth of Infonet both within the UK and, more generally, throughout Europe.Was invited by Infonet's executive team to move to Los Angeles and lead a team to completely redesign Infonet's global network .

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Established Plessey Controls BV in Holland with three other people (initially in a Portakabin) to address the Western European data network market. Became Telenet BV and Sprint BV through M&A.Designed, sold and deployed some of the largest packet/cell networks in Europe. Unilever UNISON, Dutch Police, Dutch Rail, BNP, BEAnet (POS network), RaboBank, etc. Total value of sales to Sprint exceeded 150 Million Dollars.Consulted to the Hermes project for a European interconnected frame/cell/packet network. Post Graduate guest lecturer on packet/cell technologies.Declared one of the top 10 European experts in packet/frame/cell technology by Logica (Cap Gemini).Key role in negotiation of Unisource partnership with Televerket, Dutch PTT and Spanish PTT.Responsible for homologation of all Sprint/Telenet/Plessey products. Involved in some initial design work on Frame Relay (Frame Relay was a derivative of the modifications that Jerry's team had applied to X.25 to carry voice in 1984/5).

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Design and development of X.25 packet-switching network systems software (Plessey 2500 systems). Worked with the team who were the first (to my knowledge) to successfully develop a packet-switched voice gateway in 1985 using ADPCM over modified X.25 running on the then revolutionary “transputer” parallel processing technology. Demonstrated the new technology in Madrid WTC in 1986 interconnecting Plessey ISDX digital PBX voice switches over X.25 network.Designed and implemented major UK networks including BT, Midland Bank, Metropolitan Police.Represented Plessey in a major six-month tri-partite software integration exercise in the USA in co-operation with British Telecom and Telenet. Management of engineering group responsible for final engineering of all Plessey Controls network systems worldwide (outside US). Worked on international market development through trade shows and distributor acquisition.

Bsc (Hons), Nuclear Physics With Computing Science

Preparatory Education, Various

Primary Education, Foundation

Elementary Education, Foundation