Management Team
Sam Waicberg - President and Chief Executive Officer
Sam Waicberg is a veteran in the voice and communications space with 15 years of executive management experience. Prior to joining Iperia, Sam provided leadership as Vice President of North American Sales and Services for Fluency, a U.K. based voice recognition software provider. Sam also was responsible for establishing an extensive global network of partners and for successfully implementing multichannel corporate sales efforts at Envox Worldwide prior to Fluency. At Ascendent Systems prior to Fluency, Sam's leadership as Vice President of Worldwide Sales contributed to a successful acquisition by RIM (Research in Motion). Sam has also held leadership roles at Aspect Communications, Blue Martini Software, Crossworlds Software, and Oracle Corporation.
Patrick Gilbert - Vice President Customer Solutions
As Vice President of Customer Solutions, Patrick Gilbert brings more than 18 years of voice convergence experience to Iperia. He leads all aspects of customer solutions for Iperia, ensuring Iperia products deliver real value and benefits for our customers and partners. Additionally, Gilbert leads Iperia’s I.M.P.A.C.T. initiative, which is an Iperia proven process and methodology for helping companies in a pre-purchase mode to develop a business case and prototype for simulating their experience and benefits with Iperia. Previously, Gilbert was Vice President of Solution Engineering at Ascendent Systems, which was acquired by RIM. At RIM, he led field services for fixed-mobile convergence solutions and was instrumental in the design and development of the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System. Prior to Ascendent, Gilbert was Director of Sales Engineering at Aspect Communications where he managed a team of over 50 sale engineers focused on supporting sales efforts to Global Enterprises and Government accounts. In addition, he has held various Engineering roles at McKesson, Expert Systems and IBM. He holds a B.S. in Computer Sciences from Georgia Tech.
Gordon Ledgard - Vice President of Engineering
Gordon Ledgard has been leading, designing, and managing complex software efforts for over 30 years. Gordon headed the team that produced world's first VoIP Unified Messaging platform operating in a commercial carrier network based on the SIP standard. He also implemented the first Unified Messaging solution fully qualified to operate in an IMS (Internet Multimedia Subsystem) network.
During Iperia's early years Gordon lead key efforts to introduce unique VoIP/SIP capabilities to Iperia's communication products. He has been providing leadership for Iperia's software development team since 2006. Prior to Iperia, Gordon led development efforts for Analogic in the area of long distance telephony monitoring equipment. He was also awarded a patent in the field of high-speed commercial digital printing while at Gamma Graphics.
Jonathan Wilson - SVP, Product Development
Jonathan Wilson brings two decades of experience in designing and developing multi-million dollar enterprise software systems, encompassing industrial control, document management, and telecommunications platforms for major national and international companies. Jonathan's depth of experience includes building market-leading products for the Windows platform, J2EE, and mobile devices.
Jonathan previously worked at Thomson Corporation and Ceon. At Thomson Corporation, Jonathan held management positions in Research and Development. At Ceon, he was Engineering Manager and Director of Product Management where he successfully led technical teams in building large enterprise systems for Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, RCN, British Telecom, and Portugal Telecom.
Jonathan started his career designing control and monitoring systems for clients such as British Nuclear Fuels and Scottish Power. He received a BS in Computer Science from University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
