UCStrategies Welcomes Five New “UC Experts” to Organization

Roberta J. Fox, Tsahi Levent-Levi, Dr. Joseph Williams, Bill MacKay and Clark Richter Join UCStrategies

UCStrategies proudly announces five new additions to its team of UC Experts, providing additional insights on unified communications and collaboration for the UCStrategies website. Roberta J. Fox, Tsahi Levent-Levi, Dr. Joseph Williams, Bill MacKay, and Clark Richter join the team that includes Jim Burton, Blair Pleasant, Marty Parker, Michael Finneran, Dave Michels, Art Rosenberg, Jon Arnold, Don Van Doren, Stephen Leaden, Kevin Kieller, Orrin Broberg, and Phil Edholm.

UCStrategies is a consortium of independent analysts, consultants, and thought leaders, and an industry resource for unified communications solutions integrators, enterprises, communications vendors, consultants, and anyone interested in the growing unified communications arena. Through the UCStrategies website and annual UC Summit, the UCStrategies UC Experts provide objective and unbiased information, insights, and analysis on unified communications and collaboration technologies, products, vendors, and market trends. 

“UCStrategies is extremely excited about the diverse real-world UC experiences that these individuals bring to our organization,” said Jim Burton, CEO and Co-Founder of UCStrategies. “Roberta, Tsahi, Joseph, Bill, and Clark will be valuable assets to educate our constituencies while UCStrategies reaffirms its focus on the channel.”

Roberta J. Fox is one of Canada's top communications technology consultant, analyst, thought-leaders and CIO/CTO-level professionals. She brings to UCStrategies her ability to explain, educate and inform Canadian and U.S. businesses on the benefits and challenges of next generation technology solutions. UCStrategies readers and subscribers will benefit from her extensive industry experience in evaluating technologies to ensure successful business results. (full bio)

With the addition of Tsahi Levent-Levi, UCStrategies gains an engineer, manager, marketer and CTO with almost 15 years of experience in telecommunications, VoIP and 3G. He is a Product Manager at Amdocs, where he focuses on new and innovative ways carriers can bring value and relevance to their customers. He has an MSc in Computer Science, and an MBA specializing in Entrepreneurship and Strategy. Tsahi blogs regularly on bloggeek.me. (full bio)

Dr. Joseph Williams is the new Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. He brings a Microsoft Lync background to UCStrategies. Most recently he was Managing Director for SaaS in Microsoft's Hosting Service Providers channel partner organization, and ran the Hosted Lync channel business. Prior to that he was responsible for integration engineering of Microsoft’s Office365 cloud with service providers, as well as for the development and delivery of all Lync Hosted and cloud solutions. (full bio)

Bill MacKay is the President of Kane-MacKay and Associates, an independent telecommunication solutions hub. UCStrategies readers and subscribers will benefit from Bill’s knowledge-based, skill-set focus on contact center, Enhanced 911 and Next Generation 911, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Bill has been a partner in Kane-MacKay & Associates since 1995; previously he was President and Director of a telecommunications equipment supply company, and was also a partner in a telecommunications resource company. (full bio)

Clark Richter is the Founder of Fossa LLC which operates www.irumbo.com, the largest multi-vendor IT solution provider locator on the web, and www.channel-navigator.com, for vendors to identify and connect with new channels to market. Previously Clark spent 15 years in channel and sales management roles with Check Point Software, Citrix Systems, and Websense. Solutions Integrators in particular will benefit from Clark's expertise. (full bio)