Management Team

Ofer Shapiro, President, CEO, Board member, and co-founder. Prior to founding Vidyo, Inc, Ofer spent eight years at RADVISION where he was responsible for the development of the first IP video conferencing bridge and gatekeeper technology. For part of his tenure at RADVISION, Ofer served as senior vice president of business development responsible for strategic sales and relationships. Ofer was also a contributor and one of the editors of the H.323 standard. Ofer has over fifteen years of experience in bringing disruptive technology to market. He holds a masters degree in applied physics.

Dr. Alex Eleftheriadis, Chief Scientist and co-founder. Alex drives the technical vision and direction for Vidyo and also represents the company on standardization committees and technical advisory boards. He is an award-winning researcher, bringing over 17 years of research experience in video compression and communications to his role at Vidyo. Prior to Vidyo he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Alex has more than 100 publications, holds 12 patents, has served as the Editor of the MPEG-4 Systems specification, and is currently co-editor of the H.264 SVC Conformance specification.

Marty Hollander, Senior Vice President of Marketing, brings more than 20 years of high-tech marketing experience, Marty specializes in developing lasting strategic assets through creative market development. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Cemaphore Systems, Latitude Communications (later acquired by Cisco) and ProactiveNet (later acquired by BMC). He also founded CollectiveSpace and IntelliCorp, where he played a variety of executive roles. Marty has also held senior level positions at Silicon Graphics and Storm Technology, and he has an MBA from Stanford University as well as an MS from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Rob Hughes, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, has over 19 years of experience in the conferencing industry. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Support at LifeSize Communications (where he was responsible for building the worldwide sales team and distribution network); Vice President and General Manager, Americas at RADVISION Ltd. (where he was responsible for the sales, marketing, and support organizations); President and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at VSGi (where he oversaw worldwide sales, services and marketing organizations); and the Vice President of North American Channel Sales at Polycom, Inc. Rob holds a BS in Communications from Northwestern University, and an MBA from Loyola University.

Roi Sasson, Senior Vice President, Engineering. Roi has a proven track record of technology execution and delivery with 20 years in the telecom and datacom domains. Before joining Vidyo, Roi led the development of IP-based network access and soft-switching solutions. Prior to that he participated in the founding of a start-up company where he led the software development for a distributed, multi-service access multiplexer.

Dan Acquafredda, Vice President, Business Development, brings extensive experience in working with early stage companies to develop and build partnerships and trusting customer relationships. Dan also has deep industry knowledge with over twenty years of technical and sales expertise in the telecom industry.

Eric Le Guiniec, General Manager EMEA, has a proven track record working with major enterprise accounts, service providers, system integrators, and telecom equipment suppliers. He joins from Arel where he was Vice President EMEA, and from First Virtual Communications (FVC) where he served as Vice President EMEA Sales. He has also spearheaded the sales operation in France at Tekelec Europe for the company's service provider products. Eric has an MS, Sales and Marketing from Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, and a BS in Computer Science from Université Paris X Nanterre.

Alfred Chase Hui, Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales, joined Vidyo with over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, IP networking and the video conferencing industry. In previous positions, Alfred was Vice President of Asia for Paradial; Regional Director of Tandberg Telecom; and Country Manager at Juniper Networks in Asia Pacific. He has a proven track record in developing strong customer relationships and channel networks, and extensive knowledge of IP networking and video conferencing. Alfred holds a BS in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from University of Western Ontario, Canada.