Our Company

Craig Walker

Craig is the Founder and CEO at Dialpad. Previously, he was Founder and CEO of GrandCentral Communications (now Google Voice) and prior to that, ran Yahoo! Voice as the Senior Director of VoIP at Yahoo!

Brian Peterson

Brian is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Dialpad. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Google, building the front end of Google Voice.

John Rector

John is a co-founder and advisor at Dialpad. Previously, he worked at Google as a Senior Software Engineer, building the telephony backend for Google Voice.

Vincent Paquet

Vincent is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Dialpad. Previously, he was PM for Google Voice, co-founder and COO of GrandCentral, and Director of Business Development at Yahoo!.

Jason Yang

Jason is the COO at Dialpad. He held prior roles leading the Marketing and Operations team at Dialpad and external leadership roles leading Demand Generation at Five9 and Digital Marketing at Charles Schwab.

Dan O'Connell

Dan is the Chief Revenue Officer at Dialpad. Previously, he was the CEO of TalkIQ, a real-time speech recognition and natural language processing start-up that Dialpad acquired in May of 2018. Prior to TalkIQ, he held various sales leadership positions at AdRoll and Google.

Morgan Norman

Morgan is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Dialpad. Prior to Dialpad, he was the Global Vice President of Corporate, Brand, Growth Marketing at RingCentral. Morgan is returning to Dialpad where he led go-to-market and global marketing as CMO from 2015 to 2017. Prior to Dialpad, he held Marketing Executive roles at Copper, Zuora, NetSuite, and Microsoft.

Tasha Liniger

Tasha Liniger has rejoined Dialpad in her former role as CHRO after a year-long sabbatical. Prior to Dialpad, Liniger was a part of the founding team at BlueJeans as the Vice President of People where she helped expand the team globally and managed the company’s 100% year-over-year headcount growth.

Lily Toy

Lily is the General Counsel at Dialpad. Previously, she served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Telenav. Prior to that, she was a corporate attorney at K&L Gates, Fenwick & West and Shearman & Sterling.

Corey Burke

Corey is the VP of Telephony Engineering at Dialpad. Prior to joining as our first engineer, he worked for over a decade as a manager and architect on embedded operating systems at Microsoft.

Steve LaCommare

Steve is the SVP of Finance at Dialpad. Previously, he ran Finance for security software start-up Nok Nok Labs, and prior to that was Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis for Saba Software during their IPO and growth phase.

Joe Manuele

Joe Manuele is Sr. Vice President Corporate and Business Development at Dialpad, and former Chief Executive Officer of Highfive, which was acquired by Diaplad in August of 2020. He has over 25 years of IT and communications experience in the enterprise and global carrier markets, gained at organizations such as NTT, Avaya and Cisco. Joe also served as Group Executive ̶ Communications at Dimension Data and NTT Global where he was responsible for the $2B UC and CCaaS business unit. Prior to Dimension Data, he was the Vice President of Global Cloud Services at Avaya.