Meet our leaders

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER - FOUNDER
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!.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER – FOUNDER
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.

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

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER
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.

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Morgan Norman
Morgan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Dialpad. Prior to Dialpad, Morgan was the Global VP 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.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Mike Kourey
Mike Kourey brings more than 25 years of financial and strategic leadership experience, most recently serving as CFO of Okta. Previously, Kourey served as the CFO of both Vlocity and Medallia. Kourey has been deeply involved in five successful IPOs as CFO, venture partner or audit chair.

CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
Tasha Liniger
Tasha is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Dialpad. Prior to Dialpad, Liniger was a part of the founding team at BlueJeans as the VP of People where she helped expand the team globally and managed the company’s 100% year-over-year headcount growth.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
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.

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
Prashanti Aduma
Prashanti Aduma is a transformative leader with more than 20 years of leadership experience at high-growth startups and enterprises. She brings deep experience in building world-class IT organizations to Dialpad, driving global strategic initiatives to enable next-generation technologies.

SVP FINANCE
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.

SVP TELEPHONY ENGINEERING
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.

SVP PRODUCT MARKETING
John Finch
As SVP, Solutions and Product Marketing at Dialpad, John Finch is responsible for industry solutions, customer marketing, analyst relations, and product marketing across all products. Most recently John held the position of VP, Enterprise Product Marketing at Zendesk and prior to that was in charge of RingCentral’s strategy and execution of global customer service marketing.
Our board of directors

Marc Andreessen
Marc is an entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, a co-founder of Netscape, and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He currently sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others.

John Kim
John is a Managing Partner at Amasia. Previously, he served as SVP at Mercuria Energy Group, Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, and Portfolio Manager at Korean National Investments.

Will Griffith
Mr. William J. G. Griffith, IV, also known as Will, is a Founding Partner at Iconiq Strategic Partners. Mr. Griffith has been a Partner of ICONIQ Capital since 2013 and co-leading its merchant bank including its technology and direct investment efforts.

Rich Miner
Rich is a Director at Google focused on education-related technology. He has spent more than 30 years building and investing in innovative startups. Previously, he was a General Partner at Google Ventures and a co-founder of Android.

Jen Grant
Jen Grant currently leads Appify as CEO. Previously, Grant led Looker’s marketing, led the rebrand of Elastic, grew Box to an industry-leading enterprise content company, and spent years leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. She holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Princeton.

Mark Shulgan
Mark Shulgan is Managing Director & Head of OMERS Growth Equity and serves on Dialpad's board. Mark led the Thematic Investing team at CPP Investments, served as the Chair of its Investment Committee, and was a VP at Fortress Investment Group. Mark graduated from Western University and University of Windsor.

Lisa Banks
Lisa Banks is the SVP of Strategic Finance responsible for Financial Planning & Analysis, Investor Relations and Operational Excellence at ServiceNow. She brings more than 20 years of accounting and Finance experience at Cisco, Marketwatch.com and Ernst & Young. Lisa is a CPA and graduated from Santa Clara University.
Our investors
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