Redefining Communication: Are You Prepared for the Next Normal?

Michael Brandenburg is an industry analyst and member of the Connected Work research team at Frost & Sullivan, a global market research and consulting company. Michael leverages both ten years of market research and competitive analysis experience with a 15 year track record as an IT practitioner to identify emerging market trends, competitive threats and growth opportunities across the enterprise communications market. Michael is lead analyst for communications platforms as a service (CPaaS), session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking, and on-premises UC platforms and infrastructure, as well as supports the team’s research in unified communications (UC) systems and endpoints, UC as a service (UCaaS).

Craig has been in the Communications space for 23 years focused on both current and emerging technologies for both the SMB and enterprise segments. Over that span of time Craig has held Senior roles in Sales, Sale Leadership & Product Management Leadership. During the last 15 years Craig has had a focus on the Unified Communications and Collaboration space supporting strategies around both proprietary products and solutions as well as strategic platform integrations and partnerships.

Carl Orleman brings over 20 years of sales leadership experience to CenturyLink as Vice President Sales, North America Strategic Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for leading the Strategic Solutions Organization that provides dedicated sales expertise in the Cloud, Security, Colocation, Hosting, UC&C, Contact Center, and IT Solutions disciplines.  His team’s primary responsibility is providing Product Sales expertise to our core network sales focusing on our adaptive networking, agile IT, and connected security portfolio of complex solutions. Carl is responsible for leading the sales, implementation, architecture, life cycle support groups to drive further customer adoption.

Currently working for a major law firm as Manager of Enterprise Networks and Collaboration, Garry Cooper has over 20 years of broad experience in infrastructure operations, architecture and consulting. From deploying satellite data connections in India to managing simultaneous infrastructure splits and acquisitions, he has had various roles in network, security and data center management. In the Unified Communications space, he has deployed and migrated various on premise and cloud UC solutions in the manufacturing, energy and legal industry, with a particular focus on creating integrated collaboration platforms.