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Louis Summe

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Louis Summe, who joined LiveVox in October 1999, has spent over 15 years creating and building technology based communication services. Before joining the Company, Mr. Summe served as the Vice President of Business Development and Product Management for Physicians' Online (POL), the leading online service for physicians with over 200,000 physician members. Mr. Summe was instrumental in selling POL to Mediconsult - now part of WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) for $200 million. Prior to joining POL, Mr. Summe held Marketing, Product Development & Business Development positions at Merck-Medco. His accomplishments include physician and patient communication programs for Pfizer and Merck, which enrolled over 10,000 physicians, 3.5 million patients and generated $50 million in annual revenues. Prior to Merck-Medco, Mr. Summe was a Systems Engineer at EDS.

Mr. Summe holds an M.B.A. with honors from Columbia University and a B.A. in Physics from Xavier University.

Larry Siegel

Co-Founder & Executive Vice President of Operations

Mr. Siegel joined LiveVox in February of 2000. Before joining the Company, Mr. Siegel spent three years with North Shore LIJ Health System (includes 13 hospitals, 75 ambulatory care centers and over 6,000 physicians) developing their physician networks. As Director of Physician Network Development, Mr. Siegel purchased 6 practices (30 MDs), 4 medical buildings and actively managed the resulting $35 million in revenues. In addition, he developed the hospital's first risk contract. Prior to joining North Shore, Mr. Siegel held product management and marketing positions at Vision Sciences where he led the launch of their disposable endoscopic sheaths including Ent EndoSheath® and Sigmoidoscope®.

Mr. Siegel holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics from Skidmore College.

Joe Gelbard

Executive Vice President, Sales

Mr. Gelbard joined LiveVox in October 2005. Before joining the Company, Mr. Gelbard spent three years as the Director of West Coast Sales and General Manager for Westwood One Radio where he managed ten sales people, grew existing business, developed new business in territories and managed a 2005 budget in excess of $21 million. Clients included Clorox, Microsoft, Charles Schwab, Chevron, and Yahoo. Prior to Westwood One, Mr. Gelbard was the Manager of Broadcasting Alliances for Dotcast and West Coast Manager for Bloomberg LP.

Mr. Gelbard holds an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco and a B.S in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Leraris

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Leraris joined LiveVox in July 2007. Before joining the company, Mr. Leraris serviced as Vice President of Operations for Penny Plate, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of aluminum packaging products. Prior to Penny Plate, Mr. Leraris worked in both investment management and investment banking for Kenisco Capital Management, Crown Capital Group and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Leraris received both an MBA, with honors, and B.S. in Economics, cum laude, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Joel Garcia

Vice President, Engineering

Joel Garcia brings more than 13 years of IT management experience from building teams at a pre-IPO startup to product delivery in a large, mature software company. At LiveVox, Joel manages the Engineering, Quality Assurance, Client Setup and Support Groups, including engineer and development teams in San Francisco, New York, Mexico City and Bangalore, India. Prior to LiveVox, Joel was the VP of Engineering and IT at Med-Vantage, a healthcare informatics provider. He also served as Senior Development Manager at Symantec, a global infrastructure and security software provider, and Senior Development Manager of Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of database management tools.

Joel received a BA in Mathematics at Carleton College in Minnesota.

John McNamara

Chief Marketing Officer

Chief Marketing Officer for LiveVox and founder of Fidelis Recovery Solutions, Inc, John McNamara is a 26-year industry veteran with experience in all phases of collection and recovery operations with intense focus on technology applications and call center optimization.

Prior to joining LiveVox, John was COO for AMO, SVP of Operations for Nationwide Credit/ACB and VP of Operations for United Recovery Systems, LP. 

John is a frequent speaker, panelist, consultant and author addressing key issues and trends in the collection industry.  John was named to Collection Advisor magazine's list of the Top 50 Most Influential Collection Professionals for 2006.  In 2007, John was appointed Vice President and Board Member of the Georgia Collectors Association.  John was inducted into the Gerson Lehrman Group GLG Leaders Program in 2008 and is the 2009 winner of the ACA Kurt Swersky award for leadership.

John is a summa cum laude graduate of Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance.  Lastly, John is a long suffering Kansas City Chiefs fan and a diehard Kansas Jayhawk.

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