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Pub Talk
"Just Say It! An Integrated
Voice Services Platform"
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2002
By Dr. Peter D. Olson
President & Chief Executive Officer
Voice Access Technologies, Inc.
Open to the Public. No fee. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
At this Pub, come hear how Voice Access Technologies has created
a standards-based open environment for deploying next generation
telephony applications, enabling integrated speech-recognition capability
from any communications device. The company's integrated voice platform
contains core application modules for voice dialing, auto attendant,
voice grams, voice driven email, and text messaging that can be
customized solutions for industry specific applications.
ABOUT PETER OLSON
Veteran entrepreneur, investor and technologist,
Dr. Peter D. Olson brings more than a quarter century of experience
in the technology industry to Voice Access Technologies as its Chief
Executive Officer. He combines deep, first-hand knowledge of voice-data
technologies with entrepreneurial savvy. Over the past 30 years,
Dr. Olson has founded four profitable technology companies-System
Industries, Octel Communications, Flycast Communications, and Telocity.
At Octel, he was instrumental in developing the technology that
enabled voice applications and opened the market for service providers
to offer enhanced voice services. Dr. Olson worked with co-founder
Bob Cohn to build Octel into the industry leader of voice messaging
systems in the enterprise and service provider markets with annual
sales of more than $600 million. The Company was acquired by Lucent
in 1997 for $1.8 billion. As founding investor at Flycast (now Engage),
he helped formulate the business and technology strategy that led
to the marketing solutions company's rapid growth and acquisition
by CMGI. for $1.8 billion in 1999. A Telocity co-founder, Dr. Olson
was the high-speed DSL provider's CEO during the first two years
of successful growth. After recruiting Patti Hart, former COO of
Sprint Long Distance, to take over the CEO role, Olson continued
to lead Telocity's technology strategy as EVP and CTO. Telocity
was acquired by GM Hughes/DirecTV for $179 million in 2000. Dr.
Olson holds a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University
and has been an instructor at the Stanford Business School.
ABOUT VOICE ACCESS
TECHNOLGIES, INC.
Voice Access Technologies (http://www.voice-access.com)
has developed a carrier class, standards-based voice application
networking platform. This integrated voice services platform supports
multimodal delivery of voice activated applications aimed at cost
reduction and operational efficiency in enterprise and service provider
environments. These include integrated messaging applications initiated
through verbal commands and interactive voice response systems used
in customer call center environments. "Just Say It!" is an integrated
voice platform that contains core application modules for voice
dialing, auto attendant, voice grams, voice driven email, and text
messaging that can be customized for industry specific applications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION,
PLEASE CONTACT:
Dr. Peter D. Olson
President & Chief Executive Officer
Voice Access Technologies, Inc.
170 Knowles Drive, Suite 200
Los Gatos, CA 95032
T: 408.866.1048 ext. 166
F: 408.866.1049
Em: mailto:polson@voice-access.com
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