Alon Cohen

Alon Cohen

Alon Cohen (born in Israel, 1962) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the inventor of the Audio Transceiver (US patent|5825771)that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry, that changed the face of the telecommunication industry. Cohen holds 4 US patents on different communications technologies.

VccalTec is recognized as the first company to provide Internet voice technology worldwide, which in 1996 was one of the earliest successful Internet IPOs (NASDAQ: vocl.

According to Om Malik, "Two entrepreneurs barely out of their teens, Lior Haramaty and Alon Cohen, founded VocalTec Communications in 1993 based on the promise of packet voice technology they observed as members of the Israel Defense Force.... the idea of commercializing packet voice did not occur to anyone until the arrival of Lior and Alon." [Malik, Om. " [http://gigaom.com/2004/09/19/the-voice-over-ip-insurrection The Voice over IP Insurrection] ", September 19th, 2004.]

After leaving VocalTec Cohen founded and managed a successful series of business ventures, including BitWine and RemoteAbility. He currently serves as Executive Vice President and CTO at Phone.com.

The recipient of many awards and accolades for his innovative work including the “VoIP Visionary Award” (2005) from Pulvermedia.

Cohen represented the State of Israel in the United Nations negotiations of the ITU Study Group 16 for the development and ratification of global VoIP standards.Cohen received an MBA and BSC.EE from Tel Aviv University, both Magna Cum Laude.

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