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Joe Burton

Joe Burton

Joe Burton, Senior Vice President Engineering and Development and Chief Technology Officer, Plantronics. Joe Burton serves as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for setting and driving Plantronics’ technology direction and leading the company’s global engineering teams and programs. Prior to joining Plantronics, Mr. Burton has held several key executive, engineering leadership and architecture-level positions at Polycom, Cisco, and Active Voice. During Burton’s 10 year career with Cisco, he served as Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer for Unified Communications, encompassing call management, IP phones, contact center, conferencing, unified messaging, unified communications applications, and advanced technologies and products. Mr. Burton was most recently EVP, CTO, Chief Strategy Officer, and General Manager for Service Provider at Polycom where he led Polycom’s long-term strategic agenda and next-generation focus areas. He is the author of several communications patents and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Regents College in New York....

Cary Bran

Cary Bran serves as the Senior Director of Innovation and New Ventures at Plantronics. In this role he leads the research and development of next generation software and device concepts and products, including efforts to deliver integrations between wearable devices and the next generation of web browsers. Cary’s background includes more than fifteen years of experience developing enterprise collaboration and communications software solutions. Prior to joining Plantronics, Cary was at Cisco Systems for more than a decade, where he held positions in software architecture, business development and technical strategy. As part of his tenure at Cisco he led the internal WebRTC evangelism efforts and contributed to the IETF and W3C WebRTC standards development. Cary holds a BS (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Seattle University and an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Company: Plantronics http://www.plantronics.com Related Products:...