With extensive experience within the contact center and speech recognition industries, Phil is the “go-to” expert for helping partners and enterprise leaders leverage speech and natural language understanding to improve their businesses. As Executive Vice President of Business Development, Phil is responsible for alliances, licensing, and corporate development at Interactions. He offers partners and enterprise leaders the information and guidance they need to develop coherent, intelligent, cross-channel strategies for applying speech technologies to enhance their businesses. Phil has extensive startup experience, specializing in natural language understanding and contact center technologies. Prior to joining Interactions in 2009, he founded and led Versay, a natural language, speech applications company and drove many of the speech industry’s earliest deployments as a sales executive at Nuance.