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CEO, Voice Signal Rich Geruson, currently the CEO of VoiceSignal, has held senior executive positions at Nokia, IBM, Toshiba as well as the management-consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. Within 4 years after arriving at VoiceSignal, Rich increased shareholder value over 10-fold culminating in a $300 million sale of the business at a 12 times revenue multiple. Within a year and a half of Rich’s arrival, VoiceSignal turned profitable. Now with a volume of over 150 million units, VoiceSignal has become the clear world leader in embedded voice interface solutions for mobile devices.Prior to VoiceSignal, Rich was the Senior Vice President at Nokia Mobile Phones in the Americas. In 5 years Rich grew the business 10-fold to $6.5 billion and tripled its market share. This growth not only catapulted Nokia to # 1 market share in the US but also, for the first time, the #1 share in the world. Nokia’s brand became the 5th most valuable brand in the world and the # 1 non-US brand in the world.At IBM, Rich was one of the youngest Vice Presidents. He stimulated rapid growth in an otherwise mature market space by designing, developing and launching the IBM distribution channels for networking products worldwide. As Vice President at Toshiba Americas, Rich doubled market share in mobile PCs from 11% to 22%, taking the business from market share rank of #5 to #1 in less than 4 years. Rich has been awarded several graduate degrees, including a Doctorate from Oxford University. He was also a member of the research faculty at Harvard Business School, where he completed the highly regarded book: A Theory of Market Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. | 