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About Us | SignalWire

Develop. Deploy. Disrupt.

Our mission is a simple one. To empower you to build whatever you can imagine utilizing software-defined telecom capabilities. Whether it’s a product, service, application, or enterprise communication tool, we want you to focus on your idea instead of worrying about developing, scaling, maintaining, and of course, overpaying for complex communications technology and services.

The Original Geeks

This is not a new mission for us. Over the past 15 years, our team has developed the number one open-source communications platform in the world, FreeSWITCH. No one knows more about software-defined telecom than we do. No one is more committed to the success of our customers and community. Let’s change the way the world communicates.

Leadership Team

Anthony Minessale
Anthony Minessale

CEO

Creator of FreeSWITCH and a pioneer in the advanced communications industry. At SignalWire, Anthony is now bringing his vision of the next generation of communications to the mainstream and working together with some of the great minds and personalities of the industry.

Evan McGee
Evan McGee

CTO

An expert in microservices and realtime cloud architectures, with 15+ years of experience in telecom and startups. Evan helped create and grow the RingPlus MVNO from initial conception to 120k+ mobile users and founded an AI-backed realtime voice company.

Chris Grillone
Chris Grillone

EVP of Operations

Chris brings over 20 years of product management and go-to-market experience from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, including Apple, Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, Oracle, and Barracuda Networks. His expertise includes an IPO, P&L, HW, SW, cloud, data science, and turning around a start-up to a successful acquisition.

Jamie Wheeler
Jamie Wheeler

SVP of Global Sales

Jamie is a strategic revenue leader with 20+ years of sales and leadership experience across start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, building and scaling teams with an emphasis on strong culture and a customer-centric approach. Jamie has also started and sold his own Fintech company.

Jill Minessale
Jill Minessale

VP of Finance and Business Success

Jill has a career spanning 15 years working with Software-Defined Telecom. Previously, she oversaw the financial growth of FreeSWITCH Solutions LLC leading to its acquisition by SignalWire in 2018. At SignalWire, as a veteran of the remote work movement, she continues to help build the foundation of the business with a focus on financial affairs and human resources.

Christopher Rienzo
Christopher Rienzo

VP of Engineering

Christopher is lead of the engineering team, which is responsible for building the SignalWire platform. Prior to joining SignalWire, Chris was the director of engineering for voice systems at Grasshopper.

Kacy Bassignani
Kacy Bassignani

VP of People Operations

A startup veteran, Kacy built and oversaw the People Operations function at multiple companies prior to joining SignalWire. She is responsible for building out the SignalWire team and ensuring all employees have a fulfilling and supportive place to work.

Bryan Rite
Bryan Rite

Chief Architect

An experienced full-stack engineer and developer with 20+ years in the industry across a wide range of fields. Before SignalWire, he co-founded the small business telecommunications platform Felix, helped build, scale, and innovate for RingPlus, a nationwide wireless MVNO, and founded other successful companies in many areas such as point of sale service and the education industry.

Muriel Tardy
Muriel Tardy

Head of Product

Muriel has over 12 years of product management experience in the technology industry. She has a proven track record of growing successful products, including launching new travel APIs and integrating UCAS solutions for healthcare providers at her previous companies. As the Head of Product at SignalWire, Muriel is now focused on delivering solutions that empower developers and transform communication experience for businesses across industries.

Dixiana Rodriguez
Dixiana Rodriguez

Head of Marketing

An experienced B2B marketer with over 20 years in all aspects of marketing including demand generation, branding, strategy, content, search, product, social, email, digital, account-based marketing, and more. Using an agile, test-based approach, her team optimizes the customer experience to increase pipeline. Before joining SignalWire, Dixiana has held leadership roles at Apple, Ironpaper, Forrest Solutions, WageWorks, and J. Walter Thompson.

Yael Davidowitz-Neu
Yael Davidowitz-Neu

Head of Product Marketing

Yael leads the Product Marketing team at SignalWire, focusing on developing high-impact messaging, accelerating product adoption, and driving customer and revenue growth. With over a decade of experience in B2B Product Marketing, Yael has held senior marketing roles at Google, Pandora, EZ Texting, and Cyxtera, where she honed her ability to deeply understand customer needs, position products in competitive markets, and craft distinctive brand stories.

Catelyn Potter
Catelyn Potter

Director of Business Operations & Strategy

Catelyn brings nearly 15 years of experience in complex program management and growth marketing initiatives to SignalWire. She is responsible for building and driving core operational processes as well as overseeing key strategic programs, focusing largely on go-to-market efforts. Having worked at both Fortune 100 companies and small, privately-held firms, she understands the value and impact created through scalable operational strategy and execution.

Brian West
Brian West

Director of Support & Head of Developer Experience

One of the founders of the FreeSWITCH open source project, and an advanced communications pioneer. A key player in helping SignalWire to build a cutting edge platform that will disrupt the telecommunications status quo. In his role as director of support, Brian enjoys interacting with and helping customers to solve some of the unique challenges they encounter.

Tom Rabstenek
Tom Rabstenek

Director of Strategy and Partnerships

Tom has 15 years of experience in technology, analysis, and global operations including work with Fortune 500 companies in the legal, financial, and art worlds. At SignalWire, he showcases and evangelizes SignalWire’s technology through integrations, marketplaces, and partnerships with businesses and providers committed to the evolution of real-time communications.

Steve Starr
Steve Starr

Director of Carrier Operations

Before joining SignalWire Steve spent 17 years leading network operations at a regional CLEC, where he was responsible for overseeing the PSTN connections and also the HPBX product. An expert with all things VoIP, at SignalWire he is responsible for voice and messaging connections to the outside world, and working closely with the product team to help ensure we are leaders in the industry.

Michael Jerris
Michael Jerris

Senior Program Manager

One of the founders of the FreeSWITCH open source project, and an advanced communications pioneer. Michael is deeply embedded in the developer community and committed to their success using SignalWire.

Jason Atkins
Jason Atkins

Assistant Director of Support

With over 15 years of support experience, Jason is responsible for managing day to day support operations and inventing innovative ways to help our customers succeed.

Luca Pradovera
Luca Pradovera

Head Solution Architect

Luca has 15 years of experience in real time communications consulting with Fortune 500 clients, building large scale platforms with attention to detail and performance. At SignalWire, he leads a team that is responsible for helping customers use our APIs to ensure the best outcome in any project, from design, to proof-of-concept work and deeper technical dives.