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 Go-to-Market

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.

Gail Redmond
Gail Redmond

VP of Sales

A savvy GTM executive with 20+ years leading SaaS global market creation, disruptive tech start-ups, and mobile/telecom innovation. Before joining SignalWire, Gail scaled global revenue at Smith Micro, launched two wireless technology start-ups, and held $100M P&L and $1B market roles at Sprint.

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.

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.

Michelle Couture
Michelle Couture

Director of Product Marketing

With over 15 years experience in product marketing, Michelle has made a career of communicating the value and benefits of best-in-class SaaS products at companies like Intermedia Cloud Communications, Oracle and Poly. At Signalwire, Michelle oversees product marketing and brings it’s open-source, best-in-class products to market.

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.

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.

Michael Jerris
Michael Jerris

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.

Brian West
Brian West

Director of Support

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.

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.