Bob Paulsen

BIO

Bob leads the PlayerLync team as President and CEO. His people first approach has created a culture of empowerment and excellence that is the core of PlayerLync's success. Prior to PlayerLync, Bob was Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Telesphere Networks, the largest privately held cloud communications companies in North America (acquired by Vonage). He was responsible for all strategic and tactical initiatives within Operations, including product management and pricing, implementation, field operations, support, information management and development, and strategic customer relationships. Before joining Telesphere, Bob was co-founder, President, and CEO of Unity Business Networks, an industry leader in Hosted PBX / Cloud Communication services to large multi-site businesses throughout the US. With his PBX & VoIP roots from AT&T (pre-Avaya) & Siemens, Bob has over 18 years of innovation and leadership within the converging communications marketplace. His world class management, financial and sales skills led Unity to become the seventh "Fastest Growing" small company and sixth largest Internet service provider in the Denver area, and took leading positions in the Twin Cities and Portland metro areas. Paulsen leads by example and believes in a balanced lifestyle. He embraces this philosophy through his work with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the Food Bank of the Rockies and United Way Paulsen received his bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated with distinction. He enjoys sports of all kinds, and he is an avid tennis player. He lives with his wonderful family in Denver. Specialties: Collaborate / motivate, Communicate prioritized plan, Discipline in execution. Executable understanding of requirements to build industry leaders that scale without losing quality. Core expertise communicating vision, clarifying ownership, managing products, and leading process oriented sales & marketing, operations, IS/IT, billing, training, and P&L efforts.