LAKE FOREST, Calif.,
Dec. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Voice Assist, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSST), the leading
developer of hosted speech services and voice "in-application"
technology, announced today that Robb
Cason is joining its executive team as vice president of
enterprise sales. With more than 25 years of experience in
direct sales, channel sales, and business development for high-tech
and communication services firms, Mr. Cason brings highly valued
executive management experience to Voice Assist.
"We are very excited to add Robb to our executive team," said
Michael Metcalf, chairman and CEO of
Voice Assist. "His previous experience and proven track record of
building multi-hundred million dollar sales teams will help
accelerate the distribution and sales of our hosted speech
services. Robb's proven leadership skills in sales and his
previous experience building and selling his own company shows he's
a winner. I have no doubt he will be a tremendous asset to
the company. We are very fortunate to have Robb join us as we
begin to launch aggressive sales and marketing plans."
Before joining Voice Assist, Cason served as vice president of
business development and strategy at InterCall, Inc. Prior to
InterCall, he was the founder and CEO of Corvent, a Web services
company that became the vendor of choice for partners, resellers
and end users using Web event services or implementing unified
communications solutions. Corvent was purchased by InterCall
in March 2009.
Previously, he was at Microsoft where he led a team that enabled
strategic partners MCI, British Telecom, and Intercall to achieve
greater than 100 percent year-over-year growth in Live Meeting
revenue. Prior to Microsoft, Cason was a key contributor in
the startup and growth of Envoy Global (which merged with PlaceWare
in July of 2000) and then became PlaceWare's senior partner account
manager until the company was purchased by Microsoft in 2003.
Cason holds a bachelor of science degree in business from
Oregon State University.
About Voice Assist, Inc.
Headquartered in Lake Forest,
Calif., Voice Assist is a hosted and speech services company
that enables voice in any application, network and device.
The company's cloud-based speech platform eliminates the need
to use a keyboard or keypad to interact, and enables users to
communicate, connect or transact using any application on any phone
or device. The Voice Assist platform includes a fast and safe
way to make calls, manage your e-mails, send text messages and post
to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter by voice commands
and provides a scalable solution for developers to add voice to any
application. For more information on the company, visit
http://www.voiceassist.com.
SOURCE Voice Assist, Inc.