Unified Office Inc., a managed services provider offering cloud-based business communications, has announced that Stamford-based Jeff Pulver has joined its advisory board of directors.
“I’m intrigued, impressed and excited about the prospects for Unified Office,” said Pulver, CEO, Pulver.com. “They’re doing things today I was talking about 20 years ago with finesse and style. Unified Office shares my view that voice is the future and that we are at a major inflection point in today’s real-time world where a company’s responsiveness to the marketplace is more critical than ever before. The Unified Office platform was built from the ground up to address the new realities of today’s real-time, soon-to-be-voice-led business climate. I am honored to be a part of their future.”
“Jeff Pulver is a tech industry icon, a pioneer in the field of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and a leading advocate for internet freedom,” said Ray Pasquale, CEO and founder of Unified Office, located in Nashua, New Hampshire. “In the late 1990s, Pulver saw the potential for VoIP to revolutionize the way we communicate. He has a remarkable history of founding and steering successful, cutting-edge start-up companies. His leadership and innovation fits well with our company culture, and he will make a valuable addition to our already highly acclaimed advisory board.”
A serial entrepreneur who has invested in more than 400 start-ups, Pulver is also known for his work as the co-founder of Vonage, the VON Coalition, Vivox and Free World Dialup, as well as for his early investments in Twitter (now X) and Foursquare. Yet his pioneering work in communications technology for more than 25 years was not always met with open arms.
As VoIP began to gain traction, Pulver faced resistance from traditional telephone companies and regulators. In 2003, he petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which issued a response a year later that is known as the “Pulver Order,” ensuring that VoIP services would not be subject to traditional telephone regulation. This decision paved the way for the widespread adoption of VoIP.
On its Total Connect Now platform, Unified Office integrates voice and video communications, messaging, service-level monitoring, business continuity and AI-based business analytics tools into a communications service that can be configured to meet the needs of any business.
