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About us
ng-voice. A story of VoIP specialists, open-source pioneers, innovation and operational excellence.
“ng-voice is an important example of the nascent ecosystem we need to embrace as an industry. […] They recently demonstrated their fully automated deployment flow, minutes not weeks. I recommend you speak to ng-voice. We are …”
“Thank you ng-voice for this demonstration to the industry how telco network functions can live in the cloud-native era. Great joint efforts by ng-voice and Google Cloud.”
“This collaboration is a blend of capabilities powered by Infosys Cobalt and our expertise in the domain and ng-voice’s geographical presence that fast-track adoption of cloud-native network solutions among telcos across Europe. The success of this engagement can be a real game-changer for both Infosys and ng-voice in the 5G era.”
“At Casa Systems, we build disruptive, innovative solutions that deliver new levels of performance, flexibility, and scalability required for next-generation networks. We’re excited to partner with ng-voice, a leader in IMS core technology and introduce new revenue-generating opportunities to our customers.”
“Native voice for IoT devices is mission-critical today to ensure reliable connectivity in particular in emergency situations. ng-voice’s product portfolio and value proposition is just ideal for the traffic profile of IoT devices.”
“Adding native voice to our offering has become a crucial demand by our clients. With ng-voice we have found just the right partner for our IoT business: reliable, cost-effective, flexible with a high level of automation and can scale on demand.”
ng-voice. A story of VoIP specialists, open-source pioneers, innovation and operational excellence
ng-voice was founded in 2011 by a small team of leading open-source, VoIP pioneers and passionate coders to develop innovative software solutions for fixed and mobile network operators, containerized from scratch.
ng-voice’s founder and CTO, Carsten Bock, is one of the VoIP industry veterans. He believed in VoLTE becoming the new mobile voice standard when it was still a niche technology.
Since then, the telecom business has completely changed. Driven by exploding data usage and emerging technologies, the demand for flexible software-based network infrastructure has increased.
In 2019, David Bachmann, a former Associate Partner at McKinsey, joined ng-voice both as CEO and shareholder to drive ng-voice’s commercialization and growth strategy, and long-term investors came on board. To increase supplier diversification and foster innovation in the European 4G/5G ecosystem, ng-voice also founded EANGTI, the European Association of Next Generation Telecommunications Innovators.
Our solution is very flexible and fits the needs of MNOs, MVNOs, and enterprises of any size. To guarantee complete satisfaction with our solution, it is important to have a delivery team that understands our products as well as our different customer’s needs. Stefan joined ng-voice in 2017, has been responsible for marketing and product development, and now uses his extensive experience to lead our deployment team.
In addition, ng-voice has invested in new technologies, cutting-edge companies and partnerships, and has recruited an A-team of experts coming from the most relevant telecom players and also from the research field, such as Johanna, that joined the company bringing her experience in 5G Core research.
ng-voice is committed to the quality of its products and services, heavily investing in testing so that our solutions are also the most reliable. Vividha joined ng-voice in 2020 and was responsible for setting up and lead our team of test engineers, automating our testing processes.
ng-voice has focused on turning our IMS core into the most cloud-native IMS solution in the market, being fully containerized and deployed with Kubernetes. We have also developed and launched several 100% cloud-native virtual network functions in addition to the IMS core, such as our application servers and ePDG. Basit is leading ng-voice’s cloud-native transformation, delivering a very unique value proposition for our solutions, with the smallest container sizes, a high level of automation, and efficient use of resources.
In addition, ng-voice has invested in new technologies, cutting-edge companies and partnerships, and has recruited an A-team of experts coming from the most relevant telecom players and also from the research field, such as Johanna, that joined the company bringing her experience in 5G Core research.
ng-voice is committed to the quality of its products and services, heavily investing in testing so that our solutions are also the most reliable. Vividha joined ng-voice in 2020 and was responsible for setting up and lead our team of test engineers, automating our testing processes.
Our all-star team combines years of operational experience at operators of different sizes, including:
Meet our leadership team
Dr. David Bachmann
CEO
David is a lawyer by training and a former Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. He joined ng-voice in 2019 as CEO and shareholder with a focus on ng-voice’s commercialization and growth strategy. David focuses on our sales & business development efforts, long-term strategy as well as our partnerships and investor relations. He is the Founder and Co-President of the European Association of Next Generation Telecommunications Innovators (EANGTI).
Carsten Bock
Founder, CTIO
With 20+ years of experience in VoIP and IMS, Carsten led the development and implementation of the first IMS/ VoLTE platform at Telefonica in Germany and was a senior member of the Kamailio management team, developing the IMS extensions in Kamailio. He founded ng-voice in 2011 because he wanted to develop a flexible alternative to existing IMS solutions in the market. As Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Carsten focuses his time on developing radical solutions to telco’s problems and pushing ng-voice’s innovation agenda.
Quirin Maderspacher
COO
As ng-voice's Chief Operating Officer, Quirin is in charge of our customer deployments, our support infrastructure, as well as our people and finance functions. He joined ng-voice in 2021, previously working at McKinsey & Company where he focused amongst others on strategies of cloud service providers in different industry verticals.
Abdul Basit Alvi
Chief Technologist Cloud & VP of Product
With vast experience in virtualizing the mobile core of tier-1 operators and developing cloud-native solutions, Basit has implemented Pakistan’s first fully virtualized IMS to launch VoLTE functionalities at Telenor. Now at ng-voice, his main priority is ensuring that ng-voice’s IMS remains the most cloud-native IMS in the market. He is in charge of the ng-voice product roadmap and is in touch with the technical leadership of our customers to ensure we solve their most pressing business problems.
Qawa Darabi
VP of Sales Worldwide
With 20+ years of sales, partnerships, and technical experience within the telco industry, Qawa joins ng-voice to lead our growth and customer success strategy as Vice President – Sales Worldwide. Amongst others and in his previous roles, Qawa established Ericsson’s Cloud and NFV business and Nokia’s Cloud, NFV and Data Center services sales in APAC. He joins ng-voice from Windriver, where he served as head of telco sales for strategic global accounts.
Behnam Hooshiarkashani
VP of Engineering
With his 11+ years of experience in the industry and extensive knowledge in DevOps, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and Ansible, Behnam leads the ng-voice engineering team. He ensures our software development, quality assurance team as well as cloud native engineers collaborate together to deliver our product roadmap whilst staying in close touch with the customer.
Vividha Singh
VP of QA, Security, and Customer Experience
With years of experience in the telecommunication domain working for companies such as Ribbon Communications, Vividha is responsible for our quality assurance, security, and user experience, with a focus on ensuring high levels of automation and test coverage with our QA efforts.
Pieter Knikkink
VP of Alliances and Partnerships
With his 20+ years of international experience in the Telecom Industry, leading business development at Nokia, Pieter joined ng-voice in 2022. He focuses on expanding our alliances and partnerships in the industry, which are instrumental in ng-voice’s growth strategy. He works with technology partners such as Google and aws, as well as portfolio partners to ensure we can deliver the best solutions to our customers.
Oscar Posada
VP of Sales Caribbean and Latin America (CALA)
With 20 years of international professional experience in the telco industry, Oscar leads ng-voice sales and business development activities in CALA. Oscar started his career at Nokia and Huawei where he honed his technical and commercial acumen and then joined Affirmed Networks and has built their business in the CALA area from scratch. Oscar is located in Mexico City.
Stefan Frank
Head of Deployment
After working at several startups and research initiatives in the telco space, Stefan joined ng-voice in 2017. He is today working as ng-voice’s Head of Deployment, where he ensures prompt and high-quality project delivery as well as outstanding 24/7 customer support for our clients to ensure highest industry standards for our solution. .
Elisa Herrmann
People & Organization Lead
Joining us from the U.S., where she served as Director of Compliance at American University, she was in charge of ensuring that these talented athletes have a well-rounded experience to achieve athletic and academic excellence. Now, she uses her unique teamwork & community-focused approach to turn ng-voice into a “hybrid remote” company while keeping an environment of trust and free thought exchange.
Mohan Prasath Marimuthu
Quality Assurance Lead Load & Functional Execution
With 11+ years of experience in QA positions and extensive knowledge in VoIP, SIP, IMS, and programming languages, he focuses on ng-voice’s load testing, stability, and reliability efforts.
Margareta Cucli-lane
Talent Acquisition Lead
Having more than 6 years in recruitment and talent acquisition with a focus on full-cycle recruiting, employer branding, sourcing, training creation, and people support, she leads the Talent Acquisition team, ensuring we are bringing and growing the best talents.
Hamed Amini
Cloud Native Team Lead
Hamed is the Cloud Team Lead at ng-voice and shapes the company's cloud agenda and ensures ng-voice delivers on the promise of full cloud nativity. He pushes the agenda with our cloud partners, ensures our cloud native architecture includes the most innovative industry developments, and focuses on the full implementation of the company’s CI/CD flow in operations, allowing operators to take full advantage of cloud-native principles.
Lukas Stermann
Software Architecture Team Lead
Lukas grew up within ng-voice, starting as a working student, until he became the lead of the software architecture team. He actively codes and performs integration testing of software, ensuring proper and efficient execution while adhering to business and technical requirements. Lukas also participates in code review sessions to validate adherence to development standards. His expertise and guidance contribute to the team's success and the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Tej Singh Rana
Software Engineering Team Lead
With 15+ years as a software engineer, Tej guides his team in following engineering best practices and embarking on an exciting product journey. He collaborates with the QA team to ensure applications meet specifications and technical requirements. Tej presents and defends architectural and technical choices, conducts integration testing, and participates in code review sessions. He provides system analysis to the C-level, trains junior engineers and drives a customer-centric approach to product evolution.
Jun Zhou
Head of Commercial and Contract Management
Jun, with over 14 years of experience in telecommunications contracts, leads as the Head of Commercial and Contract Management. He drives growth by developing and implementing commercial strategies aligned with company goals. His expertise and leadership propel the company's growth and reinforce its position in the telecommunications industry.
Mohamad Salah
Cloud Deployment Lead
Mohamad, as the Liaison between the Cloud and Deployment teams, facilitates seamless communication and coordination between engineering and deploymnet. His expertise in cloud technology and deployment processes drives improvements, automation initiatives, and technical documentation. Mohamad serves as the go-to contact for deployment issues, resolves technical challenges, and ensures successful deployments for key clients. His contributions optimize operations and enhance the overall deployment experience, resulting in client satisfaction and organizational success.
