Alex leads Clique's next-generation development efforts in multi-party voice APIs and SDKs as the CTO of Caw.Me.. His work in integrating simple multiparty voice into common team chat and gaming environments is groundbreaking.. Alex has 8 issued patents ( 6,721,705; 6,775,264; 6,807,257; and 7,076,431 and Canadian patent No. 2,321,697 and more. https://www.uspto.gov/ ) in the field of speech enabled Unified Communications.. Alex has a track record of building companies and products from ground zero and operating large converged network based platforms and applications. He was co-founder and CTO of the first voice-activated Unified Communications company Webley/CommuniKate 1998-2010. Earlier he also built Vail Systems from the ground up as its VP of Engineering from 1991-1998.. Alex's strong customer focus enables him to keep the customer first while having in-depth architecture and code level understanding of voice and data networks (PSTN, VoIP), protocols ( SIP ), platforms (messaging, speech recognition, interactive voice response, RDBMS), web and mobile-centric architectures and web services, applications (Unified Communications), user interfaces (speech, GUI).