QualTel
                    "Where QUALity TELecommunications software is our business"

About Us

The QualTel vision is to bring cost-effective messaging communications to everyone in world. To this end the company recently acquired the intellectual property of a former supplier of turnkey enhanced services systems. This is the foundation of the new product "MessageNet". The product is a set of software building blocks for service providers and systems integrators to create cost-effective service applications. QualTel Incorporated was originally founded in 1998 to provide technical support and software development services to several large enhanced messaging service providers in Europe and Asia.

QualTel is positioned to change the way that messaging solutions are sold to the service provider market. The QualTel MessageNet product allows either systems integrators or the service providers to create the solution that makes sense for their business - either integrating MessageNet into their product offering (product integrator) or into their infrastructure (service provider). This software-only technology solution enables and enhances revenue-generating unified communications applications.

• Executive Profile

  Executive Profile

QualTel's executive-level managers are very experienced in the enhanced telecom services market.  They have the technical, marketing, sales, and financial management expertise to ensure QualTel’s viability in the market.  They have identified and recruited a core team of developers, support engineers and marketing professionals who have joined the founders in building the company.  This team, many of who have worked together at previous companies, have begun to enable the company to become productive and competitive.

 
 Forest Ralph – (CEO)  has served as Chief Financial Officer for three venture-backed technology start-ups. His management experience includes five years in international and technology banking with Chase and Marine Midland in New York City, six years with Dole Foods, and six years in business development and strategic finance with President Baking. Mr. Ralph is a Certified Management Accountant and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

 John Pucknell – (CTO)  has 30 years experience in the telecom business. Mr. Pucknell brings significant relevant experience in the service provider messaging market, as he has worked for several of the major vendors to this market, including Unisys, Syntellect and Comverse. He has held various Vice President titles and has been on the executive management team of four companies.  

 Scott Shinault – (Vice President Engineering)  has over 15 years experience in telecom software systems. Mr. Shinault brings an in-depth understanding of software engineering on large-scale systems in the domestic and international telecom arena. He has worked on the development and management teams at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Atlas Telecom and has a stellar record of product design and delivery.  

 Sal DeCaro – (Vice President Sales)  has over 30 years experience in sales and business development in the telecom industry. Mr. DeCaro has held many senior positions within Lucent/AT&T including Vice President Service Provider Solutions Lucent Technologies, EMEA. He has an impressive proven track record ramping up and running businesses in national and international markets for both enterprise and service provider segments.

Christian Wilde – (Senior Director Sales & Marketing) brings a varied entrepreneurial background to QualTel, strong in negotiating and creative marketing skills having run his own company serving the telecom, service provider and messaging industry for 21 years. Mr. Wilde had held VP positions in two other diverse industries before entering the telecom field. He has authored and published two books