Danny Parker

Chairman, President & CEO

Danny Parker is a telecommunications industry veteran with over 25 years of executive management experience covering Corporate Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, General Management, Marketing, Product Line Management, Business Development, Product Development, New Product Introduction, Customer Service and Operations management. Danny has served as a director on the Velleros Board since November 2007 and joined the Velleros management team as President and Chief Executive Officer on July 1, 2008. Danny was also elected Velleros Board Chairman in June, 2012. Prior to joining Velleros Danny was with Tekelec for 14 years where he led Tekelec’s strategic planning, business development and merger and acquisition activities as the Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer since October, 2000. In that role Danny was also responsible for Tekelec’s investments in emerging technology based private companies, and served as Tekelec’s representative on the boards of those companies, including Telica (Acquired by Lucent) , Santera (acquired by GENBAND), BroadSoft (IPO'd) and IEX (acquired by NICE). Prior to that, Danny held a variety of other executive management positions at Tekelec including Vice President and General Manager, Network Diagnostics Division and Vice President Product Line Management and Marketing in the company’s Network Signaling Division. Prior to joining Tekelec, Danny was with Nortel for 14 years where he held key executive management positions in Customer Service, Product Development, Product Verification and Product Line Management. Danny completed the Advanced Management Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Glynn Gossett

Senior Vice President of Sales

Glynn Gossett is a telecommunications industry veteran with over 25 years of sales and business development management experience, holding senior management positions with both telecom carriers and with telecom equipment vendors selling to telecom carriers. Glynn joined Velleros in December of 2012 as Senior Vice President of Sales and is responsible for the company's carrier sales function. Prior to joining Velleros, Glynn spent 14 years with Glenayre/Movius in various sales and business development positions including Vice President of Sales for North America. Glynn's experience includes sales of Value Added Services (VAS) offerings, Voicemail Systems, SMSC's, MMSC's, and Prepaid Billing Systems to Wireless, Wireline and MSO carriers. Prior to joining Glenayre/Movius Glynn served as Regional Vice President of Sales for Harris DTS. Glynn is active in many telecommunications industry organizations including the Cellular Telephone Industry Associate (CTIA), the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) and the Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG). Glynn holds a BBA from the University of Georgia in Marketing and a MS in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University.

Neil Harrington

Senior Vice President, Engineering

Neil Harrington is a seasoned telecommunications industry R&D leader with over 17 years experience in innovative product design, development and market launch. Neil joined Velleros in January, 2009 and serves as the company’s Vice President, Engineering and Customer Service. In that role Neil is responsible for building a high performance R&D and Customer Service team to drive the development of Velleros' best in class, carrier grade mass alerting and content delivery product portfolio. Prior to joining Velleros, Neil was at Nortel for 17 years where his unique blend of technical depth, exceptional people management skills and a sharp customer focus caused him to be repeatedly selected to build high performance teams and led key product development and market launch projects to address Nortel's strategic markets. While at Nortel Neil was responsible for the company’s product development programs for carrier grade VoATM and VoIP Gateways and most recently was responsible for developing Nortel's first video solution product portfolio including the launch of innovative multimedia communication services into the IPTV and Cable markets. Neil has one patent filed and holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from N.C. State University.