Jim Van Meggelen

Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over seventeen years of enterprise telecom experience, for such companies as Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has has extensive knowledge of both legacy and VoIP equipment from manufacturers such as Nortel, Cisco and Avaya. Jim is also a senior partner in iConverged LLC, a US-Based startup that is exploring how to bring Emerging Telephony to the Interconnect industry. Jim was the architect of two of the world's largest managed enterprise voice networks; each solution serving roughly twenty-thousand users in more than one-thousand communities across Canada, providing telecommunications in five different languages, through six time zones, administered completely from a central location. These networks pioneered the use of extensive automation and database control in a branch voice network - functionalities not generally available in proprietary telecommunications systems. Jim is passionate about open-source telephony as a force for cultural change in an industry that needs some stimulation from an more entepreneurial mindset. Jim writes occasionally for VON Magazine. Jim enjoys teaching, public speaking, improvisational acting, and writing. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.