Sam Aparicio

Sam Aparicio is Chief Technology Officer at Angel.com and is responsible for the company’s strategic product, technology, and operations initiatives. From its origins, Sam has spearheaded the effort to turn Angel.com into a world-class voice automation platform, addressing user needs with technology innovation. Under his product leadership, Angel.com has grown its user base to more than 1,600 businesses and its revenue by more than 100% on a yearly basis. Sam specializes in next-generation telecom services, the SME market, on-demand business delivery, product design and technology mananagement. Sam is particularly interested in Voice 2.0, and wants to make it a reality in the marketplace. Imagine a world where you can incorporate voice-driven and phone functionality to any business application, where the phone experience is just another channel to interact with users, and where system responses are highly personalized and data driven. Imagine the combination of Web Services, Voice Over IP and Rich Internet Applications. A world where you don't have to be a telecom specialist to extend a business process to the phone. Imagine a rich array of pre-built voice services that you can mash up together with your existing business processes to achieve new heights of interaction with customers, employees and partners. Imagine tapping into the power of the re-writable web from the telephone. That is Voice 2.0. Prior to Angel.com, Sam was a developer at investment bank Barclays Capital in London. He holds a bachelor's degree in Classical Studies from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, U.K., where he specialized in Artificial Intelligence. You can find more about Sam on LinkedIn at -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/samaparicio