The freedom fighters

  • Eric Stang

    Chief Executive Officer

    Eric Stang joins Ooma from Reliant Technologies, a medical technology company, where he served as President and CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Reliant Technologies, Stang acted as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Lexar, now a subsidiary of Micron. During his seven years at Lexar, Stang played a leadership role in taking the company public, effectively enacted a turnaround strategy, led its growth and entry into new markets, oversaw the development of a consumer brand, and established Lexar products in more than 70,000 storefronts worldwide with revenues in excess of $850 million. Under his leadership, Lexar also became one of the 50 largest public technology companies in Silicon Valley, before its acquisition by Micron.

  • Jamie Buckley

    Vice President of Customer Service

    Jamie Buckley has more than 20 years experience in the technology and financial services sectors and has held senior executive positions at Apple Inc., Bank of America, and Providian. At Apple, Buckley led the telesales division for the Online Store where he increased revenue from $236M to $487M over a two-year period. He was instrumental in developing an ancillary sales channel that produced triple-digit growth in the iPod and AppleCare product lines. Mr. Buckley was previously the Senior Vice President of Sales & Service at Providian and helped fuel the aggressive portfolio growth increasing assets under management from $700 million to $26 billion. He also led the customer contact areas and managed 2,200 people at 8 locations, across 5 states. Previous experience includes customer-facing leadership roles at Citibank and Bank of America, where he managed Customer Service for the credit card division. Buckley has written and published two books on customer service and sales, "Customer Magic," and "Customer Magic Two".

  • Toby Farrand

    Vice President of Engineering and Operations

    Toby is the vice president of engineering and operations of Ooma and oversees all of Ooma's technical development, manufacturing and engineering.

    Prior to joining Ooma, Toby was an employee at Apple Computer for 10 years where he served as a principal designer, managing hundreds of engineers. He then joined 3DO as vice president of engineering, overseeing multi-million dollar operations and taking the technical lead for the company's IPO. Toby also founded BroadLogic and served as its chief executive officer, followed by five years at Digeo where he held the title of chief technology officer.

    Toby has spent over 20 years creating technologically impressive products, from personal computers and video game consoles, to satellite networking systems and home broadband media centers.

    Toby holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

  • Jim Gustke

    Vice President of Marketing

    Jim Gustke is a marketing and Internet veteran with a wealth of experience at the intersection of consumer and technology marketing. As Vice President of Marketing for Intuit, he helped lead the reinvention of Quicken and launch the first SaaS version of the popular personal finance software. Prior to Intuit, Mr. Gustke was responsible for business unit management, global branding and product marketing at Lexar Media, helping grow the flash memory company to over $850 million before its acquisition by Micron Technology. He also served as the founding Vice President of Marketing for Ofoto, an online photography service, acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2001. A pioneer in Internet marketing, he joined America Online in 1996 as the marketing leader for GNN, the company's first Internet Service Provider, and in 1995 as a marketing manager at Polaroid Corporation he led the team that launched the company's first corporate web site.

  • Dennis Peng

    Vice President of Product Management

    Dennis is the vice president of product management and technical advisory board member of Ooma and is responsible for creating an intuitive, compelling user experience.

    Prior to joining Ooma, Dennis worked at Cisco Systems for 11 years where he began his career as a customer support engineer. He later joined the Escalation Team where he focused on fixing the most technically challenging problems, as well as supporting the design, rollout and operations of the largest remote access and broadband aggregation networks worldwide. He was honored with the title of Distinguished Support Engineer because of his expertise in networking protocols, isolating and fixing highly complex issues, and leadership among his peers.

    Dennis holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

  • Tim Sullivan

    Vice President of Sales

    Tim Sullivan brings extensive experience in retail sales, channel development and marketing and has held senior executive positions at Seagate, Lexar Media and TDK. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Seagate's Branded Group, Mr. Sullivan was responsible for consumer focused data-backup solutions in multiple channels. As EVP Worldwide Sales for Lexar Media he was responsible for guiding the company’s sales growth to over $850 million from retail, e-tail, and OEM sales channels worldwide. Mr. Sullivan also served as Vice President of Sales at Onechannel.net, an Internet start-up focused on e-commerce metrics. Prior to Onechannel.net, Mr. Sullivan was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TDK Electronics Corp responsible for a over $400 million business which included the launch of such categories as the Recordable CD and DVD.