Brett Shockley
CEO
SVP Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, GM & CTO Avaya, VP/GM Cisco. Founded/exited Spanlink Communications & Calabrio. E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year.
Journey has a fundamentally different approach to securing all interactions between businesses and their customers by enabling composable identity and interaction solutions across the entire customer journey. Our experienced team has designed and built a patented Zero Knowledge identity network and an award-winning platform that enables flexible, secure, privacy-preserving identity solutions for the entire customer journey and all contact center channels.
The Journey team is compromised of a unique mix of serial entrepreneurs, past Fortune 500 executives, and rockstar up and comers spanning backgrounds in contact centers, communications, digital marketing, cryptography & more.
SVP Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, GM & CTO Avaya, VP/GM Cisco. Founded/exited Spanlink Communications & Calabrio. E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year.
Application sales leadership at T-Metric
Remote team and multi-national team management, business analysis, CRM applications, Call center design, AI applications, CTI application development at Avaya
Director of Digital Strategy AOR (ad agency), Founded/exited Shocking Creations (digital agency), Director Partnerships Unreasonable Adventures.
VP Product Mgmt/Strategy Symbolic IO, Director Service Provider Voice over IP Solutions Cisco, Advanced Voice Processing Bell Labs. Led commercial development of SP VoIP.
Managing Director Avaya, Co-Founder, SVP Operations and CIO Spanlink Communications.
President and CEO DCI Technology, Director Learning Engineering & Business Development Cisco Corporate Affairs, Director Advanced Technology & Collaboration Cisco APAC, Director Collaboration Sales and Marketing Cisco EMEA, Manager Systems Engineering GeoTel Communications, Senior Contact Center Analyst Fidelity Investments
Executive Leadership for Customer Success & Care at Aspect, Global VP Professional Services at Avaya, Professional Services leader with RingCentral, and Leadership roles in Business Development, Quality Assurance, and Technical Consulting at top tier carriers and infrastructure companies.
Founded Marina Growth Strategies in 2018 Previously served as CEO of Polycom & Tandberg; served on board of directors for 6 public companies; leading role in multiple successful IPOs.
VP, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer Polycom, Sr. IT Customer Program Manager HP. Advisory Board, University of Colorado Cybersecurity Forum. Expert in data privacy, security incident management, governance, eDiscovery, IP protection, security risk and compliance.
VP Engineering Avaya, Cisco, Siemens/IBM/Rolm, Stanford PhD in Self Optimizing Systems, 250+ patents.
Emmy Sobieski, CFA combines 25 years’ of experience investing in public and private companies with the experience of leading, scaling, and advising tech startups. Emmy co-ran the Nicholas|Applegate Global Tech Fund (#1 fund, up 493% in 1999). Senior positions at Palantir Capital (partner), OppenheimerFunds/Invesco (VP, Director), and Farmers Insurance Investments. Founder, co-founder, COO, and/or advisor in SaaS, Web3, AI, and hedge fund startups. Bestselling Author.
SVP/GM High End Security BU Juniper, EVP Engineering Polycom, VP Engineering & Advanced Product Development Cisco, Founder VoIP Forum. Executive leadership roles at: Infinera, McData, Avaya, and Nortel.