Murali Aravamudan is Co-Founder and CEO of nference.Aravamudan was originally a researcher at Bell Labs, and helped build the first VoIP softswitch, which was deployed at Level3 and other companies. During the last boom, his first company, Winphoria, built a push-to-talk technology that competed with [Nextel](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nextel)'s. It was adopted by [Sprint](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sprint-nextel) and Verizon. The company raised $52 million, and was sold to [Motorola](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/motorola) for $190 million in 2003.
Organization Name | Title At Company | Start Date | End Date | |
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Nference | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | Jan 1, 2015 | — | Detail |
Nference | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | Jan 1, 2013 | — | Detail |