Craig Walker

Current

• Senior Product Manager, Voice Products at Google, Inc.

Past

• Founder, CEO & Chairman at GrandCentral Communications, Inc.
• Sr. Dirctor VoIP at Yahoo! Inc.
• President and CEO at Dialpad Communications, Inc.

• General Partner at Sterling Payot Capital
• General Counsel and Associate at TeleSoft Partners
• Attorney at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison

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Education

• Boalt Hall School of Law
• Georgetown University
• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

• UC Berkeley

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Industry

Telecommunications

Craig Walker’s Experience

• Senior Product Manager, Voice Products

  Google, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Integrating the GrandCentral service into Google and working on voice related products and services.

• Founder, CEO & Chairman

  GrandCentral Communications, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  November 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  GrandCentral is a personal communictions start-up in the SF Bay Area. GrandCentral gives users One Number to be reached at all their endpoints and provides unique features such as the ability to ListenIn on voicemail messages from any phone, the ability to record a call at a touch of a button, the ability to customize how different callers are treated, and much more. Get a free account at www.grandcentral.com

• Sr. Dirctor VoIP

  Yahoo! Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2005 — November 2005 (6 months)

  Responsible for ensuring integration of Dialpad and Yahoo VoIP teams and services after acquisition of Dialpad by Yahoo in June 2005.

• President and CEO

  Dialpad Communications, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 8 months)

  Internet Telephony service provider offering VoIP services to users and businesses worldwide

• General Partner

  Sterling Payot Capital

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 1999 — November 2001 (2 years 11 months)

  Venture capital firm investing in early stage internet and communications companies.

• General Counsel and Associate

  TeleSoft Partners

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  Associate and General Counsel at venture capital firm investing in early stage telecom focused companies. Successes included Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Promatory (acquired by Nortel) and VxTel (acquired by Intel).

• Attorney

  Brobeck Phleger & Harrison

  (Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)

  August 1995 — January 1998 (2 years 6 months)

  Corporate and Securities Attorney. Representing start-up companies (various), venture capitalists (KPCB, Sequoia, Benchmark, etc.) and public companies (Cisco, Polycom, etc.) in venture financings, M&A and IPOs.

Craig Walker’s Education

• Boalt Hall School of Law

  JD, Law, August 1992 — May 1995

• Georgetown University

  MBA, Finance, August 1989 — May 1991

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

  BA, Economics, 1983 — 1988

• UC Berkeley

  BA, Social Studies, August 1983 — May 1988