We used to joke every year at our annual conference, вЂThis is the year of WebRTC,вЂ™ and 2019 was finally the year. While we felt this was the underlying communications protocol of the future, eight years ago, that philosophy was a bit more controversial. The second thing Highfive did was build the service on WebRTC, an open-source framework enabling Web Real- Time Communications. We are running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and use Google Cloud Platform for some telemetry data, so all of our services run on a hyper-scale public cloud and provide industry-leading security. One is, Highfive is built entirely in the cloud, so itвЂ™s a true вЂњborn-in-the-cloudвЂќ company. Three things attracted me to the platform. I joined HighfiveвЂ™s board of directors a little over two and a half years ago, and then 18 months ago, I was asked to join as CEO and help take the company to the next level. I came across Highfive and met its founders, Shan Sinha and Jeremy Roy, both of whom had left Google several years prior. When we saw Zoom start to take off, I researched different video and web conferencing companies to see what was out there. Dimension Data was CiscoвЂ™s largest global partner in telecommunications and collaboration. I had roughly US$1.8 billion of revenue in my business unit of about 9,000 employees. My previous position was at Dimension Data, a division of NTT, where I ran their Global Collaboration and Customer Experience business. IвЂ™ve been in the telecommunications industry for almost 30 years. Please tell us a little bit about your background before Highfive. This interview was originally published on May 10, 2020. We talked about how the pandemic has changed the way we conduct business meetings, sell products, provide counseling services вЂ“ even teach pilates! вЂ“ and its long terms effects on a post COVID world. Joe Manuele, CEO at Highfive, explains how their WebRTC driven conferencing platform and their immersive audio and video powered Dolby VoiceВ® create an unparalleled user experience for both business and personal interactions. Web conferencing has become an integral part of business and now, due to COVID-19, personal continuity.

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