SyncVoice Communications, Inc. Founder Kerry Shih Wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007.Technology Council of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Recognizes Shih for Outstanding Fiscal Resourcefulness, Team Building and Product Innovation COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif. -- SyncVoice Communications, Inc., the leading provider of unified management software for converged communications, today announced the Technology Council of Southern California has selected Mr. Kerry Shih, SyncVoice's founder and chief strategist, as Entrepreneur of the Year 2007. The award honors entrepreneurs who have greatly contributed to the growth of technological innovation in Southern California through team building accomplishments, fiscal resourcefulness and their company's innovative products. The Entrepreneur of the Year award was presented during a gala dinner event on March 7, 2007 at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel The Biltmore Hotel is a hotel located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Built by John McEntee Bowman, it opened in 1923. At the time, it was the largest hotel west of Chicago and designed by architects Schultze and Weaver. It is now named the Millennium Biltmore. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . "I am delighted to receive this honor for my work with SyncVoice Communications, Inc.," said Shih upon learning of his win. "The SyncVoice team has developed and deployed what we believe to be an invaluable solution for converged voice network management. Receiving such a meaningful award validates our strategy and allows us to take pride in our accomplishments." Developing market-changing Internet Protocol (IP) technologies for much of the past decade, Kerry Shih ran SyncVoice Communications, Inc. in "bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. " mode for over three years. During this time the company acquired more than 200 enterprise customers, won Internet Telephony's Product of the Year award and was a finalist for Price Waterhouse Coopers' coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Entrepreneurship award in 2006. Kerry Shih has been instrumental in creating significant sales traction for SyncVoice and closing funding from tier one venture capitalists. "It is an honor to present this year's Entrepreneur of the Year award to such a talented visionary as Kerry Shih," said Jon Kraft, Technology Council chair of the board. "Our committee was impressed with Kerry's business and technological acumen at SyncVoice Communications, Inc., and though there were some outstanding competitors in his category, Kerry's unwavering leadership over the past few years earned him this award." SyncVoice Communications, Inc. was founded in late 2001 and has since been serving enterprises by providing unique solutions for converged voice network management. The company's flagship product, VXTracker[TM], is the only solution on the market today that manages end-to-end hybrid communication and offers analytics tools that provide holistic visibility to IT managers and CIOs. VXTracker is also the first application to integrate the management of converged networks to a common standard for security, performance and cost controls, regardless of vendor or level of hybridization hybridization /hy·brid·iza·tion/ (hi?brid-i-za´shun) 1. crossbreeding; the act or process of producing hybrids. 2. molecular hybridization 3. . To learn more about SyncVoice Communications, Inc. visit www.syncvoice.com. About SyncVoice Communications, Inc. SyncVoice Communications, Inc. is the leading provider of solutions for managing converged voice/data communications networks. The VXTracker software product line is used by over 300 companies to reduce business risk and lower operating costs, combining technical tools with executive analytics. Based in Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa is a suburban middle class city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 108,724 at the 2000 census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a suburban city with an economy based on , SyncVoice sells its products via direct enterprise sales and channel sales partners. SyncVoice is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation with venture funding from Clearstone Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on IT investing with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding of many successful and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. 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