Developer Blog Authors

Stefan BeslingStefan Besling, Vice President Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering, Stefan Besling provides leadership for Voxeo’s Unified Self-Service software development team and is responsible for delivering Prophecy and VoiceObjects product releases. Prior to joining Voxeo, Stefan worked in Silicon Valley for a number of years first as co-founder of a Philips Electronics spin-off focused on voice-controlled multimodal applications for mobile devices and then as Director Voice Applications for YY Technologies, a company providing a Web and email-based self service platform. Stefan has a background in speech recognition technology and held development and research roles at Philips Speech Processing and Philips Research.
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Jens BäckerJens Bäcker, Director of Customer Solutions EMEA

In his role, Jens is responsible for professional services projects that are delivered in collaboration with Voxeo’s professional services partners. He is responsible for scoping and planning projects and architectures, and manages projects in the delivery phase. Jens has a strong background in software projects and IT architectures with a special focus on natural language processing. Prior to joining the comapny in 2005, he worked in the field of information retrieval and automated document  categorization, where he held positions as software engineer and project manager. Jens holds a master´s degree in computer science and computational linguistics.

Tobias Göbel, Senior Systems Engineer

Having worked as partner consultant as well as program manager for the VoiceObjects Server product since 2003, Tobias has a strong background in phone application environments based on VoiceXML, IV(V)R, mobile Web, and USSD. In May 2008, he joined the EMEA pre-sales team. Tobias holds a master degree in computational linguistics, phonetics, and computer science.

Martin Mauelshagen, Project Manager

As a project manager at Voxeo, Martin supports customers in realizing projects based on Voxeo’s technology. Prior the this role, Martin held the role of a Program Manager. In the role Martin Mauelshagen defined and supervised new features for VoiceObjects Desktop and VoiceObjects Developer Edition. Martin’s extensive experience with customer projects, training, and support allows him to efficiently and accurately translate user requirements into technical specifications and documentation. Martin joined VoiceObjects in 2004 and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Informatics.

Andreas VolmerAndreas Volmer, Presales Manager EMEA

In his role as Presales Manager, Andreas plans and implements pilot projects, integrates VoiceObjects with different IT infrastructures, moderates workshops, and supports customers in planning the rollout of new phone-based self services. He has been a professional in the software industry for more than 10 years now, working in such diverse roles as software architect, project manager, consultant and sales engineer. Prior to VoiceObjects, he worked for milestone Software GmbH, Neuss, and for Segue Software, an a software test automation tool vendor. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cologne.