About: As CTO of Strolid, Thomas McCarthy-Howe leads our technical team. For forty years, Thomas has worked with communication engineering teams to bring new products and services to market. As a technical contributor and leader, Thomas worked with pioneering teams in the videoconferencing (PictureTelPolycom), VoIP (H.320, H.323, H.324, SIP, H.261) and ADSL chipset (Aware) markets. In 2012, Thomas was a voice architect for Harris Corporation for the thirty year redesign of the voice network for the US National Aerospace Service. Over his career, he has worked with teams at Skype, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and Nippon Electric Company. Thomas is a founder of several companies that have gone public or have been acquired, including his sale of TEN DIGIT to Virtual Hold, the best-in-class provider of customer experience solutions, enabling over 300 of the world’s leading companies to improve their customer experience metrics, save money on customer interactions, and grow their reach to new customers. Thomas has been honored with the VON Innovator's award, first place finishes in TADHack Global, the O'Reilly Media Telephony and Broadsoft Mashup Competitions. He holds a degree from the University of Massachusetts, was a visiting scientist at Columbia University, holds nine patents, and currently resides on Cape Cod.