The GotVoice team is pleased to announce that Steven Wu has come on board. In his new position as Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Steven will be responsible for leading sales and partnership efforts with carriers and service providers, and driving the company’s international expansion into global markets.

A former Microsoft executive and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, Steven has over two decades of strategic, executive, international and operational experience in high technology management, private equity and business management. Building on the existing momentum of GotVoice, Steven will work to partner GotVoice with carriers and IP communication providers to incorporate the GotVoice G2 solution into companies’ existing platforms.

“I have the advantage of coming on board at time when globally, carriers and service providers are seeking differentiation through services like GotVoice,” he says. “Our carrier-grade solution is unparalleled in that it has been trained against millions of individual speakers from carriers throughout our markets and boasts unmatched accuracy and speed. We are helping to drive revenues for our partners by differentiating their offerings at a price point that stimulates usage.”

You can reach Steven directly at swu (at) gotvoice dot com or see him at CTIA, Internet Telephony or TMIA.

The GotVoice team will be at a number of tradeshows and conventions in September. At each show, we’ll be meeting with bloggers in attendance, or bloggers that happen to live in the area. Send us a quick email if you’d like to be part of the group. We’ll be showing off new demos, have some execs available for 1 on 1 interviews, and likely be accompanied by a few other Seattle tech companies doing the same.

Here’s the schedule:
Sept 10-12: CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Sept 16-18: Internet Telephony Conference, Los Angeles Convention Center
Sept 22-24: TMIA Fall 2008, Toronto Reniassance

Let us know if you’ll be around any of these shows. We’d love to meet up.