Management Team
Steven Kokinos, President & CEO
Steven Kokinos serves as the President & CEO of Thinking Phone Networks and is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company. Under his leadership Thinking Phones has established itself as a pioneer in hosted intelligence market.
Previously, Steven was a founder of BladeLogic, Inc (www.bladelogic.com), a data center automation software company based in Waltham, MA. BladeLogic is widely recognized as a leader in the data center automation space, with fortune 500 customers such as GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, Sprint, and many others.
Before BladeLogic, Steven was Founder, President, and CEO of WebYes, Inc., an early leader in the web hosting and application service provider market. WebYes provided the electronic software distribution platform for all of Sun Microsystems software products including java. WebYes was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999. At Breakaway, Steven helped establish and run the company's ASP business. Steven played a critical role in building the business to $120M in revenue and taking the company public, and was responsible for Breakaway's ranking as the #2 ASP worldwide based on revenue and customers in just 18 months of operations.
Steven holds a BA from McGill University.
Derek Yoo, Chief Technology Officer
Derek is a co-founder of Thinking Phone Networks, and is responsible for the vision, development, execution, and ongoing operation of the companies C3 platform. This includes the specification, development, and ongoing management of application, telecommunications, network, and server infrastructure at 5 geographically diverse data center locations.
Prior to Thinking Phones, Derek served as Product Manager at BladeLogic. BladeLogic is the industry leading provider of enterprise data center automation and server configuration management software. Derek led the Product Management effort for BladeLogic's entire portfolio of enterprise systems management products from initial concept and specification, to development, and ultimately wide-spread industry adoption. The BladeLogic Operations Manager platform includes a bare metal OS provisioning system, an application provisioning and software distribution system, a server configuration management system, an ad-hoc systems administrations platform, and an enterprise reporting system.
Before BladeLogic, Derek was a Development and Operations manager with WebYes, and later Breakaway Solutions, where he managed the development and operation of hosted applications deployed across 11 datacenters in 4 continents.
Derek holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Carl Moore, Vice President Sales
Carl is the VP of Sales for Thinking Phone Networks. With 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry, Carl has a demonstrated track record of building highly productive and effective sales teams. Carl has held previous sales management positions at CTC Communications, ESP, and Broadview Networks. At CTC Communications, he pioneered an Account Management program with major RBOCs and later directed Senior Sales teams managing CTC's Enterprise Accounts from Maine to Maryland. As Vice President of Sales at ESP, Carl launched an Agency program with over 45 successful distributors to market MyLine PCX single number calling service. Most recently at Broadview Networks, Carl established and grew the New England sales region.
Carl believes "Thinking Phone Networks is poised to deliver world class hosted intelligence services to customers directly and through a select group of business partner channels." He is frequently requested to speak on various selling and telecommunications topics at ACTA, Comptel, NETA, Phone+, AHMA, Northern Telecom and Cisco Seminars.
Carl holds a BA from Northeastern University