User:Ijablokov
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[edit] Igor Jablokov
Mr. Jablokov serves as CEO of a privately funded stealth startup in the wireless technologies space, and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
As former Program Director of IBM's multimodal and voice portal initiatives, Mr. Jablokov led a worldwide team focused on developing speech technology for IBM's On Demand vision, working hand-in-hand with Dr. TV Raman (now at Google Research). His responsibilities included extending speech to perform enterprise transactions, as well as enabling multimodality, a capability that allows users to intuitively access information through a variety of channels. Key customers included Honda, General Motors OnStar, and Pioneer Electronics, with Access Co. and Opera Software serving as his primary partners.
Additionally, he served as a business mentor for IBM's Extreme Blue internship program and represented the Company on the board of directors for the VoiceXML Forum, an industry group driving an open standards-based vision of speech computing. He was that organization's second Chairman.
Previously, Mr. Jablokov held positions with IBM's Pervasive Computing, PartnerWorld, Global Industries, and Microelectronics divisions. He holds an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
