Expert profile: Mr Igor Jablokov

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Igor serves as CEO of an institutionally funded startup focused on mobile 
speech recognition. Most recently they were finalists at Silicon Valley's 
elite TechCrunch event and were awarded North Carolina’s Early Stage 
Company of the Year.
He previously served as IBM's Program Director for Multimodal Technologies. 
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.
Igor also held positions with IBM’s Pervasive Computing, PartnerWorld, 
Global Industries, and Microelectronics divisions. With well over a dozen 
patents pending, he was named an industry luminary by the editors of Speech 
Technology magazine. He holds an undergraduate degree in computer engineering 
from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of North 
Carolina.