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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$7.4M
- Private
- US
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The mission of Vocera Communications is to enhance business productivity, teamwork, and service levels by enabling fluid, instant voice communication among team members, across groups, and throughout an organization of mobile professionals. Vocera's hands-free, 802.11b wireless solution provides a cost-effective, easy-to-use system for instant voice communication in hospitals, retail stores, and other building and campus environments. There's no need to remember phone numbers. Simply say the name, title, or function of the person you need to reach and Vocera connects you instantly to the people and information you need.
President & CEO
Julie ShimerNumber of Employees 65
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunications: 517212
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Heightened Responsiveness Improves Patient Care With the Vocera Wireless Voice Communication Solution and IBM
BNET
- 2005-10-01
The leading medical facilities are turning to a wireless voice communication system from Vocera and IBM to dramatically reduce response times among clinicians and other support staff as well as management personnel. Wireless voice technology enables mobile staff members to instantly communicate, sending and receiving messages hands-free, over a lightweight,...
Vocera Communications Streamlines Workflow with New Software Release 3.0; Expedited and Integrated Communications Improves Customer Service
- 2005-02-14
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Vocera Communications, a wireless communications company, introduced today its new software, Release 3.0, with enhanced speech recognition, a new messaging interface software, improved wireless security capability, and a new report server module allowing customers to analyze system usage patterns and call flows.
Wireless designed for nurses could streamline healthcare IT.(Business)
- 2004-06-21
Byline: EMILY MOTSAY Wireless solutions designed specifically for nurses, the largest healthcare group in the U.S. and the biggest users of IT systems in hospitals, could streamline the otherwise inefficient healthcare field. But to be succes Byline: EMILY...
Vocera Communications Clinical Applications
BNET
- 2003-10-01
For many healthcare institutions, Wireless Local Area Networks WLAN has become a key component of the IT infrastructure. Vocera Communications provides a wearable instant voice communications system that further utilizes the WLAN infrastructure. This paper addresses the clinical applications of Vocera and how it can positively affect productivity and resource...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Julie Shimer | President & CEO |
| Robert Zollars | CEO |
| Martin Silver | CFO |
| Robert Shostak | Principal Founder and Cto |
| Amy Karabinas | Vice President, Engineering |
| Brent Lang | Vice President, Marketing |
| Paul Scott | Vice President, Sales |
| Victoria Perkins | Vice President, Customer Services |
| Randy Nielsen | Co-Founder |
| Hany Nada |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Brian Ascher | Board Director |
| Don Wood | Board Director |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Welch Allyn Inc. | President & CEO | Current |
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | President & CEO | Current |
| Welch Allyn Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| 3Com Corporation | vice president | Former |
| Motorola, Inc. | vice president | Former |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | bachelor's degree in physics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | CEO | Current |
| Reliant Technologies, Inc. | Chairman and CEO of Vocera Communications | Current |
| VWR International, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Young Presidents' Organization | Board of Directors | Current |
| Emerald Nuts | Board of Directors | Current |
| Diamond Foods, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Woundcare Solutions, LLC | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Neoforma Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | Former | |
| Kraft Foods Inc. | Former | |
| Allegiance, Inc. | Former | |
| Medicine Shoppe International, Inc. | Former | |
| Neoforma Inc. | Chairman of the Board of Directors | Former |
| Madison Dearborn Partners LLC | Board of Directors | Former |
| John F. Kennedy | M.B.A. In Finance | Former |
| Reliant Technologies, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Arizona State University | Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | CFO | Current |
| Hewlett-Packard Company | partner | Former |
| Hewlett-Packard Company | product engineer | Former |
| Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania | MBA | Former |
| Purdue University | bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering | Former |
Robert Shostak, principal founder and CTO of Vocera Communications founded Vocera Communications in 2000. Dr. Shostak has lead the strategy and architecture of the Vocera Communications System. Under Dr. Shostak's guidance the company began shipping product in October, 2002. Prior to founding Vocera, Dr. Shostak founded Portera Systems, a Web technology company, where he was CTO. He also co-founded and was vice president of software development at ANSA Software, where he authored the Paradox database desktop software. When ANSA merged with Borland International in 1989, as chief scientist, Dr. Shostak spent several years developing new database technology. He is recognized as the father of the branch of distributing computing know as Byzantine Agreement. Dr. Shostak was the recipient of the 2005 Edsger Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. He holds BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from Harvard University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Principal Founder and Cto | Current |
| Borland Software Corporation | Chief Scientist | Former |
| Harvard University | Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Engineering | Current |
| International Business Machines Corporation | Former | |
| Sun Microsystems, Inc. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing | Current |
| Senseiq Inc. | Advisor | Current |
| The Monitor | Strategy Consultant | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | MBA | Former |
| University of Michigan | BS in Industrial & Operations Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Sales | Current |
| Northwestern University | BA and MA degrees in political science | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Customer Services | Current |
| Brown University | BA | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Co-Founder | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Current | |
| Granite Global Ventures Continues | Co-Founder | Former |
| Performanceretail, Inc. | Former | |
| Endeca Technologies, Inc. | Former | |
| University of Minnesota | Former |
Brian focuses on software and information technology investments. Brian is a Director of Atrenta, Datallegro, RelayHealth, Simple Star, T3Ci, Unicru, Vocera Communications, and Winery Exchange. Prior to joining Venrock, Brian was Senior Product Manager for Intuit's Quicken.com website and earlier, Product Manager for Quicken for Windows. Before his work with Intuit, Brian worked as a Strategy Consultant at Monitor Company where he advised clients worldwide on issues of management and strategy. Brian received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ourstory, Inc | Senior Principal, Venrock Associates | Current |
| Venrock Associates | Kauffman Fellow | Current |
| Intercasting Corp. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Retail Solutions, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Awarepoint Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Ourstory, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Unicru Inc. | Director | Current |
| RelayHealth Corporation | Director | Current |
| Datallegro, Inc. | Director | Current |
| T3CI | Director | Current |
| Atrenta Inc. | Director | Current |
| Winery Exchange, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Simple Star, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Board Director | Current |
| Intuit, Inc. | Senior Product Manager | Former |
| The Monitor | Strategy Consultant | Former |
| Monitor Group | Strategy Consultant | Former |
| Stanford University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Princeton University | B.A. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Draper Fisher Jurvetson | Managing Director | Current |
| Vanguard Ventures | General Partner | Current |
| Entrepreneurs Foundation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cooking.com | Board Director | Current |
| Vocera Communications, Inc. | Board Director | Current |
| Konarka Technologies, Inc. | Board Observer | Current |
| Sylantro Systems | Board Director | Current |
| Framingham Commercial Real Estate | Director | Current |
| Vanguard Ventures | Board of Directors | Current |
| Vanguard Ventures | Managing Member | Current |
| Metricom, Inc. | President | Former |
| International Power Technology, Inc. | Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing | Former |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Management Consultant | Former |
| Octel Communications | Management Position | Former |
| Konarka Technologies, Inc. | Board observer | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | Master in Business Administration | Former |
| Stanford University | MBA as well as | Former |
| Stanford University | Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics | Former |
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