Fonality, a leader in open source, Asterisk-based IP telephony systems, today announced the addition of two industry veterans to its management team. The new executives, Chris Vuillaume, vice president of business and channel development, and Bruce Runyan, vice president of operations and customer care, bring more than 45 years of combined telecommunications and technology industry experience to Fonality.

"Chris and Bruce bring outstanding experience to Fonality with their proven track records of building successful public and private companies within the telecom and data sectors," said Chris Lyman, Fonality's founder and CEO. "With these great additions to the management team, Fonality is well positioned to handle our extremely rapid growth."

Fonality's new vice president of business development and channels, Chris Vuillaume, brings 15 years of telecommunications industry experience. Vuillaume was previously vice president for the IP telephony product marketing group at Alcatel (NYSE: ALA), where he was responsible for marketing and business development for the company's North American IP telephony practice, including distribution channels. He also has a rich entrepreneurial history, notably co-founding Santa Clara-based NetManSys, a developer of software to manage devices that transmit voice and data traffic over telecommunications networks, where he served as vice president of marketing, grew the company from inception to 80 employees and ultimately sold it to a private acquirer.

Technology industry veteran Bruce Runyan, whose career spans more than 30 years, is Fonality's new vice president of operations and customer care. Runyan is responsible for all post-sale customer interactions and back office activities, from provisioning to deployment and customer care. Prior to Fonality, he held executive positions at three public companies including director of global programs at Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), vice president and general manager of the consulting services division at Genesys Telecommunications (NYSE: ALA) and CIO at Borland International (NASDAQ: BORL). As employee 141 at Borland, he created, automated and scaled the company's back office capacity to handle more than 60,000 orders per shift. Runyan was also president and COO of TelePost, a unified messaging start-up, and has provided senior management and operational consulting services to many Silicon Valley companies.

About Fonality
Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk-based IP telephony systems. PBXtra, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX product line for small and medium businesses, is the world's largest commercial Asterisk-based deployment. PBXtra uses Fonality's patent pending architecture to deliver all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system and call center at 40 percent to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality's PBXtra products are deployed to more than 18,000 business users across the U.S. and internationally. trixbox, www.trixbox.org, the world's largest Asterisk community with an average of 1,500 downloads a day, provides a free, easy to install Asterisk-based VOIP phone system.

Fonality and trixbox are registered trademarks and PBXtra is a trademark of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium.