Andy Ory serves as president and CEO of Acme Packet, as well as one of its Co-founders, responsible for overall strategy and leadership for the company. During his tenure, Acme Packet has grown from an early stage startup with a vision of reshaping IP interactive communications, to pioneering a new product category and technology, to dominating the marketplace as the clear leader in Session Border Controller (SBC) solutions. Under Andy's leadership, Acme Packet has developed commercial relationships with over 900 customers in 100 countries, including 48 of the top 50, and 90 of the top 100 service providers in the world and 8 of the Fortune 25.

Prior to founding Acme Packet, Andy was the founder, CEO, and chairman of Priority Call Management (PCM), which produced network-based solutions that allowed service providers to offer prepaid calling, enhanced messaging, and one number services. During his tenure, PCM was ranked 5th in the Deloitte & Touche list of fastest growing high technology companies in New England and 21st in the nation for high technology growth.

Andy has more than 20 years of telecommunications and computer industry experience and holds a BA degree from Harvard University.

Seamus Hourihan, who first coined the term “session border control,” has driven industry recognition of the critical importance of the new product category created by Acme Packet. He is a prolific speaker on the conference and tradeshow circuit and is the author of several networking guidebooks and numerous articles. Recently, Seamus was recognized by Internet Telephony magazine as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications.”

Seamus brings over 25 years of experience to Acme Packet in executive management, marketing, product management and business development roles at voice over IP, IP networking, web infrastructure and computer companies. Seamus was vice president of marketing for internetworking leader Wellfleet and, after its merger with Synoptics, Bay Networks (now Nortel) for nearly seven years. During his tenure, annual revenue grew from $10 million to $2 billion and Inc. recognized Wellfleet as “America’s Fastest Growing Company” for two consecutive years. More recently, Seamus was vice president of marketing for Pingtel, widely recognized as a leader in SIP products and technology. He also held management positions at Data General, MASSCOMP and Bright Tiger and has operated his own consulting company.  Seamus holds an AB degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Babson College.

John is responsible for leading the company’s strategic and operational activities in the areas of supply chain management, product quality, manufacturing technology, product manufacturing and distribution. He joined Acme Packet in May 2002 as director of manufacturing operations to establish the manufacturing processes, systems and infrastructure to support the manufacturing and logistics for the Net-Net 4250 product. Since that time, John has overseen the introduction of six product lines and the worldwide shipment of over 10,000 systems. Prior to joining Acme Packet, he was director of manufacturing for Crescent Networks, where he was responsible for supply chain management, corporate quality, new product introduction and technical operations.

Before that, he was director of technical operations for IronBridge Networks, where he was responsible for establishing an outsourced manufacturing model for the company’s core router product. John previously held senior manufacturing and engineering management positions for FORE Systems, Fujitsu Nexion, Xyplex Networks and Lockheed Sanders.  He received BS and MS degrees from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and his MBA from New Hampshire College.