Felix leads Yap’s sales and business development efforts worldwide. He brings over 17 years of high-tech industry experience in marketing and selling innovative software applications. Felix came to Yap after a distinguished 10 year career at Nuance, the industry pioneer in speech recognition technology. Most recently, Felix was responsible for building Nuance’s mobile ecosystem and unified messaging partnerships. Felix was also a founding member of the Nuance product management organization. Additionally, he led the team responsible for the flagship core speech recognition, speaker verification and text-to-speech engines. These innovations were instrumental in positioning the company from start-up, through successful IPO in 2001, to a premier speech technology provider with a $6B+ market cap. Before joining Nuance, Felix held various technical pre- and post- sales roles in Silicon Valley technology companies. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Kiev State University and an MBA in Marketing from Golden Gate University.
