Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Founded Organizations 3
  • Primary Job Title Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
  • Primary Organization 
    RingCentral

Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral's cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems.

Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business

communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments.

Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola.

Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 2
Vlad Shmunis is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at RingCentral. Additionally, Vlad Shmunis has had 2 past jobs including Director of Software Engineering at Ampex.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Ampex
Director of Software Engineering19921998
Ring Zero Systems
Founder & CEO19921998
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Vlad Shmunis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at RingCentral.
Number of Events 2
Vlad Shmunis has participated in 2 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, SaaStr Annual 2019 on Mar 10, 2019.