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Americas Issue: January 2006
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Peter Briscoe
President, CEO & Founder, Convedia
by Ted McKenna
Not surprisingly for an engineer who heads a telecom equipment vendor, Peter Briscoe has always been interested in machines — driving them, flying them, and understanding how they’re built and how they operate.
He founded Vancouver, British Columbia-based Convedia, a maker of IP-based media servers, in 2000. Though he originally wanted to be a fighter pilot, Briscoe was told by the military as a 14-year-old Canadian Air Cadet that he was certified blind. “I guess I was too farsighted!” he says.
No matter. When not leading his company’s efforts to develop and sell products for telecom carriers that offer multiple multimedia services, Briscoe builds and drives racecars, flies airplanes and plays hockey. But, he says, he always thought about starting a company.
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