Management Team
Our Management team are:
- Sunny Ahn, Chief Executive Officer.
- Rod Drury, Chief Technology Officer.
- Leslie Oliver, Global Sales.
Sunny Ahn, Chief Executive Officer
Background: Sunny brings 18 years of experience in corporate and business development to telecommunication and database/directory companies.
Experience: Sunny is a founder of Context Connect and leads the company’s strategic and corporate development activities. Prior to Context Connect, Mr. Ahn co-founded Takeaclass, a database service company focused on providing marketing and procurement services for over 800 educational institutions, which was sold to Mindedge in 2001. Sunny has held senior management consulting positions for Ernst & Young and GeoPartners Research (sold to Adventis in 1999), where he developed corporate strategies for such firms as AT&T, Nortel, Qualcomm, HP and SoftBank. He held marketing positions for the SAS Institute focused on directory and database solutions and was a database analyst within the Internal Medicine Department at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Sunny holds patents in the areas of directory/connectivity services and serves on the Boards of several technology and telecommunications-related companies. As an industry thought-leader, he frequently appears as a speaker at national and global directory and telecommunications conferences and has testified in front of the US House of Representatives on the topic of privacy and directory services.
Sunny was an academic researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management and received his Bachelor’s degree (cum laude) from Harvard University.
Rod Drury, Chief Technology Officer
Background: Rod has 20 years experience in telecommunication and information technology in Australasia and North America.
Experience: Rod is a founder of Context Connect and leads the company’s product development and technology strategy. He was a founder and CEO of Aftermail, an enterprise email archiving solution, which was sold to Quest Software (NASDAQ:QSFT) for $45 million. He was Chief Technology Officer for Advantage Group, an Australasia eCommerce public company specializing in web services and payment applications.
Rod co-founded Glazier Systems Limited, a software and consulting company specialising in Microsoft-based Intranet, Extranet and Internet development, which he sold to Advantage Group in 1999. Prior to Glazier, Rod established an application development team specializing in custom ‘line of business’ solutions for Ernst & Young. Rod also worked on the development and implementation of call processing and billing software for Telecom New Zealand and NYNEX. Rod was New Zealand’s first representative on Microsoft’s worldwide Regional Director program from 1997 to 2000 and a Microsoft MVP. Rod is a global expert in directory and database solutions and software as a service (SaaS) implementations.
Rod has a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration degree from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
Leslie Oliver, Global Sales
Background: Les brings over 30 years of experience in telecommunications in the field of UK & European regulatory interconnect product development and management.
Experience: International Business Development Manager for Telcordia Technologies (formally Bellcorp), responsible for UK and Europe. Focused on regulatory interconnect products working with in-country telecom industry groups, individual telecom operators and national regulatory authorities.
Worked for the BT Wholesale, Equal Access Team, the team responsible for regulatory interconnect products within the UK. Product manager for the Non-Geographic Number Portability, Carrier Pre-Selection and Local Loop Unbundling, working both with the teams within BT developing all aspects of the service and with industry teams and the UK regulator.
Lead on Centralised Number Administration within BT and with the UK industry and regulator.
Worked in the BT Number Translation Services product area. This group deals with the freephone, Locall, National call and Premium Rate Services (PRS) products. Delivered Universal International Freefone Service, developing an agreement whereby major international Telecommunication Company’s commit to work with BT for provision, repair, management and billing.
