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Michael Wehrs Vice President, Evangelism

Michael Wehrs is the Vice President of Evangelism for Nuance Communications, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for the overall mobile business strategy, including mergers and acquisitions, product strategy, and industry and public policy.

Prior to the acquisition of Tegic to Nuance, Michael Wehrs was the Vice President, Product Management & Global Marketing for Tegic Communications, an AOL company. He served as the product management visionary on all of Tegic’s wireless platform and embedded products, lead the global marketing group in its focused, coordinated, and high impact endeavors, and served as industry standards and public policy representative within numerous industry forums.

Michael joined Tegic from Microsoft Corporation, where he was responsible for driving industry adoption and business development opportunities in support of many of Microsoft’s products. Prior to his most recent role in the Windows group, he held senior roles working on technology and standards, and directing market research and product planning, for Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Devices division.

Between roles at Microsoft, Michael was a principal at Ignition Partners where he served in interim executive roles in several of the firms’ portfolio companies and participated in securing additional funding. Previously, Michael had been director of new technology at Samsung Electronics America and executive vice president for Orcatron Communications, Ltd. He has also held director positions at Sony Electronics, Inc. and Conner Peripherals, Inc. Michael has served on the Board of Directors for OMA, CTIA, Bluetooth SIG, HomeRF and several startup companies.

Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University.

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