Lior Haramaty

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Lior Haramaty (born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1966) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the inventor of the Audio Transceiver (U.S. Patent 5,825,771 ) that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry, that changed the face of the telecommunication industry.

According to Om Malik, "Two entrepreneurs barely out of their teens, Lior Haramaty and Alon Cohen, founded VocalTec Communications in 1993 based on the promise of packet voice technology they observed as members of the Israel Defense Force.... the idea of commercializing packet voice did not occur to anyone until the arrival of Lior and Alon."^[1]

TMCnet's Internet Telephony Magazine -, "In fact, at that time the company's CTO, Lior Haramaty, knew more about VoIP than just about anyone else, and we were fortunate to have him as a columnist in this magazine for a number of years. "^[2]

NTIA New Directions in Telecom A Conversation with Assistant Secretary Larry Irving -, "Lior Haramaty, co-founder and Vice President of technical marketing of VocalTec Communications"^[3]