RALEIGH – Bandwidth’s general counsel is stepping down as part of several changes made in the communication provider’s management team announced Monday.
Chris Matton will leave the company as of March 31, Bandwidth (Nasdaq: BAND) disclosed.
Matton served 10 years as general counsel after acting as outside counsel for six years.
“Chris provided safe passage for our then rag-tag crew through myriad legal, regulatory, and commercial storms and is leaving Bandwidth as a well-governed four billion dollar public company with wind in its sails,” said CEO and counder David Morken.
“His resolute spirit at the legal helm, steadfast commitment to his Bandmates, self-sacrificial work ethic, soaring legal intellect, and pure joy in battle carried us into safe harbors time and again. We are deeply honored to announce today that Chris will be sailing away toward new horizons with fair winds and following seas.”
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The changes were announced after Bandwidth announced a record quarterly financial report last week and the closing on Monday of the recently announced $500 million-plus deal for Voxfone.
Other changes made:
- Marina Carreker, President
- John Bell, Chief Product Officer
- Ryan Henley, Chief Customer Officer
- Michelle Flynn, Senior Vice President, Operations
- Amaya Lantero, GM, International
“I’m thrilled to welcome this group to their new leadership roles,” said Morken. “These individuals have tremendous experience and have helped to shape our business and culture over the past decade. With their expanded scope, they will play key roles in driving our mission and our continued expansion, supporting the rapid launch and hyper-scale of enterprise communications applications and experiences globally.”
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Here are snapshots of the executives and their new roles:
- Marina Carreker, President
For the past four years, Carreker served as Deputy General Counsel for Bandwidth, where she was responsible for a broad range of Bandwidth’s legal portfolio, including the negotiation of key strategic commercial agreements, oversight of litigation and government investigations, and management of all data privacy issues. She developed and implemented Bandwidth’s GDPR compliance efforts, navigating new territory at the regulation’s inception. In her new role, Carreker will lead strategic initiatives on behalf of CEO, David Morken.
Prior to joining Bandwidth, Carreker spent eight years as a litigation attorney. She represented clients in numerous technology-related industries, including hardware and software companies, with an emphasis on trade secret and intellectual property disputes. Carreker graduated from the University of North Carolina, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She earned her law degree from the University of Virginia.
- Ryan Henley, Chief Customer Officer
Henley has led Bandwidth’s award-winning operations team for t past seven years, and has played an integral part in supporting some of the Company’s largest customers. In this newly created position of CCO, he will oversee all customer relationships and ensure that Bandwidth continues to deliver a world-class customer experience.
Henley began his career as a communications officer in the US Army after graduating from Georgetown University. He holds a Masters of Finance from the University of Colorado, as well as Six Sigma Black Belt and Project Management Professional certifications. Over the past 30 years, Henley has held leadership roles of increasing responsibility across the software and communications service delivery lifecycle, all with the focus of improving customer engagement.
- John Bell, Chief Product Officer
Bell has served in a number of leadership roles within the product organization at Bandwidth for the past nine years, driving strategy, design, and development across Bandwidth’s product portfolio. He has deep experience working directly with the market leaders in enterprise communications that rely on Bandwidth’s platform and products. In his new role, he’ll lead Bandwidth’s entire product organization, focused on bringing world-class products to market.
Bell brings deep experience in the mobile and software industries to Bandwidth. He held senior-level positions at Accenture where he spent 8 years working on projects for Microsoft, AT&T Wireless, and T-Mobile, as well as Infospace Mobile/Motricity where he managed a global portfolio of mobile data products. Bell received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a concentration in Economics from Harvey Mudd College.
- Michelle Flynn, Senior Vice President, Operations
For the past four years, Flynn has served in a number of different operations roles within Bandwidth, leading program management and the transformation & delivery office. In her new role, she leads customer success, technical support, number operations, deal review, fraud mitigation and billing. Flynn brings a wealth of operations experience to Bandwidth. She spent 20 years working with fast-growing tech companies across the telecom, mobile software, and insurance industries. She has deep expertise building process for scaling businesses, managing large integrations and more.
- Amaya Lantero, GM, International
Lantero previously served as Chief Revenue Officer for Voxbone and oversaw the full go to market team. In her new role, she will lead international operations for Bandwidth, including commercial, product, operations and technology. She’ll have full P&L responsibility and will oversee the transition of Voxbone to “One Bandwidth.”
Lantero got her start in corporate finance helping fast-growing tech companies with their strategy, M&A and financing. She then spent three years at Blippar, an augmented reality tech company, where she built the Partner Network from scratch and turned it into the company’s highest growth revenue stream through the commercialization of its SaaS product, growing its revenues by 100% for two years in a row. Lantero has a joint degree in law and business from ICADE, Comillas Pontifical University.
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