Jennifer Smith Byers leads Leapstone's sales and marketing efforts and brings extensive communications industry, software and applications experience to Leapstone with more than 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Prior to joining Leapstone, she served as Vice President of Global Sales for Lucent's Network Operations Software division. In this role, Jenny was responsible for the worldwide sales of network operations software and related services to service providers and enterprises. In other leadership positions at Lucent and AT&T, Jenny managed a variety of executive-level responsibilities, including sales/sales operations, marketing, product management, and applications and systems development activities. These roles included Director of Product Management and Business Strategy for Lucent's Intelligent Network unit, where she managed the development and marketing of an entire portfolio of applications and services designed for wireless and wireline service providers. Jenny holds a MBA from the University of Dayton and Master's degree in computer science from Kansas State University. She also earned a Bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Denison University. |