About VQ Communications
We enable security-conscious organizations to communicate privately at enterprise scale. Our software and expertise put you on the fast-track to modern, self-hosted conferencing with Cisco.
Based in the UK and serving a global customer base, we blend decades of videoconferencing experience with a proactive approach to solving real-world collaboration challenges.
Integrity and innovation
Trust is the foundation of our success. We’re honest, dependable, and relentlessly committed to doing what’s right. This is what’s enabled us to create cutting-edge, high-performance software that empowers our customers to collaborate in ultra-secure environments.
VQ in numbers…
Proven on a single VQCM server in a live customer environment to:
Support
10,000+
participants across multiple conferences
Handle
80,000+
daily calls
Process
35M+
call minutes per month
Meet some of our people…
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Giles Adams
CEO
About Giles
Asked to define his job role at VQ, Giles described himself as our Chief of Tea Production. His tongue-in-cheek answer underlines his nurturing approach to leading a tech business, which is to enable and empower our teams, provide gentle guidance when needed, and remove roadblocks, all over a good brew.
Having served as an officer in the UK military, prior to a 20-year career in unified communications, Giles prides himself in aligning conferencing technology with the uniquely demands of mission-critical environments.
Giles enjoys offshore sailing, trail running, and exploring on his motorcycle. He’s also been spotted on the terraces at Gloucester Rugby.
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Steve Holmes
VP – Sales
About Steve
Steve looks after our global commercial team, working closely with prospects, customers, Cisco, and other partners, to ensure our products and services continue to address their needs.
Steve brings enormous experience in unified communications, having spent more than 20 years in commercial, operations, and leadership roles in high-growth UC businesses.
When he’s not travelling around the world with VQ, Steve loves doing a bit of home improvement work, or eating the fruit and vegetables he’s grown on his allotment.
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Gareth Eley
VP – Platform Architecture and CTO
About Gareth
Gareth looks after the core foundations on which VQ Conference Manager is built. A software architect with almost 30 years’ experience, his career has seen him working with some of the largest corporations in the world.
During that time, he’s been involved in every part of the unified communications software lifecycle, from design through to testing and maintenance. As a result, he knows what it takes to successfully guide complex applications from idea to implementation – expertise that ensures our customers enjoy robust, high-performance conferencing.
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Tim Corrin
VP – Customer Engineering
About Tim
A key part of our Support and Product teams, technical specialist Tim ensures our customers’ immediate and long-term needs are taken care of.
On the support side, he ensures incoming requests are handled efficiently, acting as a conduit to the Product team when software changes are required. He also has a strategic product development role, liaising with customers as a technical expert to understand evolving requirements and shape future product releases.
Away from work, Tim enjoys a good barbecue, preferably with the rugby on in the background.
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Phil Jones
VP – Web Architecture
About Phil
Philip heads up our integrations and user interface teams, leading VQ’s development of new customer-facing products and features.
Not far off his 20th anniversary in the IT industry, Philip combines technical and security expertise with product and project management experience, helping us turn customer requirements from idea to reality.
When he isn’t designing secure videoconferencing tools, you’ll find Philip enjoying a Neapolitan pizza and tinkering with his home automation setup, which comprises a variety of green tech such as solar panels, batteries, and his electric car.
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Jon English
VP – Product
About Jon
Jon likes to describe his role as ‘Chief of Stuff’. He’s tasked with bringing customer requirements and industry trends to keep our products at the front of the pack.
Over his 25-year career in IT, Jon has worked with small software houses to large enterprises, spanning manufacturing, retail, media, and financial services. An active member of the communications and collaboration community, Jon has been heavily involved in the AV User and AV Consulting groups, and has previously (co-)founded several collaboration technology consultancies.
When he isn’t busy solving customer challenges, Jon enjoys rock climbing and bouldering, running, and skiing.
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Katie Burchell
Marketing Manager
About Katie
Katie is the driving force behind VQ Communications’ marketing activities, including our webinars, website, videos, and other content. She also oversees product license management. Working closely with our sales team, she loves nothing more than creating engaging material that informs and supports current and prospective customers.
When she’s not busy delivering marketing campaigns, Katie loves keeping active. She also enjoys exploring new places and food with friends and family, particularly if it involves Aperol spritz!
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Joel Price
Customer Success Manager
About Joel
Joel makes sure our customers’ VQ Conference Manager deployments deliver on their needs. Whether that’s pointing teams to tech resources, raising awareness of product features, or feeding client requirements into the roadmap, he’ll help organizations achieve their conferencing goals.
Having spent more than 20 years in a variety of unified communications product, sales, and consultancy roles, Joel brings broad perspective and deep experience to the table.
Outside of work, he enjoys fishing and riding motorcycles, when the British weather permits. When it doesn’t you’ll find him at his local cinema.
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Wayne Hogan
Financial Controller
About Wayne
Although he never goes anywhere near our software code, Wayne plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality products to our customers – by ensuring the business is run prudently and that our team and suppliers are paid on time.
An accounts specialist with more than two decades’ experience, Wayne has worked in a variety of industries, including electronics and manufacturing.
Away from the spreadsheets, Wayne can be found watching his son play football, or going on walks and day trips with his family.
Get to know our teams
Product
Made up of architects, designers, developers, infrastructure experts and security specialists, our innovative Product team continually enhances VQ Conference Manager to address emerging requirements.
Customer Success
Our Customer Success team takes care of your VQ Conference Manager onboarding. They then work with you to ensure we continue to meet your needs, and feed new requirements into our product roadmap.
Support
Staffed 100% by in-house, VQ Conference Manager experts, our responsive Support team is available at the end of a phone (or video call) to answer any technical questions you have.
Sales
Speak to genuine collaboration technology experts throughout your pre-sales journey. Our regional Sales teams ensure your VQ Conference Manager setup will meet your business and compliance needs
Our customers
Security-conscious organizations around the world use VQ Conference Manager to run their mission-critical operations.
Department of Defence
Public Sector
Enterprise
Federal and National Governments
Financial Services Businesses
Our partnership with Cisco
Our Cisco partnership brings assurance and simpler procurement
VQ Communications is a Cisco Solutions Plus Partner and Cisco Premier Developer Partner. This gives you peace of mind that we’ve designed and built an innovative product – and had it validated by Cisco.
It also means you can buy VQ Conference Manager through Cisco’s Global Price List, for faster and simpler procurement.
Our heritage
Founded in 2006, our conferencing management software first made its name underpinning the leading platforms of the day, including the Codian and Polycom RMX.
In the early 2010s, we were approached by the team creating what’s now the Cisco Meeting Server, to provide the management platform for this game-changing hardware. We’ve worked closely with the CMS team ever since, responding to customer needs by extending VQ Conference Manager far beyond call bridge and MCU management.
Recent years have seen us launch our DMA management software for Cisco collaboration endpoints, and our Metro end user client, which provides Webex-style experiences for customers who require easy-to-use self-hosted conferencing.
As a result, our software has become the leading platform for videoconferencing services in mission-critical and air-gapped environments.