Karl Perkins

Well known to our largest customers and well regarded by the vast network of technologists in our space, Karl Perkins has a track record for driving transformational technology strategies across the cloud communications space. In his role as Chief Innovation Officer at Bandwidth he will be driving research and disruptive technologies into a more differentiated product roadmap that delivers a higher level of customer value and growth.

Karl has a broad mix of consulting and technical innovation leadership at top global service providers and communications technology companies. Most recently, Karl served as Chief Technology Officer at Avaya, and he also served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President at Tata Communications, as well as product management and architecture at Cisco.

Karl holds a PhD in Distributed Computing from Loughborough University.