Background
Jeff Pulver grew up in Kings Point, New York, and was graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1980.
Jeff Pulver grew up in Kings Point, New York, and was graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1980.
Hofstra University.
Pulver has been called a Voice over Internet Protocol pioneer, and has written extensively on VoIP telephony, and the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of its applications layer. While working at a Long Island accounting firm, Pulver founded Spreadsheet Solutions Corporation to market add-ins for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel. He became interested in Internet telephony in 1995, when he was as a systems administrator at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Pulver invented the CellSocket, a device to make and receive cellular voice calls via a standard phone, and was listed as a BusinessWeek Technical Guru in 2003.
Pulver is the chief writer of what is referred to as the Pulver Order, which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first Federal Communication Commission ruling regarding Internet Protocol (Intellectual Property) communications. The order ruled that computer-to-computer VoIP is not a telecommunications service.
He coined the term purple minutes to describe value-added Intellectual Property network traffic. Considered one of the leading experts in the field of streaming audio and video technologies, Pulver has been called a pioneer in VoIP telephony.
He was profiled in 2006 by The Wall Street Journal, discussing his visions about both voice and video communications via the Internet.
In 1995 he coined the term VON to stand for Voice/Video on the Net and continues today to contribute words to both the telecom and social media vernacular. From 1997 to 2008 he produced and hosted the VON Conferences. VON conferences in the United States and Europe helped create and coalesce ecosystems around VoIP, online communications.
He has also been named as "a leading thought-leader on the Real-Time Web", and refers to himself as “a habitual entrepreneur who likes to start Internet communications companies.”
Pulver organizes a conference series focusing on Twitter activities and strategy called 140 Characters Conference that is held in various locations around the world.
He is also an investor in startup companies. Pulver resides in Great Neck, New York, and has twin sons Dylan and Jake.
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