John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Solution Marketing at Polycom. With 20+ years in high-tech communications, he leads a marketing team responsible for Polycom’s global solution positioning, messaging and launches as well as directly supporting Polycom roadmap and portfolio planning. John is a regular speaker at industry events including InfoComm, Enterprise Connect, and ITEXPO and has keynoted or presented at events in Asia, Europe, Africa and across the Americas. John joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in marketing and general management functions for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, John spent ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including Engineering, Operations, and Marketing in the rapid-growth mobile phone industry.
John has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. A native of Chicago, John now resides in Austin, Texas staying very active with his wife and their four children.