Alex Quilici is an American engineer and

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for ...

man. He is a national source of information about

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s for consumer protection groups, the

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(FCC). The FCC's staff, congregational legislators and their telecom staff, and national media also look to him for information. Quilici graduated from the

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and received a PhD in

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from

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. From 1991 to 1999, he was a freelance technical consultant and faculty member at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offic ...

. Quilici was a co-founder of the

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-based voice portal infrastructure company Quackware along with Steven Woods and

Jeromy Carriere Steven Jeromy Carrière is a Canadian computer software engineer. Carrière is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in Canada. He was technical staff member at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute working on practical so ...

. Quilici helped bring Quack.com from being a start-up with three founders to a company which employed 125 professionals in the first 18 months. In 1999, it became Quack.com and moved to

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; in September 2000 it was acquired by

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, eventually becoming

AOLbyPhone Quack.com was an early voice portal company. The domain name later was used for Quack, an iPad search application from AOL. History It was founded in 1998 by Steven Woods, Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici as a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, ...

. Quilici joined AOL as a VP as part of the Quack.com acquisition, and founded the AOL voice services division at AOL. He was a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks. Quilici's six-year tenure as a vice-president with America Online was a vital one to the company as a whole. He was integral to creating and growing America Online's voice services. He helped America Online acquire one million paying customers for their voice services yielding fifty million dollars annually in revenue. He was the vice president and chief product officer of America Online by Phone. Quilici became a professor of

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

at the University of Hawaii at Manoa before joining NeoEdge Networks and becoming a director for Youmail Inc. in April 2007. He currently serves on the strategic advisory board of Jefferson Partners and is also a member of the Tech Coast Angels. Quilici has extensive experience in the tech industry and helping the industry overall develop new products and technology. He is known for his ability to bring heightened research while keeping user practicalities. He has set a precedent by using

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

to solve software problems in products. Quilici joined YouMail as its CEO in 2007. In November 2015, he and the company launched the YouMail Robocall Index, to track legal and illegal robocall traffic across the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

. The YouMail Robocall Index is a unique online portal which provides a monthly estimate of the volumes and types of robocalls nationwide, and for each specific state, city and area code. The initial report indicated at the time that 1 out of every 6 calls received in the US was generated by a machine.

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