EVL alumn, Ken Rehor, Chief Architect at Vocalocity was named one of the industry's 20 most influential people by Speech Technology Magazine for his pioneering work as principal founder of the VoiceXML Forum and one of the original authors of the VoiceXML specification. He currently serves as Chair of the VoiceXML Forum's Conformance Committee, and is co-editor of the VoiceXML 2.0 standard. Previously Rehor was a member of the Bell Labs Research team at Lucent where he co-developed the first web-based telephony platform, PhoneWeb. He holds seven U.S. and international patents in telecommunications and speech technologies. He earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.