
Sean Heiney
COO, Founder at SignalWire
Sean is an experienced entrepreneur and product marketing/management start-up executive with extensive expertise in SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP. Sean drives strategy and business around SignalWire with venue upwards of $6 Million and the FreeSWITCH open source project.
Prior to SignalWire, Sean was an early employee at Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CUDA) — Barracuda’s first product manager for the Barracuda Web Filter, launched, built, or acquired the Barracuda Load Balancer, Link Balancer, SSL-VPN, and CudaTel – including building sales and engineering teams, defining product functions and features.
- Millionaire Maker
- Computer Software
- Enterprise CPaaS
- Entrepreneur
- Product Marketing
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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- VOIP and Digital telephony platforms, applications and equipment.
- SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP.
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Sean is an experienced entrepreneur and product marketing/management start-up executive with extensive expertise in SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP. Sean drives strategy and business around SignalWire and the FreeSWITCH open source project .
Prior to SignalWire, Sean was an early employee at Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CUDA) -- Barracuda's first product manager for the Barracuda Web Filter, launched, built, or acquired the Barracuda Load Balancer, Link Balancer, SSL-VPN, and CudaTel - including building sales and engineering teams, defining product functions and features. Sean also built the CUDA Ann Arbor R&D center, the development site for the Barracuda Message Archiver and Barracuda Backup Service and a large portion of the Barracuda technical support workforce - which became a catalyst for Ann Arbor's tech corridor development. During active tenure, CUDA grew from 100 employees to over 1200, and in Nov 2012 CUDA launched an IPO campaign using Sean's messaging.
In the early 2000s, Sean formed and built Periscan, a pioneer SaaS managed security software company specializing in VISA/Mastercard PCI Compliance - acquired by Catbird Networks in 2006.
Sean resides on Drummond Island in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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Sean Heiney
COO, Founder at SignalWire
- Entrepreneur
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Sean is the founder of SignalWire, the world’s largest telecom platform. Their technology forms the backbone of modern communications applications like Amazon, Netflix, and Zoom.
Prior to SignalWire, Sean led, developed, launched and marketed new products at Barracuda Networks to over $300M in revenue and IPO. He built and sold security SaaS company Periscan. Sean has 18 years startup experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Including the brand and Sean’s personal network, he has an audience of 100,000+ and he is happy to share your episode with his fans!
read more
Let's talk about
- VOIP and Digital telephony platforms, applications and equipment.
- SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP.
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Sean is an experienced entrepreneur and product marketing/management start-up executive with extensive expertise in SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP. Sean drives strategy and business around SignalWire and the FreeSWITCH open source project .
Prior to SignalWire, Sean was an early employee at Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CUDA) -- Barracuda's first product manager for the Barracuda Web Filter, launched, built, or acquired the Barracuda Load Balancer, Link Balancer, SSL-VPN, and CudaTel - including building sales and engineering teams, defining product functions and features. Sean also built the CUDA Ann Arbor R&D center, the development site for the Barracuda Message Archiver and Barracuda Backup Service and a large portion of the Barracuda technical support workforce - which became a catalyst for Ann Arbor's tech corridor development. During active tenure, CUDA grew from 100 employees to over 1200, and in Nov 2012 CUDA launched an IPO campaign using Sean's messaging.
In the early 2000s, Sean formed and built Periscan, a pioneer SaaS managed security software company specializing in VISA/Mastercard PCI Compliance - acquired by Catbird Networks in 2006.
Sean resides on Drummond Island in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Sean Heiney
COO, Founder at SignalWire
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- SaaS
- Entrepreneur
Sean is the founder of SignalWire, the world’s largest telecom platform. Their technology forms the backbone of modern communications applications like Amazon, Netflix, and Zoom.
Prior to SignalWire, Sean led, developed, launched and marketed new products at Barracuda Networks to over $300M in revenue and IPO. He built and sold security SaaS company Periscan. Sean has 18 years startup experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Including the brand and Sean’s personal network, he has an audience of 100,000+ and he is happy to share your episode with his fans!
read more
Let's talk about
- VOIP and Digital telephony platforms, applications and equipment.
- SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP.
__
Sean is an experienced entrepreneur and product marketing/management start-up executive with extensive expertise in SaaS, network security, communication, and VOIP. Sean drives strategy and business around SignalWire and the FreeSWITCH open source project .
Prior to SignalWire, Sean was an early employee at Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CUDA) -- Barracuda's first product manager for the Barracuda Web Filter, launched, built, or acquired the Barracuda Load Balancer, Link Balancer, SSL-VPN, and CudaTel - including building sales and engineering teams, defining product functions and features. Sean also built the CUDA Ann Arbor R&D center, the development site for the Barracuda Message Archiver and Barracuda Backup Service and a large portion of the Barracuda technical support workforce - which became a catalyst for Ann Arbor's tech corridor development. During active tenure, CUDA grew from 100 employees to over 1200, and in Nov 2012 CUDA launched an IPO campaign using Sean's messaging.
In the early 2000s, Sean formed and built Periscan, a pioneer SaaS managed security software company specializing in VISA/Mastercard PCI Compliance - acquired by Catbird Networks in 2006.
Sean resides on Drummond Island in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Timeline
Dec 2017 – Present
SignalWire – COO, Co-Founder
SignalWire is an enterprise CPaaS that delivers advanced communication services through an elastic-cloud framework and developer-friendly APIs. SignalWire Work is an innovative and easy-to-use video collaboration platform that’s a complete office, school, or event venue right in your web browser.
Keep your remote team connected with the only platform designed to enable the real connections your team needs to function at its best. See your entire team and workspace from a single dashboard and join, transfer, and create video rooms on-demand.
Oct 2017 - Present
FreeSWITCH – Strategic Advisor
FreeSWITCH is a free and open source telecommunications platform that powers voice, video, and messaging applications and infrastructure worldwide. Sean advise on business and strategy for the FreeSWITCH open source project.
Aug 2006 - May 2014
Barracuda Networks – Vice President, Strategy
fSean was Barracuda’s first product manager for the Barracuda Web Filter, launched, built, or acquired the Barracuda Load Balancer, Link Balancer, SSL-VPN, and CudaTel – including building sales and engineering teams, defining product functions and features.