Steven Borne holds the position of Senior Marketing Manager within Comverse's Americas Marketing Group. Mr. Borne's responsibilities include defining the strategic marketing activities and overall product launch of Comverse's branded Instant Messaging offering into the North and Latin American markets.

Mr. Borne's previous achievements over his two-year tenure while employed by Comverse include managing and improving the new product launching activities within the Americas Group. Specific areas of interest and influence focused on world-class voice messaging systems migration efforts to the Trilogue 3.4 platform and the release of the AccessNP 2.0 Software and Series IV platform. Prior to joining Comverse, Steven spent ten years with the Industrial Automation Division of the multi-national electrical controls corporation, Schneider Electric, where he was instrumental in various roles from Project Engineering, through OEM Management, Program Management and then onto Global Product Line P&L responsibilities. Prior to Schnieder, Steven spent three years as a Sr. Controls Engineer at American Cimflex.

Mr. Borne graduated Beta Cum Laude from Northeastern's Master's of Business Administration program in 1996, he also received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Ocean Engineering and Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire in 1986.