Company History
LifeSize was founded by Craig Malloy and Michael Kenoyer in January 2003. It operated in “stealth mode” under the name KMV Technologies from 2003 to 2005. Investors in LifeSize included Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital. The company name change to LifeSize Communications was unveiled at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada in May 2005. This is also when LifeSize announced its first product, LifeSize Room, which was the first high definition video conferencing endpoint brought to market.
Craig Malloy was a product manager at VTEL Corporation in Austin until 1996, when he left and founded ViaVideo. ViaVideo was acquired by Polycom in 1998. Malloy was the senior vice president and general manager of the Video Communication Division of Polycom through 2002, when he left to found his own high definition video telecommunications company.
Malloy served as the LifeSize CEO from 2003 – 2012.
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