Daniel Gluch holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Friedberg, germany – as well as a certificate of apprenticeship as a Communications Electronics Professional from Deutsche Telekom. He has experience in the telecommunication industry since 1987. Because of his history in research and development departments as well as in Sales- and Services of leading vendors like Cisco, Telenorma/Bosch Telecom/Tenovis/Avaya, Ascom, he has kept good relationships and contacts with these companies. Especially in Early Adaptor Programs, Proof of Concepts and Pilot projects these relationships can be a huge value add. In his engagement for Cisco, he finally was the Technical Lead of the Global Technology Advisory Group within Cisco and in this role he acted as the global interface of the global Sales Force and the product management / development of the business unites for core call control, Telepresence Applications and endpoints. Daniel Gluch has been Chief Architect for Cisco in the Central European Collaboration Experience Team and responsible for many global Enterprise projects with more than 100 000 endpoints / users. As Managing Director & Lead Principal Consultant of GLUCH COMMUNICATIONS he consults personally in Collaboration Architecture Transformation & Workplace / Workspace Transformation Projects of Global Enterprises & International Banks. Additionally, he does Market Research and creates studies, e.g. Comparisons of Cisco- and Microsoft Collaboration Integration- or Coexistence Solutions. His name stands for more than 30 years of experience and references in the ICT industry.

Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Gluch has more than 30 years of experience and references in the ICT industry and is referenced as one of the world’s most experienced communication collaboration architects for multinational companies with over 100 000 workplaces each, predominantly for highly complex telephony and integrated meeting/video conferencing platforms.

Due to his career in research and development, as well as in the areas of sales and service, with leading manufacturers such as Cisco, Telenorma/Bosch Telekom/Tenovis/Avaya, Ascom, Daniel has long-standing, good relationships and contacts with all of today’s relevant manufacturers in the collaboration environment such as Cisco, Microsoft, Zoom and others.

• 1987 – 1991
  Certificate of apprenticeship as a Communications Electronics Professional, Deutsche Telekom
  
  
• 1991 – 1994
  Degree of Dipl.-Ing., University of Applied Sciences in Friedberg, Germany
  
  
• 1994 – 1999
  ISDN PBX Software Development (ISDN PBX Software) Telenorma, Bosch Telecom/Tenovis/Avaya/Ascom
  
  
• 1999
  Founding of GLUCH Communications
  
  
• 2000 – 2012
  Technical Solutions Architect and Global Lead Technology Advisory Group Cisco Systems:
  During his time with Cisco, Daniel was the
  
  
  • Technical Lead of the Global Technology Advisory Group and acted as the global interface of all Architects and System Engineers with the product management / development for core call control, Telepresence Applications, and endpoints.
  • Chief Architect in the Central European Collaboration Experience Team and responsible for many global Enterprise projects with more than 100 000 endpoints / users. Reference-Letters for several Global Enterprise Projects are available.
    
    
• 2012 – now
  Managing Director at GLUCH Communications (Full time). As Managing Director and Lead Principal Consultant of GLUCH COMMUNICATIONS Daniel personally conducts the holistic and independent analysis and strategy consulting. All collaboration architecture blueprints and transformation plans in global and highly complex projects are designed by Daniel himself. In his own R&D labs, Daniel develops market analyses and multi-Vendor interoperability-, integration-, coexistence- and competitive studies, supports clients in tenders and conducts audits of manufacturers, service providers and integrators.
  
  
• 2016
  Founding of CollaboFact GmbH as a professional services subsidiary of GLUCH Communications