Robert Lawson joined Cisco-backed US-based cloud phone service RingCentral as chief financial officer on March 14, after working in the same role at biofuel company Codexis.
Lawson will be leading RingCentral’s corporate finance, accounting and investor relations and reports to RingCentral executive chairman Vlad Shmunis.
He previously worked for Intuit and General Electric.
Cisco backed RingCentral’s $10m series D round, in September last year. Other participants in the round, which was led by Scale Venture Partners, included fellow venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures and DAG Ventures, as well as the Silicon Valley Bank.
Cisco previously led RingCentral’s $10m series C round, in November 2010, with Khosla and Sequoia also taking part. Khosla and Sequoia invested in RingCentral’s $12m series A round, in 2007, and its $12m series B round in 2008. The latter round included participation from DAG too.
RingCentral provides cloud-based on-demand phone systems for small and medium-sized businesses which incorporate e-mail, mobile and fax services, and is currently offered by telecommunications companies AT&T in the US, and Rogers Canada in Canada.