Alon Cohen ((Hebrew: אלון כהן); born in Israel, 1962) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc.[1] (1989) and the co-inventor of the Audio Transceiver (U.S. patent 5,825,771)[2] that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry.[3] Cohen holds four US patents on different communications technologies. He is currently Executive VP and CTO at Phone.com.