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Balto

Balto is the contact center AI that unites agents with real-time guidance to deliver better conversations and better results. Top-performing contact centers trust Balto to prevent missed sales opportunities, costly compliance mistakes, and poor customer experiences. With over 400 million calls guided and more than 1 billion real-time recommendations delivered, Balto empowers entire contact center teams to move faster and perform better. From analyzing conversation data and preparing coaching packets to scoring calls and taking detailed notes - Balto powers every part of the contact center.

Chris Kontes

Chris Kontes is the Co-Founder of Balto. Over the past nine years, he’s helped grow the company by leading teams across enterprise sales, marketing, recruiting, operations, and partnerships. From Balto’s start as the first agent assist technology to its evolution into a full contact center AI platform, Chris has been part of every stage of the journey—and has seen firsthand how much the company and the industry have changed along the way.

Delilah Twersky

Delilah Twersky is a Sr. Creative Marketing Manager at Balto. Working in tech for the last 5+ years, she comes from a creative background in photography and writing. She has been doing both design work and field marketing at Balto for the last 2+ years.

Edwin van der Beek

Kimberly Dinehart

LimeCuda

LimeCuda Dev

Lior Torenberg

Maria Edington

Maria Edington is the Vice President of Marketing at Balto, where she works closely with contact center leaders to improve how teams function day-to-day and plan for what’s ahead. Over the past five years, she’s led initiatives focused on performance, quality, compliance, and the practical use of AI across the contact center floor. Her experience spans complex, high-volume industries including Medicare, P&C insurance, financial services, collections, home improvement, and banking—sectors where conversations are tightly regulated, high-stakes, and often the last mile of the customer experience. Maria has contributed to research on Medicare Advantage trends, MedPAC policy, and eBroker financial performance, and regularly works with operators navigating shifting compliance requirements and productivity demands. With a background in engineering, Maria brings a systems-level mindset to how contact centers work—and how they can work better. Her focus: helping contact centers modernize—adopting smarter tools, better habits, and a stronger foundation for what’s ahead.