Avaya Appoints Kathleen Sullivan as Vice President, Commercial Segment to Help Businesses Increase Velocity of Digital Transf...
March 23 2021 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Avaya (NYSE:AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and
simplify communications and collaboration, has appointed Kathleen
Sullivan as Vice President to lead a newly created Commercial
Segment team in North America. Sullivan is responsible for
delivering cloud-focused resources for SMB, Midmarket and
Enterprise customers and the partners that serve them, to further
enable this large segment of new and existing customers to realize
the benefits of Avaya OneCloud experience platform solutions.
“As Avaya accelerates its transformation as a cloud and SaaS
leader, we continue to evolve our team, and the Commercial Segment
group is guiding businesses on their digital transformations with
velocity and care, enabling them to achieve exceptional outcomes
that have immediate impact,” said Frank Ciccone, Senior Vice
President, North America Sales, Avaya. “The Avaya OneCloud platform
of CCaaS, UCaaS, CPaaS and devices is helping more clients and
partners successfully adapt and win with new ways of engaging with
their customers and employees with smarter, more flexible and more
personalized collaboration and communications. Kathleen has
tremendous experience leading teams to be agile and responsive in
meeting and anticipating client needs, and she is a fantastic
addition to Avaya.”
Kathleen comes to Avaya from Verizon where she held leadership
positions in Sales and Marketing, bringing deep expertise in the
areas of new channel and business creation, product management and
portfolio marketing. Kathleen’s segment background is diverse,
having experience with SMB, enterprise, wholesale, and carrier
retail Sales and Marketing. As Sales Vice President, she created
and led the National Accounts and Solutions Architect organization,
growing revenue more than 65 percent. Her Marketing roles include
Chief Marketing Officer for Verizon Digital Media Services, where
she held revenue responsibility and led the marketing strategy,
product management, and communications efforts.
“I am thrilled to join Avaya at this critical point in the
company's transformation, and I’m excited to help guide our team’s
focus as we help partners and customers evolve their businesses to
be successful in the new economy,” Sullivan said. “We strive to
make it simple and attractive to update their communications and
collaboration platform with Avaya OneCloud, helping our channel and
our end-users grow during this time of radical and exciting
business process change. With our cloud and subscription business
now over one third of our revenue and growing, we have the right
offers at the right time to address this growing business
need.”
About Avaya
Businesses are built by the experiences they provide, and
everyday millions of those experiences are delivered by Avaya
Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA). Avaya is shaping what's next for the
future of work, with innovation and partnerships that deliver
game-changing business benefits. Our cloud communications solutions
and multi-cloud application ecosystem power personalized,
intelligent, and effortless customer and employee experiences to
help achieve strategic ambitions and desired outcomes. Together, we
are committed to help grow your business by delivering Experiences
that Matter. Learn more at http://www.avaya.com
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