Avaya Names John Youri SVP Strategy & Global Alliances to Amplify Focus on Strategic Partnerships that Deliver Innovation, Va...
April 06 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Avaya (NYSE:AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and
simplify communications and collaboration, today appointed John
Youri as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Global Alliances.
Youri will lead strategic relationships with key technology
partners, to develop and implement fully integrated cloud-based
solutions and capabilities that drive revenue growth for Avaya and
its partners, and deliver increased value for customers.
“Avaya’s ecosystem of technology partners is unmatched, and
provides a tremendous advantage to our clients through increased
innovation and unique capabilities enabling them to deliver
exceptional customer and employee experiences with our Avaya
OneCloud solutions,” said Stephen Spears, EVP and Chief Revenue
Officer, Avaya. “The deep engagement we have with our alliance
partners is a key facet of Avaya’s strategy, and will play a strong
role in our future direction. John is a tremendous addition to our
leadership team and will identify and develop go-to-market
strategies for an expanding portfolio of technology partners that
add exceptional value to our current and prospective customers, and
identify incremental opportunities to drive growth.”
Youri comes to Avaya with a track record of success across
enterprise software and cloud. Most recently he served as Senior
Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances for Talkdesk, a
cloud-based contact center software provider. Prior to that, Youri
spent over four years at Amazon Web Services in a variety of
senior-level roles leading strategic alliances, channel solution
providers, and strategic go-to-market collaboration agreements. He
also previously led Cloud Partnerships at SuccessFactors, serving
in a number of key roles during a thirteen-year career at SAP.
“The Avaya OneCloud platform offers the broadest portfolio of
communications and collaboration solutions in the industry, and a
growing number of technology leaders are working with us to develop
and deliver innovation in areas like AI, cloud, and collaboration
on the OneCloud platform,” Youri said. “I am excited to join Avaya
to further accelerate the capabilities we’re delivering to
customers that support new ways of working, engaging and
collaborating, enabling them to provide experiences that matter to
their own customers and employees.”
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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