8x8 Appoints Enzo Signore as Chief Marketing Officer
November 11 2014 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
Former Avaya and Cisco Senior Marketing
Executive Will Drive 8x8’s Global Marketing Efforts as the Company
Pushes Forward into the Mid-Market
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a provider of cloud-based unified
communications, contact center and collaboration solutions, today
announced the appointment of enterprise communications industry
veteran Enzo Signore as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing
Officer. Mr. Signore will report directly to 8x8 CEO Vik Verma and
will be responsible for the strategy and execution of 8x8’s global
marketing efforts.
Enzo Signore, 8x8 Senior Vice President
& Chief Marketing Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
Mr. Signore brings over 20 years of marketing, product
management, sales and business development experience with
industry-leading communications and technology vendors to 8x8. He
was most recently Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise Solutions
and Field Marketing at Avaya where he was responsible for defining,
positioning and marketing Avaya’s entire multi-billion dollar
enterprise portfolio spanning Unified Communication and
Collaboration, Video Collaboration, Customer Experience Management,
Networking as well as Private Cloud Services. Before that, he
served as Vice President, UC Product Management at Avaya where he
led the product strategy and go-to market plan for the company’s UC
Core portfolio.
“Enzo’s deep communications industry experience and marketing
leadership credentials will be invaluable as 8x8 continues to work
toward transitioning more and more mid-market and distributed
enterprise businesses to our differentiated cloud-based solutions,”
said 8x8 CEO Vik Verma. “These larger organizations are realizing
significant business value from moving their communications
infrastructure to the cloud, ranging from improvements in business
agility to better utilization of internal IT resources to rapid
deployment of new locations. With roughly 90% of the total
available market for telephony alone yet to transition to the
cloud, we are very fortunate to have a world class executive like
Enzo on board as we work toward capturing the dominant share of
this evolving market.”
“As a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS, 8x8 stands
at the forefront of the cloud communications industry today due to
the technology, innovation and leadership that have been key to the
company’s growth and profitability over the years,” said Mr.
Signore. “This is no doubt an exciting time to join 8x8 as cloud
technologies further penetrate the mid-market segment and I look
forward to contributing to the company’s next phase of growth.”
Prior to Avaya, Mr. Signore served as Vice President of
Asia-Pacific Sales and Worldwide Sales Operations for optical
communications component supplier JDSU, where
he rapidly grew the business across the entire
region. He was also Vice President of Corporate Marketing at JDSU
and successfully re-branded the company as the leader in Broadband
and Optical Innovation. Prior to JDSU, Mr. Signore was Senior
Director of Marketing for Cisco’s Broadband Access portfolio. In
this role he grew the business from inception to a multi-hundred
million dollar operation. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Signore held business
development and engineering positions at ISOCOR, Inc. and Retix,
Inc.
Mr. Signore holds a Masters degree in Telecommunications and
Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Politecnico di Torino,
Italy.
In connection with his hiring, Mr. Signore received an option to
purchase 143,636 shares of the Company's common stock with an
exercise price of $7.94 per share, which is equal to the closing
price of the Company's Common Stock on November 10, 2014. In
addition, Mr. Signore received restrictive stock units ("RSUs")
representing the right to receive up to 97,176 shares of common
stock. Vesting of the option and RSUs is subject to his continued
service with the Company, and the RSU’s are subject to additional
vesting requirements based on future market prices of the common
stock.
About 8x8:
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is the trusted provider of secure
and reliable cloud-based unified communications and virtual contact
center solutions to more than 40,000 small, midsize and distributed
enterprise organizations operating in over 40 countries across six
continents. 8x8's out-of-the-box cloud solutions replace
traditional on-premise PBX hardware and software-based systems with
a flexible and scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) alternative,
encompassing cloud business phone service, contact center
solutions, and web conferencing. For additional information,
visit www.8x8.com, or www.8x8.com/UK or connect with
8x8
on Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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8x8, Inc.Tim
Polakowski, 408-883-8434tim.polakowski@8x8.com
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