8x8 Appoints Puneet Arora as Senior Vice President of Global Sales
January 13 2015 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
Former Salesforce.com, Oracle and LivePerson
Sales Executive Brings SaaS and Enterprise Experience to Lead 8x8’s
Global Sales Organization
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a provider of cloud-based unified
communications, contact center and collaboration solutions, today
announced the appointment of SaaS industry executive Puneet Arora
as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, effective immediately.
Mr. Arora will report directly to 8x8 CEO Vik Verma and will be
responsible for leading 8x8’s global, direct and channel sales
organizations and managing new customer acquisition and existing
customer penetration strategies.
Puneet Arora, Senior Vice President of
Global Sales, 8x8, Inc. (Photo: Business Wire)
Mr. Arora comes to 8x8 with a successful track record building,
leading and scaling sales organizations for SaaS and enterprise
software industry leaders such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and, most
recently, LivePerson.
“Puneet is an accomplished sales executive whose demonstrated
leadership and proven ability to capture market share with
disruptive technologies like 8x8’s will be invaluable as we build
upon the solid initial foundation we have established in the
midsize and distributed enterprise markets,” said 8x8 CEO Vik
Verma. “We remain in the early phase of an adoption cycle that
Software as a Service CRM providers saw accelerate several years
ago, and I believe 2015 will be the year
Communications-as-a-Service adoption by the enterprise begins
accelerating. Having been there before, Puneet will be a tremendous
resource to 8x8 as we continue to drive profitable growth and
market expansion during this exciting phase of our industry.”
Mr. Arora was most recently Vice President, Head of North
America Sales at LivePerson where he managed all aspects of demand
generation, revenue creation and customer success across a diverse
array of accounts ranging from small businesses to large
enterprises. Prior to LivePerson, he managed Cloud CRM Sales for
North America West at Oracle, where he was responsible for sales
and customer success for the western third of the continent. Before
Oracle, Mr. Arora was Vice President Corporate Sales at
Salesforce.com where he led sales and customer success for the
Southeast U.S. Earlier in his career, Mr. Arora spent over 10 years
in leading enterprise software companies like BlueRoads, Selectica
and Trilogy where he led a successful career as an Enterprise Sales
executive leading teams and opening new markets.
“8x8 has played a pivotal role in the development and early
adoption of groundbreaking cloud communications solutions, and I
look forward to working closely with the rest of the senior
management team, existing sales staff and channel partners to
accelerate revenue growth in all of its key market segments,” said
Mr. Arora. “This truly is an exciting time to be involved in the
UCaaS industry, and there is no company better positioned than 8x8
to capture the increasing demand we expect to see in 2015 and
beyond.”
Mr. Arora holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State
University and is pursuing an MBA from Babson College’s Franklin W.
Olin Graduate School of Business.
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 businesses 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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