OTTAWA, Ontario, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Mitel® (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW), a global leader
in business communications, today announced the appointment of
Richard Roberts to oversee its EMEA
channels, alongside leading the company's operations in the
United Kingdom and Ireland. Roberts will be responsible for
maintaining Mitel's #1 market share position in Europe1 and accelerating growth by
supporting channel partners in meeting demand for cloud-based
communications and enabling businesses to embrace digital
transformation.
Roberts brings over two decades of sales, product management,
marketing and business development experience in the technology
industry to the role. He joins Mitel from Purple, where he led the
EMEA Sales and Worldwide Channels business, enabling customers to
monetise their venues and facilities using Wi-Fi analytics. Prior
to this, Roberts spent 14 years with Cisco Systems, helping build
out the organisation's UK channel business, later holding a number
of senior positions at the company.
Based in the UK, Roberts reports to Jeremy Butt, Mitel Senior Vice President of EMEA.
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"As customers of all sizes increasingly turn to cloud
technologies to provide a path to the future, it's important we are
able to support end-users while empowering our channel partners on
their transformation journey," said Jeremy
Butt, Mitel SVP of EMEA. "Richard's dual role will enable
him to drive forward our expanded UK and Ireland business, while ensuring the EMEA-wide
channel strategy is best suited to customers' needs. Given his
wealth of experience in this space, I have no doubt Richard will
excel in the role."
"As a market leader in EMEA, Mitel is in a strong position to
help businesses increase productivity and improve customer
experience. Through cloud-enabled communications and collaboration,
we will be able to help channels meet customers' needs for new ways
to buy and consume unified communications and collaboration (UCC)
services," said Richard Roberts,
Mitel VP for UK/IR and EMEA Channels.
About Mitel
A global market leader in business
communications powering more than two billion business
connections, Mitel (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW) helps
businesses and service providers connect, collaborate and provide
innovative services to their customers. Our innovation and
communications experts serve more than 70 million business users in
more than 100 countries. For more information, go
to www.mitel.com and follow us on Twitter @Mitel.
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Contact Information
Media – Americas/APAC
Camille Beasley
469-212-0433
camille.beasley@mitel.com
Media – EMEA
Sandrine Quinton
+33 (0)130-964-301
sandrine.quinton@mitel.com
Investors
Michael McCarthy
469-574-8134
michael.mccarthy@mitel.com
Industry Analysts
Denise
Hogberg
469-212-0434
denise.hogberg@mitel.com
1 MZA, Call Control Quarterly Performance, Q3
2017
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