8x8 Appoints Accomplished Industry Executives to Key Strategic Positions Overseeing Company’s Global Sales Organization
October 19 2017 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
Latest round of senior leadership hires and
promotions completes one of 8x8’s strategic investment initiatives
to accelerate sales momentum and revenue growth
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), the leading provider of truly unified
communications, today announced the appointments of multiple senior
executives to the company’s global sales organization. These
appointments, combined with the recent strengthening of 8x8’s
marketing and engineering organizations, align with the company’s
strategic decision to increase its investment in the business to
accelerate sales momentum and revenue growth.
“By assembling world-class sales, marketing and engineering
teams, 8x8 is maximizing its ability to develop, market, sell and
deliver the truly unified communications solutions and services
that companies need on a global basis to run their business smarter
and faster,” said Vikram Verma, CEO of 8x8. “These latest,
high-caliber appointments to our global sales organization
underscore the attractiveness of the $50 billion cloud
communications market opportunity, and the leadership position 8x8
has earned in the industry. With our senior leadership team now
fully in place, we look forward to implementing additional
strategic initiatives to accelerate adoption and revenue growth
globally across all of our core customer segments.”
As part of the announcement, 8x8 is realigning the company into
two business units—Small Business & eCommerce and Midmarket
& Enterprise. These two business units, led by new Senior Vice
Presidents Samuel Wilson and Scott Sampson respectively, will align
sales and delivery, tightly coupled with demand generation,
services and support to drive segment revenue, growth and
profitability globally. Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Puneet Arora will remain at the company through the end of the
calendar year to assist in the transition, and both Wilson and
Sampson will report directly to 8x8 CEO Vikram Verma. Recent
promotions and hires include:
- Scott Sampson, Senior Vice President of
Midmarket & Enterprise, is responsible for all efforts to
expand global midmarket and enterprise sales with a focus on
developing and leveraging channel relationships to help drive this
consultative sales business. He has more than 25 years of software
industry experience with a proven track record of sales success.
Sampson was most recently the Chief Revenue Officer at New Voice
Media where he had global responsibility for all the company’s
sales, channel and marketing functions. He previously held sales
executive and management positions at IBM, including Vice President
of Worldwide Analytics Platform Sales, a multi-billion-dollar
revenue business, and Vice President of Industry Cloud Solutions,
North America. While at IBM, Sampson led organizations ranging in
size from 150 to 4,000 sales professionals, and was consistently
ranked in the top one percent of global sales leadership. Sampson
has a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University and an
MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Samuel Wilson, Senior Vice President of
Small Business & eCommerce, is responsible for all global small
business and eCommerce sales, operations and delivery with an aim
to accelerate growth and productivity in this high-volume,
transactional business. He joins 8x8 from MobileIron where he was
instrumental in taking the company public and part of the team that
grew annual billings from $26 million to $200 million, including
building and leading their eCommerce business. Prior to MobileIron,
Wilson spent 14 years in technology banking, both as an analyst
covering communications and as an institutional investor. Wilson
has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seattle University and an
MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Rick Boyd, Vice President of North
America Midmarket Sales, is responsible for driving customer
success in the midmarket, and will work closely with 8x8 marketing
and the channel to increase demand generation and sales execution
efforts. He brings more than 25 years of selling and management
experience to 8x8, and most recently served as Vice President of
Client Sales Americas at ShoreTel, where he was responsible for
midmarket and enterprise teams. Boyd previously held sales
leadership positions at Verisign and Mitel.
- Brendan Maree, Vice President of Asia
Pacific Sales, is based in Sydney, Australia, and is responsible
for expanding on 8x8’s initial success in Australia and New Zealand
to grow the company’s presence within the Asia-Pacific region. He
joins the company from Interactive Intelligence where he most
recently served as Senior Vice President of Japan, Australia and
New Zealand, helping the company dramatically increase revenue and
market share in the region during his tenure. Maree formerly held
sales leadership positions at IPL Communications, Mobile Coverage
Solutions and Andrew Corporation.
- Promoted to Vice President of North
America Enterprise Sales, Kyle DiPentima is now responsible for
accelerating growth of 8x8’s enterprise customer business in the
U.S. He brings a successful track record of more than 20 years in
enterprise sales experience, including previously leading 8x8’s
Eastern Region enterprise sales team. Prior to 8x8, DiPentima held
sales positions at LivePerson, Kontagent, Oracle, NICE Systems and
Careerbuilder.com.
- Promoted to Vice President of Europe,
the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Sales, Sharon Maslyn will
continue to lead midmarket, enterprise and channel sales in the UK,
and is now responsible for all sales efforts throughout Europe, the
Middle East and Africa as 8x8 continues its global expansion. She
has more than 20 years of sales management experience, and
previously held leadership positions at DXI, Relaystation, Verizon
and Pitney Bowes.
8x8 now delivers one unified platform for cloud communications,
collaboration tools, video conferencing, and contact center
solutions to improve IT efficiency and reduce headaches; one
seamless communications experience for employees and customers; and
one real-time data analytics platform for constant learning and
improvement. The company recently launched 8x8 Virtual Office®
Editions, a suite of products designed to revolutionize business
communications. As part of the launch, 8x8 announced the new 8x8
Virtual Office X8 edition, which offers unified communications,
collaboration and contact center in one solution. By eliminating
the communications silos that exist due to fragmented solutions,
8x8 Virtual Office X8 allows companies to run their business faster
and smarter with a unified solution for efficient and seamless
communications and collaboration between employees, partners and
customers.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), the leading provider of truly
unified communications, powers over a million business users
worldwide. The 8x8 suite of products seamlessly weaves together
cloud telephony, messaging, meetings and contact center solutions
with a data analytics platform, helping modern organizations
communicate at the speed of employee and customer expectations. 8x8
uniquely combines one unified management platform, one seamless
communications experience for employees and customers, and one
real-time data analytics platform for constant learning and
improvement.
8x8® and 8x8 Virtual Office are trademarks of 8x8, Inc.
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