Avaya Appoints William Madison as Vice President, North America Cloud Sales to Drive Increased Growth & Adoption of Cloud Com...
January 15 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA), a global leader in solutions
to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today
announced it has appointed William Madison as Vice President of
Cloud Sales for North America. Madison will be responsible for
enabling accelerated growth and adoption of Avaya cloud solutions
with customers and partners, including the new Avaya Cloud Office
UCaaS offer resulting from the company’s recent strategic
partnership with RingCentral.
Avaya is addressing the evolving and growing market for
cloud-based unified communications, collaboration and contact
center cloud solutions for organizations from large enterprises to
small-medium business, leveraging an extensive channel ecosystem to
extend its market reach. In his role, Madison will have a major
focus on Avaya Cloud Office, coming in the first quarter of 2020, a
new solution intended to provide customers with a seamless journey
to cloud-based unified communications built on the industry’s
leading UCaaS platform combined with Avaya-only capabilities
including unique features, device interoperability and migration
tools.
Madison comes to Avaya from Masergy Communications, a secure
software-defined network and cloud platform company for the digital
enterprise, where he was Vice President of Global Channel
Development and Channel Chief, focused on Masergy’s go-to-market in
both the US and EMEA regions. During his tenure at Masergy, Madison
was recognized with several industry awards, most recently the 2019
Circle of Excellence at Channel Partners. Prior to Masergy, Madison
held several leadership roles focused on establishing new strategic
partnerships and building specific sales alliances expanding routes
to market and increasing near and long-term revenue
contributions.
“Demand for comprehensive cloud communications and collaboration
applications continues to accelerate, and we believe Avaya’s
partner ecosystem plays a critical role in meeting this demand,”
said Jon Brinton, Avaya Vice President, North America Channel
Sales. “As Avaya continues its focus on delivering cloud solutions
to help address the needs of our customers and partners, we’re
excited to have Madison join our company with his extensive
industry experience and demonstrated leadership building and
expanding successful channel relationships.”
“This is an exciting time to be joining Avaya, as the company
strengthens its cloud portfolio and there is tremendous excitement
among partners and customers around Avaya Cloud Office and our
focus on providing a simplified customer journey to the cloud,”
said Madison. “Avaya serves a majority of the largest organizations
globally and has continued to be one of the leaders in the market
in customer and employee experience. As organizations of all sizes
increasingly plan to adopt cloud communications, I look forward to
helping to drive growth for our customers, partners and Avaya.”
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and every
day millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE: AVYA).
For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations around the
globe to win – by creating intelligent communications experiences
for customers and employees. Avaya builds open, converged and
innovative solutions to enhance and simplify communications and
collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of both. To
grow your business, we’re committed to innovation, partnership, and
a relentless focus on what’s next. We’re the technology company you
trust to help you deliver Experiences that Matter. Visit us at
www.avaya.com.
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