Avaya Holdings appoints Alan Masarek as its President and CEO and as a member of Avaya’s Board of Administrators, efficient August 1, 2022.
Mr. Masarek will be triumphant Jim Chirico, who shall be got rid of from his positions as President and CEO of Avaya, efficient August 1, 2022, and is resigning as a member of Avaya’s Board. Mr. Chirico will stay hired with Avaya thru August 16, 2022 and can paintings with Mr. Masarek to make sure a easy transition for all stakeholders.
Mr. Masarek is an {industry} innovator with deep area experience in Endeavor Communications and transformational operational revel in bringing in combination UCaaS, CCaaS and CPaaS features, that are key parts of the Avaya OneCloud Revel in platform.
He maximum not too long ago served as CEO of Vonage Holdings, the place he led the corporate thru an technology of transformation from a VoIP-based residential telephone supplier into an international endeavor cloud communications corporate. Previous to his time at Vonage, Mr. Masarek used to be Director, Chrome & Apps at Google, following Google’s acquisition of his prior corporate, Quickoffice, the place he served as Co-founder and CEO.
Invoice Watkins, Chairman of Avaya’s Board, mentioned, “We’re extremely joyful to welcome Alan as President and CEO. Alan is a confirmed transformational chief, and after a rigorous seek procedure, the Board is assured that Alan is the best selection to guide the corporate into the long run. We stay up for profiting from his a long time of {industry} experience as we take the following steps to place the corporate for long-term luck.”
Mr. Masarek commented, “Avaya advantages from an industry-leading logo, world-class buyer base and international achieve, a wealthy historical past of innovation and robust spouse ecosystem. I stay up for leveraging my background and years of cloud communications revel in to propel Avaya to renewed expansion and profitability as we construct at the corporate’s sturdy basics. On the identical time, I intend to adopt a complete strategic and working evaluate of all aspects of the trade with the purpose of handing over industry-leading answers to our international consumers and embellishing price for all stakeholders.”
Mr. Watkins persisted, “The Board and I thank Jim for his just about 15 years of carrier to Avaya and need him all of the best possible in his long run endeavors.”
