Avaya Announces Leadership Changes

June 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, Jun 03 (MARKET WIRE) —
Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications systems, software and
services, today announced that Joel Hackney has been appointed Senior
Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing and President of Field
Operations. In this role, Hackney replaces Todd Abbott. Abbott, who has
led the work of transforming Avaya’s go-to-market strategy over the last
two years, has decided to step down to pursue other interests and will
remain with Avaya during an appropriate transitional period.

“In the past six months, Avaya has undergone some significant and
exciting changes, including the rollout of several innovative products
and solutions. Today’s leadership changes will allow us to build on that
momentum and stay on track to deliver even more solutions that create
customer value and respond to the evolution in real-time business
communications and customer service,” said Kevin Kennedy, Avaya President
and CEO.

Hackney, who is currently leading the Avaya Data and Government Solutions
business units, will continue to drive the federal government business.
The data solutions organization will now report to Steve Bandrowczak, who
becomes Vice President and General Manager, Avaya Data Solutions.
Bandrowczak will serve as a member of the Avaya Executive Committee,
reporting directly to Avaya President and CEO Kevin Kennedy. Previously,
Bandrowczak served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avaya Data
Solutions. Prior to joining Avaya, Bandrowczak led the North American
Enterprise Sales and Marketing team for Nortel and has also served as the
CIO for leading companies such as Lenovo, DHL and Avnet.

The company also announced today that Jim Chirico has been appointed
Executive Vice President, Business Operations. Chirico will retain his
current responsibilities and assume the added accountability of driving
cross-functional alignment of key workstreams, including Avaya growth,
transition, integration and restructuring activities.

These leadership changes are effective June 14th.

About Avaya
Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications
systems. The company provides unified communications, contact centers,
data solutions, and related services directly and through its channel
partners to leading businesses and organizations around the world.
Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art
communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service
and competitiveness. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

Media Inquiries:
Jay Barta
972-745-5195
jbarta@avaya.com

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India Essar to buy controlling AGC Networks stake

May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

(Reuters) – India’s Essar Group has agreed to buy a controlling stake in communications solution firm AGC Networks (AVYA.BO) for $44.5 million, as it strives to boost outsourcing services.

Deals | Inflows Outflows

Essar Group will pay 245 rupees ($5.30) a share for the 59.13 percent stake in AGC Networks, from U.S. network equipment maker Avaya Inc AVXX.UL, and will offer to buy an additional 20 percent stake in AGC as required by Indian regulations.

The offer price is 12 percent lower than AGC’s Friday closing price of 278.45 rupees in the Mumbai market.

Essar said the open offer for the additional 20 percent stake would cost 780 million rupees. Company officials on a conference call said the open offer would be announced in about three weeks.

“This transaction allows us to offer a wider range of services,” Aparup Sengupta, global CEO of Essar Group’s outsourcing venture Aegis Ltd, told journalists on Sunday.

AGC Networks is focused on the India and Australia markets and had annual revenue of about $100 million, Sengupta said. The company employs about 500 people.

Sengupta said there was no plan of merging unlisted Aegis Ltd with listed AGC Networks.

“We are under no pressure to list (Aegis),” he said.

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U.S. Jobs Boost as thebigword Expands

March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

LEEDS, England–(Business Wire)–
One of the world`s biggest and fastest-growing translation and interpreting
companies, thebigword, has announced a major expansion in the United States with
the creation of up to 350 jobs.

A significant percentage of the new jobs will be created in the company`s New
York office on Wall Street and the remainder will be recruited throughout the
United States.

The announcement follows major U.S. public- and private-sector contract wins
with a leading investment bank and large Government departments, which have
helped increase revenues by more than 40 per cent, with a predicted $78 million
turnover this year.

Much of the growth has been in thebigword`s `Over the Phone Interpreting` (OPI)
service, which enables people who speak different languages to talk over the
`phone via an interpreter. Its expansion in this sector now positions thebigword
to become the world`s second-largest interpreting company and by the end of
summer 2010, its workforce is expected to reach 1,500 plus 7,700 linguists.

Chief Commercial Officer at thebigword, Josh Gould, says: “The interpreting
industry is critical to the daily business of the U.S. Government and the
majority of the top global 1000 companies. thebigword has emerged as a
responsible business, driving down price whilst increasing quality standards,
which can only be good news for our customers”.

“Some sectors of the language services industry have attacked thebigword for our
aggressive pricing policy but we`re defiant in our quest to make interpreting
more accessible to businesses and world governments whilst protecting our most
important assets, our linguists who provide the service 24/7/365.

“Price reductions are being achieved by our investment in technology and our
partnership with global telecoms specialists, Avaya,” says Gould.

thebigword`s policy of organic expansion, which has delivered 93 per cent
compound growth in the past two years, has given the company a strong capital
base in an environment where competitors are losing market share or engaging in
high-risk mergers.

Josh Gould acknowledges that acquisition may be the best way forward, but only
for the right business at the right price. “We`re likely to look at strategic
acquisitions in the region of $10-20 million,” he says.

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Avaya GlobalConnect sees business in newer verticals

May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Mumbai, May 20 (ANI/Business Wire India): Avaya GlobalConnect, India’s leading enterprise business communications solutions provider today unveiled its strategic roadmap in India for 2009.

The company announced its renewed focus on technology solutions for the BFSI, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Hospitality and other verticals.

Aiding this move is the introduction of Avaya’s new technology solution, Avaya AuraT, a breakthrough architecture that easily integrates communications across multi-vendor, multi-location and multi-modal businesses.

Anil Nair, the newly appointed Managing Director of Avaya GlobalConnect, said on the occasion, “Our strategy of verticalization is of course helping us reach out to more domestic customers and expand our market base. This market traction is now fuelled by the fact that in the current economic downturn, Avaya Aura protects investments made, simplifies complex multi-vendor networks, reduces infrastructure costs and quickly delivers voice, video, messaging, presence and web applications to employees everywhere.”

This announcement coincides with Avaya GlobalConnect’s biggest annual three-day customer event iComm 2009 being held in Mumbai from May 20-22, 2009. This will serve as a perfect platform for vendors and customers to connect and demonstrate technology and solutions that spell business benefits to enterprises.

iComm 2009 will also showcase the new solution Avaya Aura among other emerging technology solutions and trends in customer service for enterprises across verticals. It will give industry professionals a real-time experience of the power of communications solutions and technology.

Avaya GlobalConnect has been recognized as the Market Leader for Enterprise Telephony and Contact Centers for seven years in a row by Frost and Sullivan. A subsidiary of Avaya Inc., the company has maintained leadership in other areas as well including Unified Communications. (ANI)

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Avaya GlobalConnect appoints new leader

May 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 4 (ANI/Business Wire India): Avaya GlobalConnect (AGC), India’s leading business communications solution provider, has appointed Anil Nair as the New MD.

Prior to this, Anil was the President at AGC.

Nair has been with the company since 1997; initially as its sales leader and in later years in the expanded capacity of President. Much of the growth Avaya has witnessed in India is a direct result of his efforts and his aggressive, fact-based, collaborative leadership style.

In his new role, Anil is responsible for Avaya GlobalConnect’s business that includes IP Telephony, Contact Centers and Unified Communications.

Anil is an advanced MBA from XIM Bhubaneshwar and ISB-Kellogg Business School, Chicago, Anil’s 28 years of professional experience spans Business Automation, IT and Enterprise Communication, much of this in executive leadership positions at Tata group of companies. (ANI)

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