AVST Appoints Paul Cheslaw Vice President & General Manager, EMEA
Industry Veteran Chartered with Corporate Expansion in EMEA Region
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With 20 years of experience in worldwide sales and support, Cheslaw comes to AVST with a strong emphasis in developing, building and managing EMEA operations for a variety of firms in the enterprise communications market. In this new role with AVST, Cheslaw will focus on AVST’s corporate expansion in the EMEA region including leveraging the company’s existing partnerships, building the sales and support infrastructure and expanding distribution in key markets.
“Paul comes to AVST at an exciting time in the company’s history,” said AVST’s President and CEO
Prior to AVST, Cheslaw was Managing Partner for Executive Conversation International, a consulting firm that focuses on strategic sales training for senior management of various high technology companies including Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and British Telecom. Cheslaw has also held a variety of EMEA senior management roles for various premier technology firms including Annuncio Software, an eCRM solution provider acquired by PeopleSoft Corporation in 2002, Latitude Communications, Inc., the world’s first voice and data collaboration server provider acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in 2003, Octel Communications Corporation and VMX Inc. During his tenure with VMX Inc., the company achieved the leading position in the European voice processing market through the establishment of long-term distribution agreements with British Telecom, Mercury Communications, Ericsson, Siemens and other major distributors throughout EMEA.
Cheslaw will manage AVST’s EMEA operations from the company’s
About AVST
The typical enterprise communications infrastructure is made up of a collection of technologies from multiple vendors, acquired over time and never intended to work together. To maximize user and business productivity, while leveraging existing IT investments, interoperability is a must.
AVST delivers the industry's most interoperable Unified Communications (UC) platform that brings best-of-breed voice, mobility and business process solutions to the enterprise. Unlike virtually every other UC vendor, AVST does not constrain customers with a single vendor lock-in approach. In fact, it's the very opposite. By connecting new and existing technologies, AVST frees organizations from the constraints of a closed, single-source UC solution, unlocking the full potential of their communications infrastructure.
With over 15 million users worldwide and three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is unifying communications®.
Headquartered in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Washington, Victoria B.C., Canada and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's UC solutions are sold and supported worldwide by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. To learn more about AVST, our products and partners, please visit www.avst.com or you can follow us at Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
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