Stephen Szeremeta serves as general counsel for Avaya Government Solutions, where he is responsible for the operation of the legal and contracts departments. He joined Avaya in 2010 after time as chief legal officer at Nortel Government Solutions. Before Nortel Government, Szeremeta was responsible for Nortel’s North American customer contracts team and was Nortel’s lead enterprise sales attorney and legal counsel for the […] More

Susan Pompliano Keys serves as the vice president of sales at Avaya‘s government solutions business and is based in Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to this role, Keys oversaw Riverbed Technology‘s business and partner development functions in the federal market. She also ran a government consulting services firm and served in executive roles at Cisco, Lockheed Martin […] More

Laurent Philonenko has been promoted to senior vice president of corporate strategy and development and chief technology officer at Avaya. The 15-year technology veteran specializes in communications software, leading growth strategies at Cisco, Genesys and Alcatel prior to his arrival at Avaya, the company said Wednesday. In his new role, Philonenko will focus on strategy […] More

HP and Avaya have partnered to combine their technologies into one management product suite, an agreement company executives believe can address growing demand for the service. Under the pact spanning several years, HP infrastructure will host Avaya’s unified communications and contact center software to provide an as-a-service business collaboration tool, the first of its kind in the […] More

Mary Henry, formerly partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, will become an independent director of Avaya’s board of directors. Henry also serves as a director of personal business analytics provider FirstRain and Avida Labs, which provides services for cancer patients, Avaya said Thursday. “Her expertise and perspective will be a tremendous asset to the […] More

Greg Pelton serves as chief technology officer at Avaya Government Solutions, where he oversees the business division’s technical assets for serving federal government clients. Pelton developed the unit’s sales engineering organization and works to apply government standards to Avaya’s offerings, as well as to create go-to-market products and collateral. He started his career at Nortel, where he developed telecommunication […] More

Andrea Cunningham, founder and president of marketing consultancy Series C, has joined Avaya as chief marketing officer and will be based in Santa Clara, Calif. She will oversee strategic initiatives related to product marketing, branding, field marketing and demand generation for the company’s suite of enterprise communication and collaboration technology offerings, Avaya said Thursday. Cunningham […] More

Avaya has rolled out new solutions that seek to simplify network data delivery. Automated Campus includes automated onboarding of user devices intended to save IT hours and minimize service delays and downtime, Avaya said Wednesday. The unified end-to-end, cloud-based network covers data center management up to the end device using Avaya’s software-defined data center framework […] More

More than 5,500 healthcare organizations worldwide use Avaya‘s communication and collaboration platforms to facilitate delivery of medical services to patients. Avaya spent more than $2.5 billion within the past six years to research and develop tools for hospitals to manage patient information, the company said Monday. Tara Mahoney, senior director for Avaya’s professional service healthcare […] More

Avaya’s Government Solutions subsidiary has been selected to provide communication and video services for National Security Technologies’ operations at the Department of Energy’s Nevada national security site. NSTec intends for the Avaya communications system to upgrade the voice and video infrastructure currently in use at the site, Avaya said Tuesday. Mike Paige, president and CEO of […] More

Recently retired marketing and technology executive Jacqueline Yeaney has been selected as a member of Iridium’s board of directors, a role she assumed earlier this month. In this position, Yeaney is responsible for collaborating with her colleagues on the board to guide Iridium’s business strategy, the McLean, Virginia-headquartered company said Monday. “As Iridium continues our strong growth and […] More

Joe Rogers, formerly a senior sales director of Cisco Systems, has joined CIS Secure to oversee enterprise sales and strategic account development. He holds over three decades of leadership experience in the areas of business development, technology sales and service, in support of federal and enterprise markets, CIS Secure said Monday. His career also includes […] More