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1st Quarter 2018
Avaya Names Mercer Rowe to Lead New Cloud Business
Avaya
Common
Stock to List
on the New
York Stock
Exchange
under the
ticker
“AVYA”
SANTA CLARA, CA - Avaya Holdings Corp. (OTCQX: AVYA) has announced that it has requested the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) declare Avaya’s Registration Statement on Form 10 e ective on January 16, 2018. Following the e ectiveness of the ling, Avaya’s common stock will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “AVYA” and is expected to begin trading at the market open on Wednesday, January 17, 2018.
“Our listing on the NYSE is an important milestone in Avaya’s next chapter as a public company,” said Jim Chirico, President and Chief Executive O cer. “We’re proud to join the other industry leading companies listed on the NYSE. is will provide increased transparency to our various stakeholders with a goal of creating long-term value for our new stockholders.”
“As a global leader in communications so ware and services for contact center and uni ed communications technologies, Avaya is a perfect addition to our community of great technology companies,” said Tom Farley, President of NYSE. “We are pleased that Avaya has chosen to list on the NYSE, and we look forward to providing the company and its shareholders with the highest levels of service and market quality.”
In celebration of the listing, representatives from Avaya will ring the NYSE Opening Bell® at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on January 17, 2018.
A copy of the Form 10 ling is available for download at https://investors.avaya.com/ nancial-info/sec- lings/default.aspx and on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
For more information, please visit www. avaya.com. l
Rowe will oversee the newly formed business unit focused on driving cloud products and services
SANTA CLARA, CA - Avaya
(OTCQX: AVYA) has announced the appointment of Mercer Rowe as senior vice president and general manager of Avaya Cloud, a newly formed organization with a singular focus on driving cloud products and services for Avaya.
Rowe joins Avaya from IBM, where he served as vice president of strategic partners for the company’s cloud and Watson platforms, leading global cloud and arti cial intelligence initiatives. Before joining IBM, Rowe founded and served as CEO of VMware vCloud Service, a joint-venture with So Bank to deliver Cloud services in Japan. He also incubated VMware’s own cloud service business, and spent a decade with cloud-powered start-ups in the enterprise so ware and service provider spaces, building sales, channel and services organizations. He began his career in engineering roles with Lockheed Martin and Nortel Networks.
“Mercer brings a wealth of knowledge that will help us expand our business in the cloud, which is critical to our growth,” said Jim
Chirico, president and chief executive o cer, Avaya. “By creating a business solely focused on cloud products and services, and with Mercer’s leadership, we will accelerate the delivery of cloud solutions that meet the growing needs of our customers and partners.”
Rowe’s responsibilities will span public, private and hybrid cloud o ers, including cloud R&D, application development and services as well as sales for the newly organized business unit.
“Avaya is a global leader in contact center (CC) and uni ed communications & collaboration (UC) so ware solutions with over 130,000 customers worldwide and an installed base
of over 100 million users,” Rowe said. “ e transformation of UC and CC to cloud delivery is still in the early innings and the growth opportunity for Avaya is one of the biggest cloud opportunities in the market today. I’m excited
to join the new executive team at Avaya to capture the growth being driven by cloud, digital transformation, mobility, arti cial intelligence, cybersecurity and IoT.”
Rowe holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.
For more information, please visit www.avaya. com. l
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l Innovative SD-WAN products can be ordered directly from Avaya and its channel partners.
l Enables easier access to Avaya-compatible technology that extends the value of a company’s uni ed communications network.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - FatPipe® Networks,
an inventor and holder of multiple patents for so ware-de ned networks that support wide area connectivity and hybrid WANs, announced that its FatPipe MPVPN® SD-
WAN products will be sold through the Avaya DevConnect Select Product Program. Avaya
is a leading global provider of business communications so ware, systems and services. Avaya Engagement Solutions enable customer and team engagement across multiple channels and devices for better customer experience, increased productivity and enhanced nancial performance.
e Select Product Program o ers customers a streamlined way to order Avaya-compatible, third-party applications chosen for the powerful capabilities they bring to the Avaya portfolio.
FatPipe’s MPVPN SD-WAN products o ered through the program have been compliance- tested for compatibility with the Avaya Aura® Platform 7.0. By integrating with an Avaya Aura Platform, companies can easily extend their uni ed communications and collaboration solutions across their entire global network without concern for latency, jitter, congestion or downtime.
With FatPipe in place, calls will not drop
in the event a line fails. is makes FatPipe a great addition to Avaya’s premise-based and cloud-based UC o ering. As part of the Avaya orderable solution set, FatPipe’s MPVPN products can be easily purchased through both Avaya and its channel partners. Customers
can add speci c capabilities to their existing Avaya platform or can source a complete
Avaya-based communications solution that incorporates next-gen SD-WAN technology. FatPipe Networks and other companies
participating in the Select Product Program are Technology Partners in the Avaya DevConnect Program – an initiative to develop, market
and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology and extend the value of a company’s investment in its network.
Streamlined ordering through the Select Product Program is available for companies
of all sizes and across all verticals in the U.S., Canada, EMEA, CALA and Asia Paci c. O ers may vary by country. Delivery, implementation, service and support are provided by Select Product Program companies.
“Being selected for the Avaya DevConnect Select Product Program is signi cant to FatPipe Networks because it extends our reach to Avaya’s global customers and channel partners,” said Sanch Datta, CTO, FatPipe Networks.
“ is compatibility gives customers a single solution that’s highly scalable and easily meets all their networking and communications requirements, allowing them to focus on
their business without concern for network performance.”
“ e inclusion of products or services from Technology Partners like FatPipe Networks in the DevConnect Select Product Program helps Avaya customers deploy complete, end-to-end next-gen networking solutions with ease,” said Eric Rossman, vice president, Partnerships and Alliances, Avaya.
“ is enables customers to con dently rely on their network to deliver optimal performance
of real-time VoIP and video communications and collaboration, CRM, cloud, mobile
video, messaging and other business-critical applications.”
For more information, visit www.FatPipe.com and www.avaya.com. l