Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 10:12
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Unified communications vendor Zeacom has appointed a new head of its Australian business to lead what the company says will be an aggressive push to increase marketshare in the Australian market.
Zeacom CEO, Miles Valentine, announced the
appointment of Stephen Sarjeant as Country Manager, Zeacom Australia,
responsible for all sales, support and services activities.
According to Valentine, Sarjeant’s appointment marks a “step change in
our Australian business as we seek to aggressively increase market
share.”
Valentine said Sarjeant had joined Zeacom after 10 years experience in
the converged communications and contact centre industry with companies
such as Cisco Systems and Avaya. He also worked with ICL (now Fujitsu)
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Valentine also announced the appointments of Jo Freeman as channel
manager for NSW and Lisa Morrison as channel coordinator, responsible
for providing customers and partners with direct access to the
company’s latest unified communications products and support services.
Freeman previously held marketing and sales roles at Telstra, Optus,
AAPT and iPass, and Morrison worked in channel management and business
development for a number of companies including Corporate Express,
Symantec and Veritas.