Software and cloud services provider Interactive Intelligence announced Shayne Taylor as the first-ever channel sales manager for Australia.
Taylor will be based in Interactive Intelligence's Sydney office and will be responsible for giving support to the company’s network of resellers, and identifying new regional partners to grow its cloud business among public and private sector organisations.
Interactive Intelligence's channel partners in Australia and New Zealand include Agile, Datacom, Tecala Group, R-Group International, CSA and QPC.
Taylor has over 20 years' experience in IT sales, channels and operations and has worked for companies such as Allied Telesis and Hewlett Packard. He has also been services director at Avnet Technology Solutions, general manager at IPL Communications, product director at Volante Group, and branch manager at Applied Micro Systems
As Australia's country manager at Allied Telesis, Taylor was responsible for accelerating the successful adoption of the company’s video, voice, and data network solutions. Prior to that, he was the national networking commercial sales manager at Hewlett-Packard, responsible for the growth of the HP networking channels business.
Interactive Intelligence senior vice president for Australia, New Zealand and Japan Brendan Maree said: "Shayne’s breadth and depth of experience will bring significant value as we look to engage partners more fully to bring our latest cloud offering, PureCloud Engage, to market."
With PureCloud Engage, partners can offer a range of consultative services and bundled voice and deployment services, according to Maree.
The US communications vendor has offices in 19 countries.
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