Main Header logo  
Search:
Username: 
Password: 
Become a Member 
Home 
Contact Us 
Ask An Expert 


Awards & Certification

For Your Center

Conferences & Events

Editorial Features

Tools & Utilities


FEATURED SUPPLIERS
on ContactCenterWorld.com this week:
 
Sytel Limited
 
Global Benchmarking Study of Top Performers
 
Top Performers in The Contact Center Awards
 
Global Sky Inc.
 
BCE Nexxia
 
VPI (Voice Print International, Inc.)
 
CallCopy Inc.
 
GMT Corp.
 
Teleopti
 
SAP Business Communications Management
 
Click on the company name for more details!



LATEST MEMBERS

Over 115485 Members in the contact center, help desk, CRM industry
View members' directory


Contact Center Veteran Wes Hayden Joins LiveOps

Santa Clara, Calif. - December 3, 2008 - LiveOps, a virtual call center company, today announced the addition of several key executives to its leadership team as the company continues to execute against its high-growth strategy in the call center marketplace. The appointments include Wes Hayden to president, Paul Lang to senior vice president of Product Management and Bill Slakey to chief financial officer (CFO).

"More and more enterprises are adopting the on-demand model to run mission-critical business functions, like the call center," said Maynard Webb, Chairman and CEO of LiveOps. "LiveOps continues to drive innovation into the call center by helping companies become more agile and better optimize their operations. We’re pleased that two of the most well-respected names in the contact center industry have joined LiveOps. Their decision to join our team is a testimony to the value our on-demand call center platform brings to the industry. We are also excited about the extensive financial experience that Bill Slakey brings to LiveOps as the former CFO of several publicly traded companies. With these appointments, we look forward to capitalizing on the increasing market opportunities that the SaaS model continues to create."

Wes Hayden, who joins LiveOps as the company’s president, spent the majority of his career at Genesys Telecommunications Labs where he served as President and CEO, responsible for setting the company’s aggressive growth strategy and managing overall operations. As CEO of Genesys, Hayden grew the company’s revenue significantly. Most recently, Hayden served as president of the Enterprise Division at Nuance Communications, a publicly traded maker of speech and digital imaging software. He was responsible for strategy and managing operations, marketing, professional services and engineering for Nuance’s enterprise products and solutions.

"The timing is ideal for a leader to emerge in the on-demand contact center market," said Hayden. "LiveOps is clearly in the best position to deliver on the promise. I am very much looking forward to being a key member of the leadership team."

Paul Lang was most recently vice president of Product Management and Product Strategy at Genesys. He joins LiveOps as senior vice president of Product Management. Lang has more than 20 years of call center experience across the globe as both a customer and supplier of solutions and will be responsible for spearheading the strategic initiatives and operations for the LiveOps On-Demand Call Center Platform.

Bill Slakey joins as CFO and brings more than 20 years of experience establishing and improving company and financial operations. Slakey has previously served as CFO at public companies, including Extreme Networks, Handspring, Inc. and WJ Communications, and at successful private technology firms including SnapTrack, Inc, and Tropos Networks. Slakey has also held senior financial positions at Palm Computing, 3Com Corporation and Apple Computer.

"LiveOps has attracted some well-respected executives from leading contact center companies to reinforce its SaaS offering for customer service operations," said Daniel Hong, Lead Analyst of Customer Interaction Technologies at Datamonitor. "The company is now better positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for SaaS in the contact center and establish itself as a leader in this space."

About LiveOps:

LiveOps, Inc., a company focused on virtual contact center technology and services, enables businesses to deliver high performance call centers and high quality customer contact in the most cost-effective means possible. Its on-demand contact center applications provide an enterprise-scale virtual call center infrastructure, while its network of 16,000 agents can represent companies in an effective and professional manner. LiveOps'' solutions allow for greater flexibility, quality, scalability, control and cost savings.


Date and Time Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:06 PM

Printer Friendly Version Printer friendly version

115,485 Global Members










-Back To Top-

| Request Information from CRM & Contact Center Suppliers | About ContactCenterWorld |
| Advertise CRM & Contact Center Solutions | Link to this site |
| Submit CRM and Contact Center Content | Contact Us | Privacy Policy |
| Recommend this site to other CRM & Contact Center Professionals | Disclaimer |

©ContactCenterWorld.com 1999-2008
The Global Support Organization For Contact Center Professionals & the place for information on:
Contact Center Software, Contact Management, CRM, Customer Interaction Management (CIM), Customer Measurement, Customer Satisfaction, Dialers, Do Not Call (DNC), e-Learning, E-mail, e-support, Headsets, Help Desk Software, Internet Telephony (IP), IVR, Knowledge Management (KM), Multimedia Contact Center, Offshore Outsourcing