Cloud communications leader with 30 years of
experience driving operational excellence and scaling global
businesses
HOLMDEL,
N.J., Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a
global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate
their digital transformation and a part of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC),
today announced it has appointed Anthony
Bartolo as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.
Bartolo will report to Niklas Heuveldop, Vonage Chief Executive
Officer and Head of Business Area Global Communications Platform
for Ericsson.
In this role, Bartolo will lead the corporate strategy and
technology function, with a focus on driving operational excellence
to increase Vonage's market share and advance the Company's
leadership position in Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS),
Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), Communications Platform as a
Service (CPaaS) and Network APIs.
"I am excited to welcome Anthony to Vonage. He is a recognized
global leader in technology and transformation, with demonstrated
results in driving strategy execution through operational
excellence in fast-moving businesses," said Heuveldop. "Anthony has
the perfect combination of technology and operational expertise to
help Vonage drive our execution strategy, advance our capabilities
across our core cloud communications business, and ensure our
customers have the solutions needed to accelerate their digital and
business transformation efforts."
"Vonage is at a pivotal point in its evolution, and I look
forward to working with the team to help realize the company's
ambition of advancing the way enterprises operate, communicate and
engage within their organizations and with their customers," said
Bartolo. "Vonage has an opportunity to lead the industry in
creating a new category of enterprise applications built using
advanced network capabilities exposed as APIs. I'm honored to lead
Vonage's execution strategy to accelerate its growth today while
innovating for the future."
Bartolo comes to Vonage with more than 30 years of experience
scaling global businesses, driving new commercial strategies and
motivating cross-functional teams to achieve exceptional growth. He
joins Vonage from Bandwidth, where he was chief operating
officer.
Prior to Bandwidth, Bartolo was Executive Vice President and
Chief Product Officer at Avaya, where he led the transition to a
Software as a Service-based business model, resulting in
significant new customer wins and an 11-fold increase in annual
recurring revenue.
Before that, Bartolo held several executive roles at Tata
Communications, including President of Mobility and Chief Product
Officer. His accomplishments included designing and implementing a
more competitive product strategy, spearheading the company's
expansion into new market segments, securing new strategic
partnerships and expanding the company's global footprint.
Bartolo is active in the global tech community and has served on
numerous boards in organizations around the world during his
career. A native Australian, he has a bachelor's degree in
engineering with honors from RMIT University in Melbourne, and has undertaken the Corporate
Governance Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management and
Harvard Business School Management Training.
About Vonage
Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses
accelerate their digital transformation. Vonage's Communications
Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of
Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging, AI and Verification into existing
products, workflows and systems. The Vonage conversational commerce
application enables businesses to create AI-powered omnichannel
experiences that boost sales and increase customer satisfaction.
Vonage's fully programmable unified communications, contact center
and conversational commerce applications are built from the Vonage
platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and
operate from the office or remotely - providing the flexibility
required to create meaningful engagements.
Vonage is headquartered in New
Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Israel and Asia and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), and a business area within the Ericsson
Group called Business Area Global Communications Platform. To
follow Vonage on X (formerly known as Twitter), please visit
twitter.com/vonage. To follow on LinkedIn, visit
linkedin.com/company/Vonage/. To become a fan on Facebook, go
to facebook.com/vonage. To subscribe on YouTube,
visit youtube.com/vonage.
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