Karen Walker Joins Nextiva Board of Directors
30 Julio 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Nextiva, a leading unified customer experience management
platform, is pleased to announce the election of Karen Walker as a
new member of the Nextiva board of directors. Walker will advise
the company on expansion and strategic growth as they help
companies of all sizes better serve their customers with Nextiva
Unified-CXM.
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Walker currently serves on the boards of Eli Lilly, Sprout
Social, and H1, in addition to acting in an advisory capacity as an
operating partner at the Goldman Sachs Value Accelerator and as a
senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group. Walker’s previous
experience as long-time chief marketing officer at Intel and at
Cisco, as well as several senior marketing and strategy roles at
Hewlett-Packard, make her a powerful addition to Nextiva’s
board.
"We are thrilled to welcome Karen to the board," said Tomas
Gorny, CEO of Nextiva. "Her decades of experience helping shape the
strategies of world-renowned enterprises such as Intel, Cisco, and
Eli Lilly bring a crucially important perspective to Nextiva as we
continue to grow. I look forward to working closely with her and
the rest of the board to help businesses around the world better
serve their customers through our Unified-CXM platform."
"Nextiva has built a fantastic platform to help businesses
connect holistically with their customers and has engendered
loyalty for their technologies’ convenience and ease of use. I look
forward to being a part of Nextiva’s board and contributing to the
company’s innovative work on behalf of Nextiva’s users, the Nextiva
team, and the wider industry," said Walker.
Walker holds a Bachelor of Science with joint honors in
chemistry and business studies from Loughborough University in
England and was awarded an honorary doctorate in business
administration from the University of Sunderland in 2018. She has
been named on two occasions to the Forbes’s list of most innovative
global CMOs.
About Nextiva
Nextiva powers over a million users and billions of interactions
annually with its customer experience platform. From one AI-powered
customer experience hub, Nextiva Unified-CXM transforms how
businesses engage with their customers with orchestrated customer
journeys that help businesses acquire, retain, and grow customers.
The company’s commitment to Amazing Service® and a customer-focused
approach has been the cornerstone of its success. Established in
2008 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nextiva secured
$200M from Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its inaugural funding
round, valuing the company at $2.7B. Discover more at
www.nextiva.com.
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