Dr. Alan Baratz is the senior vice president and president of Avaya Global Communications Solutions (GCS). Avaya is a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services. Dr. Baratz is responsible for the full life cycle of Avaya's Intelligent Communications products. His organization includes three of the company's strategic business units: Unified Communications, Contact Center, and Small/Medium Enterprise Communications. Dr. Baratz was most recently the Senior Vice President for Cisco's Network Software and Systems Technology Group. In this role, he was responsible for Cisco's IOS, its core operating system, comprising more than 2,400 software developers and supporting more than $20 billion of network product sales. Previously, he served as President of Sun Microsystems' Software division, with responsibility for all of Sun's software products as well as software sales and marketing. He has also held leadership positions at IBM and served as CEO of several information technology startups, as well as partner and advisor to several venture capital and private equity firms. Dr. Baratz holds both a doctorate and a master's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from UCLA.
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