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Nidal Abou-Ltaif

Nidal Abou-Ltaif is President for Avaya International, where he is responsible for a combined operational region that covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.

Nidal joined Avaya in 2003 as the sales leader for the Middle East, expanding his role into a variety of leadership positions. Prior to joining Avaya, he held leadership roles with NCR and ATT.

Nidal holds a Master of Business Administration from Washington International University.

Anthony Bartolo

Anthony Bartolo is Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer.  He is responsible for driving Avaya’s leadership through its product portfolio, which includes oversight of product development, product management, emerging technologies and corporate strategy across the company’s premise and cloud-based Unified Communications, Contact Center and Collaboration solutions. 

Anthony returned to Avaya as an accomplished, proven communications industry and product leader with a career spanning nearly three decades. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Tata Communications Limited and in senior executive roles previously at Avaya and Nortel.  

Anthony received his Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honours from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. 

Frank Ciccone

Frank Ciccone is Senior Vice President, North America Sales, and is responsible for sales and delivery of product and professional services across all customer segments, both direct and partner-led.

Frank joined Avaya in 2019 with more than 25 years of sales and engineering experience. Prior to joining Avaya Frank led the Advanced Solutions unit at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a group inclusive of Verizon's global Collaboration, Customer Experience and Security practices. In his 16 years at Verizon and several years at ATT, Frank held various VP roles in strategy, business development and operations in the Enterprise space.

Frank holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and a Masters of Business Administration from Hofstra University. 

Simon Harrison

Simon Harrison is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, leading the global marketing function to engage new and existing customers and partners, drive adoption of the company’s software solutions and support Avaya as the leading player in a dynamic digital communications market. 

Simon joined Avaya in 2020 from leading research and advisory firm, Gartner, where he was research director and lead analyst for the Unified Communications and Contact Center market. In a career spanning over 25 years he has been a thought leader, product strategist, marketer and consultant in the communications solutions industry. Prior to Gartner, he held leadership roles in Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing and Product Management for companies like Cirrus, Vocalcom, Siebel Systems and others.

Fred Hayes

Fred Hayes is Senior Vice President, Global Business Operations. He is responsible for functions including IT, Sales and Operations Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Worldwide Procurement, Supplier Quality, Order Management, Collections, and Real Estate.

Prior to joining Avaya, Fred was Vice President, Procure to Pay at Autodesk where he led a major transformation and significant improvement in cost savings and cash flow. He also spent ten years at Dell in multiple leadership roles, including Vice President, Global Materials responsible for the supply chain strategy, global inbound logistics and overall responsibility for continuity of worldwide supply. He previously held supply chain and operations positions at several high tech companies including HP, Compaq and Sun.

Fred holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Northeastern University.

Galib Karim

Galib Karim is Vice President, Caribbean & Latin America Sales, and is responsible for a combined operational region that covers the Caribbean, Latin America, and Brazil.

Galib joined Avaya in 2010 as the managing director of Avaya Mexico after the Nortel acquisition. Since then, he’s expanded his role into a variety of leadership positions. Prior to joining Avaya, he held leadership roles at Nortel, Bay Networks and Intersys.

Galib holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences and Management from Tecnológico de Monterrey and leadership certifications from London Business School and Carleton University.

Dennis Kozak

Dennis Kozak is Senior Vice President, Business Transformation. In this role, Dennis is responsible for driving transformational initiatives that support Avaya’s strategic plan to enable sustainable global growth, and continue to deliver on its best in class subscription, cloud and on premise business models. 

Dennis joined Avaya in 2019, and was previously at CA Technologies, where he spent 23 years in various leadership roles, most recently as head of global sales, services and partnerships. His experience leading the next-gen portfolio strategy for CA Technologies included managing multiple cross-company digital transformations, optimizing operations and execution.

Dennis hold an MBA, Banking and Finance from Dowling College.

Kieran McGrath

Kieran is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  His responsibilities include financial governance and management of Avaya's financial operations, including overall responsibility for the controller organization, financial planning, treasury, tax and investor relations. 

Kieran joined Avaya in 2019 and brings thirty-plus years of technology industry financial, operational and transformational experience in software as a service, cloud computing, and technology services. 

He most recently served as Executive Vice President and CFO at CA Technologies, and prior to that held several executive Finance roles at IBM.

Kieran holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University.

Hardy Myers

Hardy Myers is Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development. He and his team are responsible for developing Avaya’s strategy and consummating key partnerships and acquisitions to achieve Avaya’s growth objectives.

Hardy joined Avaya in 2019, bringing more than 25 years of experience managing global technology and manufacturing organizations. He has demonstrated success in developing transformative growth strategies, M&A, financial management, and operational execution.

Previously, Hardy was with DVSAnalytics, Inc. where he served as CEO and member of the Board, and also held senior leadership roles at Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc., a Unified Communications (UC) software company, and Sound Advantage LLC, a speech-enabled UC software solutions provider.  

Hardy holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University.

Shefali Shah

Shefali Shah is Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel. She is responsible for Avaya’s worldwide law department and global human resources organization.

Shefali joined Avaya from Era Group, one of the largest helicopter operators in the world, where she served as SVP, general counsel, and corporate secretary. Previously, Shefali held several senior management roles with Comverse Technology, Inc. She began her legal career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, P.C.

Shefali holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University, and a Juris Doctorate in Law from Duke University Law School.

Stephen Spears

Stephen Spears is Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, delivering new levels of client success for customers and partners by overseeing the strategy, performance, and alignment of revenue operations for Avaya. Stephen has full ownership of the company’s revenue generating organizations, and customer lifecycle and go-to-client functions, including global sales and marketing, partner management and all channel related activities to help to accelerate execution on the company’s overall growth strategy, directly benefitting Avaya’s customers.

Stephen’s management career spans nearly three decades and includes extensive go-to-market experience as well as deep expertise in the SaaS and Cloud arena. He joined Avaya in 2020, and spent the previous 17 years in a variety of key senior leadership roles at SAP, most recently serving as Chief Revenue Officer of SAP SuccessFactors.

Stephen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University.

Faye Tylee

Faye Tylee is the Global Head of Human Resources. Faye is responsible for leading Avaya’s HR team, which includes strategic HR planning; mergers and acquisitions; international resource planning; new business and geographic expansion; and talent recruitment, engagement, development & retention.

Faye joined Avaya from Wyndham Hotel Group, a division of Wyndham Worldwide, where she served as executive vice president of HR. During her 16 years at Wyndham, Faye held several leadership positions including executive vice president and vice president of HR for Wyndham Destination Network.

Prior to joining Wyndham, Faye held various HR roles at RS Components. Faye is a native of the U.K. and studied Human Resources at the University of Northampton, U.K.