Avaya Names David Flood as RSL for Ireland

Will focus on helping Avaya customers and partners adopt digital business models

Galway, Ireland – 2017 – Avaya today announces that David Flood is stepping up as head of the sales leadership team in Ireland, strengthening its position in both the UK and EMEA. David, who takes over as the Regional Sales Lead for Avaya Ireland from the departing Jason Flynn, brings over 22 years of experience to the role.

David joined Avaya in 2009 and has held multiple regional and global sales management roles, focused primarily on System Integrators and Solution Providers (SI/SP), including IBM, CSC, Vodafone, BT and Capita. In his time with Avaya, David successfully led the transformation of Avaya’s global SI/SP and built a strong track record in defining and executing go to market models that create sustained partnership, customer success and revenue growth.

Avaya Ireland works with the country’s leading banks, emergency services, education institutions, government departments and global technology and pharmaceutical companies. The country’s largest operators, including BT, eir and Vodafone, are Avaya partners, along with a community of channel partners that includes Capstone, Maintel, Eyrco, Damovo and Rainbow Communications.

Galway is also home to Avaya’s global R&D team for contact center technology. The team is responsible for architecture and development of Avaya’s contact center solutions, including the flagship next-generation technology, Avaya Oceana.

“As the new regional sales lead for Ireland, David’s focus will be to continue building exceptional customer experiences and to help customers achieve their digitisation goals and address critical challenges within their businesses. David brings exceptional value and experience to the table, so I have the utmost confidence he will drive our business in Ireland to even greater success.”
Ronald Rubens, Vice President Europe North, Avaya

“Having worked with our customers and partners in Ireland for many years, it is a privilege for me to progress into this new position. I am looking forward to helping more customers in their journey toward digital transformation and cloud adoption using Avaya’s leading-edge software and services.”
David Flood, RSL, Avaya, Ireland

About Avaya

Avaya enables the mission critical, real-time communication applications of the world’s most important operations. As the global leader in delivering superior communications experiences, Avaya provides the most complete portfolio of software and services for contact center and unified communications— offered on premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid. Today’s digital world requires some form of communications enablement, and no other company is better positioned to do this than Avaya. For more information, please visit www.avaya.com.

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