Seasoned Communications Platform-as-a-Service Executive Joins SignalWire to Lead Global Sales and Business Development
John Elliott brings more than two decades of sales leadership experience to the newly launched cloud communications platform provider
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SignalWire, Inc., an advanced communications technology provider, today announced that John Elliott has joined the company as executive vice president of worldwide sales and business development. In this role, Elliott will be responsible for scaling the company's sales organization to meet the growing demand for the SignalWire cloud platform which aims to disrupt the programmable communications space by offering aggressively priced APIs designed for developers of all skill sets.
"SignalWire enters the market with very distinct advantages, most importantly the strong leadership team that essentially pioneered the programmable communications space," said Elliott. "This is a market primed for disruption, and SignalWire is in a unique position to provide value to customers through advanced functionality and rapid innovation, while passing on huge cost savings for essential service APIs that competing providers price with high margins.
"I believe there is a tsunami of new opportunities ahead of us and I am looking forward to working with this team to bring SignalWire to enterprises across the globe," he added.
Elliott's prior sales leadership experience includes leading global sales and business development for Cisco's Tropo and Spark API division for voice, messaging, and video communications following Cisco's acquisition of Tropo. While at Cisco, Elliott managed the launch of the innovative Cisco Spark Depot, which served as a vehicle to deliver integrations, bots and ready-to-deploy solutions to Cisco's partners and enterprise customers.
Prior to Cisco, Elliott was responsible for leading Tropo's global sales and business development teams. Before joining Tropo, he led the global sales organization for vlingo Corporation (acquired by Nuance) as vice president of global sales.
"John brings the right combination of industry experience and relationships as well as technical understanding of the space and its competitors that we believe will help us to accelerate our growth," said Anthony Minessale, CEO of SignalWire. "With our unique offering and John's skills and experience, we are well on our way to taking significant marketshare from the incumbent players."
About SignalWire
SignalWire delivers a cloud platform for building advanced communications products, applications, or enterprise infrastructure. Our APIs, built for developers of all skill sets, enable rapid application development on a managed elastic framework. SignalWire technology is proven and trusted, already deployed by over 5000 commercial enterprises around the world. For more information, visit www.SignalWire.com.
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