4. David Portnowitz

Sangoma, the communications-as-a-service provider, acquired NetFortris for $80 million this week.

David Portnowitz is SVP of marketing at Sangoma. He made waves for his reassurances that the acquisition will not result in a change in the levels of support NetFortris’ channel partners already receive.

“All of those things are going to stay in place,” he said. “The main difference is that they’re going to have more products to sell. Sangoma comes with an entire portfolio of communication-as-a-service products including UCaaS.”

Portnowitz added that Sangoma’s channel partners will benefit from resources they didn’t have in terms of network security, SD-WAN and network connectivity.

“It’s going to open up new channels and new verticals for both partner bases,” he said.

To learn more about the deal, read the article here.