8×8, the cloud-based UC, contact center and collaboration provider, has appointed Enzo Signore as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer. He’ll be responsible for the strategy and execution of the company’s global marketing effort.

Signore has more than 20 years of marketing, product management, sales and business development experience. He was most recently vice president of worldwide enterprise solutions and field marketing at Avaya. Before that, he was Avaya’s VP of UC product management. He’s also held management roles at JDSU and Cisco.

“Enzo’s deep communications industry experience and marketing leadership credentials will be invaluable as 8×8 continues to work toward transitioning more and more mid-market and distributed enterprise businesses to our differentiated cloud-based solutions,” said 8×8 CEO Vik Verma.

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