PRESS RELEASE — CHANNEL PARTNERS EVOLUTION — Broadvoice (Booth E89 and a Featured Sponsor), an award-winning provider of hosted voice, unified communications (UC) and SIP trunking services for consumers and businesses, has promoted Tessley Smith to the position of Director of Sales.

Smith, who brings 19 years of experience to his new role, started with Broadvoice in 2014 as a regional sales manager. Since then, he has worked to steadily expand the company’s successful channel sales strategy and its customer base.

“We could not be happier to tap an industry veteran from within our ranks to lead our sales efforts,” said Sam Ghahremanpour, President at Broadvoice. “Tess has been instrumental in building our channel ecosystem, promoting new ideas and being a strong team builder, leader and mentor. We have seen phenomenal growth in the past year, and look forward to many more quarters of triple-digit advances as he settles into this critical role.”

Prior to Broadvoice, the Kansas City, Mo.-based Smith held sales management positions at Nitel, Birch Communications and American Fiber Network. He holds a B.A. from Ottawa University.

“Broadvoice is an innovative, forward-thinking company that has set itself apart in the UC, cloud PBX and SIP Trunking space by being agile and offering a range of business solutions for companies of all sizes,” Smith said. “I’m excited to work with our channel partners and internal teams to continue to expand Broadvoice’s growing traction in the market.”{ad}

Broadvoice offers a flexible, smart portfolio of IP-based voice and data offerings, backed by its enterprise-class, geo-redundant IP Telephony platform. This includes a full UC suite and cloud PBX services, including unlimited voice calling plans for businesses, throughout the continental United States and Canada.

Features include the Broadvoice Communicator, a real-time messaging and presence client with full voice and video capabilities plus hosted email platform, to support the mobile workforce. And, it recently integrated its feature-rich cloud PBX and UC services with the Five9 Virtual Contact Center (VCC) platform, to power customers’ inbound, outbound and blended contact center operations.

For more information on the Broadvoice Partner Program, please call 866-634-1394, or visit www.broadvoice.com/partners.

About Broadvoice
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Broadvoice is a premier provider of hosted voice and data products.

Utilizing the latest technology, Broadvoice helps consumers and businesses achieve higher call quality and faster internet speeds while reducing their overall costs and improving efficiency. The company continuously designs and implements new features and services that allow companies to focus on their businesses Broadvoice has been ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. More information about the company may be found at www.broadvoice.biz