Former product management and marketing director for Avaya and Spectel to help
develop audio and web conferencing service provider product roadmap
WOBURN, Mass., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Netspoke today announced it has
hired telecommunications industry expert Bernadette Golas as product manager
to help chart the future of the company's web and audio conferencing services.
Golas brings more than a decade of expertise focused on telecommunications,
conferencing, data, web and wireless technologies along with invaluable
industry contacts that she will tap as a resource for strengthening Netspoke's
market position.
Golas will work with the technology team to direct new innovation that
capitalizes on audio and web conferencing's evolution toward a unified desktop
conferencing tool. Her product management and sales and marketing experience
at such industry giants as Avaya, Inc. and Spectel, Inc. will help her grow
Netspoke's brand nationally and abroad.
"In Bernadette, we've found a telecommunications industry expert that is
well versed in the products, services and applications that drive audio and
web conferencing," said Netspoke Chief Operating Officer Jake Witherell. "She
will play a crucial role in shaping our product roadmap, and making
conferencing easier and more efficient for everyone."
Golas comes to Netspoke from Avaya, where she served as director of
product marketing for the Conferencing Portfolio for the Communications
Systems Division. She held this position only for a short time after Avaya
acquired voice, data and web conferencing solution provider Spectel, where she
served as global director, product management. In this role, she grew product
line sales by 25 percent per year for the four years she held this position.
Golas joined Spectel from voice conferencing service provider MultiLink, Inc.,
where she rose through the ranks to become director of sales and marketing and
generated $24 million in revenue (a 33 percent increase from the previous
year). She has also held product manager positions with Leading Edge Products,
Inc. and Data Translation, Inc.
Golas earned a bachelor's degree in marketing and computer science from
Bridgewater State College and a master's degree in business administration
from Assumption College.
About Netspoke
Netspoke delivers fully integrated web and audio conferencing through its
Conferencing Hub(R). The company combines reliable, full-featured, and
flexible technology with all-encompassing customer care to provide an enhanced
user experience with every customer interaction. Mid-market companies rely on
Netspoke Conferencing to help them operate as efficiently as larger companies
with greater resources. Based in Woburn, Mass., the company has more than
3,000 customers and has been ranked by Inc. Magazine, Deloitte & Touche LLP
and Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing companies in New
England and North America. For more information, visit the web site at
http://www.netspoke.com or call 877-611-2255.
Contacts:
Nancy-Rose Netchi Darby Johnson
Netspoke Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc.
412-605-1509 603-559-5809
nnetchi@netspoke.com djohnson@beaupre.com
SOURCE Netspoke
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Related links: http://www.netspoke.com
CONTACT: Nancy-Rose Netchi of Netspoke, +1-412-605-1509, nnetchi@netspoke.com; or Darby Johnson of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc., +1-603-559-5809, djohnson@beaupre.com
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