At Avaya, Mr. Larson headed the firm's contact center division which held market leadership in IVR, Dialer, ACD, CTI and multi-channel contact center solutions across many worldwide regions. His responsibilities included managing market definition and segmentation, product management, research and development, channel readiness and product commercialization processes for the portfolio. Previously Mr. Larson was VP of Worldwide Global Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions for Lucent Technologies' Enterprise Division, was EVP/CFO for Quadritek Systems prior to it being acquired by Lucent, and an integral management team member at Astea which he helped take public in 1995. Mr. Larson holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University. |